Andy Lamey
@andy-lamey.bsky.social
Philosophy prof., UC, San Diego. Books on rights of refugees (Frontier Justice), animal rights (Duty and the Beast) and Canadian writers (The Canadian Mind). Mostly post about (political) philosophy and academic freedom. Views mine only, not employer's.
The Case for a Global Ban on Industrial Animal Agriculture by 2050
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The Case for a Global Ban on Industrial Animal Agriculture by 2050
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October 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Case for a Global Ban on Industrial Animal Agriculture by 2050
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'Once we have properly accounted for indirect effects, such as the role that our policies play in shaping moral attitudes and behavior . . . we can see that consequentialism may converge with animal rights theory significantly, even if not entirely.'
October 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
'Once we have properly accounted for indirect effects, such as the role that our policies play in shaping moral attitudes and behavior . . . we can see that consequentialism may converge with animal rights theory significantly, even if not entirely.'
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‘According to the philosophical account Taylor draws on, the articulations of poetry are as fully capable of disclosing the existential significance of human life as the words of philosophers or saints.’
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Mulhall · Self-Interpreting Animals
New linguistic articulations can reconfigure the way we make sense of our own feelings, thoughts and responses – our...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
‘According to the philosophical account Taylor draws on, the articulations of poetry are as fully capable of disclosing the existential significance of human life as the words of philosophers or saints.’
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Judith Norman is a philosophy professor at Trinity University. In this interview, she shares her experience of being cleared of all allegations following two Title VI investigations into six complaints. She discusses how these policies and procedures can be weaponized to silence faculty voices.
October 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Judith Norman is a philosophy professor at Trinity University. In this interview, she shares her experience of being cleared of all allegations following two Title VI investigations into six complaints. She discusses how these policies and procedures can be weaponized to silence faculty voices.
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The Rowan op-ed reminds me of how Socrates in the Apology describes consulting the businessmen: "each of them, because of his success at his craft, thought himself very wise in other most important pursuits, and this error overshadowed" their accomplishments.
Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Rowan op-ed reminds me of how Socrates in the Apology describes consulting the businessmen: "each of them, because of his success at his craft, thought himself very wise in other most important pursuits, and this error overshadowed" their accomplishments.
I had the pleasure of speaking about my paper, 'Migration Justice in Indigenous Borderlands" at the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Tijuana last month. Video has a bit of Spanish to start, then English.
www.youtube.com/live/dKsovWE...
www.youtube.com/live/dKsovWE...
Seminario especializado: Justicia migratoria en territorio indígena
YouTube video by IIJUNAM
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October 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I had the pleasure of speaking about my paper, 'Migration Justice in Indigenous Borderlands" at the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Tijuana last month. Video has a bit of Spanish to start, then English.
www.youtube.com/live/dKsovWE...
www.youtube.com/live/dKsovWE...
New from me: an article on the libertarianism of Robert Nozick, and the surprisingly robust resources it provides to a theory of indigenous rights.
Non-paywalled version: philpapers.org/rec/LAMLSF
Non-paywalled version: philpapers.org/rec/LAMLSF
Andy Lamey, Libertarian support for indigenous rights - PhilPapers
The most prominent philosophical defenders of indigenous rights have been egalitarian liberals such as Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten. Libertarians, on the other hand, are often critical of such arrang...
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September 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New from me: an article on the libertarianism of Robert Nozick, and the surprisingly robust resources it provides to a theory of indigenous rights.
Non-paywalled version: philpapers.org/rec/LAMLSF
Non-paywalled version: philpapers.org/rec/LAMLSF
'Chatbots of the dead are chatbots designed to converse in ways that resemble specific dead people. We argue that chatbots of the dead are continuous with representations found in art, like memoir and theater, and function as props that mandate and prompt imaginal interactions with the deceased.'
September 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
'Chatbots of the dead are chatbots designed to converse in ways that resemble specific dead people. We argue that chatbots of the dead are continuous with representations found in art, like memoir and theater, and function as props that mandate and prompt imaginal interactions with the deceased.'
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Now on the Oxford University Press website, complete with cover: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's Animals and the Right to Politics, the long-awaited sequel to 2011's Zoopolis.
An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
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An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
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September 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Now on the Oxford University Press website, complete with cover: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's Animals and the Right to Politics, the long-awaited sequel to 2011's Zoopolis.
An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
AI has been a disaster for uni. teaching, bring on the reliable detectors! An encouraging study on their effectiveness:
'Most commercial AI detectors perform remarkably well, with Pangram in particular achieving a near zero [false positive rate] and [false negative rate] within our set of stimuli'.
'Most commercial AI detectors perform remarkably well, with Pangram in particular achieving a near zero [false positive rate] and [false negative rate] within our set of stimuli'.
