Fabienne Peter
@fabiennepeter.bsky.social
Philosophy professor, University of Warwick. Research: political philosophy, moral philosophy, social epistemology. She/they.
https://www.fabiennepeter.org/
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This is happening tonight! Please note the unusual location...
Next week: Malcolm Keating (Smith College) joins us at the Aristotelian Society: Kumārila on the First-Personal Pronoun
⏰ 18.15, Monday 10th Nov
📍 Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/malcolm-keating/
⏰ 18.15, Monday 10th Nov
📍 Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/malcolm-keating/
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is happening tonight! Please note the unusual location...
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The bilingual version of the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is now available. Feel free to use it in your classes, and please like and comment on the video to help promote it.
youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...
youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...
Wisdom of China: Laozi
YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden
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November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The bilingual version of the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is now available. Feel free to use it in your classes, and please like and comment on the video to help promote it.
youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...
youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...
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A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book!
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book!
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book!
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book!
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether'
Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays
As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight
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September 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether'
Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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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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Political Legitimacy with Fabienne Peter
YouTube video by Political Philosophy Podcast
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August 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford.
Please repost and register now!
@blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with David Bather Woods
For this months Philosophy in the Bookshop event, David Bather Woods discusses his new biography of Schopenhauer with Nigel Warburton
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August 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford.
Please repost and register now!
@blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
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Please repost and register now!
@blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
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The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality
For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
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August 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality
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Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...
Newish paper on what I call runaway reasons in Oxford Studies in Metaethics -- just received my hardcopy of this volume.
Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response.
academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...
Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response.
academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...
Runaway Reasons
Abstract. This chapter raises a challenge for a common claim, which is that reasons are the mark of the normative. The claim tends to be accepted even by d
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July 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Newish paper on what I call runaway reasons in Oxford Studies in Metaethics -- just received my hardcopy of this volume.
Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response.
academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...
Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response.
academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...
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Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information.
We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇
We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇
July 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information.
We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇
We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇
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Yesterday, we - the UK's independent journalism community - launched a Co-Creational News Media Toolkit.
For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...
For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...
July 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yesterday, we - the UK's independent journalism community - launched a Co-Creational News Media Toolkit.
For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...
For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...
Our toolkit for co-creational news media has launched!
Find out how the news media can enhance well-informed political debate and be socially inclusive.
www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...
Find out how the news media can enhance well-informed political debate and be socially inclusive.
www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...
PINF Launches New Toolkit for Collaborative, Accountable and Caring Journalism
Jonathan Heawood, Executive Director of PINF, introduces new framework designed to reshape trust, participation and truth in the media.What do you get when you put 50 experts in a room to talk about t...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Our toolkit for co-creational news media has launched!
Find out how the news media can enhance well-informed political debate and be socially inclusive.
www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...
Find out how the news media can enhance well-informed political debate and be socially inclusive.
www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...
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The Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social
Issues | Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Aristotelian Society. Publishes the papers read at the Society?s fortnightly meetings in London, covering a range of philosophical issues, including: Epistemology, Philosop...
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July 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social
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Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.
Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous
Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.
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Next Monday 16th June we've got Sarah McGrath from Princeton coming to chat to us about: 'What (if anything) is moral experience?' #philosophy
⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/
⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/
June 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Next Monday 16th June we've got Sarah McGrath from Princeton coming to chat to us about: 'What (if anything) is moral experience?' #philosophy
⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/
⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/
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'“Political leaders in those moments of deep economic insecurity have two options. One is to acknowledge the environment that they’re in. We’re in a globalised world.....Or....You choose blame. Blame the other, blame the migrant, blame other countries, blame multilateral institutions, blame.".'
‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America
Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...
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May 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
'“Political leaders in those moments of deep economic insecurity have two options. One is to acknowledge the environment that they’re in. We’re in a globalised world.....Or....You choose blame. Blame the other, blame the migrant, blame other countries, blame multilateral institutions, blame.".'
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We are naturally connected: to the wild world, animals, one another. @gsmcelwain.bsky.social has an excellent overview of Mary Midgley's work, which is always relevant and increasingly prominent. From the APA blog. #philsky
Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy
Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has dr...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We are naturally connected: to the wild world, animals, one another. @gsmcelwain.bsky.social has an excellent overview of Mary Midgley's work, which is always relevant and increasingly prominent. From the APA blog. #philsky
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Final Version:
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Final Version:
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
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