Aloysius Ventham
@paranoidaquinoid.bsky.social
Dr of Philosophy (metaethics and political philosophy). More interested in Dostoevsky than is healthy. Impossibly caffeinated. Working as a philosopher in Salzburg. Part of the Salzburg Ethics Group.
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“At the heart of Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy, [Bather Woods] argues, is a belief in universal solidarity. We are all fellow-sufferers in this absurd unchosen world of pain, and so should feel compassion for one another.” @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Everyday philosophy: Schopenhauer’s one redeeming feature
He was a master of misery who sometimes argued it was better never to have been born. But his love of the flute suggests the philosopher wasn’t all gloom
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December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“At the heart of Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy, [Bather Woods] argues, is a belief in universal solidarity. We are all fellow-sufferers in this absurd unchosen world of pain, and so should feel compassion for one another.” @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Submitted a REVISED application to the FWF... now to start working on applying to the DFG. I love that philosophers have to fund their own jobs these days. #philosophy #philsky
December 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Submitted a REVISED application to the FWF... now to start working on applying to the DFG. I love that philosophers have to fund their own jobs these days. #philosophy #philsky
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New study finds not only that people have lower perceptions of plant-based meats for no real reason, but that these negative beliefs are stronger in sexist people.
December 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New study finds not only that people have lower perceptions of plant-based meats for no real reason, but that these negative beliefs are stronger in sexist people.
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Labour has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Labour has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
Finally finished writing a draft of my paper on transaction norms in friendship. Tl;dr - don't say 'I'll get the next one' if I buy you a coffee. Heck, don't say it to anyone. #philosophy #philsky
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Finally finished writing a draft of my paper on transaction norms in friendship. Tl;dr - don't say 'I'll get the next one' if I buy you a coffee. Heck, don't say it to anyone. #philosophy #philsky
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Als @katemanne.bsky.social ihr Buch »Down Girl« öffentlich vorstellen soll, kann sie nur an eines denken: ihren Körper – und sagt ab. In ihrem neuen Buch zeigt sie nun, wie Fettfeindlichkeit unseren Blick verzerrt und wie sie Menschen Fähigkeiten abspricht: shrk.vg/GroesseZeige...
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Als @katemanne.bsky.social ihr Buch »Down Girl« öffentlich vorstellen soll, kann sie nur an eines denken: ihren Körper – und sagt ab. In ihrem neuen Buch zeigt sie nun, wie Fettfeindlichkeit unseren Blick verzerrt und wie sie Menschen Fähigkeiten abspricht: shrk.vg/GroesseZeige...
Mitch Green at Philosophia is a God among men for getting this published so quickly after acceptance. Anyway, have a read if normative blackballing is your sort of thing! #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Would You Still Love Me if I Were a Worm? Robust Relationships and Why Beliefs cannot be the Grounds for Normative Blackballing - Philosophia
Normative blackballing in the context of a friendship refers to a practise where one party actively tells the other that they no longer wish to be friends in virtue of that friend holding abhorrent be...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Mitch Green at Philosophia is a God among men for getting this published so quickly after acceptance. Anyway, have a read if normative blackballing is your sort of thing! #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Philosophers! I'm drafting a paper on why scorekeeping-like norms are an affront to friendship (saying things like 'you bought the coffee last time, let me get this'). Does anyone know if there are any good papers on gift-giving, or transaction-norms, in this sort of context? #philosophy #philsky
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Philosophers! I'm drafting a paper on why scorekeeping-like norms are an affront to friendship (saying things like 'you bought the coffee last time, let me get this'). Does anyone know if there are any good papers on gift-giving, or transaction-norms, in this sort of context? #philosophy #philsky
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Please share widely!
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Please share widely!
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You can apply for the workshop here! www.uni-passau.de/en/backslidi...
Backsliding, Resilience, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation - University of Passau
The second International Congress on Political Theory will take place at the University of Passau from 5th to 7th October 2026. In multiple panels and two keynote speeches we will approach the topic of Backsliding, Resilience, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
You can apply for the workshop here! www.uni-passau.de/en/backslidi...
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CFP: Political scientists and political philosophers! Are you working on populist conceptions of democracy and/or populist threats to equality? Apply to be part of this panel I am co-organizing in Passau! www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/do... #philsky #poltheory
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December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
CFP: Political scientists and political philosophers! Are you working on populist conceptions of democracy and/or populist threats to equality? Apply to be part of this panel I am co-organizing in Passau! www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/do... #philsky #poltheory
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We live in a funny world - this little book is now apparently "out", though I haven't seen physical copies or so. Instead, I was alerted by a Mastodon bot written by a colleague that notices new publications by our faculty members.
Well, there it is :)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Well, there it is :)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Politics and the Economy
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Politics and the Economy
www.cambridge.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
We live in a funny world - this little book is now apparently "out", though I haven't seen physical copies or so. Instead, I was alerted by a Mastodon bot written by a colleague that notices new publications by our faculty members.
Well, there it is :)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Well, there it is :)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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📣 Call for participation! 4&5 Dec
Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
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@unisalzburg.bsky.social
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@fwf-at.bsky.social
Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Salzburg-Vienna Workshop: Analogies, external validity and the future of experimental modelling across sciences
Visit the post for more.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📣 Call for participation! 4&5 Dec
Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Just had my normative blackballing and robust relationships paper accepted. Win! #philsky #philosophy
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just had my normative blackballing and robust relationships paper accepted. Win! #philsky #philosophy
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TODAY!
