New paper forthcoming in the British Journal of Aesthetics on perception of VR:
philpapers.org/rec/FISVRS
TLDR:
Virtual reality offers a different experience to most other images. Yet VR also often contains elements that distinguish it from regular perception, which can help prevent harms!
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News coming out that Alasdair MacIntyre died today…
I wrote this for @irishtimes.com about risk as a principle of parenting and trying to nurture my daughter's enthusiasm for nature in a world that seems increasingly opposed to human flourishing...
Hi Sally. Nice to see you!
JAAC Announces CFP for New Special Issue: "AI and Philosophy of the Arts" - American Society For Aesthetics aesthetics-online.org/news/701088/...
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The British Philosophical Association has just released a raft of resources for Early Career Philosophers, including advice on grants, publishing, applying for jobs, interviews, starting a job, and mental health challenges. Access it all here! bpa.ac.uk/resources-fo...
This project was led by the amazing @danimartin-xr.bsky.social, now a professor in Zaragoza, together with Diego Gutierrez, Belen Masia, and Stephen DiVerdi. 9/
See our paper for more experiments:
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How does perspective work in art and photography? In a new paper, we describes experiments suggesting answers to age-old questions about how people perceive perspective. 1/
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The Aesthetics and Ethics Research Group (AERG) is offering travel stipends for graduate students to their upcoming conference in Uppsala, Sweden. Deadline: 4th May. Further details here: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... #philsky
£30k a year, 2-year postdoc, courtesy of the BSA: british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/po...
The British Society of Aesthetics will be delighted to accept submissions for this postdoc award from applicants based at any UK University. Conditions apply. Please share this call as widely as possible (Deadline 31 May) #PhilJobs
The British Society of Aesthetics will be delighted to accept submissions for this postdoc award from applicants based at any UK University. Conditions apply. Please share this call as widely as possible (Deadline 31 May) #PhilJobs
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Join us today in celebrating 100 YEARS since the founding of the Royal Institute of Philosophy!
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Wonderful celebration at Middle Temple last night for @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Was very pleased to be able to present on some of the outstanding papers we’ve published over our 100 years, such as Elizabeth Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’, and Cora Diamond’s ‘Eating Meat and Eating People’.
As I told @newstatesman.com
“Philosophy should be an essential part of schooling," in part “as a lever to help in moving our schools away from exam-factory methods of grim drilling in facts to be regurgitated”.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
We wrapped up day 2 of the annual conference with a moving panel in memory of Bob Stern, with contributions by BSHP Chair Susan James, @jeremydunham.bsky.social, @joe-saunders.bsky.social & Béatrice Han-Pile
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Beautiful meditation: "To become old is to become 'other' to oneself, 'other' to one’s friends and family, to one’s world. Losses have broken up familiar boundaries, violated definitions, revealed unsuspected landscapes, opened ways of thinking and feeling previously unimagined."
shorturl.at/8pQQf
Sounds like a great event. Next time you are in the area, come back to Hull for a visit!
I am very excited to be keynote speaker for this amazing conference on The Role of Technology in Illustration, the call for papers is still open for those interested in participating in this debate with a diverse range of practitioners
kuarc.ku.edu.tr/research-sym...
Congratulations Nick!
How wonderful! Congratulations Sally
Beyond excited to finally share this project! I am so proud to be co-creator and education consultant on this show.
Narrated by the incredible Stephen Fry, Fantastic Philosophy aims to help children develop critical thinking and oracy.
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