
Miles Leeson
@miles_leeson
Director of the @IrisMurdoch Research Centre at @humanities_chi. Lead Editor of the IM Review; Series Editor of 'Iris Murdoch Today' with @Palgrave.
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“Attentive use of the imagination is, unlike fantasy, not a way to escape the world into a daydream but the route by which we become positive agents within the world,” argues Miles Leeson. | iai.tv/articles/imagi… Tap to read more about Leeson’s exploration of Iris Murdoch’s

New Iris Murdoch Podcast! In this episode we celebrate the 60th anniversary of her ninth novel, The Red and The Green. soundcloud.com/user-548804258…



Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch's generosity. (Thanks to Colin West)


New Iris Murdoch podcast episode! I'm joined by Michela Dianetti and Lucy Elvis from @unigalway to discuss Murdoch and Public Philosophy. soundcloud.com/user-548804258…


Looking forward to being in Texas later this month at Baylor University talking about (who else?) Iris Murdoch.


New Iris Murdoch Podcast! I'm joined by Bridget Clarke (University of Montana) to discuss her new book on Murdoch in the Cambridge University Press Series on Women in the History of Philosophy. soundcloud.com/user-548804258


Next year's Iris Murdoch online course from @litcamb has just been confirmed. Full details via the link: literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026


A new podcast on Iris Murdoch's 'A Year of Birds' (poetry) has just been released! Featuring Miles Leeson in conversation with Ash/Ear Read This is on Blue Sky. open.spotify.com/episode/6vSuIf…



Now available to pre-order! The first collection on Iris Murdoch's theological thinking in decades. Huge thanks to all our contributors and Palgrave Philosophy for the support. Out in July. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…




New Iris Murdoch Podcast episode! I talk to Mark Hopwood from Univ of the South about his new book, The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch, from Routledge Books. soundcloud.com/user-548804258…


New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode! I talk to Lucy Hunter Oulton about her new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Wild Imagination: Nature and the Environment' which is published today from Palgrave Macmillan. soundcloud.com/user-548804258… Palgrave Philosophy


New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode! We're starting a new miniseries of episodes reading the entirety of 'Existentialists and Mystics' - her collected non-fiction - over the course of the next year or so. Join us on the journey... soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

'Learned people, intellectuals, have lost their confidence, their kind of protest is being esoteric. And at the other end it's smashing things. There's a gap where the theories ought to be, where the thinking ought to be.' Iris Murdoch, 1987
