Matt Bennett
@mattpbennett.bsky.social
Moral and political philosopher working on trust in people, experts, and institutions, distributive justice (esp. meritocracy), post-Kantian European philosophy (esp. Nietzsche)
https://drmattbennett.weebly.com
https://drmattbennett.weebly.com
No philosophy journal *acceptance* would be complete without being told by the editor that the paper falls below the journal's standards and to revise the paper "from beginning to end"
March 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
No philosophy journal *acceptance* would be complete without being told by the editor that the paper falls below the journal's standards and to revise the paper "from beginning to end"
Journal rejection after 11 months. Philosophy is often a callous and cruel profession, and I'm struggling to see how I continue in it. I've been given chances, and I'm getting closer to accepting I've failed to make it work, but today it's hard not to feel that I've been screwed
April 8, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Journal rejection after 11 months. Philosophy is often a callous and cruel profession, and I'm struggling to see how I continue in it. I've been given chances, and I'm getting closer to accepting I've failed to make it work, but today it's hard not to feel that I've been screwed
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I'm hiring two three-year postdocs in political theory for my ERC/UKRI project Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy. One postdoc would ideally have already worked on climate change. Please spread the word!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/086948-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/086948-...
March 29, 2024 at 2:16 PM
I'm hiring two three-year postdocs in political theory for my ERC/UKRI project Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy. One postdoc would ideally have already worked on climate change. Please spread the word!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/086948-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/086948-...
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Once again for those at the back: doing well in the REF & getting great student satisfaction scores won't save you from politically motivated cuts. It doesn't matter if your research is good, your unit is profitable, or your students are happy if a VC needs to prove their radical vision/pet scheme.
"Further to previous announcements of plans, the University of Kent has decided to close its Department of Philosophy. It will take no new students from now on. Existing students will be ‘taught out’ across the next two academic years."
Kent administration decides to go ahead with plan to axe philosophy...
March 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Once again for those at the back: doing well in the REF & getting great student satisfaction scores won't save you from politically motivated cuts. It doesn't matter if your research is good, your unit is profitable, or your students are happy if a VC needs to prove their radical vision/pet scheme.
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This is—or rather should be—an absolute scandal. The UK’s University of Kent is closing its highly ranked Department of #Philosophy. This undermines the very idea of a university. #HigherEducation #PhilSky #Academia
Kent administration decides to go ahead with plan to axe philosophy...
Kent Administration Approves Proposal to Cut Philosophy
Last summer, and again this past February, the administration of the University of Kent proposed cutting its philosophy program (see here). It has now decided to implement that proposal. Simon Kirchin...
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March 21, 2024 at 4:30 PM
This is—or rather should be—an absolute scandal. The UK’s University of Kent is closing its highly ranked Department of #Philosophy. This undermines the very idea of a university. #HigherEducation #PhilSky #Academia
Congratulations to my paper and Editorial Manager for 10 months together! Almost made it to that big first-year anniversary🤪
March 6, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Congratulations to my paper and Editorial Manager for 10 months together! Almost made it to that big first-year anniversary🤪
It's not a good day for job worries. Woke up with catastrophising thoughts about what happens at the end of my current job (Sept), and I just learned that even our business school is being forced to pull fixed-term teaching. The picture at (most) UK universities is very bleak indeed
February 23, 2024 at 10:33 AM
It's not a good day for job worries. Woke up with catastrophising thoughts about what happens at the end of my current job (Sept), and I just learned that even our business school is being forced to pull fixed-term teaching. The picture at (most) UK universities is very bleak indeed
If solidarity is a trait, what is the associated adjective? Like if courage is a trait, we say that a person is courageous. (Answers needn't be in English, of course)
February 23, 2024 at 9:16 AM
If solidarity is a trait, what is the associated adjective? Like if courage is a trait, we say that a person is courageous. (Answers needn't be in English, of course)
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I am running an online creative writing workshop on 1st March (7 pm - 8:30 pm) UK time to help raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Writers at every level are welcome!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please repost!
Writers at every level are welcome!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please repost!
February 14, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I am running an online creative writing workshop on 1st March (7 pm - 8:30 pm) UK time to help raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Writers at every level are welcome!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please repost!
Writers at every level are welcome!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please repost!
Rejection number 6 on the winner-takes-all paper. Kudos to CRISPP for a 3 month turnaround, albeit with just one report. On the hunt for rejection number 7, open to recommendations
February 13, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Rejection number 6 on the winner-takes-all paper. Kudos to CRISPP for a 3 month turnaround, albeit with just one report. On the hunt for rejection number 7, open to recommendations
Are there any philosophy journals that don’t care if your submission is simultaneously under consideration elsewhere? Asking purely out of curiosity of course
February 9, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Are there any philosophy journals that don’t care if your submission is simultaneously under consideration elsewhere? Asking purely out of curiosity of course
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'It’s not about ‘woke’ or foreign students – the truth is that UK universities are starved of cash'
A good summary of the issues.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A good summary of the issues.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s not about ‘woke’ or foreign students – the truth is that UK universities are starved of...
