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Derek Matravers retweeted
7 Jan 2021
In our most recent issue, Stacie Friend recasts puzzles about the rationality of fiction-directed emotions in terms of the norms governing our assessment of emotional responses. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetic…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
4 Jan 2021
Former BSA Vice President and BJA contributor Kathleen Stock has been awarded an OBE. Read articles in the BJA by her and about her work here: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetic…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
15 May 2020
An article in our latest issue takes a wrecking ball to moralism. Come relish the remaining ruins! academic.oup.com/bjaesthetic…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
13 May 2020
Is it disrespectful or deceptive to reconstruct destroyed monuments? Do reconstructions always reduce the value of heritage sites?
Our @Heritageinwar postdoc, @joshlewisthomas, argues not.
F/coming in Journal of The American Philosophical Association: oro.open.ac.uk/70039/3/70039…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
22 Apr 2020
.@BenceNanay reviews what has been described as 'the largest Jan Van Eyck exhibition ever' at @mskgent. He reminds us of some of the exhibition's most conspicuously absent works and questions the notion of realism at its centre. Read the article now, FREE: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetic…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
2 Apr 2020
What a splendid arrival in the post! Get some issues for yourself: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetic…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
26 Mar 2020
Read our new Retrospective Review of #peterkivy's “The Corded Shell” (1980) a text which our reviewer @DerekMatravers designates "a slightly strange beast" musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/ret…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
26 Mar 2020
Still stuck indoors? Get out* and explore* nature* with the British Journal of Aesthetics! academic.oup.com/bjaesthetic…
* Figurative. For the sake of all that is holy, definitely stay indoors!
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Derek Matravers retweeted
25 Mar 2020
What does it mean to be free? 1/6
How should we balance freedom and security?
Animation on Thomas Hobbes' view that security is better than freedom:
youtu.be/zL2LMTRoWlA
Philosopher @drangiehobbs discussing positive and negative Freedom:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p25s…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
25 Jan 2020
This may be the best simile in all literature:
"At that moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin."
--P. G. Wodehouse, Mr Mulliner Speaking
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Derek Matravers retweeted
15 Jan 2020
Reminder!
Registration is still open for our upcoming conference on Heritage in War, taking place at Loyola University in New Orleans on March 18th-19th, 2020.
Please share this widely!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-…
#heritage #philosophy #interdiciplinary
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Derek Matravers retweeted
18 Jan 2020
The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace just advertised a 2yr Post-Doc on duties to rescue (inc. duties to refugees; duties in the face of climate change; ethics of immigration)
su.se/cmlink/stockholm-unive…
#ethics #philosophy
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Derek Matravers retweeted
14 Aug 2019
Again, don't forget to submit you abstracts to our interdisciplinary conference on heritage in war!
#justwartheory #ethics #archeology #heritage #culture
13 Aug 2019
CFP: 3rd Call for Abstracts: Heritage in War, Loyola University, New Orleans, 18-19 of March 2020. Deadline 1 Sept 2019. ow.ly/VoN850vrIEK @OU_Philosophy @EthicsWarPeace @Heritageinwar #ethics #war #heritage
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Derek Matravers retweeted
30 Jul 2019
Cancelled at @BoconnocCC today. Not really a surprise. I did think about suggesting a game of water polo on the square. See you next year, Boconnoc.
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Derek Matravers retweeted
4 Jun 2019
2nd Call for Abstracts: Cultural Heritage and the Ethics of War, Loyola University, March 2020
We very much appreciate if you all could share this as widely as possible!
heritageinwar.com/conference…
#Ethics #Culturalheritage #War
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Derek Matravers retweeted
24 Apr 2019
CALL FOR REGISTRATION
There is still time to register for our upcoming conference Cultural Heritage and the Ethics of War in Cambridge the 18th-19th September. A discounted Early Bird Registration is available until 15th May!
heritageinwar.com/cambridgec…
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24 Apr 2019
Cultural Heritage and the Ethics of War Conference
Venue: Homerton College Cambridge
Dates: 18th to 19th September, 2019
Keynote speakers: Simon Blackburn, Ruth Chang, Victor Tadros
Book now for a cheaper rate!
heritageinwar.com/cambridgec…
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Derek Matravers retweeted
13 Feb 2019
We now have a blog! Read our first two posts by @ehatmat, on the common claim that human life and cultural heritage are inseparable, and @ELCunliffe and colleges at The Blue Shield on the challenges of protecting cultural heritage during armed conflict.
heritageinwar.com/blog
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Derek Matravers retweeted
11 Jan 2019
First up: seminar on @DerekMatravers and @HelenFrowe's paper ‘Conflict and Cultural Heritage: A Moral Analysis of the Challenges of Heritage Protection’
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Derek Matravers retweeted
4 Jan 2019
Don't forget to submit an abstract to our upcoming conference on Cultural Heritage and the Ethics of War in Cambridge the 18th – 19th September! Deadline for submission is the 14th of January.
heritageinwar.com/conference…
#CulturalHeritage #Justwartheory #politicaltheory #ethics
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