As a former member of staff, the way TCD has treated its students here is shameful, if not particularly surprising.

Looks a fun weekend in Hay!

Come along to hear from a Nobel Prize winning physicist, a former director of the CIA, an Archbishop of Canterbury and ... me? 😂😂😂

This week, for our ongoing collaboration with Applied Philosophy , Nico Müller and Friderike Spang discuss the morality and limitations of violent activism in defence of animal rights.

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✨ This month we chat to IRC Research Fellow Caleb Althorpe @calebalthorpe.bsky.social who tells us about his research on economic justice, exploring the value of work, the dynamics of economic power & the transformative influence of technology.

Read the full interview here ⬇️
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What is meaningful work? We've teamed up with HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, the world's largest ideas and music festival, from 24-27 May.

On 26 May, The Conversation's Avery Anapol will host a live event delving into whether 'meaningful work' exists in today's age. ⬇️
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Check out my recent piece on the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness below!

A short piece on meaningful work and why I think workplace democracy could help bring it about.

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The Conversation

I got a ticket here in the early 80s, for cycling on a footpath. It was called Catte Street. I successfully defended the ticket (discharged w/o conviction) before the Oxford magistrates. The relevant statute prohibited driving a carriage on a footpath by the side of any road.

Event at 10 this morning, Sat 20 April, in Braga, Portugal — Philippe Van Parijs philippe van parijs, Catarina Neves, and I will be talking about alternatives to capitalism.

Event at the Livraria 100ª Página bookstore, Av Central, Braga.

Very proud of Philosophy Today 2024. 200 people attending talks across philosophy - what a sign of the life of philosophy in Ireland and of Irish public life! Many thanks to the speakers and attendees, and to the fantastic Katy Armstrong who worked so hard behind the scenes!

This is getting dunked on but isn’t this just bog standard political liberalism?
Our deep disagreements over what we take to be true (does God exist? What is the meaning of life?…) means these sorts of questions can’t form the basis of political principles or decision-making?

The granddaddy of selection bias

Can personal work relations in capitalist firms be reconciled with freedom as non-domination? In this new paper, Cindy Estlund and I have a go at an answer. It’s based on the idea of “legitimate economic authority”: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Looks like a great event in Dublin in May, on the political philosophy of work, organised by Caleb Althorpe @calebalthorpe.bsky.social and Adina Preda at Trinity College Dublin 👇

Fantastic programme for this two-day workshop on ‘Work and Equality’ on 13-14 May hosted by Adina Preda & Caleb Althorpe @calebalthorpe.bsky.social TCDphilosophy Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin, with speakers Virginia Mantouvalou Jo Wolff Michael Cholbi and many more!

New (Open Access) publication thread: After a long time in the making, here's my paper 'Justice in Hiring: Why the Most Qualified Should Not (Necessarily) Get the Job', in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ja… (1/7)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… Suppose firms should be arranged democratically. Who should compose the demos of the firm? Iñigo González-Ricoy and I address this question in a paper just published in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, which you can find here.