Book Workshop: The Ethics of Sportswashing Sportswashing has recently grown into a vital concept in scholarly and public discussions of sport. In 2022, the Collins dictionary named ‘sportswashing’ one of their ten Words of the Year...

Kyle Fruh, Alfred Archer, and I are writing The Ethics of Sportswashing (Routledge) and are running a workshop on the book manuscript at Glasgow University and online, on May 21st 2026.

There is more information about the workshop and how to register here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup and the beautiful game. Volume 20, Issue 2 of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

The new issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 20, No. 2) is out, focusing on the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup: from FIFA's human rights failures to VAR and the philosophy of the beautiful game. A thread on this WC-themed issue.
#PhilSport #WC2026 #PhilSky www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsep20/c...

image of a green book titled: "Red Card: The 2026 FIFA World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine." by Jules Boykoff with introduction by Dave Zirin. The cover features a hand wielding a red card.

❗Excited to announce my new book "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social. Hope you'll consider pre-ordering (with 15% discount) via @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...

Image of the cover of the most recent issue of JESP.

The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to read new articles about proxy responsibility, a progressive critique of rap music, grounding human rights, first-person authority over gender, politics and foreign donations, supererogation, and reparations.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

If you prefer to listen, then an MP3 of me reading the paper is also available on the website. This is a really nice feature for accessibility, though I do not think that a career as reader of audio books awaits me.

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy How can moral theory make room for the existence of acts that are beyond the call of duty? This issue has become known as the problem of supererogation, and philosophers have provided various accounts...

New paper co-authored with Seyyed Mohsen Eslami defending our cautionary account of supererogation against Alireza Kazemi's thoughtful criticisms. Given all that is happening, it is worth mentioning how much I have learned from these two Iranian philosophers.
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How to Walk Away | Blog of the APA Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that reason, being the one who says “it’s over” can be torturou...

My public philosophy piece on break-ups and morality is out today in the blog of the APA. It picks up on several threads in my ongoing work on the party who does the breaking up, but if I have to pick the one highlight: breaking up is hard, and you must be prepared to get it wrong.

Recently published by @alfredarcher.bsky.social on luck and football. Now everyone log off social media and read more about philosophy of sports!

Football, luck and life This article builds upon Stephen Mumford’s observations about football and chance in his book Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game. Mumford argues that football strikes a perfect balance betwee...

New paper in @sportethicsandphil.bsky.social
for symposium on Stephen Mumford's Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game. I examine the life lessons Mumford draws from the luck of football and argue that even more can be found in B.S. Johnson's novel The Unfortunates. #Philsky
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Philosophers, theologians, anthropologists of sport, please consider our special issue ‘Sport, meaning and religion’ think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Over the past two years, Benjamin Mullins and I have edited the collected works of Shelly Kagan. The first volume, containing his work on the structure and methods of normative ethics, is now available for pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Italian thought is a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since its popularity peak in the 2000s?

An 'Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought' is available now!

Order now: https://bit.ly/4qwDVJv
Preview: https://bit.ly/3LXeaD7

G. E. Bös, Real Possibilities for Husserl's Correlation between Truth and Evidence - PhilPapers Already before endorsing transcendental idealism, Husserl pairs truths and possibilities of evidence. This ‘correlationism’ is central for phenomenological metaphysics, but it remains disputed how it ...

"Real Possibilities" - what Husserl means by those and what he should have said instead*. Forthcoming in ergo, preprint now here:
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*Insofar as they're supposed to link contingent truth and evidence

Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green...

New research from Tilburg University's philosophy department: Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassini on "Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics" in Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Science.

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Against Spiritual Leadership in (For-Profit) Organizations - Journal of Business Ethics Spiritual leadership has become a prominent approach within the family of horizontal and non-hierarchical leadership styles, aiming to integrate employees’ spiritual needs into organizational life. Wh...

New research from Tilburg University's Philosophy Department: Paolo Santori in the Journal of Business Ethics "Against Spiritual Leadership in (For-Profit) Organizations".

