Open access book on material aspects of ancient philosophy: brill.com/display/titl... #philsky #philosophy #ancientphilosophy #openaccess

‘A modest rationalism was a natural response in the face of criticism aimed at the pretensions of Aristotelian science. Religious philosophers insisted on the limits of reason while demanding that it stay in its proper lane.’ @histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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LMU Munich is advertising a new W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. For more information, and to apply, follow this link: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b... #philosophy #education #professorship #academicjob #lmumunich

In this new blog post I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions. www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w... (link corrected from a previous post) #philosophy #philsky

Just put up this blog post in which I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions. www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w... #philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy

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

‘A modest rationalism was a natural response in the face of criticism aimed at the pretensions of Aristotelian science. Religious philosophers insisted on the limits of reason while demanding that it stay in its proper lane.’ @histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The latest episode of the excellent "This Is The Way" #podcast, a series on Chinese philosophy, looks at Mohism and its arguments for impartial care. Recently they did the "White Horse Not Horse" dialogue because I suggested it, which was a thrill! warpweftandway.com/episode-27-o... #philsky

a great podcast by Gideon Manning, one of the best in shedding ligh on all the cornerns of #Descartesmedicine. In the Meditationes Descartes opposes the certainty of the ego cogito with the uncertainties of the human nature, the topic of medical knowledge #histsci works.hcommons.org/records/pzyj...

Today on #HoPWaG we're joined by Gideon Manning to hear about medicine in Descartes and amongst the Cartesians! A fascinating discussion of method, dualism, the circulatory system, and much more. www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-me... #philsky #descartes #philosophy #podcast

An article of mine has just appeared in the @lrb.co.uk on Maimonides! Pretty excited about this since I subscribe to the paper. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #philsky #maimonides #rambam

The Millennium Falcon is the only reason I know how to spell millennium. Ok, that, and autocorrect.

Just going through the copy-edited files for the next volume in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps book series, on Philosophy in the Reformation. As always this process reminds me that I don't know how to spell "millennium".

New book from LMU's Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, Sebastian Gäb: Philosophy of Religion, out now from Nomos: www.nomos-shop.de/en/p/philoso... #philosophy #religion

If you are interested in #Yinyang philosophy or new to Chinese thought overall, definitely check out this episode of HoPWaG featuring Robin R. Wang! Meeting her in Beijing in 2015 had a great impact on how I understand Yinyang and the five phases today.

On today's new #HoPWaG episode we are joined by Robin Wang, who discusses yin-yang theory: she argues it is not so much a piece of doctrine as a whole pattern of thought. www.historyofphilosophy.net/yin-yang-wang #philsky #chinesephilosophy #yinyang

Tomorrow on #HoPWaG, Prof Robin Wang of Loyola Marymount University ("the other LMU" as I like to think of it) joins us to discuss yin-yang theory in Daoism and classical Chinese thought more generally.

Young man to James Joyce: "May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?" Joyce: "No. It has done many other things too." (Just read this anecdote in the @lrb.co.uk)

To unforgivably confuse metaphors: Descartes may have been wrong about the pineal gland being the point of contact with the soul, but it is associated/developed with the "third eye" in some vertebrates: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parieta...

Your Sunday read: "Neoplatonic Voyaging" Jonathan Egid traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa, and Asia, as it was transformed by encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism and by those who engaged with it. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/neoplat...

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

The first article from our upcoming issue on Phenomenology and Chinese Philosophy published online first. #ChinesePhilosophy #Phenomenology #JBSP @thebsp.org.uk

Coming up on tomorrow's new #HoPWaG podcast episode, we look at science and especially medicine within the Cartesian tradition. Topics include the debate over the role of the pineal gland, an aspect of Descartes' thought that even his supporters tried to quietly forget. #philsky

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

@profangiehobbs.bsky.social on BBC remembering the great philosophers - Bryan Magee's classic TV program which did so much to communicate philosophy to the public! Watch: tinyurl.com/5n6kxyc8 Enjoy! #philosophy #philosophymatters #bbc

2 Postdoc Positions in Milan! Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-... Please share widely!

Tomorrow we will host the conference "The Dānešnāme and Its (Structural) Aftermath," organized by Shahab Khademi & Marco Signori. Join us for a stellar lineup of speakers reflecting on Avicenna’s intellectual legacy! Details for online participation 👇 www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event... #philsky #HPS

We think there’s a unified self that thinks, feels, acts. Philosopher Monima Chadha, inspired by Vasubandhu, argues this is a mistake. The “self” does nothing; we're just chains of causes and effects. Understanding this will make us less anxious and angry, and make us more compassionate and kinder.

Leiden University is hiring: Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Philosophy

The philjobs link is here, FYI: philjobs.org/job/show/29994 #philsky

Today's new installment in the Philosophy in China series: Non-Action in the Laozi (Daodejing) The concept of wuwei or “non-action”: does it mean that the perfect sage or political ruler simply never does anything? www.historyofphilosophy.net/laozi-non-ac... #podcasts #daoism #daodejing #philsky

LMU Munich invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education, starting in October 2026. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding research record in philosophy and a strong profile in philosophy education. Deadline: 15 November 2025: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

I'm more than halfway through this interesting #podcast series on technology ethics, from my colleague Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social and John Danaher. Highly recommended! technologyethicspod.wordpress.com #ethics #aiethics #technology #philsky

It is Dyslexia Awareness Week and we are proud to announce the 2026 Lex Academic Scholarships for dyslexic postgraduate students working in #Classics, #Philosophy, and #ArtHistory. Please share widely! #dyslexiaawarenessweek #dyslexiaawarenessmonth www.lexacademic.com/scholarships

In recent decades, scholars have examined various facets of Avicenna’s #logic. But how did Avicenna himself conceptualize logic—its definition, status, and purpose? PhD student Shahab Khademi explores this question in a new paper! 👇📃 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #histphil #HPS

This was a great episode, listened to it on the train home from Berlin Hbf yesterday

Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age. | @histphilosophy.bsky.social www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism... #Descartes #women #philsky

A study has just been published comparing writings by three pairs of twins to see whether they write differently, including me and my art historian brother Glenn. The upshot is that our styles are apparently very dissimilar. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YFIRR... #linguistics #twinstudies #philsky

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Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics. Application deadline: 15 November 2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Today's new episode: Cartesianism and Gender www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism... Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age. #philsky #podcast

El capítulo 22 lo escribí yo. :)

What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians Early Cartesians including Cordemoy and de La Forge develop, but also challenge, Descartes’ ideas, defending atomism and occasionalism. s361.podbean.com/pb/e3724a8b2... #EarlyCartesians #Descartes #philosophy #philsky

Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too. brill.com/display/titl...

Coming up in a few hours on the new #HoPWaG podcast episode... Cartesianism and women: why figures like Poullain de la Barre (whose name I just managed to spell right on the first try!) thought Descartes' ideas would be an ideal basis for arguing in favor of gender equality.

In logic as discussed by Nyāya and Buddhist epistemologists, each syllogism requires two examples, one of something like the subject at hand (hence, an example bringing an analogy), and one of something unlike it (hence, an example bringing a disanalogy). 1/ #Philosophy #philsky #SanskritPhilosophy

In a week (Oct. 10) at U of Toronto: A one-day event celebrating the ideas of women in philosophy as presented by women from Toronto's philosophy department. philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/ideas-... #philsky

I was traveling so didn't get a chance to post links to the most recent episodes. Here they are! The Early Cartesians www.historyofphilosophy.net/early-cartes... Feminity in the Laozi (Daodejing) www.historyofphilosophy.net/laozi-femini... #daoism #philsky #descartes