Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott
Philosopher at the University of York
- Grateful to Musk for providing content for a little puzzle for students to mull over in the interval of today's lecture on The Racial Contract What links Pontins, Musk, and Charles Mills?
- Answer: Lord of the Rings
- Mills's posthumously published article providing an analysis of the Racial hierarchy in LoTR:
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View full threadAnd Musk, well, his nonsense on Joe Rogan about communities in the UK "living like hobbits" until overrun by migrants
- What those parenting books don't tell you is that making your kids' room nice and dark, perfect ambient temperature etc, won't make them sleepy, but it will work on you Thus increasing their bargaining power
- Reposted by Hannah Carnegy-ArbuthnottIs 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....
- Can cultural appropriation claims be grounded in group ownership of cultural styles? I argue they can, in this paper just out in Political Philosophy #Philsky doi.org/10.16995/pp....
- Reposted by Hannah Carnegy-ArbuthnottPLEASE SHARE York Law School is advertising a funded (home fee rate + stipend) PGR studentship. Open to all areas of law. I am happy to answer questions. The advert is here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS275/y... @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social
- Level unlocked: kitchen rave to Call Your Girlfriend with my kid. @carlgibson.bsky.social I reckon she's ready for a masterclass #Robyn
- Taking Kirsten Simms energy into this week, working on paper revisions to clutch victory from the jaws of Reviewer 2
- Post a warning
- Funded Philosophy PhD: deadline in just over a week! Come and work with me and my colleague Stephen Holland on 'consent under non-ideal circumstances'. #philsky
- We have a have a funded PhD position available! Deadline for applications is 12 noon 5th March 2025. The selected applicant will be working with the timely, exciting, and interdisciplinary project, entitled "Consent Under Non-Ideal Circumstances". Please share widedly! t.ly/6sqeL
- Reposted by Hannah Carnegy-ArbuthnottAnnual Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture, Hull and online, 18 February The Institute of Applied Ethics and the Royal Institute of Philosophy present the Annual Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture at the University of Hull: Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosopher and Feminist for our time Professor Kathleen Lennon…
- "I wonder how Beyoncé trains for her live shows?" I thought as I cycled the kids to nursery this morning, wheezing 'incy wincy spider' on repeat
- Funded Philosophy PhD opportunity! Come and work with me and my colleague Stephen Holland on Consent in Non-Ideal Circumstances. This is a collaborative doctoral award co-supervised with our project partner, AIMS. Click the link for full info:
- Things not to say in front of a 3 year old at bedtime tidy-up: "oh, there's your harmonica!"
- This festive period has reminded me that my family's love language is aggressively telling each other to rest, and aggressively refusing instructions to rest
- Cousin's gift to the kids ensuring preservation of Scots heritage as well as the family sense of humour
- Just got asked how much of my Christmas shopping I've done so far, and the answer is zilch. So, #philsky, let's help each other out: top recommendations for philosophy books that would make great gifts for non-philosophers? (self-promo included!)
- Some ideas on my list: Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage and Nancy Bauer's How to Do Things with Pornography. Also: Plato's Republic.
- An MA student told me today I was the best political philosophy professor they'd ever had. Pretty sure I am the only political philosophy prof they've ever had, but a win's a win, right?
- Reposted by Hannah Carnegy-ArbuthnottThanks to social media like 🟦☁️, the past is never more than a few clicks away. Does this infringe on a right to have such socially-available information about us fade over time? @hcarnegy.bsky.social is at The Memory Palace today, discussing 'right to be forgotten' legislation. Take a look!
- In the latest instalment of 'how low society sets the bar for fathers', my husband just got praised for being hands on. What was he doing at the time? Holding the baby. Literally just having hands on his child.
- My nearly 3 year old just told me she saw "a muscle cow with goolies" and now I will never use the word bull again
- Does your girl baby hate having a bow tied to her head? Here's a solution: glue it on instead! (I wish this was satire)
- All the guidelines on the various ailments one is prone to after childbirth prescribe rest. I hope someone, somewhere, is getting a kick out of this top level trolling
- World Rugby citing an 18-year old marketing study and differences in "intellectual function", "innate interest" and "hard-wired" "mental preferences" between men and women in coaching guidance 😵💫
- Meanwhile, Sir Wayne Smith thinks it noteworthy that he enjoyed listening to a woman talk more than himself...
- The holy grail
- 'What's the point of starting mat leave before the due date?' I blithely thought as I filled in the HR forms, 'seems a terribly inefficient use of time'. Well, my body is giving me a resounding answer to that question now: Rest. Rest would have been the point, you doofus.
- Exciting opportunity for a WRoCAH funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at York on Margaret Cavendish's theory of mind with my excellent colleague Keith Allen and Dr Megan Leyland from English Heritage. Link for more info below