September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
AI has been a disaster for uni. teaching, bring on the reliable detectors! An encouraging study on their effectiveness:
'Most commercial AI detectors perform remarkably well, with Pangram in particular achieving a near zero [false positive rate] and [false negative rate] within our set of stimuli'.
'Most commercial AI detectors perform remarkably well, with Pangram in particular achieving a near zero [false positive rate] and [false negative rate] within our set of stimuli'.
Nice piece on new omnivorism, an argument for meat eating based on animal protection that I identified and criticized in my book Duty and the Beast.
For my first post on BlueSky, I'd like to share that my new article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy is now available to read, and is open access too!
#NewArticle Permissible Purchasing, Obligatory Abstention: The Strict Vegan Case against New Omnivorism | Daniel White #OpenAccess text here: doi.org/10.1111/japp...
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#philsky #philosophy
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Nice piece on new omnivorism, an argument for meat eating based on animal protection that I identified and criticized in my book Duty and the Beast.
Jeff McMahan (Oxford) on Gaza: 'This article . . . challenges the assertion that Hamas’s having wrongly initiated the conflict absolves Israel of responsibility for the harms its military action has caused to civilians.'
Jeff McMahan, Moral responsibility for the scarcity of healthcare in Gaza - PhilPapers
In response to Arianne Shahvisi’s call for medical ethicists to condemn Israel’s having caused extreme scarcity of healthcare in Gaza, two critical commentaries published in this journal attributed primary moral responsibility ...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Jeff McMahan (Oxford) on Gaza: 'This article . . . challenges the assertion that Hamas’s having wrongly initiated the conflict absolves Israel of responsibility for the harms its military action has caused to civilians.'
Attack data show the vibe shift has officially arrived on campus.
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Attack data show the vibe shift has officially arrived on campus.
The censorious left has handed the baton to the censorious right.
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August 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Attack data show the vibe shift has officially arrived on campus.
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open.substack.com/pub/heterodo...
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As a committed advocate of the importance of classic texts, let me state definitively: this guy is not helping the cause.
Still think this is the most hilariously Charlie Kirk thing Charlie Kirk has ever done.
August 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
As a committed advocate of the importance of classic texts, let me state definitively: this guy is not helping the cause.
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Interesting new book alert. Death in a Shallow Pond press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Death in a Shallow Pond
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, a fascinating account of Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment—and how it changed the way people think about…
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August 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Interesting new book alert. Death in a Shallow Pond press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Tenure is good for academic freedom.
August 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Tenure is good for academic freedom.
Professor watch lists are bad for academic freedom.
August 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Professor watch lists are bad for academic freedom.
Interesting interview with Mark Pennington, author of Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom reason.com/podcasts/the...
The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie Archives
Want to know what comes next in politics, culture, and libertarian ideas? Reason’s Nick Gillespie hosts relentlessly interesting interviews with the activists, artists, authors, entrepreneurs,…
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August 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Interesting interview with Mark Pennington, author of Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom reason.com/podcasts/the...
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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July 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Cambridge Elements are free to download until 7/25-check out my little book How To Study Animal Minds. I had fun writing this one, and I'll never forget how nervous I was in front of a bunch of scientist friends, including Sara Shettleworth, hearing their thoughts on the draft! tinyurl.com/3yy6a52c
How to Study Animal Minds
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - How to Study Animal Minds
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July 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Cambridge Elements are free to download until 7/25-check out my little book How To Study Animal Minds. I had fun writing this one, and I'll never forget how nervous I was in front of a bunch of scientist friends, including Sara Shettleworth, hearing their thoughts on the draft! tinyurl.com/3yy6a52c
The documentary is about the Palestinian journalists, over two hundred of whom have been killed by Israel since the war began. jacobin.com/2025/07/robe...
The War in Gaza as Told Through Dead Journalists
Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald talks to Jacobin about the targeted killing of journalists in his harrowing new film Gaza: Journalists Under Fire.
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July 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The documentary is about the Palestinian journalists, over two hundred of whom have been killed by Israel since the war began. jacobin.com/2025/07/robe...
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A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university.
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...
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July 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university.
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Yesterday, one of our union leaders was arrested during an ICE raid in Camarillo, CA, while he was lawfully observing immigration enforcement activities.
www.calfac.org/statement-condemning-the-abduction-and-disappearance-of-cfa-members-in-camarillo/
www.calfac.org/statement-condemning-the-abduction-and-disappearance-of-cfa-members-in-camarillo/
- California Faculty Association
We strongly condemn the abduction of California Faculty Association professor, member and activist Jonathan A. Caravello, Ph.D. and other community
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July 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Yesterday, one of our union leaders was arrested during an ICE raid in Camarillo, CA, while he was lawfully observing immigration enforcement activities.
www.calfac.org/statement-condemning-the-abduction-and-disappearance-of-cfa-members-in-camarillo/
www.calfac.org/statement-condemning-the-abduction-and-disappearance-of-cfa-members-in-camarillo/