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You can listen to St Andrews Philosopher @franzberto.bsky.social featured here on @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social discussing modal realism and imagination

Back when I was an undergrad I stumbled upon a video of a certain Franz Berto who boldly claimed that the laws of logic are not only about how we reason in our mind, but that they applied to reality as such. Years later I was able sit down with him for a chat.
New episode of Ping Pong Φ out now!

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St Andrews Philosopher Greg Restall will be giving the Wendy Huang Lectures in Philosophy in Taiwan next week philo.ntu.edu.tw/web/announce...

Health professionals should be involved in setting research priorities Clinician researchers can influence the prioritisation and impact of research and ensure its benefits are spread fairly, write Joseph Millum and Leah Pierson Health professionals play a critical rol...

St Andrews philosopher Joseph Millum has co-authored this important piece for the @bmj.com

Clinician researchers can influence the prioritisation and impact of research and ensure its benefits are spread fairly, write Joseph Millum and Leah Pierson. www.bmj.com/content/391/...

St Andrews philosopher Justin D'Ambrosio will be giving a talk on 'The Meaning of Means' today at the University of Glasgow

You can join virtually at 3pm here:

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This week, St Andrews Philosopher & specialist in medical ethics, Dr Joseph Millum, will give a talk on Ethical Decision-Making for Minors at the University of Louisville School of Medicine Healthcare Ethics Speaker Series

Register for the talk here:

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Homeless deaths hit a record high last year – and every one of them was preventable Britain’s housing crisis is not just a policy failure but a moral one, says Bradley Hillier-Smith. When we treat the homeless as ‘nuisances’ and ‘pests’, we deny their humanity – and our own

St Andrews Philosopher Bradley Hillier-Smith wrote this piece, based on his research, for The Independent on the record number of homeless deaths.

It argues homelessness and these deaths are entirely avoidable and should not be an accepted feature of our social landscapes

St Andrews philosopher Greg Restall is featured in this new philosophy channel.

A recent review of St Andrews Philosopher Bradley Hillier-Smith's book in Ethics and International Affairs:

'The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees offers a novel, thoughtful, and persuasive ethical analysis
of how states should respond to refugees.'

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The University of St Andrews Philosophy Department is now accepting preliminary applications for the 2026 call for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships!

For more information, visit: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/r...

Professor Jens Timmerman, a world-leading expert scholar on Kant's philosophy here at St Andrews, has just published a new book: Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie, through @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Best UK universities for philosophy – league table The study of how to think about ideas and ask questions about truth, right and wrong – includes ethics, history of philosophy, logic

St Andrews is proud to rank as third best in the UK for philosophy in the Guardian university guide

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance o...

St Andrews' resident philosopher of human rights Adam Etinson has two book chapters in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights

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Free Thinking - Friendship - BBC Sounds Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.

St Andrews Philosopher Alex Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social was invited onto BBC Free Thinking to discuss his recent thoughts, research and book on Against Identity

You can hear the interview here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

And Alex's book is here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...

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Hopeful pessimism Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 14/07/2025 · 52m

You can hear St Andrews Philosopher Mara van der Lugt speak about her recent book Hopeful Pessimism on the Gray Area podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

And the book itself is available here:

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St Andrews philosopher of Human Rights @adametinson has co-edited the comprehensive and rich Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Human Rights with James Nickel

Essential reading for anyone interested in the Philosophy of Human Rights

plato.stanford.edu/entries/righ...

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The Ethics of the State Pension This article suggests that future ethical analyses of state pensions should focus on either or both of two distinct ideal types of state pension, one of which is intended to serve a sufficientarian p...

St Andrews philosopher Ben Sachs-Cobbe's overview and analysis of 'The Ethics of a State Pension' has just been published in Philosophy Compass.

You can read it here:
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The Philosophical Quarterly, hosted at St Andrews, has a call for papers for their latest special issue: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics'

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There's still time to apply for a British Academy postdoc at St Andrews! Our internal deadline is 12 September. Details here

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/r...

How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight

'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether'

Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity

aeon.co/essays/how-t...

At @standrewsphil.bsky.social we have now appointed -- hold your hats -- Jennifer Saul, Amie Thomasson, and Stephen Gardiner as Professorial Fellows:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

PFs have part-time appointments to carry out research with us, participate in conferences, supervise PhDs.

WHO guidance on the ethics of health research priority setting This guidance aims to synthesize current good practice for incorporating ethics into health research priority setting. It is relevant to anyone making decisions about what research to support or condu...

New guidance from the World Health Organisation on the ethics of health research priority setting has just been published. St Andrews philosopher Joseph Millum was the lead writer!
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Health research funding is scarce. How can it be allocated fairly? Join us noon on June 23 for the launch of WHO’s new Guidance on the Ethics of Health Research Priority Setting.
www.who.int/news-room/ev...
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Assisted Dying Bill Scotland: Why fears about coercion of vulnerable people are misguided In countries which allow it, there is no evidence that people are coerced into assisted dying

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Last week, CEPPA's very own Joseph Millum (together with Ben Colburn) wrote about the assisted dying bill for 'The Scotsman'. Find the piece here or email the authors for a copy: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Philosophers: spread the word! Starting May 27, Arché celebrates its founder in a three-day Crispin Wright conference. Like anyone who knows what Crispin has meant for this place, I am so happy that this is happening. Programme here:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

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Alzheimer's: To Test or Not to Test - Edinburgh Science Soon it will be possible to diagnose health conditions such as Alzheimer’s years ahead of time. But would you want to know?

Get your ticket! Our own Ben Sachs-Cobbe has put together an exciting event for the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival, covering the ethical pros and cons of asymptomatic testing for Alzheimer’s biomarkers.
www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/alzhei...
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Coming up on 10 June: the finals of The Ethics Cup, an ethics debating tournament hosted by our department that emphasises substance over style and tries to inculcate important civic virtues like intellectual humility, civility and tolerance.
ethicscup.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists and Category Winners for 2025 PROSE Awards - AAP The Association of American Publishers (AAP) unveiled the 101 Finalists and 37 Category Winners for the 49th Annual PROSE Awards honoring professional and scholarly works published in 2024. “The 2025 ...

Our very own Mara van der Lugt’s new book, Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create a Child? (Princeton University Press) is a finalist for the 49th Annual PROSE Awards of the Association of American Publishers (AAP)
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Today at the Center for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Katherine Snow (Princeton) - ‘Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis’
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