Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh

There once was a department where tired but ferocious women supported each other with #ideas, #books & treats. Even when miles apart the tradition continued - especially at #Advent when all feels heavy but one requires #hope #GunnarGunnarsson, tr. by #PhilipRoughton #humananimalrelations #booksky

Currently reading
#APhilosophicalHistoryOfPolicePower @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Thank you so much @melaynakay.bsky.social
#philsky

London friends, I'll be speaking about my @yalebooks.bsky.social book in progress on How to Understand Others at the Barnes Philosophy Club (OSO Arts Centre) on Tuesday 25th November @ 19.30. All welcome!

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❤️ #Frankenstein
From the other place

Congratulations to @Gerbera4U winner of our #WPD2025 #book #giveaway 🎉📚

This was fantastic sorry I had to leave a bit early - baby bedtime etc
Thank you for organising @creativetogie.bsky.social

1=Nietzsche
1=Plato
3. Augustine
4. My old Alevel Philosophy / RS teacher
5. Elizabeth Anscombe (made my day she made it into the top 5 @inparenthesis.bsky.social)
@natre-update.bsky.social @alevelphilosophy.bsky.social I have encouraged them to write to their old teachers and tell them this 💙

#Notesfromabiscuittin fever this week @uniwinchester.bsky.social as students (both from the P/PRE course and around the campus) offered their views on their favourite philosophical thinker (and why) as their entry in our #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 #WPD2025 #book #raffle. The results are as follows 👇

✨#Philosophy really can change minds. ✨To mark #WorldPhilosophyDay, here's a reminder of what a difference it can make.

As our Chair, @lucyobrien.bsky.social, puts it:

“Philosophy teaches skills integral to cultivating social values and conduct. It changes people's minds.”

We were pleased to welcome as one of our key note speakers @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social who spoke about the work of the philosopher Mary Midgley. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

Clare Jarmy and Prof David Aldridge spoke about thoughtfulness and AI, asking how should we understand an LLM that calls itself ‘I’ and claims to be ‘thinking’. We considered what it might mean for students to be ‘taught’ by a machine that is neither embodied nor mortal. #ThoughtfulConference2025

Prof Angie Hobbs opened our conference with a survey of those things that hinder thoughtfulness. She considered arrogance, cynicism, misinformation, information overload, overthinking, and outsourcing. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

Our Co-Directors Emma and I, still smiling after storm Claudia tried to ruin our @thoughtfulp4c.bsky.social conference. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

Dr Caroline Elbra-Ramsay shared what she learned when she returned to P4C Practice. Children expressed the importance of having a space to be thoughtful, to be playful, and to be free from what they perceived as the pressure to give THE right answer. #ThoughtfulConference2025

Dr Annie Webster considered how insights from non formal education and Buddhist philosophy could help us envisage a more thoughtful approach to learning, one that harmonised yin and yang elements such as emotion and reason. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

We're thrilled to welcome back @darrenchetty.bsky.social to our #ThoughtfulConference2025

Darren will speak about the notion of 'Cynefin' which has become central to educational discourse in Wales.

Its not to late to join us: www.sapere.org.uk/conference-2...

DM for info on bursary tickets.

Our conference programme is finalised and it's an absolute treat. See you on Saturday! @thoughtfulp4c.bsky.social www.sapere.org.uk/conference-2... #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters

The amazing children of @ysgolpanteg opened our @thoughtfulp4c.bsky.social conference with an enquiry on rebels and heroes. A beautiful example of thoughtfulness. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

Guest Blog Post by Brandon Robshaw about how young people react to his book, Weird Philosophy, in the classroom.

With World Philosophy Day fast approaching (20th November), we want to encourage as many people as possible to try out some philosophy in their classrooms or at home. buff.ly/J8IOVCz

This is tonight at 7pm (UK time). More than 60 people signed up already...

This coming Thursday, on #WorldPhilosophyDay, Rowan Williams will give a talk on "Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?"

🎫🚫***This lecture is sold out*** 🚫🎫 but a video of the event will be available on YouTube - we will post it up when it's ready.

🎉GIVEAWAY🎉It’s #WorldPhilosophyDay on Thursday & @inparenthesis.bsky.social
#PhilosophyInTheWild #TeamWales is having a #book #giveaway. Our project is inspired by the work of #MaryMidgley who thought #philosophy needs to wake us up & work collaboratively to tell new stories, myths & visions 👇

To celebrate #WorldPhilosophyDay we are giving away #books from our wonderful team @gill-lewis.bsky.social @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social
@eloisewilliams.bsky.social #NicolaDavies 4 fabulous books from 4 truly wondrous authors & change maker storytellers. Repost, like & reply #WPD2025 below 📚🎉

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

TODAY: Mon. Nov. 17 ~ 2pm ET, 7pmUK
TP&TN: "How to Prevent AI from Making Us Stupid"

Is using AI robbing us of exercising our linguistic capacity, cognitive abilities, the ability to lead our own lives?

Anastasia Berg with Alexis Papazoglou
#Philosophy
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All amazing and thank you for your support #WPD2025 just adding this # 💙

Amazing authors - thanks for your support love your posts 💙

Winner announced on Friday 21st November #GIVEAWAYS 🎉📚#booksky #philsky

To celebrate #WorldPhilosophyDay we are giving away #books from our wonderful team @gill-lewis.bsky.social @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social
@eloisewilliams.bsky.social #NicolaDavies 4 fabulous books from 4 truly wondrous authors & change maker storytellers. Repost, like & reply #WPD2025 below 📚🎉

🎉GIVEAWAY🎉It’s #WorldPhilosophyDay on Thursday & @inparenthesis.bsky.social
#PhilosophyInTheWild #TeamWales is having a #book #giveaway. Our project is inspired by the work of #MaryMidgley who thought #philosophy needs to wake us up & work collaboratively to tell new stories, myths & visions 👇