Rebecca Buxton

Just had a great start to our fortnightly pol-philosophy talk-and-bake sessions, with excellent @alixdietzel.bsky.social kicking us off talking about the right (& wrong) kinds of love in teaching. Packed room, lots of questions, and lots of love. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

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The first week of term

Britain’s Bathroom Ban The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing one without a vote

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger

my latest with @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

and she's gone

If this is a real person, then it's also very funny to say that someone's work on women in philosophy is superficial over and over again and then just quote your favourite man

A Critique of Rebecca Buxton’s Work — From the Perspective of Orodism A Critique of Rebecca Buxtons Work  From the Perspective of Orodism Author: Liam Murphy From the forum The Philosophical School of Orodism I appreciate Rebe

... I think an Orod Bozorg bot has a problem with my work

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September: erc-grants | News and features | University of Bristol

🥳 Congratulations to Dr @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social (Philosophy) & Dr @helenfewlass.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who have received highly prestigious ERC Starting Grants!

Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Journal of Applied Philosophy Book Reviews Guidelines

Welcome to @chongminglim.bsky.social JOAP's new Book Reviews Editor. CM is interested in submissions up to 3,000 words that advance a substantial argument through critical engagement with a book.

Details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
#Philsky #philosophy #BookReviews #PhilosophyBooks

Already attempted! I've claimed the panel and suggested the change, so who knows when it might kick in

EXACTLY

This is specifically a "problem" when I send mass emails to a large group of new students (as I've just done) and I know that some of them are googling me and seeing this picture...

thank you!

September: erc-grants | News and features | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se... Bristol academics land prestigious European Research Council grants totalling €10 million 👀

Black and white 1930s photo of three women in joyful motion: one cartwheeling and two jumping with their arms uplifted, all in flowing skirts. (Hannes Kilian, ‘Springende Mädchen auf einer Frühlingswiese’, 1938)

It might not make you all quite as jubilant, but this news made my heart jump this week: in April 2026 Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex will be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection—a significant recognition of the work & of feminist philosophy in the cultural canon!

Two-year postdoc position at Bristol on the Leverhulme-funded Foundations of Longtermism project.

If there’s someone you know working in moral philosophy, decision theory, or formal epistemology more broadly who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply.

The ERC awards €761m to the next generation of scientists in Europe The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 478 early-career researchers across Europe to receive this year’s Starting Grants. With a total funding of €761 million, these grants support excellent...

Some news that I can finally share! From February 2026 I'll be on an ERC Starting Grant focused on refugee-inclusive/refugee-led methods in political philosophy and debates on displacement justice. You can read about other funded projects here: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

COME WORK AT BRISTOL

‘You want to talk about a world of lies?’ Teaching philosophy in prison | Jay Miller The long read: My class of college students and inmates can get loud and rowdy, with everyone engaged. This is what philosophy should look like

Delighted to see this excellent article on teaching philosophy in prisons by Jay Miller which originally appeared in @aeon.co republished in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

1

The number of people who read your philosophy article, regardless of where you publish it:

My response to almost all philosophy papers

I also only have time to read about 1 paper every six months

My controversial view is that we should all just stop publishing as much anyway, so maybe 1 is about right 👍

It's fully a crime that this has come out just as term is starting.

There are also other options

I still don't know how to change the fact that when you Google me, you get this picture that we took for The Philosopher Queens publicity as a joke.

2026 Conference Pour la version française , choisir le drapeau français en haut à gauche du site !

Listen up! Submit your abstract for the 2026 Beauvoir Society conference on "Beauvoir & Reproduction: Politics, Labour, Biology, Lived Experience"🔥

Proposal abstracts are due **September 22, 2025**
Conference is May 2026 in Klagenfurt, Austria

Keynotes: Sylvie Chaperon & Stella Sandford

I'm in Bern this week teaching a short course to MA students on the ethics of refuge, and then it's the start of the term in Bristol. The summer is nearly over!