Day 10 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: German philosopher, feminist, and pacifist Helene Stöcker!
Stöcker used #Nietzsche to rethink the value of the values holding women back. She also rethought the value of war; her radical #pacifism forced her to flee the Nazis in 1933.
#womenshistory #philsky
My paper, "Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology," was accepted by the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, which is nice. It's on section 1 of the first Enquiry, both as a manifesto for a future science and as a guide to the rest of the Enquiry philpapers.org/rec/JACHOT-4
One week left, send your abstracts!
Postdoc opportunity at the Taft Research Center here at the University of Cincinnati for which philosophers are eligible to apply. See here for details and to apply: jobs.uc.edu/job/Taft-Pos...
Eleven new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social, including papers by @domlopes.bsky.social, @alexgregory.bsky.social and @daniwenner.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/
New SEP entry for "Aesthetics in Chinese Philosophy: Painting and Calligraphy" just went live!!! Very excited to have this published.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/chin...
Malcolm Budd (1941–2026) died on Tuesday, the 17th February. A leading figure in analytic aesthetics, he published fifteen papers in the BJA—alongside many book reviews—several of them now canonical, especially on music, Kant, and the aesthetic appreciation of nature.
'Susan Stebbing on Logic and Analysis' (ed. S. Chapman) is now out in the Philosophers in Depth series. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Dem Institut für Klassische Archäologie der HU Berlin droht die Schließung! Hier gehts zur Petition, die das verhindern will.
The Institute of Classical Archaeology at HU Berlin is facing closure! Click here for the petition to prevent this from happening.
weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
Text only: Philosophy’s Future, Past and Present Call for Panel Proposals Proposal due date: 15 April 2026 Notification by end of May 2026 Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (ENN) has been working to reconceive history of philosophy with the idea that doing so can help to change the standards of practice in philosophy, making it more inclusive and diverse. We have not been alone in this work. Our concluding conference, being planned for 7-9 October 2027 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, aims to bring together an array of groups to share with one another the fruits of various efforts to transform the history of philosophy and to provide the occasion to imagine together philosophy’s future, asking: How might we tell the stories of philosophy’s past in the future? How can these stories affect how we do philosophy now and in the future? Amid ongoing shifts in the discipline, in the academic environment, and in our broader cultural and political landscapes, are these questions still the right ones? Efforts to retrieve the work of neglected and marginalized philosophers and philosophies of the past, and to sustain their presence in the discipline have been redoubled in recent years. This conference aims to bring together scholars of Africana and Black philosophy, women philosophers in European traditions, Indigenous philosophy, Latin-American philosophy, as well as non-canonical figures in different traditions, to discuss a rich set of philosophical questions and methodological issues highlighted by this work. The conference will be bilingual (English and French) and the format will include a combination of plenary sessions, with thematic panels and keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with papers selected through a general call for abstracts. We will also build in time for informal conversations and for mentoring of early career researchers. At this time, we welcome proposals for panels. The proposed panels should be anchored in (at least…
We are particularly interested in panels engaging with methodological questions such as: • What counts as a philosophical genre? How do theatre, poetry, liturgy, correspondence, polemics, pamphlets, material culture, or musical practices challenge how we think about philosophy? • How ought we to evaluate the philosophical robustness of a text, especially those currently outside the canon? • How should we consider philosophical periods? Given that prevailing periodizations are anchored in European temporal markers—Antiquity, Medieval, Early Modern, Enlightenment—how might alternative temporal frameworks open new methodological and interpretive possibilities? • How should we consider philosophical geography? How do our narratives shift when we look beyond Europe—not merely by “adding” non-Western traditions (or by labeling the “non-Western”), but by rethinking the global conditions of intellectual exchange, influence, and parallel development? • Who counts as a philosopher? How might we rethink the criteria by which certain figures are valorized as philosophers while others remain systematically excluded? • What new themes or philosophical problems become central when we shift the criteria by which individuals are recognized as philosophers? • What becomes possible when we dislodge philosophy from its conventional anchors? Calls for abstracts will come later (likely in Fall 2026). While speakers will not receive honoraria, funding will be available to help to defray travel expenses
Call for *Panels*:
Final ENN Conference: Philosophy's Future, Past and Present (Montréal, Oct 7–9, 2027)
Bilingual (EN/FR) conference
Deadline: April 15
(Call for papers coming later.)
www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements
#philsky
Our chapter (with Silke Körber) about Susan Stebbing and Otto Neurath has been published in a wonderful volume!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
We are organising a pre-conference workshop on Values in science in the rest of the world in Helsinki in August, just before ENPOSS 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract!
