George Webster
@georgewebster.bsky.social
Lecturer in Philosophy at Worcester College, University of Oxford.
Thinking about science, the world, and the history of our ideas about those things.
Also in charge of Learning Development.
www.georgewebsterphilosophy.com
Thinking about science, the world, and the history of our ideas about those things.
Also in charge of Learning Development.
www.georgewebsterphilosophy.com
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Had a great time today filming a philosophy tutorial for a video project all about Oxford's tutorial system! 🎥 ✨
Huge well done to my brave 1st-yr undergrads who took part - you did brilliantly! 👏 📚
Excited for this sneak peak into how teaching works @ox.ac.uk 👀
Huge well done to my brave 1st-yr undergrads who took part - you did brilliantly! 👏 📚
Excited for this sneak peak into how teaching works @ox.ac.uk 👀
The big question:
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
More signed copies of #BeingYou (& therefore fewer unsigned copies) - this time in the WHS Bookshop at Leeds station 👇🏽
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The big question:
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
It’s that time of year again - UCAS forms have landed on my desk!
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s that time of year again - UCAS forms have landed on my desk!
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finally got round to reading this piece by @timcrane.bsky.social 📖
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Finally got round to reading this piece by @timcrane.bsky.social 📖
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
A Philosopher and a Child 5: Is the universe infinite ?
YouTube video by Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Brentano is the grand-father, Heidegger is the weird son that cut ties with the family, Merleau-Ponty is a cousin living in the wood, Sartre is a distant relative writing stories...
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Looking forward to speaking at this conference today - on neo-Kantianism and quantum information theory.
(I just about managed to cut my talk down to 14 minutes!)
#philsky #philsci 🧪
(I just about managed to cut my talk down to 14 minutes!)
#philsky #philsci 🧪
Tomorrow 6 November is the first of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.
Check out the program in the thread! 🥳
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Just discovered Wispr Flow, and I think it might be a game changer for commenting on student tutorial essays!
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
Wispr Flow | Effortless Voice Dictation
Flow makes writing quick and clear with seamless voice dictation. It is the fastest, smartest way to type with your voice.
wisprflow.ai
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Just discovered Wispr Flow, and I think it might be a game changer for commenting on student tutorial essays!
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by George Webster
The PSA Around the World 2025 series begins this Thursday, 6 Nov! 🔥🌈🎉
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association
www.philsci.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The PSA Around the World 2025 series begins this Thursday, 6 Nov! 🔥🌈🎉
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
Going to watch “Back to the Future” on the big screen tonight, and it’s got me thinking: how should one read “back” and “future” here?
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Going to watch “Back to the Future” on the big screen tonight, and it’s got me thinking: how should one read “back” and “future” here?
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
Where the members of Pembroke College settle their disputes:
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Where the members of Pembroke College settle their disputes:
Checked out some Weyl today. (Didn’t read it; checked it out of the library.)
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Checked out some Weyl today. (Didn’t read it; checked it out of the library.)
I’ll soon be giving a demonstration Oxford admissions interview, with a brave undergraduate, for 73 school pupils as part of an online session for Worcester College’s outreach program.
Looking forward to it!!
Looking forward to it!!
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I’ll soon be giving a demonstration Oxford admissions interview, with a brave undergraduate, for 73 school pupils as part of an online session for Worcester College’s outreach program.
Looking forward to it!!
Looking forward to it!!
Reposted by George Webster
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
Reposted by George Webster
A century ago, philosophers were intellectual stars, called upon by media and government for wise words on social issues beyond academics. It has been decades since any philosopher had that sort of stature. What happened?
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A century ago, philosophers were intellectual stars, called upon by media and government for wise words on social issues beyond academics. It has been decades since any philosopher had that sort of stature. What happened?
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
Another journal referee report sent. Feels icky entering it into a textbox instead of uploading a document…
#academicsky #philsky
#academicsky #philsky
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Another journal referee report sent. Feels icky entering it into a textbox instead of uploading a document…
#academicsky #philsky
#academicsky #philsky
Next Monday we've got Joe Saunders from Durham at the Proceedings!
His talk is entitled: What's Wrong with the Master: A Critical Analysis of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic
⏰ 18.15-19.45, 27 October
📍 Senate Room, Senate House
🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...
#philsky
His talk is entitled: What's Wrong with the Master: A Critical Analysis of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic
⏰ 18.15-19.45, 27 October
📍 Senate Room, Senate House
🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...
#philsky
Joe Saunders – The Aristotelian Society
www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
www.philsci.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Had some lovely unsolicited (positive!) feedback from a student today that made my day. I love it when that happens!
#academicsky #edusky #highered #philsky
#academicsky #edusky #highered #philsky
October 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Had some lovely unsolicited (positive!) feedback from a student today that made my day. I love it when that happens!
#academicsky #edusky #highered #philsky
#academicsky #edusky #highered #philsky
Reposted by George Webster
Remember: No one ever rejects a paper based on what's in the last 10 pages
First-time authors: Get the reviewer on your side in the first 3 pages. From there on, they either look for areas to improve or reasons to reject.
October 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Remember: No one ever rejects a paper based on what's in the last 10 pages
Reposted by George Webster
Deadline for these is coming up soon - get in touch if you have questions!
2 Postdoc Positions in Milan!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
Please share widely!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
Please share widely!
Two further post-doc positions advertised! - 18ETHICS
Check out the job advertisement @ the University of Milan: https://www.unimi.it/en/node/52925. (Deadline: October 20, 2025.) For queries please contact Stefano Bacin.
18ethics.unimi.it
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Deadline for these is coming up soon - get in touch if you have questions!
Reminded me of one of my favourite academic jokes:
“I used to be a structuralist, but now I’m not Saussure!”
#academicsky #philsky
“I used to be a structuralist, but now I’m not Saussure!”
#academicsky #philsky
Coming across this book, Raymond Tallis,
Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (New York, 1995), I initially misread the title as 'Not A Sausage: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory', which I think would have been great
Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (New York, 1995), I initially misread the title as 'Not A Sausage: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory', which I think would have been great
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reminded me of one of my favourite academic jokes:
“I used to be a structuralist, but now I’m not Saussure!”
#academicsky #philsky
“I used to be a structuralist, but now I’m not Saussure!”
#academicsky #philsky
Just had a meeting, scheduled for 2 hours, that ended in 20 minutes. I feel like a time traveller.
#academicsky #philsky
#academicsky #philsky
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Just had a meeting, scheduled for 2 hours, that ended in 20 minutes. I feel like a time traveller.
#academicsky #philsky
#academicsky #philsky