Chris Woodard
@utiliwood.bsky.social
Moral and political philosophy, University of Nottingham
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café
‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
British Society for Ethical Theory
2026 Annual Conference: Leeds (13-14 July)
www.bset.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
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Very sad to see my uni (University of Nottingham) suspending its Music degree and all undergraduate courses in Modern Languages, on the basis that they have low uptake and the uni hasn't enough money to carry them.
Students will lose out, the uni will lose out, society loses out
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Students will lose out, the uni will lose out, society loses out
...
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Very sad to see my uni (University of Nottingham) suspending its Music degree and all undergraduate courses in Modern Languages, on the basis that they have low uptake and the uni hasn't enough money to carry them.
Students will lose out, the uni will lose out, society loses out
...
Students will lose out, the uni will lose out, society loses out
...
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CFP: 2026 British Society for Ethical Theory Conference (13-14 July 2026 at University of Leeds).
Keynotes: Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Jennifer Saul (Waterloo). Paper submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025. More info at www.bset.org.uk.
This is consistently a very high-quality conference! #philosophy
Keynotes: Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Jennifer Saul (Waterloo). Paper submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025. More info at www.bset.org.uk.
This is consistently a very high-quality conference! #philosophy
British Society for Ethical Theory
2026 Annual Conference: Leeds (13-14 July)
www.bset.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
CFP: 2026 British Society for Ethical Theory Conference (13-14 July 2026 at University of Leeds).
Keynotes: Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Jennifer Saul (Waterloo). Paper submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025. More info at www.bset.org.uk.
This is consistently a very high-quality conference! #philosophy
Keynotes: Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Jennifer Saul (Waterloo). Paper submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025. More info at www.bset.org.uk.
This is consistently a very high-quality conference! #philosophy
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"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 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"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...
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Our 2025 Ethical Challenges lecture will be given by Professor Roger Crisp (Oxford) on 'The Badness of Extinction'. All very welcome!
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
October 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Our 2025 Ethical Challenges lecture will be given by Professor Roger Crisp (Oxford) on 'The Badness of Extinction'. All very welcome!
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
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🌟 Call for Applications: Small Grants for Workshops in Social Ontology 🌟 The International Social Ontology Society is excited to announce the opening of our Small Grants program for 2026! We fund innovative workshops that advance research in social ontology: isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190
International Social Ontology Society - Applying for Small Grants for Workshops
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October 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
🌟 Call for Applications: Small Grants for Workshops in Social Ontology 🌟 The International Social Ontology Society is excited to announce the opening of our Small Grants program for 2026! We fund innovative workshops that advance research in social ontology: isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190
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“Yet things change, and time moves in mysterious ways. As every year passes, we seem to get closer to, not further away from, World War Two.”
From sometimes I wrote in 2021 on assimilation and antisemitism for @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
writersmosaic.org.uk/content/on-a...
From sometimes I wrote in 2021 on assimilation and antisemitism for @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
writersmosaic.org.uk/content/on-a...
On Assimilation - Jonathan Wolff | WritersMosaic Magazine
Jonathan Wolff on assimilation as a secular Jew. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford
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October 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
“Yet things change, and time moves in mysterious ways. As every year passes, we seem to get closer to, not further away from, World War Two.”
From sometimes I wrote in 2021 on assimilation and antisemitism for @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
writersmosaic.org.uk/content/on-a...
From sometimes I wrote in 2021 on assimilation and antisemitism for @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
writersmosaic.org.uk/content/on-a...
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Excited for our autumn 2026 series of the Penelope Mackie research seminars!
#philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun
#philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun
October 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Excited for our autumn 2026 series of the Penelope Mackie research seminars!
#philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun
#philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun
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I saw Paul McCartney in concert last night & predict he has a very bright future ahead of him. 👍
#MarkMyWords
#MarkMyWords
September 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I saw Paul McCartney in concert last night & predict he has a very bright future ahead of him. 👍
#MarkMyWords
#MarkMyWords
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Philosophers of mind! The University of Vienna is offering a professorship and has extended the deadline to 19 October. philjobs.org/job/show/29293
Full Professor of Philosophy of Mind, University of Vienna
- PhilJobs:JFP
Full Professor of Philosophy of Mind, University of Vienna
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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September 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Philosophers of mind! The University of Vienna is offering a professorship and has extended the deadline to 19 October. philjobs.org/job/show/29293
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I’ve been training my whole life for this moment
September 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Well, you had a decent run as an education establishment.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Well, you had a decent run as an education establishment.
