Jules
@julesholroyd.bsky.social
Philosophy worker, Sheffield based, likes dogs, running and some other stuff too.
Last Fri we went to York for an awards event for infant feeding and our work on gender inclusion got recognised alongside a bunch of other amazing stuff folks are doing.
@fionawoollard.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social
#philosophy #philsky #philosophymatters
@fionawoollard.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social
#philosophy #philsky #philosophymatters
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Last Fri we went to York for an awards event for infant feeding and our work on gender inclusion got recognised alongside a bunch of other amazing stuff folks are doing.
@fionawoollard.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social
#philosophy #philsky #philosophymatters
@fionawoollard.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social
#philosophy #philsky #philosophymatters
Congrats Tareeq! This is awesome news, and an awesome paper :)
The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize
Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇
doi.org/10.1111/japp...
Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇
doi.org/10.1111/japp...
Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps
Police censor drill rap music based on the claim that drill artists incite violence. In this article, I provide a framework for evaluating whether an instance of drill constitutes a speech act of inc...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Congrats Tareeq! This is awesome news, and an awesome paper :)
And here's a further reading rec: I reviewed Maitra &McWeeny's edited volume on Feminist Philosophy of Mind, which is awesome.
So many provoking and exciting chapters, fruitful exchanges and disagreements! Check it out!
academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
So many provoking and exciting chapters, fruitful exchanges and disagreements! Check it out!
academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
Feminist Philosophy of Mind, edited by Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny
‘Would contemporary debates in philosophy of mind be furthered by taking note of feminist insights?’, the editors, Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny ask, in
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December 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And here's a further reading rec: I reviewed Maitra &McWeeny's edited volume on Feminist Philosophy of Mind, which is awesome.
So many provoking and exciting chapters, fruitful exchanges and disagreements! Check it out!
academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
So many provoking and exciting chapters, fruitful exchanges and disagreements! Check it out!
academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
If you're looking for guidance on holiday reading... Jess Isserow has written a fab review of my book! As well as giving a good overview of the book itself, it is also a fun read. The critical points are fair and well taken! Thanks Jess!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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December 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you're looking for guidance on holiday reading... Jess Isserow has written a fab review of my book! As well as giving a good overview of the book itself, it is also a fun read. The critical points are fair and well taken! Thanks Jess!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Reminding White Rose Philosophy folk (Sheff, Leeds, York): a week til deadline for submitting abstracts for the second network event, to be held in Sheffield, Dec 18! Funds available to support attendance. Details (how to submit, how to register) here:
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/09/19/c...
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CFA: White Rose Practical Philosophy Network, University of Sheffield, 18th December 2025.
Abstracts are solicited in particular from MA, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers in Philosophy. The University of Sheffield will host the next meeting of the White Rose Practical Philosoph…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reminding White Rose Philosophy folk (Sheff, Leeds, York): a week til deadline for submitting abstracts for the second network event, to be held in Sheffield, Dec 18! Funds available to support attendance. Details (how to submit, how to register) here:
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/09/19/c...
#philsky
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/09/19/c...
#philsky
Today! Giving these thoughts a whirl at Milan Statale, where I've been enjoying being visiting fellow since September #philsky #philosophy
October 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Today! Giving these thoughts a whirl at Milan Statale, where I've been enjoying being visiting fellow since September #philsky #philosophy
Today! At Uni San Raffaele, I get to discuss the functions of oppressive praise with the fab Milanese philosophers! #philsky #philosophy
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Today! At Uni San Raffaele, I get to discuss the functions of oppressive praise with the fab Milanese philosophers! #philsky #philosophy
Than to the connecting power of #philsky, I'm delighted to be zooming into a reading group session on my book Oppressive Praise tomorrow with @paranoidaquinoid.bsky.social !
October 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Than to the connecting power of #philsky, I'm delighted to be zooming into a reading group session on my book Oppressive Praise tomorrow with @paranoidaquinoid.bsky.social !
This is very exciting! I feel honoured to be alongside such other fantastic authors!
