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We're excited to announce a full programme of fabulous speakers for our 2024/5 work in progress series! Available here: womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/ Or by joining our network (which we enourage you to do!): mappingthequartet.org 1/2

"The way in which we think of ourselves - the picture we form of our essential nature - directly affects the way we live." -Heart and Mind

"Inequalities above one's own level tend to be visible: those below it to be hidden." -Animals and Why They Matter

Last week we had @PeterWest23 as our first speaker on the (women) In Parenthesis Seminar Series. If you missed his talk, you can catch up on YouTube here: youtube.com/watch?v=AbfeHk… For updates on Quartet related research, join our network here: mappingthequartet.org ☺️☺️☺️

Check out our new ✨Mapping Connections✨to the Wartime Quartet page here: womeninparenthesis.co.uk/quartet-biogra… We've got a new entries on Julius Kovesi by Alan Tapper and Susan Stebbing by @PeterWest23

Philosophy, in spite of all its tiresome features, is not a luxury but a necessity, because we always have to use it when things get difficult. That is why I have spent such a lot of my life on it.--Mary Midgley

Peter Worley Emma Swinn MBE Also got a little project inspired by Midgley Quotes InParenthesis & #NotesFromABiscuitTin. Thank you #MaryMidgley for the ‘wit & widow’ dispensed with tea & a ginger snap. Today so many of us try to offer that same academic hospitality notesfromabiscuittin.com #Philosophy

Great to see my piece on #MaryMidgley & moral philosophy #medicalethics #bioethics in the latest edition of RE Today Services. This little piece is part of a chapter soon to be published in a Palgrave Macmillan collected volume on #Midgley edited by the brilliant @Philosophellie King's College London

Wrapping some special parcels for some special ladies joining our #PhilosophyInTheWild team! #NotesFromABiscuitTin #MaryMidgley Midgley Quotes #Philosophy #GingerSnaps InParenthesis Eloise Williams Gill Lewis Hanan Issa #Pembrokeshire #Cymru

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'In the 1950s, the philosopher Mary Midgley did something that, according to philosophical orthodoxy, she wasn’t supposed to do' Ellie Robson on Mary Midgley for Aeon magazine aeon.co/essays/for-mar…

Parts 1 and 2 of a recent interview on Mary Midgley with @Philosophellie 3cr.org.au/radicalphiloso…

A humble offering for #WorldBookDay #WBD from my amazing son, a budding young #changermaker, & I: ‘5 Books for Curious Thinkers and Changemakers.’ #Philosophy #CriticalAndCreativeThinking #BooksForThinking #BooksForChange #BooksForHope #ReadingForChange catalyst.winchestercollege.org/blog/top-5-boo…

A #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight #BPF2025 and early Mother’s Day blog post: The Case for Plato: Why Kids Need Philosophy (and Philosophy Needs Kids) Thank you to my own lovely children and all my students for the conversations. Philosophy happens with you - not at you! 1/3

#BSHP Annual Conference 2025 British Society for the History of Philosophy Cambridge University ✅ #Vasculum collected ✅ #Pembrokeshire we are on our way #PhilosophyInTheWild #MaryMidgley #FindingHopeInMixedCommunities stdavidspeninsula.co.uk/events notesfromabiscuittin.com @St. Davids Peninsula TTA Visit Pembrokeshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

‘To an adult in formal dress, engaged on his statesmanly interactions, the fence is an insuperable barrier. Down below, where it is full of holes, it presents no obstacle at all. The young Homo sapiens, like those of other species present, scurry through it all the time.’ 1/5

New Post: Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy blog.apaonline.org/2025/05/29/mar…

Here is a piece on Mary Midgley that I wrote for the American Philosophical Association public philosophy blog! blog.apaonline.org/2025/05/29/mar…