Today!

RESEARCH! @asalgadoborge.bsky.social on Spinoza, God, parts, and attributes! Read: tinyurl.com/je3k66ju (open access). #philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #god #metaphysics

Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊

One is the brilliant #EllieRobson @philosophellie.bsky.social on #MaryMidgley and #Animals! Not to be missed and again, what an incredible resource and gift #PhilosophyBites is #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social #Midgley

I really enjoyed my conversation with David, who asked very deep and difficult questions!

Exciting new book on Cartesianism, featuring my wife and others! Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic. www.routledge.com/Cartesianism...

New blog post: Peter Thiel in Locksley Hall open.substack.com/pub/axdougla...

Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments! doi.org/10.1017/S003...

I'm very happy to share that my paper 'Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes" has been published today at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m organizing a conference for philosophy graduate students—The 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! This will be a great opportunity for students to present their work, network, and spend some time on the charming Scottish coastal town, St Andrews! Please share with your network. #philsky

📣 The BSHP has several funding schemes and fellowships with an upcoming deadline: *31st January 2025* The BSHP offers one Postgraduate and one Postdoctoral Fellowship annually. These are worth £4000 and £6000, respectively. More information 👇 bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...

Teotihuacan was first constructed with palaces that indicate social hierarchy. But, at some point, the citizens began “supplying high-quality apartments for nearly all the city’s population, regardless of wealth,” David Graeber and David Wengrow write.

The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon, which includes my entry on Spinoza's Absolute, is now available! It features entries from incredible scholars whose work has influenced mine and whom I admire deeply. I'm truly grateful to the editors, Karolina Hübner and Justin Steinberg, for their invitation.

Thanks, AI. So far Kristin seems to be on pretty solid ground.

Thank you, Alex! I look forward to it :)

Thrilled and honoured to begin 2025 participatinh in this workshop with Spinoza scholars that I respect and admire so much! Thank you to Leonardo Moauro and Domink Perler for their generous invitation.