So I'm travelling from Salzburg to the south of Portugal... By train! The journey will last around 42hrs in total. I've just arrived in Geneva so that's already a bit of a dent. Turns out the Swiss are lovely!
Taking the liberty to share this a second time, as Bluesky was apparently down for much of yesterday. My most recent paper just out in Synthese—'Inner speech and sign languages':
My paper 'What is Friendship' has just been published. Thank you to everyone who gave me comments! Give it a read if friendship is your jam: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #philosophy #friendship
Promotional graphic for Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus by Emma Warhover. On the left, the book cover features a red title panel above a classical illustration of a chaotic Roman scene. On the right, a stylized vintage illustration shows two ancient figures in animated interaction. The background is split tan and red with the University of Michigan Press logo.
😆 "Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus"
In this sharp re-reading of #Tacitus, Emma Warhover shows how humour in his dense prose exposes imperial hypocrisy and absurdity, revealing wit as a deliberate critical tool at the heart of #Roman historiography.
bit.ly/3Nmu6zF
@uofmpress.bsky.social
Aw man, that's the worst. I once did the exact same thing (prepped and downloaded some playlists to my 'phone) for a journey between London and Cologne. I was livid.
Final plug for my workshop 'Friendship, and Friendship with the Morally Bad' featuring superstars of bluesky @drjoeslater.bsky.social and @lopezcantero.bsky.social. More details. and registration information, can be found here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #philsky
In March I will be talking about friendship break-ups in this online event on ‘Friendship & Friendship with the Morally Bad’, which has many other interesting talks on topics like moral snobbery, CS Lewis being totally wrong, or self-regarding reasons for friendship. Properly excited for this one!
A conference schedule for Thursday, 5th of March. Sessions begin at 10:00 with "Mutuality without Measurement" by Aloysius Ventham, followed by "Non-Domination and Eschewing Friendships with the Morally Bad" by Aarthy Vaidyanathan at 11:00. After a 15-minute break, Andrew Ma presents "The Strains of Involvement: Objectification and Ending Friendships" at 12:00. Lunch runs from 12:45 to 13:45. The afternoon features Sophie-Grace Chappell's 90-minute talk "What Aristotle and C.S. Lewis get wrong about friendship (pretty much everything)" at 13:45, then after another break, Paloma Morales presents "'Bad People' and Moral Snobs: On the Badness of Refusing to Befriend People with Serious Moral Vices" at 15:45. The day concludes with "Final Speaker" Yiran Hua from 16:30 to 18:00.
A conference schedule for Friday, 6th of March. Sessions begin at 10:00 with "Should we blame our friends for their immoral beliefs?" by Jake Wagner, followed by "Virtue Friendship with Bad People in Aristotle" by Dashan Xu at 11:00. After a 15-minute break, Pilar Lopez Cantero presents "Friendship Break-ups" at 12:00. Lunch runs from 12:45 to 13:45. The afternoon features Joe Slater's 90-minute talk "'You Should Like Your Friends', 'You Shouldn't Like Nazis' and Other Shocking Revelations" at 13:45, then after another break, Max Lewis presents "Friendship, Bad People, and the Limits of Reactivity" at 15:45. The day concludes with Final Speaker Bennett Helm from 16:30 to 18:00.
Philosophers! Come to my two day workshop - it's online and free and features OUTSTANDING speakers! dm me if you'd like to register to attend, or email me at aloysiusaquinas.ventham[at]salzburg.ac.at. More details here philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy #ethics
Poster advertising winter school hosted by the University of Groningen. See www.rug.nl/filosofie/organization/ppe for more info.
Winter School hosted by the University of Groningen announced! If you're an undergrad thinking about doing a PPE masters, check this out! Of course, this is open to everyone! #philsky #philosophy #ppe
There's still circa one day left to send abstracts to my workshop on friendship, and friendship with the morally bad! Confirmed speakers include Bennett Helm, Sophie-Grace Chappell, Yiran Hua, Jake Wagner, and Bluesky's own @drjoeslater.bsky.social. More details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication!
But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.
One of the great things about organising a workshop on friendship is that people who send abstracts for consideration are very, well, friendly!
What independent journalists/outlets have you been enjoying recently? Particularly people doing immigration reporting (any country) but also US/European politics in general. Self promotion welcome!
Happy first Monday back in the office to those of you for whom this is true. I will celebrate by neurotically checking to see if my papers have moved beyond 'awaiting editor decision'. #philosophy #philsky
So a referee commented that I should read Mark Alznauer's 'Hegel's Theory of Responsibility'. I got this book as a Christmas gift and I can't put it down. It's soooo good. Wild that I'm only reading it now. Thanks anonymous reviewer/wife (the buyer of the book). #philosophy #philsky #christmas
Pleased to announce that my Scientific American piece with @hikemix.bsky.social and James Humphries was one of this year's winners of the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social Op-Ed Contest.
See our cringe bios and the other winners here:
www.apaonline.org/page/2025pri...
“At the heart of Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy, [Bather Woods] argues, is a belief in universal solidarity. We are all fellow-sufferers in this absurd unchosen world of pain, and so should feel compassion for one another.” @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Submitted a REVISED application to the FWF... now to start working on applying to the DFG. I love that philosophers have to fund their own jobs these days. #philosophy #philsky
New study finds not only that people have lower perceptions of plant-based meats for no real reason, but that these negative beliefs are stronger in sexist people.
Labour has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
Can't wait!
Finally finished writing a draft of my paper on transaction norms in friendship. Tl;dr - don't say 'I'll get the next one' if I buy you a coffee. Heck, don't say it to anyone. #philosophy #philsky
Das aufgeschlagene Buch »Größe zeigen« von Kate Manne mit ihrem stw-Band »Down Girl« im Hintergrund.
Als @katemanne.bsky.social ihr Buch »Down Girl« öffentlich vorstellen soll, kann sie nur an eines denken: ihren Körper – und sagt ab. In ihrem neuen Buch zeigt sie nun, wie Fettfeindlichkeit unseren Blick verzerrt und wie sie Menschen Fähigkeiten abspricht: shrk.vg/GroesseZeige...
Thanks Daniel!!!
Mitch Green at Philosophia is a God among men for getting this published so quickly after acceptance. Anyway, have a read if normative blackballing is your sort of thing! #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fantastic! Thanks Daniel!!!
Philosophers! I'm drafting a paper on why scorekeeping-like norms are an affront to friendship (saying things like 'you bought the coffee last time, let me get this'). Does anyone know if there are any good papers on gift-giving, or transaction-norms, in this sort of context? #philosophy #philsky
Please share widely!
CFP: Political scientists and political philosophers! Are you working on populist conceptions of democracy and/or populist threats to equality? Apply to be part of this panel I am co-organizing in Passau! www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/do... #philsky #poltheory