We need to have a frank conversation about higher education. These confected rows benefit nobody, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2024 at 6:10 PM
'It’s not about ‘woke’ or foreign students – the truth is that UK universities are starved of cash'
A good summary of the issues.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A good summary of the issues.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Presented this last week (virtually) to a great bunch at a workshop on empirical+normative pol-theory in Prato. The talk covered, among other things, dictators, bankruptcy, capuchin monkeys, and the American Red Cross, and all under 20 mins!
February 5, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Presented this last week (virtually) to a great bunch at a workshop on empirical+normative pol-theory in Prato. The talk covered, among other things, dictators, bankruptcy, capuchin monkeys, and the American Red Cross, and all under 20 mins!
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Grad Students! Want to learn more about core methods of PPE? Want to build your network? Want to do all of this for free? Join us at the 4th Annual PPE Graduate Summer Workshop! July 22-26.
Applications due Feb 15.
www.chapman.edu/research/ins...
Applications due Feb 15.
www.chapman.edu/research/ins...
PPE Graduate Summer Workshop
Info on the PPE Summer Workshop
www.chapman.edu
January 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Grad Students! Want to learn more about core methods of PPE? Want to build your network? Want to do all of this for free? Join us at the 4th Annual PPE Graduate Summer Workshop! July 22-26.
Applications due Feb 15.
www.chapman.edu/research/ins...
Applications due Feb 15.
www.chapman.edu/research/ins...
*sigh* closing in on 9 months. I'm 99% sure "reviewers assigned" means "waiting for response to invitation to review". They tell me they have a 1st report and they are looking for a 2nd. My last contact with them was 3 Jan.
What do I do? Anything? Nothing?
What do I do? Anything? Nothing?
January 29, 2024 at 9:26 AM
*sigh* closing in on 9 months. I'm 99% sure "reviewers assigned" means "waiting for response to invitation to review". They tell me they have a 1st report and they are looking for a 2nd. My last contact with them was 3 Jan.
What do I do? Anything? Nothing?
What do I do? Anything? Nothing?
This is a remarkably Nietzschean account of late 19th century scientific method
The Moralization of Mechanical Objectivity
Few quotes from Daston & Galison’s (1992) paper: “The image of objectivity” www.jstor.org/stable/2928741
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Few quotes from Daston & Galison’s (1992) paper: “The image of objectivity” www.jstor.org/stable/2928741
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January 27, 2024 at 5:52 PM
This is a remarkably Nietzschean account of late 19th century scientific method
"Faculty on the move" updates but for all the temp teachers losing their jobs
January 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM
"Faculty on the move" updates but for all the temp teachers losing their jobs
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Some small steps towards fixing the publishing crisis in philosophy:
i. Papers should bounce around quickly between journals, getting rejected without much feedback, then resubmitted somewhere else to be rejected without much feedback again by the same referee.
ii. CVs should be in 12pt font.
i. Papers should bounce around quickly between journals, getting rejected without much feedback, then resubmitted somewhere else to be rejected without much feedback again by the same referee.
ii. CVs should be in 12pt font.
January 23, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Some small steps towards fixing the publishing crisis in philosophy:
i. Papers should bounce around quickly between journals, getting rejected without much feedback, then resubmitted somewhere else to be rejected without much feedback again by the same referee.
ii. CVs should be in 12pt font.
i. Papers should bounce around quickly between journals, getting rejected without much feedback, then resubmitted somewhere else to be rejected without much feedback again by the same referee.
ii. CVs should be in 12pt font.
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Our first issue of 2024 is dedicated to the memory of Katherine Hawley and features some incredible papers on trustworthiness. Thanks Elisabetta Lalumera and all the contributors for bringing this project to life. Hope you enjoy! @journalphp.bsky.social #philsky www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphp20/3...
January 18, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Our first issue of 2024 is dedicated to the memory of Katherine Hawley and features some incredible papers on trustworthiness. Thanks Elisabetta Lalumera and all the contributors for bringing this project to life. Hope you enjoy! @journalphp.bsky.social #philsky www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphp20/3...
I'm working on a paper scrutinising philosophers' use of empirical data on "common sense" distributive justice intuitions and let me tell you, do NOT take anyone at their word when they tell you what "the data shows us"
January 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I'm working on a paper scrutinising philosophers' use of empirical data on "common sense" distributive justice intuitions and let me tell you, do NOT take anyone at their word when they tell you what "the data shows us"
Think maybe that particular horse has already bolted
New post on the EPIC project blog! Ian James Kidd recommends caution in the use of the notion of epistemic injustice! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2024/01/epis...
Epistemic Injustice: Caution and Complexity
epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com
January 17, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Think maybe that particular horse has already bolted
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Pretty happy with my core reading list for Philosophy of Recreation module, but would welcome any suggestions if I've missed any bangers 🤘🚵💄 #PhilSky
January 17, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Pretty happy with my core reading list for Philosophy of Recreation module, but would welcome any suggestions if I've missed any bangers 🤘🚵💄 #PhilSky
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Ethical approval processes for research might be a pain in arse, but don't forget the shenanigans that some researchers used to get up to. Here's a description of a social psychology experiment from the 1950s
January 15, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Ethical approval processes for research might be a pain in arse, but don't forget the shenanigans that some researchers used to get up to. Here's a description of a social psychology experiment from the 1950s