Fabienne Peter
Philosophy professor, University of Warwick. DPVC. Research: political philosophy, moral philosophy, social epistemology. She/they.
fabiennepeter.org
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterNew Post: WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
- Reposted by Fabienne Peter"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...
- With heartfelt thanks to Amanda Greene for her generous and insightful review of my book on political legitimacy! academic.oup.com/mind/article...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterExciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterThe 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.
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterThis is happening tonight! Please note the unusual location...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterThe 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. youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...
- 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....
- Reposted by Fabienne Peter'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 aeon.co/essays/how-t...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterHappy 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 philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterSabina Vaccarino Bremner, "Kantian moral change" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Fabienne PeterExcited 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 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterThe philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterJosh 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...
- 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. academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterBetween 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 👇
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterYesterday, 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...
- 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. www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterThe Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterPhilosopher Helen De Cruz has died.
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterNext 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/
- Karyn Lai on the Zhuangzi on human diversity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Fabienne Peter'“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.".'
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterWe 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
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterFinal Version: 225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right Text & signatories here - www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterLatest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterZadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterIf you always wanted to know what moral socialism is about, now is the time to find out! I am so delighted to be giving this year’s Eva Colorni memorial lecture, joined by Amartya Sen @ LSE. 11th June 5pm, free but registration required. I hope to see many of you there!🌹
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterFoundations of Morality workshop at the University of Leeds, June 10-11. Keynotes: Julia Driver (UT Austin) and Michael Smith (Princeton). Programme and registration details are now up at philevents.org/event/show/1.... Registration deadline: June 1st. Join us there! #Philosophy
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterNEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterNext Monday, Vid Simoniti is speaking at the Aristotelian Society. Come along for his talk 'Thinking without Knowing: a Defence of Aesthetic Cognitivism'. Draft paper on our website! 📍 Senate Room, Senate House ⏰ 17:30 on Monday 19 May 2025 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterFrisbee Sheffield is speaking at the Aristotelian Society next Monday! Come along for her talk 'Socrates and Dialogue as the Greatest Good'. Draft paper & abstract on our website! 📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... #philosophy #philsky
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterUnless I'm missing something, it seems like the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, is now published online - so if you or your institution has access to Oxford Academic you'll be able to read and download all the chapters:
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterJoin us next Monday (28th April) for the next Proceedings talk by Léa Salje from Leeds University. Léa's talk is entitled 'Artspeak'. Her draft paper is available on our website! 17.30-19.15 Institute of Eduction, 20 Bedford Way, Room 642 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterToday, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterWe had 33K people tune in to this conversation. Here it is for people who couldn't catch it live. "Rebellions are built on hope." With @hcrichardson.bsky.social How Trump's Greed, Grift, and Racism Are Collapsing America's Democratic Experiment open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterAre you a student wanting to attend the Joint Session this year? If you're eligible, you can apply for one of our student subsides here: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-se... Deadline: 10 May 2025 #philosophy #philsky
- It was great! www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...
- Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian... The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.
- Most relational moral theories explain the moral relations that ground moral demands in terms of an appropriate meshing of relational moral properties of individuals, such as having a claim on others, for example.
- But some relational theories take moral relations to be irreducible to properties of individuals -- relational or non-relational. We find examples of what I call radical relationalism in care ethics, but also in Logstrup’s and Murdoch’s ethics, among others.
- "Gatsby is the story of a culture responding, however dimly, to the reality that its moral energies have begun to fail. … Gatsby is prophetic not for advancing a political theory of decline, but for capturing the emotional logic of a society in thrall to raw power."
- The Great Gatsby turns 100 next week and in honor of its centenary I’ve written a piece that says something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
- On Saturday 12 April at 5pm local time, there is a panel on the co-creational model for the news media: come and explore how public participation in the creation and dissemination of news can improve the quality of news and help democracy.
- Here are the talks we think you shouldn't miss @journalismfestival.com this year! Featuring our own @mitalilive.bsky.social, Nic Newman, @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @felixsimon.bsky.social as well as many others on topics including climate change, AI, trust and local news.
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterIt lives! You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer. Out in November.
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterStill a little over a week to submit abstracts! #philsky
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterPauline Kleingeld is at the Aristotelian Society next Monday! Come along for the talk 'Kant and the Methods of Moral Philosophy' - free and welcome to all! 🗓️ MONDAY, 10 March 2025 📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... #philsky #philosophy
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterWhat we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterWe all have epiphanies, yet most of us choose to ignore them. | buff.ly/4gXS2Sr Join Sophie-Grace Chappell who argues that we should allow our epiphanies to guide our actions. #philsky #philosophy
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterJoin us on MONDAY for Claire Field's talk "Is Incoherence Always Incoherent?" You can read Claire's paper on our website: 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... ⏰ 17:30-19.15 📍Feb 24th Woburn Suite Free and welcome to all! #philosophy #philsky
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterMy @aeon.co article on Mary Midgley ‘So many unmarried men’ is out now - aeon.co/essays/for-m... #philsk #philosophy
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterI recently became the external examiner for Cardiff Philosophy's BA and MA programmes and they are uniformly excellent. Please sign this petition. SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY - Sign the Petition! chng.it/fSyzBXy4Wn
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterProf. Pauline Kleingeld's (University of Groningen) BSHP 2024 Antognazza lecture, "Republican Themes in Kant's Moral Theory", is now available to watch!👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpLg...
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterJoin us next Monday for Nadine Elzein's (Warwick) Proceedings talk: 'Abilities, Goals, & Justifications'. Draft paper available on our website - free to all! 📍10th February, 5:30pm, Senate Room 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/nadine-elzein/
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterHi bluesky 👋 give us a follow for news and updates from the Aristotelian Society! Our 2024-5 programme is out here: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... #philsky #philosophy
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterMy choice of the best philosophy books of 2024 @five_books fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
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New Yorker profile is out... - Reposted by Fabienne PeterHi everyone, here's @sukaina.bsky.social's new article on moral agency and oppression, which weighs into the classic moral philosophy engagement with Huck Finn. It's so insightful!! Out open access & is definitely gonna be a critical reference point for all kinds of projects.
- Reposted by Fabienne Peter"Disagreement is not sufficient . . . we need to ask, could you have known better?" @fabiennepeter.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/pol-leg
- Reposted by Fabienne PeterNice discussion on the concept of political legitimacy, touching on epistemic merit&accounts of democracy, the problem of basing legitimacy on a "hypothetical consent", deep disagreements etc. @fabiennepeter.bsky.social visiting @polphilpod.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/pol-leg
