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News from in and around the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
📣 Warmest congratulations to PhD student Alice Hilder Jarvis on the publication of 'No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism' in the Journal of Applied Philosophy
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism
A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel part....
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November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📣 Warmest congratulations to PhD student Alice Hilder Jarvis on the publication of 'No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism' in the Journal of Applied Philosophy
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Last day of Do Ho Suh's Walk the House exhibition @tate.bsky.social
Sarah Fine was one of his collaborators for his Bridge Project
Sarah Fine was one of his collaborators for his Bridge Project
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Last day of Do Ho Suh's Walk the House exhibition @tate.bsky.social
Sarah Fine was one of his collaborators for his Bridge Project
Sarah Fine was one of his collaborators for his Bridge Project
🙌Hearty congratulations to Christopher Benzenberg. He completed his PhD, 'The Power of Reason: Kant’s Empirical Study of the Mind' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach). He is a postdoc at the Univ. of Notre Dame’s History of Philosophy Forum.
October 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🙌Hearty congratulations to Christopher Benzenberg. He completed his PhD, 'The Power of Reason: Kant’s Empirical Study of the Mind' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach). He is a postdoc at the Univ. of Notre Dame’s History of Philosophy Forum.
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🧠 Jessie Munton reflects on ignorance, forgetting, and why not knowing is as important to philosophy as knowledge.
Jessie Munton’s EXPs here in our collection with the Leverhulme Trust 👉 linktr.ee/joinexpediti...
#PLPEXPeditions #ReliableKnowledge
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Jessie Munton’s EXPs here in our collection with the Leverhulme Trust 👉 linktr.ee/joinexpediti...
#PLPEXPeditions #ReliableKnowledge
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October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🧠 Jessie Munton reflects on ignorance, forgetting, and why not knowing is as important to philosophy as knowledge.
Jessie Munton’s EXPs here in our collection with the Leverhulme Trust 👉 linktr.ee/joinexpediti...
#PLPEXPeditions #ReliableKnowledge
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Jessie Munton’s EXPs here in our collection with the Leverhulme Trust 👉 linktr.ee/joinexpediti...
#PLPEXPeditions #ReliableKnowledge
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"Attention is the beginning of devotion."
Jessie Munton, Professor of Philosophy @cam.ac.uk, reflects on how love, care and personal relationships shape what we come to know. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4628
Jessie Munton, Professor of Philosophy @cam.ac.uk, reflects on how love, care and personal relationships shape what we come to know. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4628
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"Attention is the beginning of devotion."
Jessie Munton, Professor of Philosophy @cam.ac.uk, reflects on how love, care and personal relationships shape what we come to know. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4628
Jessie Munton, Professor of Philosophy @cam.ac.uk, reflects on how love, care and personal relationships shape what we come to know. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4628
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A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
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October 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
🙌Sending congratulations to @pablohh.bsky.social, who completed his PhD on 'Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge' (supervised by Richard Holton and Jessie Munton) and has taken up a postdoctoral fellowship at CONCEPT at the University of Cologne.
www.pablohubacherhaerle.ch
www.pablohubacherhaerle.ch
Philosophy | Pablo Hubacher Haerle philosophie
Pablo Hubacher Haerle, PhD student in Philosophy, Cambridge, Self-Image, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Theory of Action, Epistemology, Metaphysics of Mind, Wittgenstein
www.pablohubacherhaerle.ch
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🙌Sending congratulations to @pablohh.bsky.social, who completed his PhD on 'Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge' (supervised by Richard Holton and Jessie Munton) and has taken up a postdoctoral fellowship at CONCEPT at the University of Cologne.
www.pablohubacherhaerle.ch
www.pablohubacherhaerle.ch
🙌 Huge congratulations to
@alex-fisher.bsky.social
, who completed his PhD on 'Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality' (supervised by Alex Oliver) in 2024 and is now the Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds.
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@alex-fisher.bsky.social
, who completed his PhD on 'Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality' (supervised by Alex Oliver) in 2024 and is now the Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds.
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Alex Fisher
I am the Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. I was previously a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University , funded by the Leverhulme Trust...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🙌 Huge congratulations to
@alex-fisher.bsky.social
, who completed his PhD on 'Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality' (supervised by Alex Oliver) in 2024 and is now the Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds.
alex--fisher.weebly.com
@alex-fisher.bsky.social
, who completed his PhD on 'Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality' (supervised by Alex Oliver) in 2024 and is now the Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds.
alex--fisher.weebly.com
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#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
www.cam.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
🙌Warmest congratulations to Alexander Hutterer, who completed his PhD on 'Knowledge and Cognition in Kant' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach) and has taken up a Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early Career Research Fellowship at Univ of Chicago
@gatescambridge.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
@gatescambridge.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🙌Warmest congratulations to Alexander Hutterer, who completed his PhD on 'Knowledge and Cognition in Kant' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach) and has taken up a Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early Career Research Fellowship at Univ of Chicago
@gatescambridge.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
@gatescambridge.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
🎭 Come and see Cambridge MPhil Philosophy student Dom Andrew perform in 'Lukewarm Goo', at the Corpus Playroom, 29 Oct - 1 Nov
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Lukewarm Goo: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Zoo
Join sketch comedy group Lukewarm Goo (Footlights James Allen, Dom Andrew and Will Boyce) for a gooey sketch show. Expect goo on the way to the zoo.
