For Margaret Macdonald, philosophy’s value resides in providing us with stories that can help make better sense of the world around us Peter West bit.ly/49F4DGq

Delighted 2 get this in the post this morning! Bargain@£6.59! Recall responding 2 Angie Hobbs when gathering ideas 4 her v-interesting piece+delighted 2 add Ellie Robson 2 my recent Midgley reading. Hope 2 write soon myself 4 The Philosopher on #PublicPoliticalPhilosophy ...

What a line up of keynotes! A major conference for all the Midgleyans, Midgeleians, and Midglets out there

With the BSHP over, it's back to CD Broad. Here he is dryly undermining Bertrand Russell's #HistoryofPhilosophy :

Great three days spent at the British Society for the History of Philosophy annual conference, featuring lots of fantastic talks - including a strong showing of early analytic women. Managed also to find time to visit the Metropolitan Cathedral, a modernist beauty

Great article by Ellie Robson at The Philosopher. 'Midgley’s plumbing metaphor is about the necessity of philosophy to all human life...Philosophy is not an activity that can be done in isolation..but an avenue for personal and communal flourishing'.

thephilosopher1923.org/post/mary-midg…

'Public philosophy should be supported and taught in universities, because it has the potential to enhance our research and expand the skill set of our students' -from my latest The Philosopher

Peter Adamson Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine Angie Hobbs Peter West

thephilosopher1923.org/post/circling-…

‘Neo utilitarians are utter philistines’ the-hinternet.com/p/neo-utilitar…

'There is something compelling in the sound of a fountain in a deserted place. It murmurs about what things do when no one watches them. It is the hearing of an unheard sound. A gentle refutation of Berkeley” - Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

Voxpop: new England shirt

The poster for our digital spring event series has been finalised! It features 25 events in total until June 24th. Take a look— there’s surely something for everyone:

Livestock traders drinking outside a pub on Inis Meáin island, 1971.

This essay is three years old now! It lead to my involvement in a republication of Thinking to Some Purpose by Routledge: routledge.com/Thinking-to-So… So thanks for that Aeon+Psyche

Kent administration decides to go ahead with plan to axe philosophy... dailynous.com/2024/03/21/ken…