Fabienne Peter

Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works"

⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026.
📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way)
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anneli-jefferson/

Fabienne Peter: The Grounds of Political Legitimacy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-887238-2) £63.00. 246 pp. - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -

Sharing another review of my recent book on political legitimacy. With many thanks to @marcel-jahn.com!

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New Post: WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...

The Score by C Thi Nguyen — more than a numbers game A subtle and stimulating philosophical examination of scoring systems and what really matters

"Like a latter-day Socrates . . . [Nguyen] advocat[es] a kind of playful rebellion against rules and metrics. . . . I give this excellent book five stars." @financialtimes.com reviews C. Thi Nguyen's new book, THE SCORE, on sale next week. www.ft.com/content/9446...

The Grounds of Political Legitimacy, by Fabienne Peter There are words that come up so often in public debate that we lose track of their meanings, especially once they have been weaponized. A prime example is

With heartfelt thanks to Amanda Greene for her generous and insightful review of my book on political legitimacy!

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Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below

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The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.

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Wisdom of China: Laozi YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

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.

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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....

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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....

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

'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

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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 ...

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

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Kantian moral change Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in cat....

Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, "Kantian moral change"

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Political Legitimacy with Fabienne Peter YouTube video by Political Philosophy Podcast

youtube version of political legitimacy with @fabiennepeter.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

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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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

The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality

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...

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

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.

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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 👇

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...

New toolkit helps journalists build trust through public collaboration The project provides a roadmap for news organisations seeking to bridge the gap between elite journalism and social media chaos, offering a third way that prioritises both truth and community engageme...

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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...

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.

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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...

The Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social

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...

Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.

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/

Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.

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The ancient Chinese text of the Zhuangzi teaches us to reject entrenched values – and treasure the diversity of humanity | Karyn Lai The Zhuangzi prompts us to reflect on the shallow attitudes of those who want to draw attention to what some people lack, rather than what they might have

Karyn Lai on the Zhuangzi on human diversity

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‘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...

'“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.".'

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...

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