📣 CfA - BSHP Annual Conference 2026 📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026 Keynote Speakers: • Monima Chadha (University of Oxford) • Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham) • Raphael Woolf (King’s College London) Submission deadline: 30 September More details 👇

I reviewed @karlschafer.bsky.social and Nick Stang's great edited collection on Kant on epistemology and metaphysics for Kantian Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

When philosophers of mind bring a thrill of first-personal empirical immediacy to their writing with the line 'Consider the object on my desk in front of me as I write this - it's a coffee cup', it should at least come with an asterisk (*nb - this will be the only empirical example in this book).

Nice review in The Montreal Review www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Man...

“An engaging, expansive and effortlessly erudite study of a man who today too few people know” Read more about @johnjocallanan.bsky.social’s Man-Devil in this recent The Critic review: thecritic.co.uk/the-misunder...

I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will.

We kick off the annual BSHP conference today! Looking forward to welcoming our speakers this afternoon at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics

Thanks to @johnjocallanan.bsky.social for this extremely generous and incisive review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant...

In Man-Devil, @johnjocallanan.bsky.social examines Bernard Mandeville & his famous fable, showing how its contentious claim—that vice was essential to the economic flourishing of any society—formed part of Mandeville’s theory of human nature. Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Publication Day! #mandeville @princetonupress.bsky.social

ICYMI 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Many congratulations to Leo Catana on the recent publication of his English translation of Jacob Brucker's Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse and The Socratic School global.oup.com/academic/pro...

New AS podcast!! In this episode, we talk with Peter Momtchiloff - former editor for philosophy at Oxford University Press. We get his exclusive insights on his 30 years at the job. Listen on Apple podcasts: shorturl.at/zMvVB Or your browser: shorturl.at/FdKs8

The first chapter of Man-Devil is excerpted in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, for those with access. #Mandeville www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Man-Devil reviewed in The Spectator! #Mandeville www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Our most recent virtual special issue celebrates 300 years since Kant’s death Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C

This is so disgusting in its details that I had to stop reading before the end. I hope she wins, decisively, and that these reputation murderers are put out of business and banned from society (as used to be said)

My book on Mandeville gets a kind mention here, hurrah! engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...

We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social

15 Dec 1673: d. Margaret Cavendish, duchess of #Newcastle, author, natural philosopher, who among many other things wrote early Science Fiction #otd (eebo)

New free Elements book. Andrew Arana on Mathematical Purity. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The New Yorker piece on Laurie Paul has Elizabeth Barnes saying that the mark of 'Transformative Experience''s greatness is that her class think it is wrong but they all have different reasons why. Reminded me of Stanley and Williamson on 'Knowing How'. It's an odd model of intellectual fecundity.

🚨Settings->Siri->Apps->(pick an app)->UNCHECK LEARN FROM THIS APP🚫.🚨 Congratulations, now A.I. won't be learning from your apps without your permission on your iPhone. Took me a bit with a gazillion apps, but easy to do.

The Call for Papers for the next NAKS Biennial is out now >>> northamericankantsociety.org/Call-for-Sub...

My book on Bernard Mandeville should be out next month,and has received a review in the Literary Review, and indeed is on the cover, as befits his status of course. literaryreview.co.uk/current-issu...

"[Callanan] has convinced me that exposing Mandeville and his writings to a new generation of readers is indeed worthwhile," says Howard Davies of Man-Devil by @johnjocallanan.bsky.social in the Literary Review. Read more (£): literaryreview.co.uk/current-issue

Clare Carlisle, who joined the Philosophy Department at King's this Autumn, has won a PEN award for her work on Eliot and Marriage - pen.org/program/pen-...

Hearing a reading of Milton's Sonnet XXIII on BBC Radio 3 this morning. Certainly my favourite, but also a solid way of being devastated at breakfast.

🔔 Enlightenment Workshop & Oxford Political Thought Seminar | WEDS 27 NOV - 17.00 | @voltaire.ox.ac.uk Lea Ypi (LSE) @leaypi.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social | Colonialism, cosmopolitanism and Kant’s justification of territorial rights intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/lea-yp...

I wrote an obituary of my former colleague Ted Honderich www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

I've edited a virtual issue of some Kant-themed greatest hits from the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. I've given brief descriptions of a dozen interesting papers from the last century or so - from G.E. Moore to Longuenesse - all free to access. academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

I keep asking the older fellows of Kings who influenced this or that of Williams’s ideas and their answer is always no one. He only ever was counter-influenced (by his teacher RM Hare for example). This new book puts Alasdair MacIntyre is a major inspiration, good to know. #philsky #ethics

Ok, created a starter pack for people interested in German Philosophy. Hit me up to be added or for suggestions. go.bsky.app/M8EW1wa

I did a starter pack! It's philosophy people I know from the other place. I may have forgotten some of you, please don't take it personally. If we were mutuals at the other place and I left you out let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

Also, another 18 month teaching job at Kings, this time in Epistemology and Metaphysics. Tight application window kids! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096165-...

18 month job in ethics at King's! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096130-...

Wondering when contemporary philosophy will start doing the history of political thought thing of starting every article title with a quoted phrase: 'An incredulous stare': Lewis and cost-benefit metaphysics, etc. Can't be long.

The Kings College London Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law (YTL) is advertising an Early Career Fellowship, a 12-month appointment due to commence in September 2024 in legal or political philosophical research and scholarship. my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

Excited to announce that from 2024/25, #UCD will offer a taught Masters in Philosophy of Mind and Embodied Cognition. Alongside a wide range of #philosophy modules, students can choose options from UCD’s interdisciplinary #CognitiveScience programme. Email or message for details! #PhilMind #CogSci

This part of the Strand in London used to be a congested road for cars. Now it’s a magnetic place for people. Good trade. It can feel hard to muster the vision and leadership needed for smart urban change. But it pays off with a better city. Gorgeous pic by @livinglondonhis.

Howard Stein, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Chicago, has died.

1) It's official book release day for The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract, which I have co-edited with my colleague, Matthew W. Maguire. This volume features 14 brand-new essays on a wide range of themes in Rousseau's most celebrated work of political philosophy.

Signs I'm approaching fifty years of age: