Kate Kirkpatrick
@philosofemme.bsky.social
Philosopher, Oxford | Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Feminism, Ethics, and Religion | katekirkpatrick.co.uk
Also enjoy photography 📸
Also enjoy photography 📸
Luminous limestone
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Luminous limestone
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Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Out this month (for those of you interested in Kierkegaard and French philosophy)
TOC below 👇
TOC below 👇
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Out this month (for those of you interested in Kierkegaard and French philosophy)
TOC below 👇
TOC below 👇
“France joins a number of countries that had updated their rape laws in light of the #MeToo movement in 2016, according to a 2024 study of rape laws in Europe. Since 2016, at least a dozen OECD member countries […] adopted consent-based rape laws.”
time.com/7330026/gise...
time.com/7330026/gise...
France Just Updated Its Rape Law to Center Consent
France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries still haven’t.
time.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“France joins a number of countries that had updated their rape laws in light of the #MeToo movement in 2016, according to a 2024 study of rape laws in Europe. Since 2016, at least a dozen OECD member countries […] adopted consent-based rape laws.”
time.com/7330026/gise...
time.com/7330026/gise...
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Good morning, America, from Europe. There have been some rough mornings for a European to wake up to news from across the Atlantic. But today, the message you’ve sent – the crowds, the energy, the hope – feels deeply uplifting and hopeful #NoKings
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Good morning, America, from Europe. There have been some rough mornings for a European to wake up to news from across the Atlantic. But today, the message you’ve sent – the crowds, the energy, the hope – feels deeply uplifting and hopeful #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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This video is as described and so disgusting that obviously you shouldn’t watch it, but you should know that he really did post it
"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This video is as described and so disgusting that obviously you shouldn’t watch it, but you should know that he really did post it
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I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
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Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week
‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists
When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week
Magdalen Tower from the Thames Path
October 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Magdalen Tower from the Thames Path
Morning light on the first day of term @regentsox.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Morning light on the first day of term @regentsox.bsky.social
JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
#PhilJobs
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#PhilJobs
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Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford
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October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
#PhilJobs
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW474/a...
#PhilJobs
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A memorial for my sister Helen De Cruz will take place on 19 October, both online (hosted by Blake Hereth) and in Brussels (Royal Library of Belgium). tally.so/r/3yLRJd
Celebration of the life of Helen De Cruz - 19 October 2025
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October 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A memorial for my sister Helen De Cruz will take place on 19 October, both online (hosted by Blake Hereth) and in Brussels (Royal Library of Belgium). tally.so/r/3yLRJd
Hard copy of this arrived!
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hard copy of this arrived!
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
Oxford was full of people graduating today, which reminded me that it has been 15 years since I started my postgraduate studies—and became a mother.
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
September 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oxford was full of people graduating today, which reminded me that it has been 15 years since I started my postgraduate studies—and became a mother.
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
“59% of history lessons at key stage 3 did not mention women at all” and
“when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught […] than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park”
“when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught […] than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park”
Thank you to @theguardian.com for covering our report into what’s taught in History lessons at Key Stage 3. Spoiler: mostly men. It’s time to end sexism in schools.
School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds
Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“59% of history lessons at key stage 3 did not mention women at all” and
“when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught […] than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park”
“when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught […] than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park”
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If you're not outraged about #AI, you're not paying attention: #Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism. Book tickets for this free public lecture by Professor Alice Crary at University College Dublin:
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September 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
If you're not outraged about #AI, you're not paying attention: #Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism. Book tickets for this free public lecture by Professor Alice Crary at University College Dublin:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
In case you’re in Oxford and like to plan your Valentine’s Day in September:
I’ll be guest hosting Philosophy in the Bookshop with @manongarcia.bsky.social, who will discuss her new book on the Pelicot trial, Living with Men @blackwelloxford.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
I’ll be guest hosting Philosophy in the Bookshop with @manongarcia.bsky.social, who will discuss her new book on the Pelicot trial, Living with Men @blackwelloxford.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Manon Garcia
Guest host Kate Kirkpatrick discusses 'Living with Men' with French Philosopher, Manon Garcia.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In case you’re in Oxford and like to plan your Valentine’s Day in September:
I’ll be guest hosting Philosophy in the Bookshop with @manongarcia.bsky.social, who will discuss her new book on the Pelicot trial, Living with Men @blackwelloxford.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
I’ll be guest hosting Philosophy in the Bookshop with @manongarcia.bsky.social, who will discuss her new book on the Pelicot trial, Living with Men @blackwelloxford.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Wind in a willow
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wind in a willow
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
on.ft.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z
I have done my (overdue) part in what I hope will be a mass exodus.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I have done my (overdue) part in what I hope will be a mass exodus.
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I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
This morning in Paris a friend surprised me… by taking me to see the place The Second Sex was written!
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This morning in Paris a friend surprised me… by taking me to see the place The Second Sex was written!