@michaelhannon.bsky.social
Philosopher at the University of Nottingham. Director of the Aristotelian Society.
A referee once told me that the empirical work attempted in my paper is done more seriously elsewhere.
My paper attempted no empirical work.
This is happening at 18.15 tonight in Senate House!
13.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
“For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance."
Walter Lippmann was right. And because the world is too big and complex, I’ve tried to assemble key passages from his 1922 book, "Public Opinion," that capture why it matters today.
Link below.
Great cover!
21.08.2025 21:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Few things make me more despairing about the credibility and future of academic philosophy than reading certain referee reports.
21.08.2025 08:04 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Yes, there definitely are. Including the two discussed in my post, which are great books.
20.08.2025 07:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yep.
19.08.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm very sympathetic with sortition, but Cristina Lafont's book, Democracy Without Shortcuts, provides some really interesting and compelling objections, too. It's one of the best things I've read on the topic.
19.08.2025 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Should we ditch elections, cancel politicians, and hand over decision-making power to a small and randomly selected group of fellow citizens?
Here I review the case for and against two proposals: Alex Guerrero’s “lottocracy” and Hélène Landemore’s “open democracy.”
Link in first comment.
Michael (@michaelhannon.bsky.social) and I are putting together a Special Issue on Political Epistemology for Midwest Studies. Deadline for the CFA is October 31, 2025.
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
Please share with others who might be interested :)
I love a good epigraph.
27.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social
10.07.2025 08:10 — 👍 19 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Happy 100th birthday to Michael Dummett! Dummett was born on 27th June 1925. To mark the occasion, the Aristotelian Society have put together a special virtue issue celebrating his contributions to the Society over his lifetime. Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
27.06.2025 08:03 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Next Monday 16th June we've got Sarah McGrath from Princeton coming to chat to us about: 'What (if anything) is moral experience?' #philosophy
⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/
If you work in Political Epistemology, consider submitting to this Call for Abstracts for a special issue of Midwest Studies in Philosophy.
www.politicalepistemologynetwork.com/midwest-stud...
ESEARCH!
"Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference"
@michaelhannon.bsky.social challenges the claim that marginalised individuals possess unique epistemic advantages regarding oppression.
Read:https://tinyurl.com/ypu8xut2
#philosophy #deference #standpoint #epistemology
IMG: varpal
So proud of @michaelhannon.bsky.social for receiving a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship! ✨ Even though he’d prefer he were still early career…
Project: “Lies of the Electorate: The Role of Insincere Discourse in Politics”
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-...
Woke up to this. Huzzah!
I am pleased to inform you that your submission "Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference" has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies.
Tomorrow (Thursday) 4:30pm in Senate House, London.
PPE Seminar | Promising to Do Wrong | Erik Zhang (Leeds)
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
We're delighted share this video about @helendecruz.net's fantastic article, "Friendship with the Ancients," which was published by the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGp4...
@apaphilosophy.bsky.social
Article here: doi.org/10.1017/apa....
The Practical Origins of Ideas by Queloz.
22.03.2025 09:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Interested in writing applied epistemology for a public-facing audience? Apply to be part of our new working group! It'll meet four times over the summer, followed by a capstone in-person event here at UNC in September facilitated by Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Details here:
philevents.org/event/show/1...
This Thursday Alison Hills (Oxford) will be talking about "Moral Understanding and Moral Motivation" at the PPE series in London. Join us!
📍Senate House (Room 243)
🕐 4:30pm
🗓️ March 20
philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Two months ago, I launched a blog on Political Epistemology, and I've been thoroughly enjoying the writing process. I just published my fifth article, exploring Political Skepticism and Humility.
Link in the comments.
University administrations are largely a scam and should be sized down.
09.03.2025 04:56 — 👍 99 🔁 38 💬 7 📌 8I’m exploring what at first looks like an inconsistent set of attitudes, and then I conclude that these attitudes may be justified precisely because of the dangers of things like restricted suffrage.
05.03.2025 06:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Substack post!
Why do so many people accept evidence of widespread political ignorance but deny that we can determine who is politically knowledgeable? I look at some explanations.
open.substack.com/pub/michaelj...
