This year's Warrender Lecture will be given by Professor Duncan Ivison ( @duncanivison.bsky.social ), President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester (and political philosopher!).
Deatails of the lecture can be found at the below link.
sheffield.ac.uk/spir/school/...
1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Excited to be co-organising this again, and this time at University of Sheffield. Please send in your abstracts and spread the word!
10.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Conference announcement/CFP:
Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity
University of Sheffield
8-9 September 2026
This is the latest installment in the long-running Animal Politics series. Abstracts due 12 June. Spread the word!
Excited to read this!
24.09.2025 09:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Political realists believe that we shouldn’t criticize political phenomena on moral grounds. If they are right, are animal ethicists in trouble? Can we still criticize speciesist social orders? In this new paper, I argue that we can.
23.09.2025 08:28 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2Excited for this! Presenting some fresh work from my new project on the social status of animals. The talk is open to everyone so please come along if you want to hear more :)
17.09.2025 05:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I am extremely happy to share this! Here are my thoughts on what an appropriate international regime of human rights should like today - and it is also in open access
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
How much incarceration is too much? Vincent Chiao (Toronto) discusses the insights from his recently published article in @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/how-...
04.07.2025 12:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's that time of year! If you are a new PhD student in philosophy starting this fall, please let me know to add you to the starter pack!
Alternatively, add the starter pack to get some fresh perspectives. :-)
I'm speaking at the next Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy event at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in 10 days time! Excited and grateful for the opportunity to share my work
02.06.2025 17:06 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for joining us Josh! Looking forward to reading your book.
09.05.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Before the world wakes, the birds are already singing…
This week, we’re celebrating the dawn chorus at its peak. 😍
Each day, we’ll be spotlighting a few of the voices, building up to #InternationalDawnChorusDay this Sunday 4th May.
Who'll be getting up early with us to catch the magic? 🎵
Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence?
If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence!
Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do...
#polisky #animalsky
Real pleasure to be interviewed by @drsvg.bsky.social for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social
How to start a podcast, how academics can build a public profile, & how Mill relates to the manosphere
justice-everywhere.org/general/beyo...
Call for papers: Forgotten Animals, 17th-18th September 2025, University of Leicester. Political philosophy conference on nonhuman animals, send me your abstracts! More details here: stevecooke.org?p=290
11.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
With @stevecooke.org, @drsvg.bsky.social, @mattwperry.bsky.social, and others I'm organizing the latest conference in the 'Animal Politics' series, this time hosted in Leicester. The theme is 'Forgotten Animals', and we're now accepting abstracts. Spread the word!
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Our book came out today 🥳
In 'What Are Zoos For?' we examine the common justifications for zoos and argue that zoos are (or should be) for animals, placing animal welfare at the centre of their operations.
Order here, or through most online booksellers:
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...
Justice and Security-based Attachment, which I co authored with Stephanie Collins (Monash) is out in the Journal of Moral Philosophy now.
brill.com/view/journal...
I've built myself a website, which includes a list of journals for animal rights philosophers to submit to (organised by publisher), a couple of syllabi, my essay writing guide for political philosophy students, & articles that philosophers say have changed their minds: stevecooke.org
05.12.2024 13:04 — 👍 130 🔁 37 💬 9 📌 3
"Humans and animals have something in common despite our differences: a shared capacity for sentience, and so, a shared dignity that extends across the species."
My paper detailing and defending the idea of sentient dignity is out with Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Please read and share!
Sunday Read:
Gary L. Francione looks to the history of philosophy to dismantle the conventional wisdom that it is acceptable to use and kill animals as long as we do so humanely.
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/animals...
Us prepping for the soon-to-exist Ethics for the Everyday podcast. It's more work than we thought, but we promise we will exist soon!!!
23.01.2025 20:41 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I prefer to think of them as "involuntary migrants" or even "refugees"! It seems innocuous, but I think hugely important.
21.01.2025 04:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think too that philosophy being based in vibes is one of its strengths. Paper here philarchive.org/rec/DECITM-2
13.01.2025 23:46 — 👍 72 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 4
"Poster for the 'Rethinking Wild Europe' conference taking place on 7th-8th February 2025. The event focuses on European perspectives on wilderness, rewilding, and biodiversity conservation. The background features a rugged mountain landscape with snowy peaks. The conference location is the University of Vienna.
📣Conference alert📣
Rethinking Wild Europe, University of Vienna
With keynote speakers @monicavasile.bsky.social and @martindrenthen.bsky.social!
I'll also give a talk on wildlife representation 🤓
Come join if you're around!
cetep.eu/rethinking-w...
#PhilSky #Environment #Biodiversity #Animals
Congrats Matilda!
13.01.2025 17:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pre-orders of the collection I edited for Bloomsbury on care ethics are now available.
So excited to have found a home for some fantastic contributions from across our international scholarly community!
Call for papers: political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. Please circulate. #polisky @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
wake up babe Hart's *new* paper just dropped academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...
04.12.2024 20:59 — 👍 24 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 3
