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An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/28/iris-murdoch-unselfing/
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In my latest paper, I develop a comparative study of Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy through the lens of phenomenology, Platonic ethics, and critiques of modern selfhood. The essay argues that morality begins in perception, where clear vision becomes the foundation of justice and love.
Published on Research Gate:
https://lnkd.in/df3gSXvaThe third in the series of papers comparing seemingly opposite philosopical streams.
#philosophy #irismurdoch #edmundhusserl #simoneweil #reductionism
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‘I am a severed head such as primitive tribes and old alchemists used to use...'
I reviewed 'A Severed Head' by #IrisMurdoch for the #1961Club and #IrisMurdoch26
#Bookstodon
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How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/12/iris-murdoch-imagination/
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1 Current read: Discognition by #SteveShaviro (so far, it’s excellent) 2 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by #RichardRhodes 3 TBD; probably Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by #JeffreyJKripal 4 Bruno’s Dream by #IrisMurdoch #books #BookSky
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Just put my abstract in for the 2026 international Iris Murdoch conference …
The railways of Iris Murdoch 🤩 #IrisMurdoch
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“The #novelist #IrisMurdoch, whose lengthy, involved, brilliant #novels are probably the kind of thing most people don’t read any more, understood #attention better than most.” Well, I know some people who still read her. Otherwise this piece on our #attentiondeficit by #MarkKingwell is very good.
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Moral Mysteries | The Point Magazine
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/moral-mysteries/
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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Here it is - a couple of days late and a little wonkier than I'd planned. My list of the most notable #books I read in 2025. #BookSky #reading #fiction #nonfiction #novels #sciencefiction #PhilipKDick #IrisMurdoch #CharlesTaylor #ManueldeLanda #Canadianbooks doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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Enjoyed listening to #StartTheWeek today, especially as it had a section on the recently published book of #IrisMurdoch poems🤩
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The Conversation: How I found an unexpected connection to science in the works of Iris Murdoch – by a molecular biophysicist. “So far, I’ve used ten out of Murdoch’s 26 novels to illustrate topics as broad as alcoholism and its effect on the liver, sex hormone signalling, evolution, molecular crowding and electron microscopy.”
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I’m reading (just starting) The Sea, The Sea by #IrisMurdoch. #books #BookSky
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Ida Kar, Iris Murdoch, July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999
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Ah, Aeon Essays strikes again with a piece that’s 3,100 words long but can be summarized as "Love, not rules, because... reasons." 💤 Apparently, Iris Murdoch’s #philosophy is all about ignoring our massive egos, but who has time for that when there are so many rules to break? 🍿
https://aeon.co/essays/for-iris-murdoch-morality-is-about-love-not-duties-and-rules #AeonEssays #LoveNotRules #IrisMurdoch #BreakTheRules #ThoughtProvoking #HackerNews #ngated -
This very good piece on the #moral #philosophy of #IrisMurdoch (linked to below) makes me feel guilty about booting one of her #books off my most notable books I read in 2024 list in my recent mea culpa re that list - linked to here: doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/08/mid-...
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“Murdoch suggests that the #ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the way and obstructs or distorts such vision.” #IrisMurdoch #love #attention #morality #philosophy aeon.co/essays/for-i...
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“The #philosopher and #novelist #IrisMurdoch, however, insists that #love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to #morality.” aeon.co/essays/for-i...
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I think, therefore I am.
VS: We dream, therefore the world unravels.-> Exploring how imagination reconstructs existence through decentralized systems and radical self-authorship.
Pairs well with Imagination: A manifesto by @ruha9
#ExistentialAnarchy #Philosophy #Existentialism #Anarchism #Descartes #Stoicism #IrisMurdoch #EmergentSystems #Poetry #imagination #dream
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Had a cracking couple of days in London:
1) visiting for the final time #ViolasRoom the current #punchdrunk show in Woolwich
2) meeting my best pal for tea
3) spending the day with the best of Parliament (Librarians of course)
4) watching a screening of the #Iris film with an intro and discussion afterwards at the BFI about #IrisMurdoch
5) meeting up with @rachelcoldicutt for a long overdue catchup
Incredible!
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Had a cracking couple of days in London:
1) visiting for the final time #ViolasRoom the current #punchdrunk show in Woolwich
2) meeting my best pal for tea
3) spending the day with the best of Parliament (Librarians of course)
4) watching a screening of the #Iris film with an intro and discussion afterwards at the BFI about #IrisMurdoch
5) meeting up with @rachelcoldicutt for a long overdue catchup
Incredible!
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Had a cracking couple of days in London:
1) visiting for the final time #ViolasRoom the current #punchdrunk show in Woolwich
2) meeting my best pal for tea
3) spending the day with the best of Parliament (Librarians of course)
4) watching a screening of the #Iris film with an intro and discussion afterwards at the BFI about #IrisMurdoch
5) meeting up with @rachelcoldicutt for a long overdue catchup
Incredible!
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Had a cracking couple of days in London:
1) visiting for the final time #ViolasRoom the current #punchdrunk show in Woolwich
2) meeting my best pal for tea
3) spending the day with the best of Parliament (Librarians of course)
4) watching a screening of the #Iris film with an intro and discussion afterwards at the BFI about #IrisMurdoch
5) meeting up with @rachelcoldicutt for a long overdue catchup
Incredible!