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‼️ Join #LSEPhilosophy!
We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability
Application deadline: 3 November 2025
More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs
We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability
Application deadline: 3 November 2025
More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs
August 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
‼️ Join #LSEPhilosophy!
We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability
Application deadline: 3 November 2025
More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs
We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability
Application deadline: 3 November 2025
More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs
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Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...
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Coming soon ––
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
September 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Coming soon ––
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
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Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃
Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social
We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP
philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4
#philsky
Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social
We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP
philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4
#philsky
Ellie Robson & Peter West, Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living - PhilPapers
The aim of this paper is to provide an exposition of Susan Stebbing’s moral philosophy. Stebbing is increasingly recognized as a key figure in early analytic philosophy. However, there is no ...
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September 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃
Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social
We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP
philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4
#philsky
Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social
We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP
philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4
#philsky
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Jeff McMahan, a prominent just war theorist and Emeritus Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, weighs in on the question of responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza. Online first in @JME_BMJ jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
August 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Jeff McMahan, a prominent just war theorist and Emeritus Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, weighs in on the question of responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza. Online first in @JME_BMJ jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Analogy. Counterfeiters might want to make a few fakes to buy something nice or flood an economy with fakes to debase the currency. Maybe disinformation is like that, you sometimes want to deceive and sometimes want to salt the earth because both tactics can protect the disinformant
August 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Analogy. Counterfeiters might want to make a few fakes to buy something nice or flood an economy with fakes to debase the currency. Maybe disinformation is like that, you sometimes want to deceive and sometimes want to salt the earth because both tactics can protect the disinformant
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📚Delighted to share that I've accepted an invitation to write a book: a Cambridge Element on *Truth in Ethics* for Cambridge University Press!
Alongside introducing debates on the nature of truth in ethics, I'll also be arguing for greater attention to truthmaker theory in ethics!
Alongside introducing debates on the nature of truth in ethics, I'll also be arguing for greater attention to truthmaker theory in ethics!
August 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📚Delighted to share that I've accepted an invitation to write a book: a Cambridge Element on *Truth in Ethics* for Cambridge University Press!
Alongside introducing debates on the nature of truth in ethics, I'll also be arguing for greater attention to truthmaker theory in ethics!
Alongside introducing debates on the nature of truth in ethics, I'll also be arguing for greater attention to truthmaker theory in ethics!
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“There’s a lot of history behind time trialling in Britain. And it would be a tragedy in this country if we threw up our hands and said, because drivers can’t behave themselves, we’re going to have to abandon this sport. That would be completely unacceptable”
road.cc/315451 #cycling
road.cc/315451 #cycling
“It would be a tragedy if we abandoned time trialling in Britain because of bad drivers”: Lawyers discuss duty of cycling clubs after rider seriously injured by motorist during time trial – and why cy...
“It all comes back to the basic rules of the road. Ben could have just been doing a training ride – any cyclist is entitled to ride on the dual carriageway at any time”
road.cc
August 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“There’s a lot of history behind time trialling in Britain. And it would be a tragedy in this country if we threw up our hands and said, because drivers can’t behave themselves, we’re going to have to abandon this sport. That would be completely unacceptable”
road.cc/315451 #cycling
road.cc/315451 #cycling
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As life affirming as it gets. Political theorist Paul Sagar, now at KCL but formerly my colleague at college, on crossing the two year mark after the climbing accident that left him tetraplegic. Thank you, hedonic adaptation 🙏
Exit Darkness
How I surprised myself
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August 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As life affirming as it gets. Political theorist Paul Sagar, now at KCL but formerly my colleague at college, on crossing the two year mark after the climbing accident that left him tetraplegic. Thank you, hedonic adaptation 🙏