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This is the Bluesky account of the philosophy department at the University of Nottingham. We like philosophy!!
Our PGR seminar is David Jones! Talking on likeness, regress, and Plato's 'Parmenides'.

#philosophy #plato #parmenides #regress #talk
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Publication! Ian James Kidd on the varieties of humanism and their relationship to the sciences!

Open access, too 👑

chapter: tinyurl.com/59r4w865.
volume: tinyurl.com/34xwbtsc

#philosophy #science #humanism #renaissance #research
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our PhD student, Andy Farr, is an artist and researching on philosophy of mental health.

Check out his exhibition 'Being Seen: In Art, Words and Dance" at @coventrycathedral.bsky.social

Special event 18/10.
👉dance
👉poetry
👉personal stories

Details: tinyurl.com/yc84esjk
Being Seen: In Art, Words and Dance – Coventry Cathedral
A powerful exhibition and live event exploring resilience, recovery, and the healing power of being truly seen.
tinyurl.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Excited for Luara's talk today!
Seminar tomorrow!

Luara Ferracioli on gestation, birth, ethics, and politics.

📆 15.10.25
🌏 A1 Humanities @uonhumanities.bsky.social

More on her work: luaraferracioli.com

#philosophy #gestation #birth #politics #ethics #seminar
October 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Seminar tomorrow!

Luara Ferracioli on gestation, birth, ethics, and politics.

📆 15.10.25
🌏 A1 Humanities @uonhumanities.bsky.social

More on her work: luaraferracioli.com

#philosophy #gestation #birth #politics #ethics #seminar
October 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reposted
Public Philosophy Network just published excellent guides on specific topics for public philosophy!

Including:
👉 migration
👉 food ethics
👉 prison education
👉 philosophy of science
👉 philosophical counselling and consulting

Link: tinyurl.com/2hh2j7jn

#philosophy #philosophymatters
October 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Prof Anthony O'Hear on the truth in myth.

🕐 3-5pm
📅 8th October 2025
🌐 UoN Humanities A1

#philosophy #truth #myth #research
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Immanence, expression, Deleuze, Spinoza! Upcoming talk this Wednesday in Nottingham!

#philosophy #talk #research #deleuze #spinoza
October 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Our colleague Mark Jago has contributed to this series of videos on Truthmaker Semantics!

Watch: youtube.com/@TMSemantics

#metaphysics #truth #truthmakers #semantics #vids

Photo by Valery Rabchenyuk on Unsplash
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Excited for our autumn 2026 series of the Penelope Mackie research seminars!

#philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun
October 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Week one! Excited to start philosophising with our student 😀😀
#philosophy #teaching #uon #ready
September 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Wonderful welcome week with our superb new students - and looking forward to seeing our returning students!

👍welcomed
👍thinking
👍friends
👍picnic
👍Phil Soc
👍sunshine

Ready for ten weeks of teaching!

#philosophy #uon #nottingham #freshers #uni
September 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted
The philosophy blogosphere - a useful list of blogs in generalist and specialist areas of philosophy.

dailynous.com/2025/09/18/t...

#philosophy #blogs #philosophers #ideas #people #cool
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
RESEARCH!

@asalgadoborge.bsky.social spoke at Heidelberg this week on the Distinction between Modes and Propria.

#philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #history #talk
September 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Inspiring sky over campus today! #sky #pretty #uon #bright #nottingham
September 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Our fave answers to “why did you choose philosophy, theology, and religions?” from our freshers!

#philosophy #freshers #uon
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NEW ACADEMIC YEAR!

A bright and sunny start to the 2026-27 academic year ❤️

Looking forward to
👉 students returning and new
👉 teaching
👉 research seminars
👉 noise and busyness on campus
👉 the constant smell of coffee

More: tinyurl.com/ycarpw5r

#philosophy #uon #nottingham #freshers #teaching
September 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Delighted that our Theology & Religion courses are ranked in the top ten of @thetimes.com UK University Rankings 2026 League Table!

More: tinyurl.com/55ddyx84.

#colleagues #happy #success #trs #theology #religion
September 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Welcome to our new students, home and international!

👉 Welcome Week 22-26 September
👉 new starter checklist
👉 MyNottingham app
👉 events calendar

🐇📘💻😀🏹

Link: www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservi...

#uni #uon #university #fresher #study #nottingham
September 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A successful day of talks at the UoN Department of Philosophy for the Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics A Level Study Day!

A privilege to welcome such thoughtful, engaged, and genial students to our department!

#schools #alevel #philosophy #uon #Nottingham
September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted
Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Delighted to welcome @giuliamartina.bsky.social as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow, 2025-2027.

She'll be working with Craig French on a project entitled 'Imperfect Perception' on sensory impairments in philosophy of perception.

Web: tinyurl.com/3arb5fp8

#philosophy #perception
September 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Looking forward to our workshop on mental health and the philosophical life today!

#philosophy #mentalhealth #therapy
WORKSHOP

Mental Health and the Philosophical Life

📆 2th September
🌏 Lenton Grove A26 @uonhumanities.bsky.social

Depression and philosophy, emotion and disturbance, mental health pluralism, practical identity.

Registration: ellie.byrne@nottingham.ac.uk

#philosophy #mentalhealth #depression
September 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
RESEARCH!

@asalgadoborge.bsky.social on Spinoza, God, parts, and attributes!

Read: tinyurl.com/je3k66ju (open access).

#philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #god #metaphysics
September 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
RESEARCH!

Excellent essay on epistemic injustice, medicine, and gender by Eleanor Byrne and Marjolein de Boer in the new @OUPPhilosophy handbook of philosophy of medicine!

More: tinyurl.com/28mab9kr

#philosophy #medicine #epistemicinjustice #gender
August 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM