George Webster
@georgewebster.bsky.social
Lecturer in Philosophy at Worcester College, University of Oxford.
Thinking about science, the world, and the history of our ideas about those things.
Also in charge of Learning Development.
www.georgewebsterphilosophy.com
Thinking about science, the world, and the history of our ideas about those things.
Also in charge of Learning Development.
www.georgewebsterphilosophy.com
Pinned
Had a great time today filming a philosophy tutorial for a video project all about Oxford's tutorial system! 🎥 ✨
Huge well done to my brave 1st-yr undergrads who took part - you did brilliantly! 👏 📚
Excited for this sneak peak into how teaching works @ox.ac.uk 👀
Huge well done to my brave 1st-yr undergrads who took part - you did brilliantly! 👏 📚
Excited for this sneak peak into how teaching works @ox.ac.uk 👀
It’s that time of year again - Oxford admissions interviewing!
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It’s that time of year again - Oxford admissions interviewing!
@sephilo.bsky.social is launching a mentorship scheme for postgrads and beyond working in European/Continental philosophy.
Join for expertise from those further down the academic pipeline! / Join to support those earlier in their careers!
#philsky
Join for expertise from those further down the academic pipeline! / Join to support those earlier in their careers!
#philsky
Mentoring
SEP is launching a mentorship scheme, open to members at postgraduate level and above. Why a mentorship scheme? Academia can be challenging for everyone. Those working in the traditions of European…
societyforeuropeanphilosophy.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@sephilo.bsky.social is launching a mentorship scheme for postgrads and beyond working in European/Continental philosophy.
Join for expertise from those further down the academic pipeline! / Join to support those earlier in their careers!
#philsky
Join for expertise from those further down the academic pipeline! / Join to support those earlier in their careers!
#philsky
ADVICE SOUGHT
Some of my undergrads are uneasy with the detached, clinical style of much contemporary practical-ethics work.
How do you help students engage with it - or provide alternatives that still feel rigorous?
Any strategies or readings you’ve found especially helpful?
#philsky #ethics
Some of my undergrads are uneasy with the detached, clinical style of much contemporary practical-ethics work.
How do you help students engage with it - or provide alternatives that still feel rigorous?
Any strategies or readings you’ve found especially helpful?
#philsky #ethics
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Navigating the Quantum Wonderland - Paul Davies
A public talk @oxfordphysics.bsky.social on a century of quantum confusion, for anyone in/around Oxford today!
#philsky #philsci 🧪
A public talk @oxfordphysics.bsky.social on a century of quantum confusion, for anyone in/around Oxford today!
#philsky #philsci 🧪
Navigating the Quantum Wonderland
A talk for schools and the general public as part of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
www.physics.ox.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Navigating the Quantum Wonderland - Paul Davies
A public talk @oxfordphysics.bsky.social on a century of quantum confusion, for anyone in/around Oxford today!
#philsky #philsci 🧪
A public talk @oxfordphysics.bsky.social on a century of quantum confusion, for anyone in/around Oxford today!
#philsky #philsci 🧪
Accepted an invite to give a talk at a student philosophy society next week. Now realising that that talk must be written…
#philsky #academicsky
#philsky #academicsky
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Accepted an invite to give a talk at a student philosophy society next week. Now realising that that talk must be written…
#philsky #academicsky
#philsky #academicsky
Reposted by George Webster
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
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
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
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
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My wonderful Worc-place.*
*”Worcester College” is often abbreviated to “Worc”.
@ox.ac.uk #academicsky #philsky
*”Worcester College” is often abbreviated to “Worc”.
@ox.ac.uk #academicsky #philsky
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My wonderful Worc-place.*
*”Worcester College” is often abbreviated to “Worc”.
@ox.ac.uk #academicsky #philsky
*”Worcester College” is often abbreviated to “Worc”.
@ox.ac.uk #academicsky #philsky
The big question:
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
More signed copies of #BeingYou (& therefore fewer unsigned copies) - this time in the WHS Bookshop at Leeds station 👇🏽
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The big question:
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
What would you prefer - Seth’s book orientation, or Rovelli’s additional mini-signage?
It’s that time of year again - UCAS forms have landed on my desk!
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s that time of year again - UCAS forms have landed on my desk!
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finally got round to reading this piece by @timcrane.bsky.social 📖
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Finally got round to reading this piece by @timcrane.bsky.social 📖
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
Always happy to see analytic philosophers pressed to acknowledge and communicate the various conditions (historical, social, institutional, etc.) for their mode of inquiry!
A Philosopher and a Child 5: Is the universe infinite ?
YouTube video by Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Brentano is the grand-father, Heidegger is the weird son that cut ties with the family, Merleau-Ponty is a cousin living in the wood, Sartre is a distant relative writing stories...
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Looking forward to speaking at this conference today - on neo-Kantianism and quantum information theory.
(I just about managed to cut my talk down to 14 minutes!)
#philsky #philsci 🧪
(I just about managed to cut my talk down to 14 minutes!)
#philsky #philsci 🧪
Tomorrow 6 November is the first of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.
Check out the program in the thread! 🥳
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Just discovered Wispr Flow, and I think it might be a game changer for commenting on student tutorial essays!
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
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wisprflow.ai
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Just discovered Wispr Flow, and I think it might be a game changer for commenting on student tutorial essays!
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
#academicsky #philsky #highered #teaching
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by George Webster
The PSA Around the World 2025 series begins this Thursday, 6 Nov! 🔥🌈🎉
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association
www.philsci.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The PSA Around the World 2025 series begins this Thursday, 6 Nov! 🔥🌈🎉
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
Going to watch “Back to the Future” on the big screen tonight, and it’s got me thinking: how should one read “back” and “future” here?
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Going to watch “Back to the Future” on the big screen tonight, and it’s got me thinking: how should one read “back” and “future” here?
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
#academicsky #philsky #philsci 🧪
Where the members of Pembroke College settle their disputes:
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Where the members of Pembroke College settle their disputes:
Checked out some Weyl today. (Didn’t read it; checked it out of the library.)
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Checked out some Weyl today. (Didn’t read it; checked it out of the library.)
I’ll soon be giving a demonstration Oxford admissions interview, with a brave undergraduate, for 73 school pupils as part of an online session for Worcester College’s outreach program.
Looking forward to it!!
Looking forward to it!!
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I’ll soon be giving a demonstration Oxford admissions interview, with a brave undergraduate, for 73 school pupils as part of an online session for Worcester College’s outreach program.
Looking forward to it!!
Looking forward to it!!
Reposted by George Webster
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.