Derek Matravers

[Derek Matravers @DerekMatravers]

@WilliamRMiller Would you be able to contact me? It is about a programme your father made with Bernard Williams for the OU. Probably best at [email protected]

[British Journal of Aesthetics @BJAtweets]

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. https://t.co/pI3IMxR0HR

[British Journal of Aesthetics @BJAtweets]

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: https://t.co/RdUmjzrczG

[British Journal of Aesthetics @BJAtweets]

An article in our latest issue takes a wrecking ball to moralism. Come relish the remaining ruins! https://t.co/Ts0jZknPHt

[Open Uni Philosophy @OU_Philosophy]

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: https://t.co/4jXp2GKdNO

[British Journal of Aesthetics @BJAtweets]

.@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: https://t.co/7x4HXRQyxq

[British Journal of Aesthetics @BJAtweets]

What a splendid arrival in the post! Get some issues for yourself: https://t.co/gtzFbfcvEJ

[Music & Philosophy Study Group @RMA_MPSG]

Read our new Retrospective Review of #peterkivy's “The Corded Shell” (1980) a text which our reviewer @DerekMatravers designates "a slightly strange beast" https://t.co/Ni3rLk4ejc

[British Journal of Aesthetics @BJAtweets]

Still stuck indoors? Get out* and explore* nature* with the British Journal of Aesthetics! https://t.co/QsmRuQDGOh

* Figurative. For the sake of all that is holy, definitely stay indoors!

[Open Uni Philosophy @OU_Philosophy]

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:
https://t.co/Z8WDZGX56M

Philosopher @drangiehobbs discussing positive and negative Freedom:
https://t.co/jsB9EPgFhD

[Keith Frankish @keithfrankish]

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

[Heritage in War @Heritageinwar]

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!

https://t.co/eOamagP99S

#heritage #philosophy #interdiciplinary

[Heritage in War @Heritageinwar]

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)

https://t.co/c1odzWFlnb

#ethics #philosophy

[Heritage in War @Heritageinwar]

Again, don't forget to submit you abstracts to our interdisciplinary conference on heritage in war!

#justwartheory #ethics #archeology #heritage #culture

[Mystics&Magicians @mysticscricket]

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.

[Heritage in War @Heritageinwar]

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!

https://t.co/qbc5yEPovD

#Ethics #Culturalheritage #War

[Heritage in War @Heritageinwar]

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!

https://t.co/pZLgZZgFue

[Derek Matravers @DerekMatravers]

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!
https://t.co/Pz10KFwbEB

[Heritage in War @Heritageinwar]

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.

https://t.co/LBW833Ybpe

[Heritage in War @Heritageinwar]

First up: seminar on @DerekMatravers and @HelenFrowe's paper ‘Conflict and Cultural Heritage: A Moral Analysis of the Challenges of Heritage Protection’