Pat McConville
@ptmcconville.bsky.social
Philosopher, bioethicist, unionist, father. Interested in phenomenology of health and illness, embodiment, medicine, and cardiology. Host of the Concept : Art podcast. Living in lutruwita Tasmania.
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I'm excited to share my last paper of 2025, which is out now in Human Studies. This one means a lot to me, as I draw on my own experience of synaesthesia in grappling with Merleau-Ponty's claim that 'synaesthetic perception is the rule'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
‘Phenomenology’ is Blue: The Synaesthetic Dynamics of Being-in-the-World - Human Studies
Human Studies - Synaesthesia, in which particular perceptual or cognitive stimuli trigger anomalous secondary sensations, has proven to be remarkably difficult to explain. The way it complicates...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I'm excited to share my last paper of 2025, which is out now in Human Studies. This one means a lot to me, as I draw on my own experience of synaesthesia in grappling with Merleau-Ponty's claim that 'synaesthetic perception is the rule'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A publication for a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies to close out the year. I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human experience in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and María Zambrano. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KSBQS...
'Condemned to Proceeding': Time, Motivation and the Human Heart in Merleau-Ponty and Zambrano
Work on Merleau-Ponty has tended to overlook the role of the internal body in his phenomenology. In this paper, I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human exp...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
A publication for a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies to close out the year. I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human experience in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and María Zambrano. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KSBQS...
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Leadership would have you so tired, so poor, so disempowered, that you only watch your own back.
This is what happens when we don’t watch each others back.
Join a union that cares about *everyone* and work hard to keep everyone safe. Including people that are at risk from viruses.
This is what happens when we don’t watch each others back.
Join a union that cares about *everyone* and work hard to keep everyone safe. Including people that are at risk from viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Leadership would have you so tired, so poor, so disempowered, that you only watch your own back.
This is what happens when we don’t watch each others back.
Join a union that cares about *everyone* and work hard to keep everyone safe. Including people that are at risk from viruses.
This is what happens when we don’t watch each others back.
Join a union that cares about *everyone* and work hard to keep everyone safe. Including people that are at risk from viruses.
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Congratulations to my @emorylaw.bsky.social colleague Deepa Das Acevedo on her new book The War on Tenure. www.cambridge.org/us/universit... Zoom in for the 9/26 book launch:
September 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Congratulations to my @emorylaw.bsky.social colleague Deepa Das Acevedo on her new book The War on Tenure. www.cambridge.org/us/universit... Zoom in for the 9/26 book launch:
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AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
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what can i say? i’m good at what i do
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
what can i say? i’m good at what i do
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Back after a short hiatus, in our latest episode,
@ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Anya Daly. They discuss meditation and perception, the divide between continental and analytic philosophy, and human and animal lifeworlds. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
@ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Anya Daly. They discuss meditation and perception, the divide between continental and analytic philosophy, and human and animal lifeworlds. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Season 2, Episode 6: Conceptual Digestion with Anya Daly – Concept : Art
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September 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Back after a short hiatus, in our latest episode,
@ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Anya Daly. They discuss meditation and perception, the divide between continental and analytic philosophy, and human and animal lifeworlds. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
@ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Anya Daly. They discuss meditation and perception, the divide between continental and analytic philosophy, and human and animal lifeworlds. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin.
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The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter
MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value
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September 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin.
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
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“Universities educate students, but they are also incubators of new knowledge and discovery. ... For example, by supporting areas of research that might not be economically “efficient” but which will be required for our future.”
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Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“Universities educate students, but they are also incubators of new knowledge and discovery. ... For example, by supporting areas of research that might not be economically “efficient” but which will be required for our future.”
theconversation.com/universities...
theconversation.com/universities...
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Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...
August 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
One of the best experiences I had in graduate school was joining a reading group on @bryanvannorden.bsky.social's Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (and the accompanying books of readings). There is still so much missing from mainstream philosophy.
“It was a very heated response, and one that reflected immense ignorance”
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World Philosophy
Want to expand your knowledge of world philosophy but don't know where to start? Bryan Van Norden chooses foundational texts of traditions around the globe.
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July 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
One of the best experiences I had in graduate school was joining a reading group on @bryanvannorden.bsky.social's Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (and the accompanying books of readings). There is still so much missing from mainstream philosophy.
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“It was a very heated response, and one that reflected immense ignorance”
fivebooks.com/best-books/w...
fivebooks.com/best-books/w...