#philsky
#philsky
"Oppressive Praise" by @julesholroyd.bsky.social (published by @oxunipress.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...
Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is very exciting! I feel honoured to be alongside such other fantastic authors!
#philsky
#philsky
UK-based academic fed up of our sector's involvement in research and production of weapons that get used to kill innocent civilians? Here's a petition for you:
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#Philosophy #Philsky
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#Philosophy #Philsky
Demilitarise Education | dED
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September 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
UK-based academic fed up of our sector's involvement in research and production of weapons that get used to kill innocent civilians? Here's a petition for you:
ded1.co/how-we-do-it...
#Philosophy #Philsky
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#Philosophy #Philsky
Reposted by Jules
Reposted by Jules
Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza.
Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege.
(📸 Hidden Palestine)
Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege.
(📸 Hidden Palestine)
August 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza.
Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege.
(📸 Hidden Palestine)
Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege.
(📸 Hidden Palestine)
I'm happy to have our paper included in this cluster of papers in Hypatia about birth and inclusion! @matthewjcull.bsky.social @fionawoollard.bsky.social
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#Philsky #philosophy
Hypatia: Volume 40 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Hypatia - Volume 40 - Issue 3
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August 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm happy to have our paper included in this cluster of papers in Hypatia about birth and inclusion! @matthewjcull.bsky.social @fionawoollard.bsky.social
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#Philsky #philosophy
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Job opp, tight deadline... #philsky #philosophy
We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...
Lecturer in Ethics Education (AEP)
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August 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Job opp, tight deadline... #philsky #philosophy
Honoured and excited to have my book, Oppressive Praise, on this longlist!
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...
#philosophy #philsky
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#philosophy #philsky
Longlist announced for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025 - Royal Institute of Philosophy
The Royal Institute of Philosophy unveils the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more.
royalinstitutephilosophy.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Honoured and excited to have my book, Oppressive Praise, on this longlist!
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...
#philosophy #philsky
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...
#philosophy #philsky
This was a fun thing to do: Marshal Zeringue's page 99 test. Does page 99 give a good sense of my book as a whole? Read here to find out!
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/jule...
#philosophy #philsky
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#philosophy #philsky
Jules Holroyd's "Oppressive Praise"
Jules Holroyd is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, with research interests in social and political philosophy, ...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This was a fun thing to do: Marshal Zeringue's page 99 test. Does page 99 give a good sense of my book as a whole? Read here to find out!
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/jule...
#philosophy #philsky
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/jule...
#philosophy #philsky
In London for the British Academy conference* on the Ethics of Health Communication, talking about our (Fiona Woollard, Matt Cull) project on inclusion in perinatal & postnatal care!
*organised by my fab colleague Ben Davies!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
#philsky #Philosophy
*organised by my fab colleague Ben Davies!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
#philsky #Philosophy
The Ethics of Health Communication
How should doctors and other health officials communicate effectively and ethically with the public? This conference brings together a variety of speakers working at the intersection of philosophical ...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In London for the British Academy conference* on the Ethics of Health Communication, talking about our (Fiona Woollard, Matt Cull) project on inclusion in perinatal & postnatal care!
*organised by my fab colleague Ben Davies!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
#philsky #Philosophy
*organised by my fab colleague Ben Davies!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
#philsky #Philosophy
Registration for BSET is now live. And what a line up!
sites.google.com/view/british...
Thanks to the support of the Analysis Trust, BSET can offer bursaries for graduate and underwaged philosophers seeking to attend.
#Philosophy #Philsky
sites.google.com/view/british...
Thanks to the support of the Analysis Trust, BSET can offer bursaries for graduate and underwaged philosophers seeking to attend.
#Philosophy #Philsky
British Society for Ethical Theory
2025 Annual Conference: Southampton
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June 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Registration for BSET is now live. And what a line up!
sites.google.com/view/british...
Thanks to the support of the Analysis Trust, BSET can offer bursaries for graduate and underwaged philosophers seeking to attend.
#Philosophy #Philsky
sites.google.com/view/british...
Thanks to the support of the Analysis Trust, BSET can offer bursaries for graduate and underwaged philosophers seeking to attend.
