Alex Madva
@madva.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy @ Cal Poly Pomona | Director of CA Center for Ethics & Policy | Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium | Co-Author of Somebody Should Do Something
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Alex Madva
@madva.bsky.social
· Aug 11
So grateful to Frank Augugliaro for designing the cover of our new book!
Available everywhere on Sep 16 but never too early to preorder: somebody-book.com
@dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
#SocialChange
Available everywhere on Sep 16 but never too early to preorder: somebody-book.com
@dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
#SocialChange
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Link: CA Center for Ethics and Policy's (CCEP) Election Fair www.eventbrite.com/e/ca-center-...
CA Center for Ethics and Policy's (CCEP) Election Fair
The California Center of Ethics and Policy’s (CCEP) Biennial Election Fair is back on Friday, October 9, 2026, at the Bronco Student Union
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September 21, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Link: CA Center for Ethics and Policy's (CCEP) Election Fair www.eventbrite.com/e/ca-center-...
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Come learn, ask questions and be part of the conversation with Professor Gyasmine George-Williams & Professor Alex Madva on sports, politics & civic power, and Niki Hemmer on historical perspectives on the 2026 elections.
September 21, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Come learn, ask questions and be part of the conversation with Professor Gyasmine George-Williams & Professor Alex Madva on sports, politics & civic power, and Niki Hemmer on historical perspectives on the 2026 elections.
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Explore different perspectives on the 2026 elections, hear from experts, and connect with candidates, interest groups and members of the community.
Plus, meet candidates, interest groups and others at the Table Fair! 🤝
📅 Friday, October 9, 2026
📍 Bronco Student Center
⏰ 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Plus, meet candidates, interest groups and others at the Table Fair! 🤝
📅 Friday, October 9, 2026
📍 Bronco Student Center
⏰ 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
September 21, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Explore different perspectives on the 2026 elections, hear from experts, and connect with candidates, interest groups and members of the community.
Plus, meet candidates, interest groups and others at the Table Fair! 🤝
📅 Friday, October 9, 2026
📍 Bronco Student Center
⏰ 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Plus, meet candidates, interest groups and others at the Table Fair! 🤝
📅 Friday, October 9, 2026
📍 Bronco Student Center
⏰ 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
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🗳️ Election Fair 2026 is coming!
Join us for the CCEP 2026 Election Fair for a day of exploring, learning and civic engagement.
Swipe through for the full schedule ➡️
RSVP by scanning the QR code!
#ElectionFair2026 #CCEP #CalPolyPomona #CPP
Join us for the CCEP 2026 Election Fair for a day of exploring, learning and civic engagement.
Swipe through for the full schedule ➡️
RSVP by scanning the QR code!
#ElectionFair2026 #CCEP #CalPolyPomona #CPP
September 21, 2026 at 4:19 PM
🗳️ Election Fair 2026 is coming!
Join us for the CCEP 2026 Election Fair for a day of exploring, learning and civic engagement.
Swipe through for the full schedule ➡️
RSVP by scanning the QR code!
#ElectionFair2026 #CCEP #CalPolyPomona #CPP
Join us for the CCEP 2026 Election Fair for a day of exploring, learning and civic engagement.
Swipe through for the full schedule ➡️
RSVP by scanning the QR code!
#ElectionFair2026 #CCEP #CalPolyPomona #CPP
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🎙️ THE FUTURE OF WORK IS HERE — BUT WHO WILL IT AFFECT MOST?
What happens when AI transforms the workplace—and women’s jobs are disproportionately impacted? 🤖👩💻👩🏻🧕🏼
youtube.com/shorts/jwbJE...
#CCEP #FutureOfWork #AIandGender #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInTheWorkforce #WomenAndAI #FutureOfWork
What happens when AI transforms the workplace—and women’s jobs are disproportionately impacted? 🤖👩💻👩🏻🧕🏼
youtube.com/shorts/jwbJE...
#CCEP #FutureOfWork #AIandGender #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInTheWorkforce #WomenAndAI #FutureOfWork
Will AI Make Workplace Inequality Worse? #ai #podcast #shorts #laborjustice #workplace
YouTube video by California Center for Ethics and Policy
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September 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
🎙️ THE FUTURE OF WORK IS HERE — BUT WHO WILL IT AFFECT MOST?
What happens when AI transforms the workplace—and women’s jobs are disproportionately impacted? 🤖👩💻👩🏻🧕🏼
youtube.com/shorts/jwbJE...
