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The Aristotelian Society is recruiting a new Managing Editor. This is a demanding part-time role suitable for a current graduate student to undertake alongside their studies.

Deadline: Monday 18th May 2026. Read more here:

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The Form of Agency Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are ag....

🥁 New paper! Congratulations to Dr Will Hornett on the publication of 'The Form of Agency' in Nous
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Alexander Bird: The Structure and the Necessity of the Natural Laws YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy

Alexander Bird: The Structure and the Necessity of the Natural Laws
The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Individual climate obligations and the collective This colloquium talk is planned as an in-person event. Registration is only required for non-CEU members.

📌 Our next Colloquium!
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 3:40 pm – 5:20 pm | CEU

'Individual climate obligations and the collective' with Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge). 🌎

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Is forgetting discovered or created? Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)

When we are recollecting a story, what discerns all are other memories from being forgotten or merely being inaccessible at that moment? Today at The Memory Palace, Jessie Munton discusses what constitutes forgetting and its many uses in our lives.
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The cover of Priority & Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience & Attention, by Jessie Munton. Looking almost like a nebula, I assume it's a network visualization: a nearly black background with clouds of colored points of light. The title is centered in a black box with an orangey-gold border. I was doing an art project so I made some white paper "flowers" as a contrast against the color of the cover.

I'm only a quarter of the way through, but what a banger of a book. Dense academic prose interspersed with everyday examples for understanding, amusement, and surprise. Bravo.

Pity it's > $100, but I that's academic publishing for you.

The University of Cambridge is very proud to be recognised as a University of Sanctuary.

This move acknowledges a commitment to providing a welcoming environment for those displaced by conflict who are granted asylum in the UK.

Discover more 👇
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Performance Philosophy Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes articles that interrogate w...

👇👇👇 cool new paper

Sarah Fine, "Philosophy with all the Feels," Performance Philosophy

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We are delighted to announce that our keynote speakers for the 2026 Symposium will be Antoinette Scherz (The University of Stockholm) and Sarah Fine (The University of Cambridge).

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!

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[AEP Explainers] Ignorance (with Jessie Munton) YouTube video by PPE at UNC

Very excited to share our fourth "explainer video". (Refresher: these are ~5 min animations introducing applied epistemology concepts for a wide audience.) This one's on ignorance, featuring a script by Jessie Munton! Please share & consider using in teaching!
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[AEP Explainers] Ignorance (with Jessie Munton) YouTube video by PPE at UNC

Check out @jessiemunton.bsky.social's excellent explainer video on ignorance (with @unc-aep.bsky.social )

@stjohnscollege.bsky.social

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Groupthink

'What we need to understand is why common knowledge of something morally execrable isn’t enough to result in co-ordinated social action.'

Jessie Munton: Can communal beliefs be reconciled with empirical facts?

(no title) Lea Bourguignon

🙌Huge congratulations to Lea Bourguignon, Junior Research Fellow @trincollcam.bsky.social, on the successful completion of her PhD @lsephilosophy.bsky.social , 'On Being Justifiable to Others: Act Contractualism, Numbers, and Justification'.

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Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) Seminar by C. Thi Nguyen

Join our upcoming Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) Seminar by C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social

🗓️ Monday, 9 February, 12pm (London time)
📍 LSE Campus and Zoom

🎲 Title: "The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game"

🔗 Abstract & Zoom: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Prof Angela Breitenbach will be a symposiast at the 2026 Joint Session at the University of Reading
@aristotsoc.bsky.social

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📣 British Academy International Fellowships 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge:
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📣 British Academy International Fellowships 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge:
www.phil.cam.ac.uk/jobs/british...

Great title. Might get it just for that. And munton is a great philosopher too.

✨ There's lots to look forward to in 2026. Why not come along to one of our #London #Lectures? 🏛️🎤

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British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Scholarships Doctoral scholarships awarded by the BSPS for doctoral work in the philosophy of science undertaken at any UK university

We are delighted to announce that the BSPS will be running a doctoral scholarship competition in 2026! The competition will open in February, and the deadline will be 27 March.
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📌 A reminder that the Department of Philosophy currently has two tenure-track Assistant Professor posts open. Closing dates: 19 & 30 Jan 2026.
Details below 👇

Samuel Cole (Cambridge University (PhD)) - PhilPeople Samuel Cole is an alum of Cambridge University, Faculty of Philosophy, Darwin College. They are interested in Value Theory, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy, and Poli...

Hearty congratulations to Dr Samuel Cole on the successful completion of his PhD, 'Political Liberalism and LGBTQ+ Citizens' (supervised by Clare Chambers and Sarah Fine). 👏
@darwincollegecam.bsky.social
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Black background with gold swirls. 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize nominations. Biological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Theology, Sociology and Social Policy. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk.

Nominations are now open for the Trust’s Philip Leverhulme Prizes, which are awarded in six broad subject areas and worth £100,000 each for two to three years.
Deadline: Wednesday 14 May 2026, 4pm.

🔗 For more details, visit: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-lever...

Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci

This was a lot of fun!

Last week, I was lucky enough to visit Cambridge to speak in the Seminar on Contemporary Political Thought. Huge thanks to Sarah Fine, @profclarechambers.bsky.social, and @tobiasmueller.bsky.social for the invitation. (The picture is me at the beautiful Peterhouse; Antoni Mikocki gave me a tour!)