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Category: New Work in Philosophy (Substack Newsletter)

  • Call for submissions: New Work in Philosophy

    This is just a quick note that the multimedia Substack that I co-manage with Barry Maguire and Willa Saadat, New Work in Philosophy, has an ongoing call for submissions. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the site/newsletter, we feature accessible blog posts and multimedia contributions (e.g., podcast episodes, YouTube videos, etc.) by…

  • Catch up with (and submit to!) ‘New Work in Philosophy’

    Readers may recall that Barry Maguire (University of Edinburgh) and I launched a Substack newsletter, New Work in Philosophy, last December. As NWP's About page notes, NWP … feature[s] short, accessible blog posts, videos, and other multimedia (such as pictures, audio recordings, elaborate argument maps, etc.) in which philosophers promote, discuss, and disseminate their new(ish) work…

  • New Work in Philosophy (NWP) Roundup

    This is just a quick roundup of this week's posts over at New Work in Philosophy. This week NWP featured: Matilda Carter (University of Glasgow), "Minority Minds: Mental Disability and the Presumption of Value Neutrality" (Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2022) Hrishikesh Joshi (Bowling Green State University), “The Epistemic Significance of Social Pressure” (Canadian Journal of…

  • New Work in Philosophy YouTube Channel

    Barry Maguire and I extend our sincere thanks to everyone for supporting New Work in Philosophy's recent launch. It’s been amazing to see the creativity in the pieces that our first batch of authors put together, and we are grateful for the positive response that we’ve received from readers. We are going to take a…