Join us next Friday 21 for a roundtable on John McCormick's excellent new book The People's Princes at King's College London w/ comments by David Wootton (York), Lawrence Hamilton (Cambridge) & myself. There will be wine & great conversation on leadership & politics Register here 👇 shorturl.at/XmAsZ

Very pleased to be giving keynote: ‘Duties to Posterity and the “Me Generation”’ at the KCL Public Policy Graduate Conference on Nov 26th. kclppe4pp.github.io

Today's new #HoPWaG: the famous "Art of War" by Sunzi (or Sun Tzu, if you prefer), and its surprising links to Daoism! www.historyofphilosophy.net/sunzi-art-of... #artofwar #daoism #philsky #philosophy #podcast

“Historical Materialism Book Cover Design: The Politics of Form in Modernist Pattern Design”, is published by the Journal of William Morris Studies Volume XXVI Nos 1-2 2025 is available in print from the William Morris Society, a pre-copyedited version is here 🔗 www.academia.edu/.../Historic....

‘One Hundred Historical Materialism Book Cover Designs’ as part of a panel on ‘Communist and Socialist Aesthetics: The Early Twentieth Century and Its Legacies’ at the London Historical Materialism Conference conference.historicalmaterialism.org Sunday 9th November 12.00-13.45 if you are there.

Now online: 'Marx and Engels as Polyglots', by Kaan Kangal.

Now online: 'Young Marx and the Wood-Theft Debates in Prussian Rhineland in the Early Nineteenth Century' by Kaan Kangal – and featuring this nineteenth-century caricature of Marx as Prometheus bound to a printing machine, published in the Rheinische Zeitung. Essay: brill.com/view/journal...

Super happy to receive my first paper in French, with @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social and @matteomameli.bsky.social, on confabulation and conspiracy theories, in a book entitled “Les fables de l’homme”. Thanks David Simonin for leading the project and translating the paper. #philsky #philpsy

Truly and deeply honoured x.com/DeutscherPri...

and looking forward to joining HM panels for great new books by @brunoleipold.com, @michaellazarus.bsky.social, and @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social, plus some musings on state theory...

Eva Mameli Calvino, la botánica italiana que dio importancia a algas, musgos y flores

Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Huge thanks to @eenphilsci.bsky.social and especially @tmarvan.bsky.social and @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social for a terrific program — and what a treat the historical retrospective on the Vienna Circle and the profound legacies of Eastern European philosophy in the plenary panel! 🤩 many thanks all 👏

New paper! @matteomameli.bsky.social and I comment on Neil Van Leeuwen's book, Religion as Make Believe. Spoiler: doxasticism still rocks! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky

Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)

It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.

Roman Jakobson’s paper to The First World Conference on Yiddish Studies, 1958: “The Languages of the Diaspora as a Particular Linguistic Problem” progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/26/r...

Just learned that Edward Said was born 90 years ago today - one day after David Harvey. Here's a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career - progressivegeographies.com/2025/05/25/t...

Daniel James and Franz Knappik, Hegel and Colonialism - Cambridge University Press, October 2025 - print and open access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Podcast on my book: newbooksnetwork.com/absolute-eth...

The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute Nayef Al-Rodhan book prize is Prof Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social . Commiserations and apologies @jonathanbirch.bsky.social

Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!

My new book will be out in February! "States of Solidarity: How to Build a Society" treats solidarity not as an abstract ideal, but as a practice that can hold societies together and help with today’s defining challenges: Climate crisis, democratic erosion, and the rise of AI Link 👇

Thanks Barry!

Purists in philosophy forget that even their heroes knew and contributed to science. Worth hearing how much Descartes contributed by listening to the excellent podcast by @histphilosophy.bsky.social

Today's new episode: Cartesian Science! From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine. www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc... #hopwag #philsky #descartes #historyofscience #podcasts

working on a translation of Julius Schaxel’s “Das biologische Individuum” (1930) on the natural-historical emergence of ‘the individual’ & the possibility of thinking its concept—by distinguishing it from individuality & dissolving the individual back into its constituent relations & movements!

Really pleased with this review by Sam Ben-Meir which nicely captures what I was trying to do with Citizen Marx marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2232...

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell

Amazing to have Elliott Sober delivering his keynote "Richard Lewontin - Biologist, Philosopher, and Marxist" at the Dialectical Biology Today Conference! 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

My new article, “Marx’s Concept of Life,” is now out in EJP.

Enjoyed reading @matteomameli.bsky.social's short book on 'human nature'. While I think that we should park the term 'human nature', Mameli correctly points out that how we think about 'human nature' influences how we think about ourselves. #philbio www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-human...

"The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. The two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs.

A genuinely wonderful guest post by @birchlse.bsky.social on the tension between liberalism and animal rights, and what sort of social order might be called for if one were to take the suffering of animals with all due moral significance it deserves. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-t...

Here is the link to a short blog that @kztwyman.bsky.social and I wrote about our article (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marc Feldman) entitled "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience": www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃 Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky

This looks extremely good by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social So important to recognise differences in what 'open' means in #openscience. She shows for Bergson it's to cultivate meaningful social relationships, for Popper it's to exchange ideas and materials. The two can come apart! #philsci #metascience

Her grandmother really looks like Lea. @leaypi.bsky.social

Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

Very grateful to the ECPR political theory jury for this wonderful news!

So pleased to see the Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics available in print!

This Cambridge Elements series, edited by Grant Ramsey, offers concise, well-structured introductions to the central topics in the philosophy of biology. Explore more titles at the link below 👇📚 www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until August 26! Ingo Brigandt explores how to scientifically represent & explain human cognitive diversity, set against the assumption of a shared human nature 👇🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #HPBio #philsky #neuroskyence #HPS

Amazing news! The Philosophy Garden - The Wolf, the Snake, and the Butterfly was just selected by 3 Minute Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

Happy to hear that Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury 2023) is a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! www.choice360.org/ch... #philsky #philpsy #booksky

I just discovered there are recordings of Zora Neale Hurston singing. youtu.be/18elVaG8G2M?...

F*** Yeah!!! #IAreMapNerd www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

We are doing a special issue on "Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry" in Philosophical Psychology! Details below. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2026! Please share widely. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...