Speaking on Infinite Personality in Delhi! Come join us online.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-absolut... Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel, Schelling, and the End of Alterity" will be published in late May 2026. It will be published with Edinburgh University Press in their "New Perspectives in Ontology" series. The cover art is from Malevich's "The Black Square."

Let’s Go! Kyoto School Summer School at the Chinese University of Hong Kong 2026. Applications now accepted!

Happy to see that the Japanese translation of Everything and Nothing has been published. My postscript, “Transcending Everything” is my first publication to appear in Japanese. www.chikumashobo.co.jp/product/9784...

A new publication with Verifiche: “Hegel’s Absolute Dialetheism.” Gave the original version of this paper in the Hegel and Dialetheism series 5 years ago. After many revisions and sitting on it for many years, I'm glad to see it finally published!! verifiche.padovauniversitypress.it/2025/1/12

The Final Talk of the Singularity Series! My good friend and esteemed colleague, Alessandro de Cesaris, will speak on Singularity in Hegel.

When I visited UGA earlier this year a couple philosophy undergraduates interviewed me for the university paper. I had just given a talk on Priest and Gabriel so I don't know if I'm always making sense. In any case it was a fun interview and very informal. franklin.uga.edu/news/stories...

Cohen on Singularity! An important thinker in the philosophy of mathematics, Neo-Kantianism, and Jewish philosophy more broadly.

Coming up!

My new book, “Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel, Schelling, and the End of Alterity” will be published in May. Published with EUP. Check it out here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-absolute-… The book rediscovers the 19th century insight that human freedom is impossible without the Absolute.

Celebrating 100 Years of Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Vol. 2 Mythical Thought. Join us in Mainz if you’re around. I’ll speak on “The Expressive Absolute: Myth as Terminus Ad Quem.”

I have a new book coming out with Edinburgh University Press early next year. The book is (tentatively) entitled "Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel, Schelling, and the End of Alterity." My keynote lecture at the Winterschool in Chile gives a short preview: m.youtube.com/watch?v=16C6...

Coming up now! zoom.us/j/9931136412...

Many thanks to Pablo Pulgar Moya and Fernanda Medina for organizing an amazing the Winter School on Hegel’s metaphysics of the concept in Santiago Chile. The discussions and papers were excellent. Always a pleasure to visit UDP!

Thanks to the Hegel group in Buenos Aires for hosting a wonderful event on self-consciousness in Hegel and Nishida. The people are great and the city is absolutely gorgeous.

Coming up at the University of Buenos Aires in August!

Consider applying to the next conference of the East Asian Schelling Network. We’re meeting in Taipei. I’m stoked to be giving a keynote lecture. To the one and all!

Hölderlin Turm!

No Kings! As we say in Hong Kong, Add Oil!

Happy birthday Schelling!

Coming up! Schelling and the Kyoto School in Tübingen!

For my American friends living abroad, what are the most effective ways of protesting the disastrous policies of the Trump administration? Besides voting, I write to my senators (Georgia), and give to relevant charitable organisations (ACLU, etc.) 1/3

Looking forward to the party!!

Coming up!!

Thanks to all the friends who joined the discussion on the "singularity of existence" yesterday! In case you missed it, you'll find a preview of some ideas from my forthcoming book here. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vYcT...

Looking forward to the Winter School on Hegel’s Metaphysics of the Concept! I’ll bring the ontological argument with me, along with Absolute Spirit. Thanks to Pablo for the invitation. Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones.

Hegelians gathering in Hong Kong!

Next week I'll be giving a talk based on my new book (tentatively entitled "Absolute Dialetheism") on the singularity of truth and existence. Livestreamed on Thinking the Absolute: www.youtube.com/channel/UCkI...

2024-25 has been a great year for philosophy at CUHK. We’ve had great visitors-Nicolas de Warren, Paul Guyer, Claudia Barrachi, and Sean McGrath among many others. Chong Fuk, Plato Tse, and I organized a very lively conference on Hegel’s concept of the concept in April. So much philosophy!

In case yall missed it. William Franke on singularity and ineffability! m.youtube.com/watch?v=m63K...

Celebrating the atonement with René Girard

Just finished a semester long course on Søren Kierkegaard. The first Kierkegaard course taught at CUHK! I’m grateful to have such good students. Climacus gets the last word: “Yet, in the whole world no two lovers can be found so well suited to each other as paradox and passion.”

Should be very good! Don’t miss it!

I’ve organized a conference at with Chong Fuk Lau and Plato Tse! Don’t miss it! Coming up at CUHK!

Coming up in a few hours!! Singularity and Plato’s Sophist!

Happening today!

Very happy finally to have Sean McGrath visiting us at CUHK! Join us in person or online if you can!

This Friday!

Brook Ziporyn delivers an electrifying lecture on Hegel and Tiantai Buddhist thought! A kindred spirit for sure.

In case you missed it: Edward Halper gave an excellent talk on Singularity as the Problem of Knowledge. Tomorrow Brook Ziporyn is up!

Get this book! Winfield is a master, and an unappreciated one.

Absolute Dialetheism comes to Yale! We had a productive workshop on German Idealism over the weekend. Good conversations with Michael Della Rocca, Jake McNulty, Paul Franks, Clark Wolf, Giuliano Infantino, as well as other friends and graduate students. Yale really is a great place for philosophy!!

Talking about Schelling and freedom at the New School in NY.

Coming up! Don’t Miss it!! Livestreamed on thinking the absolute: m.youtube.com/channel/UCkI...

If you’re in New York, come join us at the New School!

Today the dialectics of absolute nothingness is finally released!!

If you’re in New Haven, join us at Yale for a workshop on Logic, Nature, and Modalities in German Idealism. I’ll be talking about dialectics as the method of absolute cognition. Thanks to Giuliano Infantino for organizing and the invitation!

“The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness: The Legacies of German Philosophy in the Kyoto School” is out soon. If you want a discount, scan the flier! The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness investigates the appropriations, critiques, and interpretations of German philosophy by the Kyoto School.

Coming Up! Returning to my alma mater to discuss my recent engagement with Priest and Gabriel.