Philosopher and writer. Articles and reviews for @Aeonmag @NewStatesman @prospect_uk @NewHumanist @ArtsPro @psyche_the_mag Editor of Reading Bernard Williams
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Joined May 2013
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New essay on Bernard Williams, moral relativism, and the culture wars with nods to Herodotus, Sally Rooney, Judith Butler, Christine Korsgaard, Richard Rorty, Derek Parfit, Kant, Nietzsche, Wilde and @pameladruck and @holland_tom and @StephanieCoontz aeon.co/essays/bernard-willi…
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To mark the release of this new film adaptation, I’ve put up my @NewStatesman review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun, from 2021, on my @Substack …
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Talking the diesel problem and what it reveals about a world that has moved to energy warfare.
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Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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"The art of mad artists, inevitably, represents their madness. We can’t help but read it into every surprising decision the artist has made. An element of decryption enters into our engagement with the work. What did it mean to Dadd, who saw himself as an agent of Osiris the Sun god, to paint The Flight out of Egypt, which is so filled with sunlight? What did it mean to paint a perfect shining circle with a tree coming out of it at the painting’s centre?" lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n19/…
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This is an excellent debunker of AI consciousness by some of the biggest names in consciousness science (@anilkseth @De_dicto and Giulio Tononi)
Don't listen to the techbros. They have no idea what they're talking about where consciousness is concerned.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Just released on the Philosophy Bites podcast: @daisyldixon on Depraved Art philosophybites.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc
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I’ll be in Cambridge talking about depraved art and immoral artists with the brilliant philosopher Prof Derek Matravers, this coming Tuesday 20th October at 6pm!
🩸we’d love to see you there!!😍
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Here's my @LRB piece about Ralph Ellison, not as novelist but as essayist + correspondent after Invisible Man during the decades he worked on his second novel (posthumously published in unfinished form), with thoughts from Saul Bellow, Irving Howe et al
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Am late to post my @NewStatesman column but here it is.
I ask why stories from ancient Greece--from Anne Carson to Marco Rubio to Christopher Nolan--are trickling back into public consciousness. In my opinion, it's because they illuminate our savage world. newstatesman.com/politics/20…
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Here’s my @LRB piece on the American writer Ralph Ellison and related subjects (Bellow, Baldwin, Irving Howe, Stephen Crane). Link below.
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Without doubt, @AmitChaudhuri is one of India's finest writers, a true craftsman of prose and a theorist who has helped me understand everything from poetry to postcoloniality. He joined me last week on our @NewStatesman culture podcast The New Society
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Faculty member Ian Kidd has a new paper in the Journal of Ethics: "Philosophical Pessimism and the Heterogeneity of Suffering",
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Here’s my long-gestating magnum opus: @The_Fence_Mag misery-memoir about the period in the early-to-mid 2020s that I spent living with two Taylor Swift fanatics, one of them eight, the other seventy-eight
the-fence.com/article/end-of…
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'[Hegelianism] is like a very dark wood, and those who once enter it very seldom come back to tell us what it is that they have seen.'
– Isaiah Berlin, 1952
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For @NewStatesman's New Society podcast, I spoke to Katherine Rundell.
Her AI comments went viral (millions of views), but do listen to our discussion in full, one of the most interesting I've had, on the politics of wonder and the role of faith in fantasy
open.spotify.com/episode/7yw…
A Polyphonic Conception of AI Understanding
by Matthieu Queloz & Pierre Beckmann philpapers.org/rec/QUEAPC