#CCEP #FutureOfWork #AIandGender #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInTheWorkforce #WomenAndAI #FutureOfWork
What happens when AI transforms the workplace—and women’s jobs are disproportionately impacted? 🤖👩💻👩🏻🧕🏼
youtube.com/shorts/jwbJE...
#CCEP #FutureOfWork #AIandGender #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInTheWorkforce #WomenAndAI #FutureOfWork
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Sigh
Hello, old friend
Hello, old friend
September 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Sigh
Hello, old friend
Hello, old friend
Almost more than I want the Eagles to win, I just want Tom Brady to go away. A commentary told by an android, full of shouts and guffaws, signifying nothing burger
September 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Almost more than I want the Eagles to win, I just want Tom Brady to go away. A commentary told by an android, full of shouts and guffaws, signifying nothing burger
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look at that beautiful pass by Jalen Hurts
September 13, 2026 at 9:03 PM
look at that beautiful pass by Jalen Hurts
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Today Lottie and Hayden covered the book Somebody Should Do Something by @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social & @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social from the lens of #animaljustice. Think about how YOU can encourage #vegan ethics to the people around you
#systemchange
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#systemchange
www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspe...
Somebody Should Do Something: How to help create social change for the animals and environment
Lottie and Hayden discussed how anyone, yes even YOU, can help create social change for important issues like animal justice and the climate. They drew from the book 'Somebody Should Do Something: How...
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September 13, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Today Lottie and Hayden covered the book Somebody Should Do Something by @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social & @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social from the lens of #animaljustice. Think about how YOU can encourage #vegan ethics to the people around you
#systemchange
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#systemchange
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Congrats to our 2025-2026 Bidart Fellows, Alexis Yrigoyen, Brenda Garfias-Guzman, and Jamie Luu! Our winners all completed the CCEP Ethics and Policy Fellowship from 2025-2026, and were selected for their leadership, academic goals, and impact in CCEP.
September 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Congrats to our 2025-2026 Bidart Fellows, Alexis Yrigoyen, Brenda Garfias-Guzman, and Jamie Luu! Our winners all completed the CCEP Ethics and Policy Fellowship from 2025-2026, and were selected for their leadership, academic goals, and impact in CCEP.
This is an awesome engaging talk and perfect teaser for this kick ass book!
Going live at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST to play the video from my lecture at Western Michigan University ("Is Capitalism the Best We Can Do?") and talk about it a bit. This was the very first public event I did for The Blueprint (which doesn't technically come out until September 29th). Many more to come!
Is Capitalism REALLY the Best We Can Do? (Ben Burgis Lecture in Michigan)
YouTube video by Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis
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September 8, 2026 at 8:05 AM
This is an awesome engaging talk and perfect teaser for this kick ass book!
Got to read the proofs this summer and this book will become essential reading for anyone ready to imagine what a truly just future might look like!
The Blueprint comes out exactly a month from today, it's available at all the usual pre-order places, but if you live in Kalamazoo, Michigan, you can snag an early copy at this event next Thursday!
August 29, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Got to read the proofs this summer and this book will become essential reading for anyone ready to imagine what a truly just future might look like!
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Newly released in paperback, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social, and @dryan149.bsky.social's “Somebody Should Do Something” provides a novel approach to creating transformative social change—and the ways that each of us can help make a difference: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
August 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Newly released in paperback, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social, and @dryan149.bsky.social's “Somebody Should Do Something” provides a novel approach to creating transformative social change—and the ways that each of us can help make a difference: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
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Prof. @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social explains how ‘structure-facing virtues’ tie the personal to the big picture psyche.co/ideas/mother...
psyche.co
August 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Prof. @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social explains how ‘structure-facing virtues’ tie the personal to the big picture psyche.co/ideas/mother...
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There’s more to virtue than how we treat other individuals. ‘Structure-facing virtues’ tie the personal to the big picture. An Idea by @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social & @madva.bsky.social
Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue | Psyche Ideas
There’s more to virtue than how we treat other individuals. ‘Structure-facing virtues’ tie the personal to the big picture
psyche.co
August 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
There’s more to virtue than how we treat other individuals. ‘Structure-facing virtues’ tie the personal to the big picture. An Idea by @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social & @madva.bsky.social
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The paperback edition of "Somebody Should Do Something" set to publish on August 11!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
August 9, 2026 at 1:07 PM
The paperback edition of "Somebody Should Do Something" set to publish on August 11!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue 🧵
“If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God,” Mother Teresa wrote in 1975...
psyche.co/ideas/mother...
