Professor Maximilian De Gaynesford will be taking part in a live discussion tomorrow evening (28th June) on Radio 4, between 9pm-10pm 'Freethinking' - with a broad topic of escapism; Philosophy and dreaming around 9.20pm.

Congratulations to the Philosophy graduates of 2024! We wish you every future success and hope you stay in touch 🥂🥂

Our students have had their say, thank you to all our finalists who filled in the survey. Good luck to those of you who have graduated recently, have a restful summer!

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus John Cottingham on the publication of his latest book, The Humane Perspective: johncottingham.co.uk/The-Humane-Per…

A new article has been published online by Dr Jumbly Grindrod. The article addresses whether text produced by large language models is meaningful or not: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations to our undergraduate students Anthara Rajiv and James Tidbury, who have won a 2024 SEDA Student Partnership Impact Award for enhancing community and inclusivity in their revival of the Philosophy Society. Well done to you both 😀😀

Jumbly Grindrod, Nat Hansen, and J.D. Porter (U Penn Price Lab for Digital Humanities) presented their joint work on Large Language Models at the Dartmouth Workshop on A.I., Language and Cognition last week. Here are some pictures from the workshop: justinkhoo.com/dartmouth-ai-2…

Office Space, close reading, reverse ekphrasis, lambda calculus, replicability in the humanities, and synthetic philosophy—my review of Kramnick's Criticism and Truth in British Journal of Aesthetics: doi.org/10.1093/aesthj… Preprint here: philpapers.org/archive/HANROJ…

Prof. David Oderberg has just published 'Action, Passion, Power' in Noûs, on full open access: doi.org/10.1111/nous.1…

Congratulations to our PhD student Tommaso Soriani, who has just published 'The Epistemic Objection Against Perdurantism' in Synthese, co-authored with Emanuele Tullio, and on full open access: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

See new Podcast episode by Dr Walter Veit: youtube.com/watch?v=UteTye…

Reading are on University Challenge, BBC2 at 8.30 tonight – led by our own PhD student Rhiannon Snook. Good luck!

Our former PhD student Sarah Bouabdeli has just published this article: 'Philosophy of Technology and Why it Matters', in Global Philosophy, vol.34, 2024 (accessible here: rdcu.be/dULLd )

New podcast episode by our lecturer Walter Veit: youtu.be/fWTGmP57MNs

Our lecturer Walter Veit published a new paper on moral nihilism. Reclaiming Moral Nihilism doi.org/10.5209/resf.9…

This year’s annual Cottingham Lecture at the University of Reading will be delivered by Prof. Roger Crisp, Oxford, on ‘Meaning and the Good Life’. Thursday 24 October 2024 at 6pm. In-person event only. Register at tinyurl.com/mrya4uau.

Professor David Oderberg has written a piece for Aeon, discussing his work on biological mistakes. aeon.co/essays/a-new-t…

Prof. Oderberg is a guest of Lib Dem MP Charlie Maynard at the Corn Exchange, Witney, on Thursday 14 Nov, 6pm. There will be a panel discussion on the Assisted Dying Bill currently being debated in Parliament.

Our lecturer Walter Veit published a new book on the ethics and justification of zoos! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-are…