Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

capitalandmain.com/despite-apoc...

Brief update from the battlefields of attacking extreme wealth concentration (we're still far from making any progress)

crookedtimber.org/2026/04/09/e...

Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th

Just published! My book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, is now available via Oxford Academic Online:

academic.oup.com/book/62523

In a happy coincidence the print version is due out on Marx’s birthday, May 5th.

@jkandiyali.bsky.social !

Flourishing Together, by Jan Kandiyali, now available on Oxford scholarship online: academic.oup.com/book/62523

"Transformative Aesthetic Dimensions in Young Boys' War Play: Exploring the World Through Kinesthetic Musicality" - Ebba Theorell (Stockholm University) The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2025

"Transformative Aesthetic Dimensions in Young Boys' War Play: Exploring the World Through Kinesthetic Musicality" - Ebba Theorell (Stockholm University)
open.substack.com/pub/newworki...

"Rescuing Socialism from Equality" - Barry Maguire (University of Edinburgh) Mind, 2026

"Rescuing Socialism from Equality" - Barry Maguire (University of Edinburgh)
open.substack.com/pub/newworki...

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

Beyond Equality | The Point Magazine What I’m about to say is going to seem like a bad joke: the trouble with the left is its egalitarianism.

recommended monday morning reading: thepointmag.com/politics/bey...

James Laing, The Shared Life

Leif Wenar, The Value of Unity

Kimberley Brownlee, Being Sure of Each Other

Sanford Diehl, Really looking and being seen

Annette Baier, ‘The moral perils of intimacy’ or ‘alienating affection’ or ‘how to lose friends: some simple ways’

I'm actually playing with the idea of teaching a class on 'new work on togetherness', based on these sorts of papers:

James Lewis, What is togetherness and why is it good?

Vida Yao, Grace and Alienation

Quinn White, Honesty and Discretion

Anna-Bella Sicilia, Love, Fairness and Sharing a life

Togetherness

The Problem With Billionaires Ingrid Robeyns offers both philosophical and practical arguments against permitting extreme wealth concentration.

I wrote a piece explaining why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was right when he said there shouldn't be any billionaires. In fact, there are SO MANY reasons why this is true, that it's astonishing that some people still think this is a radical position.
www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/pro...

Any recommendations for literature on why universities should be managed by academics? Bonus points for discussions of subsidiarity: devolving authority to colleges, schools, departments, wherever possible.

Ways of World Knowing: Local Knowledge, Coastal Communities, and Equitable Ocean Governance Abstract. This collection of cross-disciplinary chapters by philosophers, legal scholars, and marine scientists explore the epistemic value of varieties of

Our co-edited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars is out: academic.oup.com/book/62270#l... (hardback to follow). Our ch 2 is OA academic.oup.com/book/62270/c.... We discuss how to better integrate local knowledge into ocean governance esp #BBNJ implementation.

Scotland sends baby box to New York after mayor Mamdani cites policy Scottish social justice secretary says manifesto pledge for New Yorkers shows shared ‘commitment to tackling child poverty’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rescuing Socialism from Equality Abstract. Karl Marx rejected the ideal of equality as bourgeois. And yet the most significant attempt in recent years to distinguish socialist theory from

academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

And another job! A 6 year postdoc in Philosophy of Enlightenment and Modernity at Uni Wien with (newly arrived) Prof. Katharina Kraus.
philjobs.org/job/show/30622

Topics Please see below for a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics; we particularly welcome contributions that make contact with this year's conference theme: Ground Truth and Validity. While the notion of measurement validity is comparatively familiar, ground truth may need more of an introduction. The concept of ground truth has origins in remote sensing, where it is used to contrast the outcomes of a near or ground level measurement with outcomes of a remotely sensed measurement. From these origins, the concept has now moved to a wider use, particularly in machine learning contexts, where it denotes data assumed to be true, which can then be used to calibrate and validate machine learning data. The time seems ripe for a more careful investigation from a measurement perspective of the concept of ground truth-both in its original understanding and in its more metaphorical use. Measurement and Simulation • Connections between measuring and simulating • Can simulation substitute for measurement? Measurement and Data Science

Measurement and Data Science • Measurement and data quality • Measurement and data analysis • Measurement and Al Models in Measurement • The role of models in measurement • The role of models in justifying measurement results • Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation Models of Measurement • The general structure of the measurement process • The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement

The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement • Exploration across sciences with diverse philosophical perspectives • New quantification and measurement approaches • Epistemological and metaphysical approaches to measurement Measurement Applications and their conceptual foundations in any area of science • Life & Health Sciences

CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh
June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364...
#HPS

blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/02/l... new post from @jkandiyali.bsky.social and @martinoneill.bsky.social

Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh): Apocalyptic Technology: AI and the Limits of Science YouTube video by LSE Philosophy

🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science"

Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...

Speaker Series with Dr. Barry Maguire About the session: Socialism and the Collective Ownership of the Means of Production (joint work with Jan Kandiyali) Historically, socialism has been identified with collective ownership of the means ...

Does socialism require collective ownership of the means of production?

Find out @barrymaguire.bsky.social's (joint work w/ @jkandiyali.bsky.social) answer to this question in the next online Visions Speaker Series! Happening Dec 1.

You can register here:

Barry Maguire, Rescuing Socialism from Equality - PhilPapers Karl Marx rejected the ideal of equality as bourgeois. And yet, the most significant attempt in recent years to distinguish socialist theory from liberal egalitarian theory, G.A. Cohen's critique of J...

Socialists should be against wage labour altogether, not just against inegalitarian wages. New paper (forthcoming in Mind) aims to 'rescue' Cohen's failed incentives critique from his egalitarianism, basing it more effectively and authentically on caring solidarity.

philpapers.org/rec/MAGRSF

Exchange for Mutual Benefit versus Caring Solidarity - an essay laying out fundamental points of contrast between the best form of productive relationship compatible with markets, and the best form of productive relationship. Published today open access in E&P: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

We are hiring! Two new Lecturer (AP) positions at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics:
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

#EconSky

fantastic!

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments": Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*:

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "

Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!

politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

New article in Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social > "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism" by Jan Kandiyali (@jkandiyali.bsky.social) and Martin O'Neill ‪(@martinoneill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/pp....

Foundations of Morality Workshop The aim of the workshop is to further our understanding of foundational questions about morality. We are open to perspectives from both metaethics and normative ethics, addressing questions such as: W...

Foundations of Morality workshop at the University of Leeds, June 10-11. Keynotes: Julia Driver (UT Austin) and Michael Smith (Princeton). Programme and registration details are now up at philevents.org/event/show/1.... Registration deadline: June 1st. Join us there!
#Philosophy