Adam Willows
@adamwillows.bsky.social
Theologian and philosopher at University of Bristol. Interested in moral character and agency ('Who am I and what am I doing?'). Interdisciplinarity & the sciences.
Not sure BBC News quite meant to write this... Sounds a little uncomfortable for the officers involved.
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Not sure BBC News quite meant to write this... Sounds a little uncomfortable for the officers involved.
I am pretty firmly convinced that one of the most telling questions to ask of a philosophical theory/tradition is 'Can it cope with children?'. So many essentially treat them as non-human animals or tiny, drunk adults - if they remember they exist at all... 👶📖
February 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am pretty firmly convinced that one of the most telling questions to ask of a philosophical theory/tradition is 'Can it cope with children?'. So many essentially treat them as non-human animals or tiny, drunk adults - if they remember they exist at all... 👶📖
Someone on Radio 4 very very worried about a single bilingual English and Bengali sign at a station damaging the cultural fabric of the UK because this is the UNITED Kingdom and we speak English and... no-one tell the poor man about Wales, he couldn't take it 🏴 😱
February 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Someone on Radio 4 very very worried about a single bilingual English and Bengali sign at a station damaging the cultural fabric of the UK because this is the UNITED Kingdom and we speak English and... no-one tell the poor man about Wales, he couldn't take it 🏴 😱
IMO the major theological error here is not an order of loves (debated) but the fact that in his ranking Vance doesn't mention love of God!? Thinkers like Aquinas who order loves ALSO think only way we truly love others is through God. How does God see and love a migrant, an opponent, a prisoner?
Again this is a laughable distortion. The ordo amoris has literally *nothing* to do with prioritising fellow national citizens over foreigners; Augustine *explicitly* rejects the idea that this is a significant distinction, that’s the whole point of the work!!
January 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
IMO the major theological error here is not an order of loves (debated) but the fact that in his ranking Vance doesn't mention love of God!? Thinkers like Aquinas who order loves ALSO think only way we truly love others is through God. How does God see and love a migrant, an opponent, a prisoner?
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Well of course a company simply scraping enormous amounts of other people's work off the internet and using it for profit without permission, payment or attribution is immoral and unacceptable 🙄
OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI apps
ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Well of course a company simply scraping enormous amounts of other people's work off the internet and using it for profit without permission, payment or attribution is immoral and unacceptable 🙄
Thanks to @bbcstever.bsky.social for his journalistic integrity and bravery - what a contrast with the 'leaders' he challenges. "Prison is for people who opened their mouths too wide" is fearful in both senses of the word.
How much the words of Maria Kolesnikova and others terrify this 'strongman'.
How much the words of Maria Kolesnikova and others terrify this 'strongman'.
“What wretched question have you prepared for me?” My surreal Q&A with Alexander Lukashenko. He claimed his opponents had “chosen” prison or exile (in reality the authorities had chosen to target them.) Plus, "Prison is for people who opened their mouths too wide" Thanks @lizashuvalova.bsky.social
"What wretched question have you prepared for me?" My Q&A with Alexander Lukashenko
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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January 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Thanks to @bbcstever.bsky.social for his journalistic integrity and bravery - what a contrast with the 'leaders' he challenges. "Prison is for people who opened their mouths too wide" is fearful in both senses of the word.
How much the words of Maria Kolesnikova and others terrify this 'strongman'.
How much the words of Maria Kolesnikova and others terrify this 'strongman'.
Well worth engaging with the scholars on this list (inc. @marika.bsky.social)
Because who doesn't like an Excel spreadsheet... and more women and non-binary scholars in their academic outputs?! bvlsingler.com/2025/01/22/w...
Women and Non-Binary Persons in the study of Religion and AI
I was pretty disappointed recently to see a recent special issue of a well known journal on religion and robots that involved zero non-male scholars. I don’t know if people were approached an…
bvlsingler.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Well worth engaging with the scholars on this list (inc. @marika.bsky.social)
Rights language has its place, but I think it's pretty clearly preventing both sides from dealing with the actual moral challenges here.
