Lucy Randall
@lucyrandall802.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Philosophy books and Very Short Introductions, Oxford University Press USA
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Delighted to hold the latest #veryshortintroduction in my hands, and it's a terrific one: Douglas Boyd's ORAL HISTORY. Loads to learn here, drawing on interviews with bourbon makers, WWII soliders-- even Shirley Manson and Steve Zahn, of all people. Enjoy! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Delighted to hold the latest #veryshortintroduction in my hands, and it's a terrific one: Douglas Boyd's ORAL HISTORY. Loads to learn here, drawing on interviews with bourbon makers, WWII soliders-- even Shirley Manson and Steve Zahn, of all people. Enjoy! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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🚨 Oxford Intersections: Gender Studies invites abstracts for new articles that explore how gender intersects with all aspects of life through interdisciplinary research.
🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025
📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj
🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025
📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj
July 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨 Oxford Intersections: Gender Studies invites abstracts for new articles that explore how gender intersects with all aspects of life through interdisciplinary research.
🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025
📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj
🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025
📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj
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Latest Philosophy Bites. Bob is back!
I'm on the latest Philosophy Bites episode talking about the civic value of solitude
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Robert Talisse on Civic Solitude - Philosophy Bites
Democracy is about acting as a group, but, surprisingly, Robert Talisse argues that what it needs to function well is a degree of solitude for citizens. In-group and out-group dynamics mean that indiv...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Latest Philosophy Bites. Bob is back!
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“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa.
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators Are Ignoring Them.
Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.
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July 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa.
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Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
July 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
Can we ban "Quick Question" and "My Book" as subject lines? 🙃
June 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Can we ban "Quick Question" and "My Book" as subject lines? 🙃
Happy to see Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage continue to get its flowers. Still "timely" after a few years! choiceconnect.org/webclipping/...
Web Clipping Print View | Choice Connect
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May 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Happy to see Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage continue to get its flowers. Still "timely" after a few years! choiceconnect.org/webclipping/...
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Our most enthusiastic congratulations to Edda Fields-Black and everyone who helped bring COMBEE to life!
The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History
The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History
May 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Our most enthusiastic congratulations to Edda Fields-Black and everyone who helped bring COMBEE to life!
The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History
The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History
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Hi Bluesky! 👋
We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.
We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.
April 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hi Bluesky! 👋
We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.
We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.
If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2)
April 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2)
"Supported projects have included more than 9,000 books (including 20 that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes) and more than 500 film and radio programs, including Ken Burns’s landmark 1990 documentary 'The Civil War'..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled
Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”
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April 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Supported projects have included more than 9,000 books (including 20 that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes) and more than 500 film and radio programs, including Ken Burns’s landmark 1990 documentary 'The Civil War'..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
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Why does my publisher want to change the title of my book? https://bit.ly/3lP8jCO
University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.
Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!
University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.
Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!
March 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why does my publisher want to change the title of my book? https://bit.ly/3lP8jCO
University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.
Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!
University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.
Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!
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Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”:
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
www.theatlantic.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”:
Terrific interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social by Hawkeye himself! He clearly read and got a lot of out of The AI Mirror podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
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March 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Terrific interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social by Hawkeye himself! He clearly read and got a lot of out of The AI Mirror podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
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One of favorite books / metaphors lately is 'The AI Mirror' — thanks to Shannon Vallor for reflecting on it with me for this year's AI20 😬🪞🤖 www.fastcompany.com/91240425/how...
How philosopher Shannon Vallor delivered the year's best critique of AI
The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.
www.fastcompany.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:41 PM
One of favorite books / metaphors lately is 'The AI Mirror' — thanks to Shannon Vallor for reflecting on it with me for this year's AI20 😬🪞🤖 www.fastcompany.com/91240425/how...
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Very cool to see the AI Mirror in the Guardian’s authors’ picks for best book gifts for the holidays!
Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.
Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.
The best books to give as gifts this Christmas
From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the volumes they would love to find in t...
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December 9, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Very cool to see the AI Mirror in the Guardian’s authors’ picks for best book gifts for the holidays!
Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.
Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.
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Thanks to Sigal Samuel for this wonderful @vox.com piece on AI illusions of care; grateful also for the mention of The AI Mirror (and for being given the last word!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...
People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices
OpenAI warns that its chatbot can breed “emotional reliance.” It’s not just ChatGPT — look at Replika or Character AI.
www.vox.com
August 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Thanks to Sigal Samuel for this wonderful @vox.com piece on AI illusions of care; grateful also for the mention of The AI Mirror (and for being given the last word!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The latest Guide to the Good Life be will out in a couple of weeks. Congrats to @carlosasanchez.bsky.social on BLOOMING IN THE RUINS: HOW MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY CAN GUIDE US TOWARD THE GOOD LIFE global.oup.com/academic/pro...
August 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The latest Guide to the Good Life be will out in a couple of weeks. Congrats to @carlosasanchez.bsky.social on BLOOMING IN THE RUINS: HOW MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY CAN GUIDE US TOWARD THE GOOD LIFE global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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A bit over the moon to see The AI Mirror featured in The New Yorker today (alongside the good company of @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social)!
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?
More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.
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August 6, 2024 at 12:15 PM
A bit over the moon to see The AI Mirror featured in The New Yorker today (alongside the good company of @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social)!
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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The first major review of The AI Mirror came in today from the Financial Times, and I’m really happy the reviewer engaged so fully with the narrative. www.ft.com/content/67d3...
The AI Mirror — how technology blocks human potential
Shannon Vallor argues that the more power we cede to ‘giant mirrors of code’, the less we use our own practical wisdom
www.ft.com
May 29, 2024 at 11:28 AM
The first major review of The AI Mirror came in today from the Financial Times, and I’m really happy the reviewer engaged so fully with the narrative. www.ft.com/content/67d3...
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Nice to hear The AI Mirror briefly mentioned in this episode of the Ezra Klein show with Nilay Patel, which was an interesting conversation about whether generative AI will destroy the informational seed corn of the web, and what might happen next.
Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content contorted just to rank highly in the algorithm....
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April 8, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Nice to hear The AI Mirror briefly mentioned in this episode of the Ezra Klein show with Nilay Patel, which was an interesting conversation about whether generative AI will destroy the informational seed corn of the web, and what might happen next.