@_MaryEds

Feminist philosophy, existentialism, and psychoanalytic theory. Managed to turn propensity to overanalyse into a job. She/her.

 Kerry, Ireland
Joined July 2017
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Ahead of the symposium at this year’s UK Sartre Society conference on the 8th of July, Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis is now available in paperback - at a much more affordable price! bloomsbury.com/uk/sartres-ex… @BloomsburyPhilo @BloomsburyAcad
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New paper out!! I argue against the view that conversational silence standardly indicates agreement (even absent certain defeating conditions). This paper emerged from a chapter of my PhD, so it's nice to finally see it out in the world :) doi.org/10.1111/theo.12566

Conversational silence, reconsidered

In ‘Conversational Pressure. Normativity in Speech Exchanges’ (2020), Sanford Goldberg discusses the significance of conversational silence, arguing that, absent certain defeating conditions, we...

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Cardiff Annual Lecture 2024 :: Quiet As Its Kept: On Epistemic Fragility :: – Professor Kristie Dotson – live on YouTube Tuesday 19th November 8.30pm - 10.00pm UK time Full details: bit.ly/TRIPCdf2024
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Article by our Head of Philosophy Jonathan Webber on the design of our new degree programs :: timeshighereducation.com/cam…

Philosophy graduates are extremely employable – but they need degree programmes that show them why

Many students interested in studying philosophy at university will be concerned about its job prospects, so they require courses that demonstrate how to translate its skills into a career, writes...

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We are very pleased to announce that Dr Benedikt Buechel will be joining us in September as a full-time Lecturer on a 12-month contract. Dr Buechel works in political philosophy, especially on the ethics of migration and statelessness.
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We are very pleased to announce that Dr Emilia Wilson will be joining us in September as a full-time Lecturer on a 12-month contract. Dr Wilson works in feminist theory, social epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of disability.
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Change is possible! largest most notorious deepfake sexual abuse website has blocked access to UK users. This follows announcement this week to criminalise creation as well as sharing. This has always been my main justification for using the criminal law theconversation.com/deepfake…
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A week until #Midgleyfest! Don’t forget to register & come & join us all at @NottsPhilosophy to celebrate @MidgleyQuotes. Keynotes from the incredible @Philosophellie &Ian James Kidd @NottsPhilosophy, Clare MacCumhaill @DurhamPhilosop1, @gmcelwain & Benjamin Lipscomb #MaryMidgley
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Londoners and livestreamers! If you’re interested in what Beauvoir has to say about love—or curious about why people still talk about *The Second Sex* 75 years after its publication—this is a live conversation for you. Tuesday 23 July, 7pm BST interintellect.com/salon/lov…
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Un très grand merci @MFOxford for hosting another—our biggest ever—UK Sartre (and Beauvoir 😉) Society conference this week! And to all who came to speak and listen, too.
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We're hiring! Two 12-month Teaching & Scholarship positions, one in social epistemology and one in political philosophy. Closing date: Sunday 21 July 2024. Full details: bit.ly/cdfphilts12
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Thanks so much to Kathleen Lennon, Darren Gillies, and the UK Sartre Society for terrific, thought-provoking comments on Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis yesterday! Looking forward to Day 2 of #UKSS2024
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This year's UK Sartre Society conference includes a plenary symposium on Mary Edwards’s monograph Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis. #UKSS2024
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In another final session of #SEP2024 our former (BA and MA) student Jamie Davies is giving a talk entitled 'On The Pain of Returning Home'.
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One final session of #SEP2024 is a symposium on Henry Somers-Hall's book Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy, with talks by Nathan Widder, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Wahida Khandker, and a reply by the author.
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Superb #SEP2024 session on Simone de Beauvoir with Anna Cornelia Ploug (Copenhagen) on concrete contradictions in The Second Sex and Katja Čičigoj (Klagenfurt) on gendered forms of subjectivation structuring lived experience.
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The final day of #SEP2024 opened with a riveting keynote address from Irene McMullin! I’m still thinking about how humour and motherhood can provide privileged perspectives on others on Murdoch’s account, and what kind of social ontology this entails…
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I’ve been looking forward to this! Correspondence with five “ordinary” women about adolescence, lesbianism, contraception, coupledom, domestic violence, anti-colonialism, racism, and more.
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#SEP2024 Day 3 begins with our third keynote address –– Murdoch and the Idea of Perfection –– Professor Irene McMullin (Essex)
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Nicolai Knudsen’s excellent talk responds to the trilemma facing traditional phenomenological accounts of perceptions with a novel Rylean account of empathy #SEP2024
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Specifically, direct social perceptions - i.e. perceptions of other people’s mental states
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