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October 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🎭 Come and see Cambridge MPhil Philosophy student Dom Andrew perform in 'Lukewarm Goo', at the Corpus Playroom, 29 Oct - 1 Nov
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Lauren Berlant reading group 📚
Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
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Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
bit.ly/4nFi9C0
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Lauren Berlant reading group 📚
Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
bit.ly/4nFi9C0
Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
bit.ly/4nFi9C0
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Didn’t expect to receive a hard copy of this volume. So satisfying to hold. An honour to philosophise alongside these wonderful thinkers. Here’s the link academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
September 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Didn’t expect to receive a hard copy of this volume. So satisfying to hold. An honour to philosophise alongside these wonderful thinkers. Here’s the link academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
📜📢Congratulations to Rose Ryan Flinn @sidneysussex.bsky.social
on the forthcoming publication of 'The Unity of Pictorial Experience' in Philosophers' Imprint.
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on the forthcoming publication of 'The Unity of Pictorial Experience' in Philosophers' Imprint.
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The Unity of Pictorial Experience
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Seeing-in is the experience of seeing something in a picture. This experience is present to the subject as a single, unifi...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📜📢Congratulations to Rose Ryan Flinn @sidneysussex.bsky.social
on the forthcoming publication of 'The Unity of Pictorial Experience' in Philosophers' Imprint.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...
on the forthcoming publication of 'The Unity of Pictorial Experience' in Philosophers' Imprint.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...
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My paper 'A Domino Theory of Disease' is out and available *open access* with Philosophy of Science! 🥳 @philscijournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A Domino Theory of Disease | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
A Domino Theory of Disease - Volume 92 Issue 2
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May 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
My paper 'A Domino Theory of Disease' is out and available *open access* with Philosophy of Science! 🥳 @philscijournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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latest by the dream team of @pasliwa.bsky.social and Tom McClelland #philsky
Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances
In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet acc...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
latest by the dream team of @pasliwa.bsky.social and Tom McClelland #philsky
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A reminder that our 2025 Philosophy essay competition is now open. Do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in submitting. ✍️📚
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September 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A reminder that our 2025 Philosophy essay competition is now open. Do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in submitting. ✍️📚
Visit royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/bodies-... for full details.
#philosophy #essay #competition #prize
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Check out the latest CFI blog on AI, Art and Morality by our Senior Teaching Associate Dr Milena Ivanova👇
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AI, Art and Morality - LCFI
This blog is written by Dr Milena Ivanova, a Senior Teaching Fellow at LCFI, Bye-Fellow of Newnham College and Senior Teaching Associate at Cambridge PACE. The question whether artificial intelligence...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Check out the latest CFI blog on AI, Art and Morality by our Senior Teaching Associate Dr Milena Ivanova👇
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Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships close soon. Open to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences, the scheme supports completing a major research project and gaining university work experience. Apply now: buff.ly/McS8lRk
September 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships close soon. Open to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences, the scheme supports completing a major research project and gaining university work experience. Apply now: buff.ly/McS8lRk
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I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...
Mellor, Hugh, 1938-2020
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August 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...
Prof Tim Crane (CEU, former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy) has written a @britishacademy.bsky.social Biographical Memoir of Prof Hugh Mellor (1938-2020) @darwincollegecam.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social @peterhousecam.bsky.social
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Mellor, Hugh, 1938-2020
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September 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Prof Tim Crane (CEU, former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy) has written a @britishacademy.bsky.social Biographical Memoir of Prof Hugh Mellor (1938-2020) @darwincollegecam.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social @peterhousecam.bsky.social
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📢 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
#PhilJobs
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships | Faculty of Philosophy
Call for Expressions of Interest for 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications: Faculty deadline midday Friday, 31 October 2025 Expressions of interest are invited from potential appl...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
📢 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
#PhilJobs
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These are Isaac Kean and Jack Wright who graduated with PhDs today and who both wrote important dissertations in philosophy of economics. So proud to have supervised them. Thanks to @kingscollege.bsky.social for putting on a great party despite the rain!
July 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
These are Isaac Kean and Jack Wright who graduated with PhDs today and who both wrote important dissertations in philosophy of economics. So proud to have supervised them. Thanks to @kingscollege.bsky.social for putting on a great party despite the rain!
Dr Sophia Dandelet delivered the Mind Fellow Lecture at the 99th Joint Session #jointsession25 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @aristotsoc.bsky.social @sidneysussex.bsky.social 👏
July 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Dr Sophia Dandelet delivered the Mind Fellow Lecture at the 99th Joint Session #jointsession25 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @aristotsoc.bsky.social @sidneysussex.bsky.social 👏
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Such a readable and fascinating argument by @jessiemunton.bsky.social of @cambridgephilos.bsky.social To see a visual object is to see how it could be, not just how it is. #openaccess #philsky
Can we perceive modal properties?
Can we see only how things actually are, or are we also able to see how things could be? Much work in philosophy of perception assumes that our visual perceptual experience is restricted to the actua....
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July 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Such a readable and fascinating argument by @jessiemunton.bsky.social of @cambridgephilos.bsky.social To see a visual object is to see how it could be, not just how it is. #openaccess #philsky