I'll be online later today with Cheshire Calhoun and Karen Stohr at the Pacific APA for our panel session on Positive Moral Philosophy! I'll be talking about using things to praise.
Details on p.33 of the program (session 4D)! www.apaonline.org/mpage/2026pa...
Join us!
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BPA Prizes 2026 - British Philosophical Association The British Philosophical Association is delighted to celebrate the inaugural recipients of our new BPA Prizes. These awards were established to recognise and promote the outstanding breadth, depth, a...

Delighted that Sheffield won department of the year in the annual BPA prizes!! And fab to see colleagues @chongminglim.bsky.social and Jim Chamberlain getting recognition too.
bpa.ac.uk/prizes2026/
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Lecturer in Philosophy of Cognitive Science at University of Sheffield Apply for the Lecturer in Philosophy of Cognitive Science role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Philosophy of cog sci job at Sheffield - 3yr post. Get in touch if you have questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU853/l...
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Great conversation with Tareeq Jalloh available now!

Should pornography be authentic? Some people think so, and partly because they think this would make it better ethically rather than just, well, better. Rosa Vince disagrees!

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

oh good.
I'm so glad our overlords have invested in this definitely robust and reliable tool.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

5) AI, its development and deployment in capitalist labour markets.

Seems legit to me, tho hard to separate AI as it is made and used now from what it could be...

Our PhD programme is in the top 10 for overall PhD programme & top 10 for climate in the latest APDA graduate programme survey!
Sheffield is the only UK uni to appear in the top 10 for overall PhD programme &one of only two UK unis to appear in the top 10 for climate.
apda.ghost.io/2026-data-up...

Call for abstracts for this great looking conference from the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC).
salzburgethics.com/emrc-confere...
Deadline for abstracts March 15th!
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lovely to see you too!

Went to Cardiff to give a talk on functionalist accounts of praise and the feedback and discussion was absolutely brilliant. I'm happily writing it up now. Lovely to see @nonamename.bsky.social, @jonathanwebber.bsky.social and others!
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A Pamphlet for the Infant Feeding Awards 2026, at York St John University, next to a winning certificate in the 'Infant Feeding Research Award' category, for the 'Caring for Everyone' project.

Last Fri we went to York for an awards event for infant feeding and our work on gender inclusion got recognised alongside a bunch of other amazing stuff folks are doing.
@fionawoollard.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social
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Congrats Tareeq! This is awesome news, and an awesome paper :)

(I'm happy that the review contains the utterance "I support Palestine action", in the context of a worry for Maitra's externalism about mental content.)

Feminist Philosophy of Mind, edited by Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny ‘Would contemporary debates in philosophy of mind be furthered by taking note of feminist insights?’, the editors, Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny ask, in

And here's a further reading rec: I reviewed Maitra &McWeeny's edited volume on Feminist Philosophy of Mind, which is awesome.

So many provoking and exciting chapters, fruitful exchanges and disagreements! Check it out!
academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

If you're looking for guidance on holiday reading... Jess Isserow has written a fab review of my book! As well as giving a good overview of the book itself, it is also a fun read. The critical points are fair and well taken! Thanks Jess!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

CFA: White Rose Practical Philosophy Network, University of Sheffield, 18th December 2025. Abstracts are solicited in particular from MA, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers in Philosophy. The University of Sheffield will host the next meeting of the White Rose Practical Philosoph…

Reminding White Rose Philosophy folk (Sheff, Leeds, York): a week til deadline for submitting abstracts for the second network event, to be held in Sheffield, Dec 18! Funds available to support attendance. Details (how to submit, how to register) here:
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/09/19/c...
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Today! Giving these thoughts a whirl at Milan Statale, where I've been enjoying being visiting fellow since September #philsky #philosophy

Today! At Uni San Raffaele, I get to discuss the functions of oppressive praise with the fab Milanese philosophers! #philsky #philosophy

Thanks for the fun and super useful discussion! Lots to think about... :)

*thanks

Than to the connecting power of #philsky, I'm delighted to be zooming into a reading group session on my book Oppressive Praise tomorrow with @paranoidaquinoid.bsky.social !

Thanks Chris!! I feel I should also let you know - I finished writing that review piece we talked about!! :)

thank you! <3

This is very exciting! I feel honoured to be alongside such other fantastic authors!
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UK-based academic fed up of our sector's involvement in research and production of weapons that get used to kill innocent civilians? Here's a petition for you:
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Queen

A view from above at night of an overpass close to the dock in Genoa packed with 10s of thousands of people

Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza.

Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege.

(📸 Hidden Palestine)

I'm happy to have our paper included in this cluster of papers in Hypatia about birth and inclusion! @matthewjcull.bsky.social @fionawoollard.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Job opp, tight deadline... #philsky #philosophy