My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.

Rights and Right-Holding Matthew Kramer is the foremost contemporary proponent of the Interest theory of rights, and his latest monograph is a definitive statement and defense of that theory. While some of the arguments in Ri...

My review of Matt Kramer's impressive book, Rights and Right-Holding url: read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosop...

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Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions are now open in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, in Value Theory and in the Philosophy, History and Ethics of Science. Closing dates: 19 & 30 Jan 2026.

Further details here ⬇️
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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...

This is an excellent habdbook, notwithstanding my own contribution www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Would you have been paid if you were just thinking I wonder?

The Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin are calling for expressions of interest in two great funding schemes - one for full PhD funding, and one for postdoctoral positions, both through Research Ireland (our main state research council). 1/2

Ah indeed. I don’t know how to make it work 😔

The department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin is soliciting expressions of interest for the Government of Ireland postdoctoral and doctoral fellowships. Deadline: September 8th listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Sadly, it doesn’t seem possible to register for online attendance. Enjoy!

They’re asking for an aspiration not a prediction 😉

I was at an event that gave me medic envy as well. But most of the medics there wanted to be philosophers 😳

I thought specific purpose meant not permanent.

Everyone’s a winner in academia!

Just went on it and it says posts are not loading

So did i

It is a delicious thing!

For their own voluntary choices I’d say.

The cafe is nice too!

World service

Equal and ashamed? Egalitarianism, anti-discrimination, and redistribution - Bastian Steuwer, 2025 One prominent criticism of luck egalitarianism is that it requires either shameful revelations or otherwise problematic declarations by the state toward those w...

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Great paper!

Welcome back! 🙂

Great! I think I’ll use this for teaching.

Mine is due to A bout de souffle 🙂

Happy new year to all!

Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Philosophy on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

📣Come and be my colleague! The Dept of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a new Assistant Prof (Area: Open). I cannot recommend Trinity, the Dept, or Dublin enough! Please share with anyone interested, and if you’ve any questions, do get in touch. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKZ107/a...

Speak for yourself! I can barely put my own ideas into words.

I’d take it off someone’s hands with one bookmark

I’ve registered!

So I think we’ll be neighbours?