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Wedi creu “Her Darllen" arall ar @StoryGraph ar gyfer nofelau #IrisMurdoch, wrth i fi ddechrau ar ei nofel gyntaf, Under The Net (1954)
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/0a638ba5-63ad-4700-889a-ec1323e85ad6
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I found a second hand copy of Iris Murdoch's The Nice and The Good. Here is my #Review
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7a4a843a-458b-4550-83c0-2ac6ebe4a3fb -
Eine neue interessante Rezension auf #54books eines Buches über Leben und Wirken von vier britischen Philosophinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts.
https://54books.de/die-wiederbelebung-der-philosophie-vier-frauen-die-das-denken-modernisiert-haben/
#philosophie #literatur #chbeck #bookstodon #moralphilosophie #irismurdoch
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A great write up of the 2024 #IrisMurdoch conference by Liz Dexter - featuring my postcards! https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/the-iris-murdoch-society-conference-2024
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Thinking of writing up my talk on Colours in #IrisMurdoch but wondering where to put it, then I remembered I’ve a Pika account (https://pika.page) and I’ve not checked in on dev progress since Christmas! Will add to my to-do list 😀
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I’m at the #IrisMurdoch conference, running around looking for an HDMI lead so I can do my talk on #IrisMurdoch and colours! #Chichester
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Got a busy day, first, a blue plaque unveiling for #IrisMurdoch followed by a work trip to Parliament, followed by a trip to see #punchdrunk ‘s latest - The Viola Room
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Got a busy day, first, a blue plaque unveiling for #IrisMurdoch followed by a work trip to Parliament, followed by a trip to see #punchdrunk ‘s latest - The Viola Room
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Got a busy day, first, a blue plaque unveiling for #IrisMurdoch followed by a work trip to Parliament, followed by a trip to see #punchdrunk ‘s latest - The Viola Room
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Got a busy day, first, a blue plaque unveiling for #IrisMurdoch followed by a work trip to Parliament, followed by a trip to see #punchdrunk ‘s latest - The Viola Room
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Got a busy day, first, a blue plaque unveiling for #IrisMurdoch followed by a work trip to Parliament, followed by a trip to see #punchdrunk ‘s latest - The Viola Room
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New post on the wonderful podcast by the Iris Murdoch Society on the day after (sorry) the 25th anniversary of Iris Murdoch's death #otd 1999
Remembering Iris: The Iris Murdoch Podcast
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#MarcChagall
Les Arums
1949"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion.
The great task in life is to find reality."
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"I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
#IrisMurdoch in the novel "The Red and the Green" set in the Ireland of 1916, and of which Damien Kiberd says, “beneath the surface traditionalism…the modern world struggles to be born.”
A post on the philosophy of the novel: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/02/08/murdoch-being-irish/
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RT Miles Leeson on Twitter
New #IrisMurdoch Podcast! I'm joined by Megan Laverty from Columbia Teachers College and Evgenia Mylonaki from UPATRAS to discuss #MetaphysicsAsAGuidetoMorals.
https://soundcloud.com/user-548804258/metaphysics-as-a-guide-to-morals-podcast-2
There's even a handout here! https://irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2023/02/09/35th-anniversary/
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RT Miles Leeson
Looking forward to being
@CarlowCollege in a month's time to discuss '#IrisMurdoch , Ireland, and the Supernatural.' The lecture is free and open to all on the evening of the 8th March.https://mobile.twitter.com/miles_leeson/status/1623358519641604096
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Iris Murdoch: the virtue of paying attention
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/07/15/murdoch-attention/
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"For Murdoch, the most crucial moral virtue was a kind of attentiveness to detail, a wise, trained capacity for vision, which could see what was really going on in a situation and respond accordingly. The sort of psychological insight and attentiveness to detail necessary for writing fiction was also, for Murdoch, what enables a person to live a morally good life."
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/02/murdoch-narrative/
From a (sadly deleted) article on secular ethics in #Aeon.
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CW: war, philosophy
During intense #bombing raids, I hide in the corridor of my apartment. Two of my friends (both #philosophers) hide in the bathroom. I always think about #IrisMurdoch and #PhilippaFoot that found shelter in the bathtub under the stairs. History doesn’t repeat, but it surely rhymes. I am lucky to be able to be writing this post and some random essay. But I still find my thoughts coming back to Iris and Philippa. What did they talk about in London during WWII?..
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#LaurenceSterne (along with the likes of #IrisMurdoch) disprove the notion there's no such thing as a philosophical novel in English. "Tristram Shandy" plays with the philosophical ideas of Locke.
And more, as the exploration/adaptation of "Tristram Shandy", "A cock and bull story" suggests (1:24) https://youtu.be/wXzuUJZuqUI
Two podcasts on the topic, one from #ABC Radio: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/the-philosophy-in-tristram-shandy/3329516
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@JonathanReeve Hi Jonathan! I did a talk at the #IrisMurdoch conference this year about my project from your course - brought back some happy memories of #TheMoonstone and the rest 😁