Kate Kirkpatrick

Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference

CFP for Oxford's annual graduate philosophy conference: www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/oxford-philo...

Good analysis by Ben, my only addition is that I think psychologically Labour cannot accept that their median voter is closer to Hannah Spencer: still young, well off but still renting, female, and socially liberal than it is their desired median voter: Lee Anderson, and that is because of misogyny.

“We have shown that we don’t have to accept being turned against each other,” Hannah Spencer (@greenpartyhan.bsky.social)
said in her victory speech. “We can demand better without hating each other.“

Photo of Nassau Hall under a blue sky with sunlight casting trees’ shadows on snow

Poststorm snowpost

Photo of Princeton’s Nassau Hall after a night of heavy snowfall, taken just after sunrise

Daybreak snowscape

Photo of a solitary walker under a green umbrella with a background of Princeton’s Dod Hall and green metal tables in the foreground

Princeton awaits a blizzard

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

What a thing to read at Heathrow, waiting for a flight to Newark.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

7 podcasts inspirants pour repenser l’amour en dehors des clichés Sélection de podcasts qui s’emparent de l’amour avec bienveillance et inventivité, comme autant de façons de regarder ce sentiment sous un nouvel angle.

Funny to see one of my first interviews in French (about which I was très nervous) a recommended podcast in Vogue France. 👀 🤷‍♀️

www.vogue.fr/culture/arti...

New warning signs in the modern European languages library

The University of Vienna is advertising a number of fully funded PhD positions in the Humanities (4 years), including in Philosophy. If you are interested or know any philosophy MA student who would be interested, please tell them to get in touch! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

The Radcliffe Camera tonight

Nothing makes one prouder to be British than someone resigning in disgrace because we still understand both those words

New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers The New Mexico Legislature approved the Immigration Safety Act. House bill 9 bars the state from allowing ICE detention centers.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care.

It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Well, Lisa and I are so delighted enough to share that The Philosopher Queens is now being published with Hackett, with FIVE NEW CHAPTERS. The book will out in 2027 with new illustrations, a new introduction, and a new foreword as well.

Gwen John: Strange Beauties | Museum Wales The Pilgrim by Gwen John. Photo credit - Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionGwen Joh...

This Gwen John exhibition in Cardiff looks wonderful: first major collection for over 40 years brings together rarely seen works and marks her 150th birthday. From 7 February to 26 June.

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CfP: Women’s Contributions to Political Economy During the 19th Century  Vol. 5 Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Editors: Karen Green (University of Melbourne) & Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) By the beginning of the nineteenth century, political thought…

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone.“

Thank you @adamserwer.bsky.social for writing this and to all the Minnesotans—visible and invisible— whose “neighborism” inspired it.

PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Manon Garcia Guest host Kate Kirkpatrick discusses 'Living with Men' with French Philosopher, Manon Garcia.

For those in or near Oxford on 14 February, there are just a few spaces left for the
#philosophyinthebookshop I’m guest hosting with @manongarcia.bsky.social, who will discuss her new book on the Pelicot trial, Living with Men @blackwelloxford.bsky.social

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Deborah Cameron on the impact of feminist linguistic research | Lingoblog Deborah Cameron has studied language and gender for around 40 years. She has written numerous books on this topic, including The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007)

And here is an interview where she discusses her commitment to public engagement over decades: “changes in the way people think about the world are part of the process of changing the world itself”
www.lingoblog.dk/en/deborah-c...

Professor Deborah Cameron on Language and Gender Professor Deborah Cameron discusses Language and Gender.

Very saddened by the death of Deborah Cameron this week—a brilliant linguist, feminist, and colleague, who shone bright light on language and gender in society.

Here she is talking about why people are interested in linguistic differences between men and women:
englishandmedia.co.uk/videos/colle...

Quotations are from "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" and "All that we are, we owe," both of which are available free online at the King Institute at Stanford. Links ⬆️ and ⬇️. 7/end
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But some American theologians of liberation responded that it was not their Gospel to preach freedom without interdependence. 6/

America’s bootstraps individualism made it ripe for a certain reading of Sartre’s early existentialism, usually on the basis of ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’ (1946), since Being and Nothingness wasn't published in English until 1957 (after King wrote ‘All that we are, we owe’). 5/

King concluded that the existentialist premise that “man creates himself” had to be rejected on the grounds that: “no Christian can believe this. From the deeps of our moral consciousness springs the conviction that what we are, we owe.” 4/

had grasped certain basic truths about man and his condition that could not be permanently overlooked.” It got some things right, offering insight into finite freedom, anxiety, ambiguity, estrangement. But early on in his “serious intellectual quest for a method to eliminate social evil” 3/

In his well-known account of his "pilgrimage to nonviolence" King claimed that Protestant liberalism and neo-orthodoxy both left him dissatisfied: “each represents a partial truth”. Existentialism, he wrote, “in spite of the fact that it had become all too fashionable, 2/

Handwritten index card by Martin Luther King, Jr., on 'Existentialism'

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the USA, so here's his handwritten index card on existentialism and a little thread on why Dr. King thought Jean-Paul Sartre was wrong about freedom. 1/ ⬇️

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
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