#Philosophy #Philsky
Update: now 6 books in Philosophy from Sheffield Philosophers to hear about (this is the first of two events - another in autumn about other colleagues' new books too!)
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/05/16/n...
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/05/16/n...
June 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Update: now 6 books in Philosophy from Sheffield Philosophers to hear about (this is the first of two events - another in autumn about other colleagues' new books too!)
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/05/16/n...
engagedphilosophy.org/2025/05/16/n...
Philosophy job at Sheffield! 22 months at 0.5FTE.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Teaching...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Teaching...
Teaching Associate
Teaching Associate
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June 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Philosophy job at Sheffield! 22 months at 0.5FTE.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Teaching...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Teaching...
New Books in Philosophy from Sheffield Philosophers!
Books in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, moral and social philosophy!
Date: 16th June, 4.30-5.30pm
John Carr Library, Frederick Mappin Building.
#philsky #philosophy
Books in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, moral and social philosophy!
Date: 16th June, 4.30-5.30pm
John Carr Library, Frederick Mappin Building.
#philsky #philosophy
June 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
New Books in Philosophy from Sheffield Philosophers!
Books in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, moral and social philosophy!
Date: 16th June, 4.30-5.30pm
John Carr Library, Frederick Mappin Building.
#philsky #philosophy
Books in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, moral and social philosophy!
Date: 16th June, 4.30-5.30pm
John Carr Library, Frederick Mappin Building.
#philsky #philosophy
Registration is open for this super BA conference on the Ethics of Health Communication, organised by my brilliant colleague Ben Davies.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
I'll be there speaking about our project on trans inclusive perinatal care.
#philsky #philosophy
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
I'll be there speaking about our project on trans inclusive perinatal care.
#philsky #philosophy
The Ethics of Health Communication
How should doctors and other health officials communicate effectively and ethically with the public? This conference brings together a variety of speakers working at the intersection of philosophical ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Registration is open for this super BA conference on the Ethics of Health Communication, organised by my brilliant colleague Ben Davies.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
I'll be there speaking about our project on trans inclusive perinatal care.
#philsky #philosophy
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
I'll be there speaking about our project on trans inclusive perinatal care.
#philsky #philosophy
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This is the first of two adverts for postdocs on a project I'm involved in with Laura Gow and Thomas Raleigh. This one will be based in Luxembourg; the other will be based in Liverpool and will be advertised soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested.
recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...
recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...
Job Portal - University of Luxembourg
recruitment.uni.lu
May 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is the first of two adverts for postdocs on a project I'm involved in with Laura Gow and Thomas Raleigh. This one will be based in Luxembourg; the other will be based in Liverpool and will be advertised soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested.
recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...
recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...
Looking forward to this conference on Positive Moral Philosophy at the end of May. I will be zooming in, and others can too! sites.google.com/georgetown.e...
Positive moral philosophy - Draft Program
Draft Program
Positive Moral Philosophy
Conference
Co-sponsored by the Ryan Family Chair in Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Georgetown
University and the ASU School of Historical, Philosophical...
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May 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Looking forward to this conference on Positive Moral Philosophy at the end of May. I will be zooming in, and others can too! sites.google.com/georgetown.e...
Dismal (and confused) news from the supreme court in the UK, so a good time to emphasise the trans-inclusive philosophy and learning environments we try to cultivate at Sheffield. engagedphilosophy.org/2025/04/17/t...
#philsky #academicsky #philosophymatters
#philsky #academicsky #philosophymatters
Trans-inclusive Philosophy
In light of the UK Supreme Court ruling about ‘gender’ in the Equality Act 2010 (reported on here and further discussed here), now is a good time to reiterate that Philosophy at Sheffie…
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April 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Dismal (and confused) news from the supreme court in the UK, so a good time to emphasise the trans-inclusive philosophy and learning environments we try to cultivate at Sheffield. engagedphilosophy.org/2025/04/17/t...
#philsky #academicsky #philosophymatters
#philsky #academicsky #philosophymatters