“If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God,” Mother Teresa wrote in 1975...
psyche.co/ideas/mother...
August 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue 🧵
“If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God,” Mother Teresa wrote in 1975...
psyche.co/ideas/mother...
“If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God,” Mother Teresa wrote in 1975...
psyche.co/ideas/mother...
Our book's final chapter explores how people can focus on the social roles they already occupy—in their jobs, families, pastimes, and friend networks—to find opportunities to make a difference.
We begin with a profile of Nigerian feminist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. 🧵
www.youtube.com/shorts/q6N1e...
We begin with a profile of Nigerian feminist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. 🧵
www.youtube.com/shorts/q6N1e...
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti: The Lioness of Lisabi #history #community #FunmilayoRansomeKuti #shorts
YouTube video by California Center for Ethics and Policy
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August 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Our book's final chapter explores how people can focus on the social roles they already occupy—in their jobs, families, pastimes, and friend networks—to find opportunities to make a difference.
We begin with a profile of Nigerian feminist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. 🧵
www.youtube.com/shorts/q6N1e...
We begin with a profile of Nigerian feminist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. 🧵
www.youtube.com/shorts/q6N1e...
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Phillies World Series run is back on.
August 4, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Phillies World Series run is back on.
Too cool to be part of this event at @molimuseum.bsky.social!
Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...
Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...
July 29, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Too cool to be part of this event at @molimuseum.bsky.social!
Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...
Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...
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A précis of my book is now out in Philosophical Psychology as part of an upcoming book symposium. PP is the first journal in which I ever published an article. It’s a pleasure to come full circle. I’m looking forward to engaging with the thoughtful commentaries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What the self does for psychiatry: testimony, cognitive science, and participatory objectivity
Reclaiming The Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science argues that contemporary scientific psychiatry has sidelined its most essential object of study: the self. Dr...
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June 25, 2026 at 12:17 PM
A précis of my book is now out in Philosophical Psychology as part of an upcoming book symposium. PP is the first journal in which I ever published an article. It’s a pleasure to come full circle. I’m looking forward to engaging with the thoughtful commentaries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Not every day that you get to give a talk with an opener, the opener plays 17th century Irish folk music, and previous speakers in the series were Thoreau and Emerson. Bet those chumps didn't even have good slides.
@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Michael Brownstein ; Somebody should do something
YouTube video by Monadnock Summer Lyceum
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July 28, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Not every day that you get to give a talk with an opener, the opener plays 17th century Irish folk music, and previous speakers in the series were Thoreau and Emerson. Bet those chumps didn't even have good slides.
@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Friend asked me if I was coming down from the LeBron high and I started spamming him with more memes and now I'm just frustrated: How has no one made a Sixerified GIF of LeBron saying "not one, not two... not six, not seven" yet??
July 28, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Friend asked me if I was coming down from the LeBron high and I started spamming him with more memes and now I'm just frustrated: How has no one made a Sixerified GIF of LeBron saying "not one, not two... not six, not seven" yet??
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Bummer he didn't work better than he did but I have no regrets about the James Harden Sixers experience. He was worth what we gave up for him (+ getting off Simmons contract), he did some good things here, he didn't get extended longer than he should have and he netted a half-decent trade return.
Ways James Harden helped the Sixers:
-Maxey’s step back
-Embiid’s MVP
-Doc’s departure
-Traded for best pick in JB deal
-Prevented Cleveland from being a top LeBron destination
#ThankYouUno
-Maxey’s step back
-Embiid’s MVP
-Doc’s departure
-Traded for best pick in JB deal
-Prevented Cleveland from being a top LeBron destination
#ThankYouUno
July 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Bummer he didn't work better than he did but I have no regrets about the James Harden Sixers experience. He was worth what we gave up for him (+ getting off Simmons contract), he did some good things here, he didn't get extended longer than he should have and he netted a half-decent trade return.
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The literature on the philosophy of social norms has gotten really exciting over the past few years. The latest example: @ledaberio.bsky.social and Kristina Musholt's awesome new paper in Phil Imprint: "Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances"
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances
PDF | Human cognition and behavior are guided by a myriad of norms which enable us to successfully navigate our social environment and our interactions... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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July 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM
The literature on the philosophy of social norms has gotten really exciting over the past few years. The latest example: @ledaberio.bsky.social and Kristina Musholt's awesome new paper in Phil Imprint: "Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances"
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...