Also - might have expected a more relaxed view of personhood from a judicial system that thinks a corporation can be a person... wonder why the difference 🤔 🐘 💵
Also - might have expected a more relaxed view of personhood from a judicial system that thinks a corporation can be a person... wonder why the difference 🤔 🐘 💵
Elephants are not people, rules Colorado Supreme Court
Judges ruled a bid to free five elderly African elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was based on a law that only applied to humans.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Rights language has its place, but I think it's pretty clearly preventing both sides from dealing with the actual moral challenges here.
Also - might have expected a more relaxed view of personhood from a judicial system that thinks a corporation can be a person... wonder why the difference 🤔 🐘 💵
Also - might have expected a more relaxed view of personhood from a judicial system that thinks a corporation can be a person... wonder why the difference 🤔 🐘 💵
La honte change de camp. Merci Gisèle.
December 19, 2024 at 1:32 PM
La honte change de camp. Merci Gisèle.
🤔 Not sure how many 10-11 yr olds would burst into tears on being told Santa isn't real, but I've known plenty who would fake-cry and think it was hilarious (because, well, it is). Well done to the child who got a BBC interview about who eats Santa's cookies 😆 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hampshire pupils 'sob' as vicar discusses existence of Santa
The vicar told children that Father Christmas did not exist during a Religious Education lesson.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 9:25 PM
🤔 Not sure how many 10-11 yr olds would burst into tears on being told Santa isn't real, but I've known plenty who would fake-cry and think it was hilarious (because, well, it is). Well done to the child who got a BBC interview about who eats Santa's cookies 😆 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Claim on the Moral Maze that extension of democracy in modernity has led to greater restrictions on property ownership. My heart bleeds for the landed gentry but this seems less true for , e.g., *all women*, given that before 1870 married women in the UK literally couldn't own anything.
December 11, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Claim on the Moral Maze that extension of democracy in modernity has led to greater restrictions on property ownership. My heart bleeds for the landed gentry but this seems less true for , e.g., *all women*, given that before 1870 married women in the UK literally couldn't own anything.
It's not in the news as much now, but others responsible for serious failings in the Makin Report have been awfully quiet. The resignation of Justin Welby is NOT a sufficient response. I hope many clergy, including several bishops, are prayerfully considering whether they can continue in ministry.
Church of England ‘seems incapable’ of transparency and accountability, says Bishop of Newcastle
We spoke to the Right Reverend Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Newcastle, who called on Justin Welby to resign.
www.channel4.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:39 AM
It's not in the news as much now, but others responsible for serious failings in the Makin Report have been awfully quiet. The resignation of Justin Welby is NOT a sufficient response. I hope many clergy, including several bishops, are prayerfully considering whether they can continue in ministry.
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yoon frantically googling 'is no harm no foul a defense'
December 3, 2024 at 7:38 PM
yoon frantically googling 'is no harm no foul a defense'
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This is not an email exchange I ever expected to have. (I'm the second one.)
July 19, 2023 at 8:10 PM
This is not an email exchange I ever expected to have. (I'm the second one.)
Have discovered that after David Hume had a breakdown as a young man, his doctor:
a) laughed at him
b) diagnosed him with "the Disease of the Learned" and
c) prescribed a pint of claret a day. Which apparently worked.
a) laughed at him
b) diagnosed him with "the Disease of the Learned" and
c) prescribed a pint of claret a day. Which apparently worked.
November 19, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Have discovered that after David Hume had a breakdown as a young man, his doctor:
a) laughed at him
b) diagnosed him with "the Disease of the Learned" and
c) prescribed a pint of claret a day. Which apparently worked.
a) laughed at him
b) diagnosed him with "the Disease of the Learned" and
c) prescribed a pint of claret a day. Which apparently worked.