Matilda Carter

The going further and faster will continue until morale improves.

Funding is available to support this position for a total 2 years for each position. Two postdoctoral researchers are being recruited for the ‘Your Boss is a Machine – Protecting Worker Autonomy in an AI-Driven Economy’ project, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Grant and led by Associate Professor Kate Vredenburgh. Each postdoctoral researcher will be hosted at the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the LSE, although they will have the opportunity to interact with a range of departments at the LSE through collaboration and mentorship. Each position is tenable in the first instance for two years during the fixed term period of the grant project, with the possibility to extend a further year that is contingent upon successful project renewal in 2028. The successful candidate will conduct innovative and significant research as part of the project team, working collaboratively with Kate Vredenburgh and making connections with other scientific collaborators at the LSE or other institutions. We are open to candidates from philosophy, economics, sociology, or law, as long as they have demonstrated expertise in research related to AI and the future of work, and demonstrate a willingness to engage with an interdisciplinary team. In addition, thanks to the Future Leaders Fellowship grant, they will have ample opportunities for mentorship from senior faculty in their discipline at the LSE, and a sustained focus on their own research trajectory and success within the project. The successful applicant will; have successfully completed or be close to completing a PhD in Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, or Law by the post start date; have the ability to make significant, innovative contributions in this area, on topics relating to the project (broadly construed); be willing to work harmoniously and closely with their fellow team-members on the project. Ideally, the successful applicant will begin in September 2026.

Hey look at this cool job we're advertising here at the London School of Economics department of Philosophy.

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Nearly 9 years on from starting my PhD, feels surreal to be holding the book that emerged from it in my hands.

What do we lose through using Generative AI to write?

In this new @ctp-leeds.bsky.social blog, Dr Andrew Kirton shares why we shouldn’t be too quick to outsource our writing jobs to AI. As he argues, if we use GenAI to think and write we do lose something. Find out what it is in this blog.
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The British Philosophical Association has launch a new annual prize competition to celebrate the best of British Philosophy: bpa.ac.uk/prizes/. #philosophymatters

AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.

Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.

But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇

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Epistemic reparations and disability - Philosophical Studies Epistemic reparations are argued to be deserved by those wronged by gross injustices and violations, to provide redress for epistemic wrongs incurred by victims and survivors. I apply epistemic repara...

Frances Darling - 'Epistemic Reparations and Disability', forthcoming and open access at Phil Studies:

Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals Cambridge Core - Psychiatry - Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals

Exciting news: my monograph is now available on Cambridge Core!

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What can a shallow pond teach us about our moral obligations to strangers?

On the latest @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social episode, David Edmonds joins Jim to explore the story behind Peter Singer’s famous thought experiment — and why it still provokes such fierce debate today.

'Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals', a new blog by Matilda Carter , author of RELATING TO PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AS EQUALS
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There is a common misconception that anyone can work in social care, and that anyone will given the right wage. But the evidence from Scotland, where there is a minimum wage uplift for care workers and yet still a recruitment and retention crisis, suggests otherwise.

Found Polanski’s comments on social care ill-judged, but the point he seemed to be trying to make was broadly right.

Social care is work. Hard work. And not everybody has the necessary personal qualities and interpersonal skills to do it.

Each January, IDEA the Ethics Centre hosts an informal colloquium on Biomedical and Health Care Ethics at Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley. Find out more here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

The Health and Social Care Committee’s evaluation of palliative care in England was published yesterday.

It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill.

It’s had almost no media coverage.

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Great blog post by IDEA's Matilda Carter on Power, Status and the Dementia Care Relationship. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/powe...

Wrote about my history in dementia care and my motivations for working on my forthcoming monograph.

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Should relational egalitarians always oppose stigma? I argue no.

Where stigma is unwarranted, relational egalitarians should oppose it. But where it is *warranted*, it is at the very least unobjectionable and, in some circumstances, may even be obligatory.

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Relational equality for extended minds - Synthese Synthese - This paper deals with the impact of the extended mind thesis on relational egalitarianism: the now-dominant view on (the politically relevant form of) equality within contemporary...

If you like your mind extended and your equality relational, my new paper in Synthese is for you.

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Don't miss our new handbook: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics

An authoritative guide to care ethics: what it is, debates within the field, and the contributions it can make to contemporary issues.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics Emphasising the vulnerability and interdependence of humans, care ethics has emerged in recent years as a powerful alternative to dominant modes of thinking in…

So pleased to see the Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics available in print!

Join us next month for this fantastic conference!

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics appears to be available to all those whose institutions have subscribed to Bloomsbury Collections.

Mine hasn't. But it's exciting nonetheless.

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Friends and family of officers named Robert or Roberta, possibly?

This happened to me too! The autocorrect monkey’s paw.

EDI Dialogues at UCL Arts and Humanities - Episode 7 - Minority Minds: Mental Disability & The Politics of Difference In this episode of the EDI Dialogues podcast, hosts Liam Gorner and Jack Zhang (both from UCL's student-run Minorities and Philosophy chapter) speak with Dr. Matilda Carter, British Academy Postdoctor

Had a great chat with the committee of UCL's Minorities and Philosophy chapter recently, setting out the case for viewing mental disabilities as neutral with respect to well-being.

You can take a listen here (or on Spotify, if you prefer).

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I mean, I wouldn’t bank on me being right!

I have a pretty good track record of making overly optimistic predictions right before things get worse than I ever thought they could.

7 academics standing in front of a screen with text that reads: “Ethics, Politics, and Care in the Ageing Society”

Had a fantastic time hosting this group of speakers, over the last two days, to talk through normative questions raised by our ageing societies.

Thanks to all who attended too; it was a lovely way to cap off my time here in Glasgow!

I mean, it’s also because the average house price in my childhood village has ballooned to well over ten times my current salary, but I agree with the sentiment 😅