Paulina Sliwa (Vienna) @pasliwa.bsky.social has been awarded the honor of giving the annual Hartnack Lecture 2025 in Aarhus. She presents 'Changing Perspectives and the Virtue of Perspectival Flexibility' at 13:15!
Read more here >>https://buff.ly/ImrW2oj
#philsky #philevent @univie.ac.at
Paulina Sliwa (Vienna) @pasliwa.bsky.social has been awarded the honor of giving the annual Hartnack Lecture 2025 in Aarhus. She presents 'Changing Perspectives and the Virtue of Perspectival Flexibility' at 13:15!
Read more here >>https://buff.ly/ImrW2oj
#philsky #philevent @univie.ac.at
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
TODAY!
Paulina Sliwa (Vienna) @pasliwa.bsky.social has been awarded the honor of giving the annual Hartnack Lecture 2025 in Aarhus. She presents 'Changing Perspectives and the Virtue of Perspectival Flexibility' at 13:15!
Read more here >>https://buff.ly/ImrW2oj
#philsky #philevent @univie.ac.at
Paulina Sliwa (Vienna) @pasliwa.bsky.social has been awarded the honor of giving the annual Hartnack Lecture 2025 in Aarhus. She presents 'Changing Perspectives and the Virtue of Perspectival Flexibility' at 13:15!
Read more here >>https://buff.ly/ImrW2oj
#philsky #philevent @univie.ac.at
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Katharina Anna Sodoma, “What is the Object of an Empathetic Emotion?”
#philsky
Katharina Anna Sodoma, “What is the Object of an Empathetic Emotion?”
#philsky
What is the object of an empathetic emotion? - Philosophical Studies
Philosophical Studies - Although empathy is a common and integral part of social life, it has proven exceedingly difficult to analyze. One question that remains unanswered concerns the object of an...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Katharina Anna Sodoma, “What is the Object of an Empathetic Emotion?”
#philsky
Katharina Anna Sodoma, “What is the Object of an Empathetic Emotion?”
#philsky
Taught the Salzburg and Vienna students Isserow's paper on being friends with bad people this week and I don't think I've ever seen them so animated and engaged. Fantastic way to introduce the philosophy of friendship, and partial relations generally. #philsky #philosophy
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Taught the Salzburg and Vienna students Isserow's paper on being friends with bad people this week and I don't think I've ever seen them so animated and engaged. Fantastic way to introduce the philosophy of friendship, and partial relations generally. #philsky #philosophy
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November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Philosophers who work on friendship, or something closely adjacent! I'm organising a workshop for March, see details (including on how to submit an abstract) here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy
Workshop on Friendship, and Friendship with the Morally Bad
We invite submissions for a two-day workshop on friendship to be held online, hosted by The University of Salzburg, Austria on the 5th and 6th of March, 2026.
In recent years, philosophers have incre...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Philosophers who work on friendship, or something closely adjacent! I'm organising a workshop for March, see details (including on how to submit an abstract) here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy
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HEUTE! 💭 Knowledge in Crisis mit Pint of Science Salzburg live im Antiquariat Weinek 🕕18:00. Eintritt frei (mit Reservierung)! Kommt vorbei für Denken, Trinken & gute Gespräche. 🍻🧠
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
Knowledge in Crisis X Pint of Science
Join us on November 7th for a special off-season event co-organised with Knowledge in Crisis!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
HEUTE! 💭 Knowledge in Crisis mit Pint of Science Salzburg live im Antiquariat Weinek 🕕18:00. Eintritt frei (mit Reservierung)! Kommt vorbei für Denken, Trinken & gute Gespräche. 🍻🧠
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
Just listened to the Foo Fighters song 'Everlong' for the first time in years and, man, that percussion track is wild. Dude's cardiovascular system is incredible.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Just listened to the Foo Fighters song 'Everlong' for the first time in years and, man, that percussion track is wild. Dude's cardiovascular system is incredible.
I got an R&R for a paper a while ago and submitted my revisions over a month ago. The manuscript tracker still lists the revised paper as 'awaiting editor processing' - do I just leave it, or should I think about sending an email? #philsky #philosophy
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I got an R&R for a paper a while ago and submitted my revisions over a month ago. The manuscript tracker still lists the revised paper as 'awaiting editor processing' - do I just leave it, or should I think about sending an email? #philsky #philosophy
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Next year there will be a conference on the phil/o breakups! When I started my PhD there was *nothing* written on break-ups, but since then there has been amazing work on the end of relationships by ppl like Monika Betzler, Chris Crowley, Joe Saunders, or Richard Healy. Already can’t wait for this!
Philosophy of Breakups
This is a call for abstracts to present at The Philosophy of Breakups, organized by the Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project at the University of Southern California. Please submit a PDF f...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Next year there will be a conference on the phil/o breakups! When I started my PhD there was *nothing* written on break-ups, but since then there has been amazing work on the end of relationships by ppl like Monika Betzler, Chris Crowley, Joe Saunders, or Richard Healy. Already can’t wait for this!
So far this week I've worked 20hrs...it's Tuesday. Luckily for me, I'm having a blast.
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So far this week I've worked 20hrs...it's Tuesday. Luckily for me, I'm having a blast.
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Julie Rose and Tom Parr are two fantastic commentators to have!!! Looking forward to the discussion (online, see registration link on the website)! visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speak...
Speaker Series with Dr. Lisa Herzog
Online workshop on Lisa Herzog's 'The Democratic Marketplace. How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals' (Harvard University Press, 2025). With a presentation by Lisa Herzog (Groningen), ...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Julie Rose and Tom Parr are two fantastic commentators to have!!! Looking forward to the discussion (online, see registration link on the website)! visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speak...