Dr George Webster

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Stip. Lecturer in Philosophy @KebleOxford • Learning Development @WorcCollegeOx • he/him

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

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[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

@mark1207w @WorcCollegeOx @OxOutreach More places being added soon, I believe.

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

I'm giving an Oxford (philosophy) admissions interview demonstration to sixth-form students as part of a widening-participation event w/@WorcCollegeOx.

Please share w/ schools/students who'd benefit!

@OxOutreach #HigherEducation #wideningparticipation

https://t.co/811T9PkScm

[Henry Somers-Hall @HenrySomersHall]

The RHUL Centre for Continental Philosophy held a workshop last week on #Deleuze and Method - here's the first video from the workshop - @NathanWidder talking on 'Deleuze’s early Empiricism and Critique of Transcendental Philosophy’:

https://t.co/SuDm0N3ohI

[Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilos]

Article by our Head of Philosophy Jonathan Webber on the design of our new degree programs ::
https://t.co/NjirtL8L6q

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

@philosophybites I'll convince you yet!

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

Bergson comes to Oxford!!

Deleuze next, @philosophybites?

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

@EtheHerring @blackwelloxford @philosophybites @philoxophy Excellent!! See you there!! 📚

[Henry Somers-Hall @HenrySomersHall]

I'm running a workshop on Deleuze and Method in central London on November 1st - Speakers will be Jeff Bell, Craig Lundy, Edward Thornton, and @NathanWidder. Free to attend but do RSVP via eventbrite link on the page below:

https://t.co/fIvZOlWXhJ

[Christoph Schuringa @chrisschuringa]

Available to pre-order:
https://t.co/FJYBCrEjZ8

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

[Emily Thomas @emilytwrites]

Welcome into being, Oxford Handbook of American and British #WomenPhilosophers in the Nineteenth Century! Lots of its chapters are already out, including mine - on the idealists Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley...
https://t.co/rhFfoUwLBd

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

@philosophybites Didn't "Jurassic Park" cover this already?

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

John Locke's old tweets, digitised 📜

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

Also today, my @ejp_journal article on Deleuze and the philosophy of science was given an issue/volume number 📝

It's available open access here:

https://t.co/joIaCaC860

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

Today is my first day as Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy @KebleOxford 🎉

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

@Philosophellie @MertonCollege Congrats! 🎉

And same (at Keble)! Throw us an email/msg if you'd like to meet up for solidarity!!

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

When you order two books from the same series, but receive one UK and one US version 🙃

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

@bilgerat__ I'll let you know when I find out.

[Dr George Webster @1georgewebster]

Very excited to have been invited to speak at a 3-day workshop on "New Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics" - at a monastery in Sweden, no less!

I'll be talking about the influence of Hegel's account of mutual recognition (via Merleau-Ponty) on QBism.