Poster for the 12th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, entitled "Diversity in Motion: New Challenges across the Sciences" For more information on speakers and program, see: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity
12th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Science is coming up!
Topic: Diversity in Motion - New Challenges across the Sciences
Date: March 26-27, 2026
Location: Bochum, Germany and online
Registration (free for all!): rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci
'Susan Stebbing on Logic and Analysis' (ed. S. Chapman) is now out in the Philosophers in Depth series. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Title page of book
First page of preface
Table of contents
Susan Stebbing (1945) Thinking to some purpose.
archive.org/details/thin... cc @olivia.science
Check out our brand new Virtual Special Issue: "Ten Women Presidents of The Aristotelian Society"
The first ten Inaugural Addresses delivered by the first ten women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society, from 1930-2001.
academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
#philosophy
On Crisis talk in Husserl and Grossmann in the mid 1930s (with some name-dropping of Kuhn, Weber, etc.)
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Deadline coming up! The 2026 Swedish Congress of Philosophy (”Filosofidagarna”) will be hosted by the @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Department of Philosophy, June 12–14. www.su.se/english/divi... #philsky #philsci
Man in black suit and young woman in white skirt
Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Call for Applications: „Intercultural Phenomenology“ (April 13-16 - University of Tübingen)
Spring School - Organisation: Abbed Kanoor and Niels Weidtmann
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/02/08/c...
Sander Verhaegh's "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective."
Part I: Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy (Spr 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Part II: Analytic versus Continental Philosophy (Fall 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
HOPOS
This article from HOPOS looks at the case of epistemological scientism in the history of philosophy of science and discusses the implications of epistemological scientism for the practice and value of philosophy. Read more https://ow.ly/z0yo50Y56s9 The HOPOS Journal
Join us as we sit down with senior fellow Kareem Khalifa to learn more about his research and work here at the Center!
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0vPEDIEf5G8
Poster for workshop, with pictures of windows and the names of speakers.
My colleague Tamara Dobler is organizing this very cool workshop on the semantics-pragmatics distinction, taking place at VU Amsterdam on June 25-26. (It is possible to register as a participant by sending Tamara an email.) My talk will be on joint work with @celinehenne.bsky.social
New podcast episode
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer talks about women, philosophy, and ingenium in the 17th–18th centuries—focusing on Anna Maria van Schurman and Elisabeth of Bohemia—and why women philosophers matter in today’s curriculum.
Listen here: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html
#philsky
CfP: Women’s Contributions to Political Economy During the 19th Century Vol. 5 Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
Editors: Karen Green (University of Melbourne) & Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) By the beginning of the nineteenth century, political thought…
Great interview of @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social in Greek Cypriot newspaper titled:
Οι μεγάλες εταιρείες ΑΙ αποτελούν ένα σύγχρονο παράδειγμα τεχνοφασισμού και συγκεντρωτισμού
The big AI companies are a modern example of technofascism and centralisation
www.philenews.com/politismos/p...
Tomorrow
Arnaud Dewalque - 'Understanding Appearances in Brentano'
The Institute of Philosophy and Psychology of the Romanian Academy Online Research Seminar - 29 January 2026.
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/01/24/a...
A @inparenthesis.bsky.social update: Proud to be helping to organise this Symposium that builds on @domlash.bsky.social agenda setting work here. CfA The Quartet-in-Film Symposium: Vice & Violence Winchester in June @uniwinchester.bsky.social
www.winchester.ac.uk/research/Our... #filmsky #philsky
