Our latest undergraduate Open Day was a great success! Thanks to our ambassadors, the prospective students who attended, and David Worsely for organizing! Here's a pic of our stand, and a second of the festivities from across the lake taken by our Head of Department Keith Allen!

I’ll be on the BBC Radio 5 Live 5 Live Breakfast show this morning just before 8am, making the case for lowering the voting age - not just to 16 but to 12. Our society is deeply biased against the interests of the young, and this radical change could fix that. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

For anyone interested, here's the long-form version of my case for empowering teenage citizens and lowering the voting age to 12, you can find it here: bit.ly/RadicalDemocra…

And here's a talk I gave on this topic a couple of years back, as the Royal Institute of Philosophy The Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture for Schools: bit.ly/EmpoweringTeen…

Wonderful short video on the history of our campus. Modernist, abstract aesthetics, with many clever tricks. As Nikolaus Pevsner said, it's "the best of the 1960s universities, visually and aesthetically." youtube.com/watch?v=f9ILH9…

Is cultural appropriation about ownership of cultural styles? Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott argues it is, based on the idea that ownership claims support our ability to present ourselves to others on our own terms. Read the paper here! doi.org/10.16995/pp.18…

NEW - What Is the Point of Harm Reduction? A Relational Egalitarian Perspective - cup.org/4kq6HYm "...harm reduction has received very little philosophical scrutiny." - Giacomo Floris (UoY Philosophy) #FirstView

Postgrad researcher Thomas Dowling writes on his substack blog on "Institutionalised Arrogance among Hegel Scholars": therestrictedsection.substack.com/p/the-woke-que…

When and how does AI help scientists gain understanding? In a new paper, Mike Stuart develops an account of "pragmatic understanding" and argues that AI can increase this kind of understanding for humans, but not have it itself. Read the full paper here: t.ly/EymHc

We have an Instagram account! Give us a follow if you use that platform! instagram.com/uofyphilosophy…

Keith Allen will be presenting at the 5th European Experimental Philosophy conference this week: x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi2025-…. This conference will also include a work-in-progress session organised by the UK X-Phi Triangle (UEA-York-Reading).

University Clearing can be a stressful time, but we at York have a great team whose aim is to make the process as smooth as possible, and attract all the best people we can! Here they are, being discussed in the Guardian: theguardian.com/clearing-at-th…

The philosophy department is currently hosting students from Beijing Normal University for a philosophy summer school. Here are some photos of last week's philosophical and cultural tour of Edinburgh, including visits to Hume's mausoleum and Adam Smith's grave!

How can we evaluate an artwork? These days we hear a lot about vibes. Pablo Fernandez Velasco focuses on the more precise notion of an "atmosphere." Via Monet, Pablo develops a helpful view on the nature of atmospheres and how they work. t.ly/qX48B

Earlier this month, Dave Ingram was at the University of Salzburg presenting his paper 'Prolegomenon to a Dynamic Metaphysics of Time' at the workshop Beyond the Present: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Time.

I'm doing a national three peaks challenge on August 9th to raise money for Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis in memory of my father in law who passed away from the condition last July. It's an underfunded charity so any donations would be welcome at the below link!

Congrats to Alan Thomas (and co-authors) for making it onto the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025 longlist, with their book Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies! royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlist-…

Rob Trueman's new article 'Manyism as mereologicism' (written with Simon Thunder) is now published in Synthese! In it, the authors point out a very interesting connection between mereology and logic concerning ontological innocence. Read the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…