World Philosophy
Want to expand your knowledge of world philosophy but don't know where to start? Bryan Van Norden chooses foundational texts of traditions around the globe.
fivebooks.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
“It was a very heated response, and one that reflected immense ignorance”
fivebooks.com/best-books/w...
fivebooks.com/best-books/w...
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An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...
Why do they hate us? That’s the question academics in the humanities are asking. - Graeme Turner
This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...
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July 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...
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In our latest episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with
Lexi Eikelboom. They discuss rhythm and time in cubist painting, letting the shapes of art speak for themselves, and art as confrontation and incitement to change. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Lexi Eikelboom. They discuss rhythm and time in cubist painting, letting the shapes of art speak for themselves, and art as confrontation and incitement to change. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Season 2, Episode 5: Rhythm, Exorcism, and Confrontation with Lexi Eikelboom – Concept : Art
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July 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In our latest episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with
Lexi Eikelboom. They discuss rhythm and time in cubist painting, letting the shapes of art speak for themselves, and art as confrontation and incitement to change. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Lexi Eikelboom. They discuss rhythm and time in cubist painting, letting the shapes of art speak for themselves, and art as confrontation and incitement to change. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
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As you can see, I'm not keen on UTas' proposed cuts to the humanities, social sciences and creative arts.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
As you can see, I'm not keen on UTas' proposed cuts to the humanities, social sciences and creative arts.
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www.instagram.com/p/DLRqxFwSQo1/
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Mind-blowingly revelatory point about AI as a socially & eocnomically disruptive technology, from @chrislhayes.bsky.social's recent interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on her new book Empire of AI on OpenAI:
They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!
They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!
June 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Mind-blowingly revelatory point about AI as a socially & eocnomically disruptive technology, from @chrislhayes.bsky.social's recent interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on her new book Empire of AI on OpenAI:
They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!
They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!
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In our new episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with
Timothy Deane-Freeman. They discuss bourgeois culture, shock, chronopolitics, and Afrofuturism as the place of the new. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Timothy Deane-Freeman. They discuss bourgeois culture, shock, chronopolitics, and Afrofuturism as the place of the new. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Season 2, Episode 4: Snotty Punk Bands and Ancient Aliens with Timothy Deane-Freeman – Concept : Art
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June 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
In our new episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with
Timothy Deane-Freeman. They discuss bourgeois culture, shock, chronopolitics, and Afrofuturism as the place of the new. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Timothy Deane-Freeman. They discuss bourgeois culture, shock, chronopolitics, and Afrofuturism as the place of the new. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
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Selfie-editing technologies are leading some young people to want to start altering their physical bodies.
‘Perfect bodies and perfect lives’: how selfie-editing tools are distorting how young people see themselves
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May 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Selfie-editing technologies are leading some young people to want to start altering their physical bodies.
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You will want to crack into this impressive edited collection on social epistemology (with a striking, impressionistic cover) edited by @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social and Jennifer Lackey. Do yourself a favour and also listen to chapter author @ywcath.bsky.social's podcast episode.
May 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
You will want to crack into this impressive edited collection on social epistemology (with a striking, impressionistic cover) edited by @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social and Jennifer Lackey. Do yourself a favour and also listen to chapter author @ywcath.bsky.social's podcast episode.
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In our most recent episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @ellie-ibis.bsky.social. They discuss music and the state of mind for writing technical philosophy, being part of a philosophical ensemble, and the local heritage of logic. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
Season 2, Episode 3: Fast, Loud, and Super Funky with Ellie Ripley – Concept : Art
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May 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In our most recent episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @ellie-ibis.bsky.social. They discuss music and the state of mind for writing technical philosophy, being part of a philosophical ensemble, and the local heritage of logic. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!
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Our PBS is a national treasure.
Our research shows the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Heart disease/cholesterol medicine: $25 v $968
Depression medicine: $32 v $2,244
Female contraception: $28 v $621
Our research shows the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Heart disease/cholesterol medicine: $25 v $968
Depression medicine: $32 v $2,244
Female contraception: $28 v $621
April 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Our PBS is a national treasure.
Our research shows the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Heart disease/cholesterol medicine: $25 v $968
Depression medicine: $32 v $2,244
Female contraception: $28 v $621
Our research shows the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Heart disease/cholesterol medicine: $25 v $968
Depression medicine: $32 v $2,244
Female contraception: $28 v $621