Thrilled that my paper “Love and the Basis of Dignity” has been accepted at the European Journal of Philosophy! Link to preprint: philpapers.org/rec/WALLAT-16

‘Arnold’s word for the plurality that troubled him was “anarchy”; Eliot’s was “chaos” – but they have many points of resemblance.’ Seamus Perry’s Winter Lecture, ‘Pluralism and the Modern Poet’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Some exciting news: Starting July 2027, I’ll be joining the University of Western Australia as a Lecturer in Philosophy! Thanks to everyone for all the support along the way. Time to go celebrate with friends and family over the holidays. 😀

‘According to the philosophical account Taylor draws on, the articulations of poetry are as fully capable of disclosing the existential significance of human life as the words of philosophers or saints.’ Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Just finished. Highly recommended! Felt timely too. Last Montreal summer.

Life update: I’ll be heading to Oxford as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow from September 2025-2027! Thanks to many, many people for all the support along the way. Sad to leave McGill and Montreal. Life is nearly perfect here. But I’m looking forward to life in Oxford.

New from Jordan Walters Nonideal Theory as Ideology 30(1) Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 74-97 www.jesp.org/index.php/je...

I spent more than a year working on this SEP entry on ideology, and I actually think it is some of the best work I've ever done. There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with: plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...

Excited for this!

Montreal Bach Festival :)

Really enjoying this so far!

There we are!

Thrilled that my paper “Non-ideal Theory as Ideology” has just been accepted at the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Link to preprint: philpapers.org/archive/WALN...

New and old

Keith Thomas on his writing process.

Augustine

Just read this again. So good!

Lucian Freud

Top 10 books of 2023.

The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series presents Emily Nacol University of Toronto Mississauga A "More Onerous Citizenship": Political Theory in Plague Time Thursday, January 18, 2024 4:30-6 pm Thomson House, @mcgillu.bsky.social registrater: www.facebook.com/events/11978...

Holiday vibes

Always pays to reread Williams.

Murdoch on Moore

Here we go

Funny joke from Richard Rorty:

Lovely fall colours at McGill

Nietzsche reads Dostoevsky and cries.

Off to Philly/NYC for a few days. Any recommendations for good eats/things to do? (Should I even try the bagels?)