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De Dag van de Filosofie 2026 - 12 april Ken onszelve: dat is het thema van de Dag van de Filosofie 2026. Een eeuwenoude uitnodiging die nog steeds relevant is: wie zijn wij, individueel én…

Kom naar de Tilburgse dag van de filosofie, op 12 april! We hebben een prachtig programma voor u in petto, met onder meer een keynote door Roxane van Iperen, auteur van het essay van de Maand van de Filosofie 'Ik zie wat ik geloof'. Kaarten hier: denieuwevorst.nl/programma/da...

Fictional Game Spectatorship: On Pretend-Play and Collective Imagination in Gaming Communities Abstract. Fictional games are games that do not actually exist, but that are presented within works of fiction. They are thus not appreciated through play,

When Elden Ring had been announced but not yet released, its subreddit started collectively pretending the game was already out.

I spent far too many hours reading strategies to defeat the (completely made-up) Glaive Master Hodir. For research.
This is the result: doi.org/10.1093/aest...

Department of Philosophy | Tilburg University In its contribution to the global development of philosophy, the Department of Philosophy of Tilburg University focuses primarily on what it means to be human and to form a society.

The philosophy department of Tilburg University is now on Bluesky 🥳 Follow this profile for more on our research and events and, if you are curious to learn more about our department, visit our website at www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/school...

Break-up duties and the limits of deliberation: A reply to Betzler Abstract. Leaving a relationship without talking to the other person seems, in principle, morally callous. Monika Betzler argues that people initiating bre

The 1st publication of my research on break-ups & morality. I argue that we don't have a duty to explain to our partners the reasons for breaking up with them. Read the short article for my argument against giving excessive weight to reasons in break-ups, & do reply if you have thoughts

No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976-84 In this talk, Professor Matthew Worley examines the ways in which British punk claimed a relevance to the time and space in which it emerged. The talk considers punk’s continued presence in popular m...

Today — Winter 2026 Seminar

No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84
Prof. Matthew Worley + reading by Paul Max Morin

Tue 17 Feb
17:30 refreshments | 18:00 start
Collective Architecture, Glasgow
Hybrid — in person & online

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47. Should we be worried about cancel culture? With Alfred Archer and Georgie Mills - Ethics Untangled Cancelling and cancel culture are terms that we hear a lot these days, and it's one of the many areas where there seems to be more heat than light. The phenomenon of cancelling has become a front in t...

Or listen to the episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social ngled.bsky.social where we discuss these ideas www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

New paper with Georgie Mills: The Ethics of Cancelling. We argue that cancelling covers a range of moral practices. It is not always punishment, it can instead involve correcting reputations, ending parasocial relationships or relationships of informal representation. Read more here: rdcu.be/e4jay

Cover of Public Affairs Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2025 Yellow letters spell "PAQ" at the top of the page on an orange rectangle, with a thin blue rectangle below separating it from the rest of the beige background.

New Public Affairs Quarterly! Check out Vol. 39, No. 3, for "Behavioral Symmetry and Digital Speech" by Bartlomiej Chomanski, "When Should The Patriot Abandon Their Country?" by Michael S. Merry and @alfredarcher.bsky.social, and more! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/paq/issu...

Alexander Edlich

This week's post is by Alexander Edlich (LMU Munich), and Alfred Archer (University of Tilburg) presenting their paper 'Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice' published in Social Epistemology.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....

Episode 5: Pilar Lopez-Cantero on Romantic Love The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

Check out the latest episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! @lopezcantero.bsky.social Lopez-Cantero talks about romantic love.

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Call for Submissions: Special Issue 'Sport, Meaning and Religion' of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (@sportethicsandphil.bsky.social). Editors: Hanna Vandenbussche, Sabine Wolsink (@sabinewolsink.bsky.social) and me. See link: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Very pleased this 3 book review is now published:

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The attention market—and what is wrong with it - Philosophical Studies Attention is described as a “scarce commodity” that is traded in “a marketplace.” This, it is further claimed, contributes to a “widespread sense of attentional crisis.” But is there really an attenti...

What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵
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Just wrapped up two incredible days at KU Leuven for the Toward a Political Philosophy of Sport workshop. Grateful to the university and the Hoover Ethical Initiative for supporting such meaningful collaboration between scholars from around the world. #PhilSky