"Switzerland still has a stockpile sufficient to feed its entire population for three months and is increasing it to a year. The UK government’s advice to households is to have three days’ worth of food in their cupboards."
“Can someone with skills clean this up and make a 10-hour YouTube version?”
#sheffield
I’m currently reading this too! Thoroughly enjoying it so far.
redactio ad absurdum
Every year for the past decade, our philosophy editor, Nigel Warburton, has picked his best five philosophy books of the year. Here are all his choices -- from Buddhism to utilitarianism and Hannah Arendt to Zhuangzi:
fivebooks.com/category/phi...
“Existential phenomenology, far from being an esoteric philosophical discipline, has crucial political importance in helping people collectively see themselves as agents of change.”
Excellent short article from Tris Hedges —
Almost as though an edit was hastily made at the last minute to the original title of More Lethality, Less Legality
#philsky
30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
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The difference between them.
How they relate to 'if, then', 'only if', 'if and only if', 'all', and 'only'.
Fallacies of confusing them (and relation to affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent).
On the right side: image of the cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, edited by me. On the left side, the following text: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging 22 November, 10 - 11.30am Exploring existentialist views on bullshit, from Kierkegaard's ‘chatter’ and Heidegger's ‘idle talk’ to Beauvoir's ‘popular wisdom’ and Sartre's development of these ideas to critique societal divisions. Online talk given by Jonathan Webber, editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY Tickets: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
I'm giving an online talk on Saturday morning with the
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
:: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging ::
mainly Beauvoir and Sartre
with some Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Everyone is welcome!
Booking is here: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb
Photo of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, edited by Jonathan Webber
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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Detail from the book's cover art.
🎈Book launch!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
Also: congratulations!
Suspect that’ll be surprising news to both @jonathanbirch.bsky.social and @birchlse.bsky.social
Superb! Congratulations!
Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
Nationalise
Police officer, running up to me: "Stop, what's that brown liquid you're pouring into the drain?"
Me: "It's 1,000 gallons of untreated sewage"
PO: "Phew, I thought for a minute it was a few dregs of coffee"
I think it's excessive to remove all his titles. He should have just been downgraded to The Marquis Of Granby, or maybe The Slug And Lettuce.
“We should support universities. We should cherish the value of what they do and recognise that if we run them down for sport we will not realise what we’ve lost until it’s gone. And, just once in a while, we should give students a break.”
“the accumulated knowledge of generations … is stored in universities as it is stored nowhere else, and it continues to be produced there, patiently and as far as the wide world goes almost anonymously, by generations of scholars in communion with each-other”
Snap!
With the comma in a different place it could be a native of Sheffield explaining to any one person that their affections cannot be won over by gifts.
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
The same is true in chess. Best way to disguise your mistakes there is to play as noisily as you can.
