Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily? Join a union.

75 years ago #onthisday the first volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex was published. Within a week, it sold over 20,000 copies. Within months, Beauvoir expressed astonishment that it attracted the attention—and attacks—that it did.

Very much looking forward to doing a keynote lecture at this year's BSET conference in beautiful Edinburgh. I'll be talking about integrity -- what it is and how we know. Registration is still open! Full list of talks and registration link: bset.org.uk

More of this sort of thing here: neal.fun/absurd-trolley…

Great talk from Juliana de Albuquerque (University College Cork) on Hannah Arendt's theory of the primacy of experience over theory and the centrality of stories to ethical and political understanding. #SEP2024

There are only two possible Governments that could be formed by this election. And there are three possible Oppositions. #GE2024 #UKElections #vote #MakeToriesHistory

Superb #SEP2024 session on Simone de Beauvoir with Anna Cornelia Ploug (Copenhagen) on concrete contradictions in The Second Sex and Katja Čičigoj (Klagenfurt) on gendered forms of subjectivation structuring lived experience.

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.

This year's UK Sartre Society conference includes a plenary symposium on Mary Edwards’s monograph Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis. #UKSS2024

Rydyn ni’n hurio! Dwy swydd Addysgu ac Ysgoloriaethau 12-mis, un mewn epistemoleg gymdeithasol ac un mewn athroniaeth wleidyddol. Dyddad cau: Dydd Sul, 21 Gorffennaf 2024. Manylion llawn: bit.ly/cddathray12

Hurtling through the Lake District on the way to #BSET2024

Views from the Edinburgh philosophy department common room #BSET2024

'Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War' offers accessible academic analysis of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in order to enhance the understanding of concerned citizens across the globe who have been witnessing the conflict unfold. 1/17 ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/…

Royal Institute of Philosophy Cardiff Annual Lecture 2024 :: Quiet As Its Kept: On Epistemic Fragility :: – Professor Kristie Dotson – live on YouTube Tuesday 19th November 8.30pm - 10.00pm UK time Full details: bit.ly/TRIPCdf2024

"What is new is a theme running throughout our degrees: the usefulness of philosophising in working together to address problems that we face collectively as organisations and as a society." –– me on our new BA and MA degrees at Cardiff University :: timeshighereducation.com/campus/philoso…

I am no longer posting things here. You can find me easily in another place. The picture is a clue.