In case you missed Paul Guyer's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar for the History of Modern Moral Philosophy (A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson), it's now on our YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xR...
To receive the Teams link, please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/011d7e...
The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is next Friday Feb. 20. Paul Guyer (Brown) will be speaking about 'A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson'
If you missed Ruth Boeker's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, it's now on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfH...
For past talks, check out our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@18ETHICS
To register and receive the Teams link, click here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3d4aa4...
The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is TOMORROW, Friday Jan. 16th. Ruth Boeker (UCD) is speaking about 'Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century'
If you missed Ryan Patrick Hanley's excellent talk (Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy you can now find it on our YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvj9...
On my way to Zurich and Konstanz to give a couple of talks (on my book and a paper in progress - see below for more details). Looking forward to seeing a few new cities!
See:
www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/phgz.html
and
www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/forschung/fa...
The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is meeting again next Friday, Dec. 5th. Ryan Patrick Hanley will be speaking about 'Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry' To register see here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da66e3...
If you missed Jacqueline Taylor's talk (Hume on Modesty, Esteem, and Self-esteem, with Some Insights from Wollstonecraft) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, you can now find it on YouTube here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Sg...
The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is this Friday, Nov. 14th. Jacqueline Taylor (San Francisco) is speaking about 'Hume on Modesty, Esteem and Self-Esteem, with some insights from Wollstonecraft'. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10cec3...
On my way to Regensburg for 'Moral Psychology in the German Enlightenment' - looking forward to chatting with everyone about such a great topic! www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-...
In St. Andrews for a few days to speak at this wonderful event celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Francis Hutcheson's 'Inquiry': www.intellectualhistory.net/ma-stewart-w...
Deadline for these is coming up soon - get in touch if you have questions!
BIG NEWS: I've signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for my next book (and first monograph) called 'Kant and the British Moralists' - a comprehensive account of Kant's relationship to 18th-century British moral philosophy. It should be out in 2027!
2 Postdoc Positions in Milan!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
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For at least 5 years! If you're ever in the area, please let me know!
Next Friday, Oct. 3 is the launch of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - an online seminar series in connection with the ERC Advanced Grant '18ETHICS'. The inaugural lecture is by Stephen Darwall! More info here: 18ethics.unimi.it/the-milan-se...
New preprint of mine now online: 'Desire in Modern European Philosophy', forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (ed. by Alex Gregory). Includes some discussion of early modern women philosophers on desire!
philpapers.org/rec/WALDIM
New review of my translation volume in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy: "Walschots’ study challenges the assumption that systematic philosophy can dispense with historical inquiry." doi.org/10.1080/0960...
cover of the forthcoming anthology Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500–1765
The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery
New journal in the history of philosophy! dailynous.com/2025/08/11/n...
Finally got my contributor copy of this great volume - hopefully it will help Baumgarten become a bit more widely known!
As promised, here are translations of the very short texts by Olympe de Gouges I posted last week. Comments are very welcome! (I am also working on annotating as I hope to bring out a small volume of translations of Gouges' political texts). #18Century #FrenchRevolutionTheatre #abolition
Wonderful! De Gouges is underrated
Emily Herring's book Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People outside on a wooden table in front of a nice floral backdrop
To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY.
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
@drbommer.bsky.social you know about this book?
On my way to the Paderborn Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists to present on J.C. Unzer - the first female German philosopher: historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/resear...
Can you read the whole book for free on google books? If so that is only possible because there is no copyright
