@philosophellie.bsky.social
Lecturer in Ethics at King’s College, London (she/her) posting about Mary Midgley mostly 👸 ECR. https://ellierobson75.wixsite.com/ellierobson
Excited for this!
09.07.2025 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Advance copies arrived 😃😬
19.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 73 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1Just back from beautiful laid-back Lund. What a smorgasbord of brilliant work on Quartet(+) figures @lunduniversity.bsky.social, incl from MtQ's @philosophellie.bsky.social @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
16.06.2025 08:34 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
This Sunday KALW will air the final episode in season 2 of our #WiseWomen series, exploring the moral #philosophy of Philippa Foot.
The series has been a remarkable two-year journey, from Hypatia of Alexandria in 4th-century Egypt to Foot and the "Oxford Quartet" of the mid-20th century. 1/
PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY!
Ian James Kidd argues there can be pessimism without despair and nihilism. Time to rethink pessimism!
t.co/lJ7RkWcoPq
#philosophy
#pessimism
#despair
#nihilism
#antinatalism
J. L. Austin
Updated SEP entry: J. L. Austin. plato.stanford.edu/entries/aust...
10.06.2025 06:20 — 👍 56 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1
Upcoming workshop on Susan Stebbing and Mary Midgley: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...
@philosophellie.bsky.social
Ian Kidd
Karl Egerton
Me
A lovely obituary written for Alasdair MacIntyre written by one of his former grad students
www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...
Photo Credit: Sean O'Connor (CC-BY)
The APA is saddened to note the passing of Professor Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929–2025). MacIntyre was 1984–1985 Eastern Division president. He was Rev. John A. O'Brien Senior Research Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame.
www.apaonline.org/news/701948/...
Photo: Sean O'Connor (CC-BY)
I’m excited to be part of a workshop at Notre Dame Philosophy Forum next Thursday - presented a co-authored paper with Sophia Connell on Midgley’s zoological Aristotelianism!
maritain.nd.edu/events/2025/...
I’m currently visiting Notre Dame University - History of Philosophy Forum, working on some Aristotle, Aquinas, and 20C virtue ethics!!
Excited to be in Indiana & head to Milwalki for a talk by @peterwest23.bsky.social next week!
#philsky #philosophy
The view from the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame, where @philosophellie.bsky.social and I are spending the next few weeks as Summer Fellows at the History of Philosophy Forum
@notredame.bsky.social
@philosophellie.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social
18.05.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ahead of this Sunday's episode on Mary Midgley, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore Midgley’s ideas about animals and the Gaia hypothesis with @philosophellie from King's College London and Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Project Director of "Philosophy in the Wild." youtu.be/yraIY5Uhb98?...
16.05.2025 14:53 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on George Eliot, who translated Spinoza's 'Ethics' and was also a significant philosopher in her own right - written by Clare Carlisle:
29.04.2025 11:50 — 👍 71 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 2Yay 🙌
16.04.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@tomwhyman.bsky.social
@peterwest23.bsky.social
@drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
@gsmcelwain.bsky.social
Amber Donovan
Ian James Kidd
Stephen R L Clark
Hannah Winther
Ana Barandalla
Benjamin Lipscomb
Reaching the final weeks of editing a 10 chapter collected volume for Palgrave MacMillan - ‘Midgley on Moral Philosophy and Ethics’ 🤯
Which means rereading 10 amazing chapters featuring Midgley on: wickedness, naturalism, Gaia, myopia, environments, the self
Authors below!
#philsky #philosophy
Two more fabulous Midgley talks by @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social and Tom Whyman on listening and ecology 👂🌷🌸🌻
05.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Some serious Midgley happening at the BSHP 2025 conference yesterday @enricogalvagni.bsky.social & @gsmcelwain.bsky.social
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Wonderful symposium session on #MaryMidgley at @thebshp.bsky.social annual conference. Firstly the brilliant @philosophellie.bsky.social #SophiaConnell on Midgley’s Zoological approach to Aristotle’s Ethics. Followed by equally fantastic @enricogalvagni.bsky.social on Hume & Midgley on the study 1/2
04.04.2025 15:40 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Two great talks on Midgley today by Miranda Boldrini and Chiara Pellegrini 👏
21.03.2025 14:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"She received an aggressive response from her editor."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @philosophellie.bsky.social & @aeon.co!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: buff.ly/3CqxZ0z
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"Everyday thinking – the thinking by which we live – does not just need to be described and recorded, it needs also to be criticized, to be examined, to be taken seriously, even in its most lurid or odious manifestations."
-Mary Midgley, The Ethical Primate
Getting towards the end of term & I’m teaching Midgley
on human nature!! @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social
I do hope my students appreciate my graphics 🥲
#philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social
These are some of the books I'm thinking with today @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @gsmcelwain.bsky.social @wendysalkin.bsky.social @matthewblongo.bsky.social @jowolff.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social It would be odd not to share this in 'public' given the topic.
12.03.2025 11:20 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0"Is philosophy like plumbing? I have made this comparison a number of times, wanting to stress that philosophizing is not just grand and elegant and difficult, it is also needed. It isn’t optional."
-Mary Midgley, Utopias, Dolphins and Computers
Looking forward to reading this when it’s out in English 🤞
05.03.2025 19:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new radio interview with the lovely Beth Matthews from Aussie Radio, 3CR 😁
We chat about why Mary Midgley said philosophy is like plumbing and Midgley's views on evil #philosophy #philsky
www.3cr.org.au/radicalphilo...
