Chris Woodard

Looks great. And hardcore!

if you're disabled and want a remote job doing meaningful work for an org that genuinely puts accessibility at the heart of everything it does, come and be my colleague.

I'm very honored to have been selected to give the Wittgenstein lectures at the university of Bayreuth!

Wow — that is awesome

Work with us Apply to our job vacancies ranging from professional and support roles to research and academic positions at the Ethox Centre part of Oxford University

The Ethox Centre is hiring a researcher from the Humanities/ Social Sciences disciplines, to join the Wellcome Trust funded discovery project 'After the end: Lived experiences & aftermaths of Diseases, Disasters & Drugs in global health'.
🗓️Deadline 1st Sept
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Wow. Quite something

Job advertisement: University of Bayreuth Full Professor of Political Philosophy (m/f/d)

Full Professor (m/f/d)

Political Philosophy | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
(Application deadline: 1 September 2025.) www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-... #job #PhilSky

Oxford's councils have made a painted bike lane on Woodstock Rd (by my office). It specifically tells cyclists to ride in the Car Door Zone, the MOST DANGEROUS part of the road. Last month, they added little lights to it. Please, remove it
@oxfordshirecc.bsky.social @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social

Take a break from doomscrolling and watch Tank eat his lunch.

What better way to celebrate 4th July than listening to our new podcast on democracy!

A labour of love that’s been a long time in the making. Listen to my cohost Keith Hyams as he discusses democratic culture with @jowolff.bsky.social from @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

New episodes every two weeks!

Shock as Historic England chief challenges independent cinema's protection bid The Ultimate Picture Palace first opened in 1911 however the head of Historic England led a challenge against a community's attempt to protect it.

Oriel college does not have a great reputation in how it has historically dealt with Town issues.

I hope that they can change their approach and show some leadership here in securing the UPP’s future for college and community to use: it’s in their gift (1/2)

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2528218...

Happy birthday!

Excited to share our new research project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social Knowledge Frontiers 2025! Our interdisciplinary project (environmental geography, environmental humanities, political science, philosophy) will examine restorative justice in coastal adaptation.

Doug Portmore’s new book: Kantsequentialism

(Free download) #philsky #ethics #philosophy

So sad news. She was amazing.

Two different conceptions of conflict. (1) conflicting implications about whether X should be done. (2) conflict within a set of rules.

Come and work with us in Philosophy at Warwick: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Lecture I: A Dual-Equilibrium Model of Psychologically Sustainable Social Contracts - Volume 122, Issue 1/2, January/February 2025 Egalitarians have advanced compelling normative critiques of social hierarchy. So why is hierarchy so common? Christopher Boehm argues that humans have disposions to form hierarchies, but can redirect...

#newarticle #philosophy

The 2023 Dewey Lectures: Challenges to Creating an Egalitarian Society

"Lecture I: A Dual-Equilibrium Model of Psychologically Sustainable Social Contracts" - Elizabeth Anderson

doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

Too right. Also: many congratulations!

Well done.

Once heard Jonathan Dancy describe it as ‘argument by contempt’

Honoured to be one of fifty writers asked by @bostonreview.bsky.social to write about the riches in the magazine's archive, to mark their 50th anniversary.

My choice was Philippe Van Parijs's classic forum essay from 2000, “A Basic Income For All” (links below!). [1/3]

Teresa Bruno-Niño & Hasko Von Kriegstein, Ill-Being as Dissonance - PhilPapers This chapter lays the groundwork for a novel objectivist theory of ill-being, by exploring what harmonism, a theory of well-being, can and should say about ill-being. As the constituent principles of ...

New paper with Teresa Bruno: "Ill-Being as Dissonance".
A sort of companion piece to my 2020 paper "Well-Being as Harmony".

Teresa and I chart the territory of what an account of ill-being might look like.

philpapers.org/rec/BRUIAD-3

British Society for Ethical Theory 2025 Annual Conference: Southampton

Registration for BSET is now live. And what a line up!
sites.google.com/view/british...

Thanks to the support of the Analysis Trust, BSET can offer bursaries for graduate and underwaged philosophers seeking to attend.
#Philosophy #Philsky

Oh no!

Preference and Prevention: A New Paradox of Deontology It’s commonly thought that we can reasonably oppose serious wrongdoing. For example, deontologist bystanders may prefer that an agent allows the killing of five rather than wrongly killing one as a me...

In “Preference and Prevention: A New Paradox of Deontology,” Richard Yetter Chappell argues that even those who accept, for themselves, deontic constraints against serious wrongdoing cannot, if they care enough about others, always want others do to so.

#moralphil

Any friendly historian of medicine reading this that would be willing to take a look at something a colleague philosopher (me) wrote? It's my first fully history oriented paper and I'm trying to avoid obvious faux pas

Adorable baby fox peeks out from behind some yellow flowers.

It’s a wrap! Last week was the final Locke Lecture. All recordings and handouts are available here, in case anyone is interested.

www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/john-locke-l...

Pictured: the Iffley foxes, who were my very wise and philosophical companions throughout the visit.

Puppageddon

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