Today on #HoPWaG we introduce philosophy in the Han Dynasty! With new music and a focus on the Huang-Lao tradition of thought. historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/chin... #Philly #Philosophy #podcast #China #handynasty

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: we begin our second big series on philosophy in classical China, as we move on to the Han dynasty! #philsky #podcast #chinesephilosophy

Out now: Chinese translation of Professor Sven Nyholm's (@svennyholm.bsky.social) book *This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction*. More info (in Chinese) here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NW1AKMp2HA... #aiethics #technologyethics

Then it's worth mentioning the Middle Persian word for "giraffe": /uštargāwpalang/ (NP شترگاوپلنگ /šotorgāvpalang/) (camel+cow+leopard)

This week's new #HoPWaG episode looks at the great French tragedian Jean Racine, and looks at how his classical works of theater respond to the contemporary fascination with emotion and reason. historyofphilosophy.net/jean-racine #philsky #philosophy #tragedy #racine #frenchliterature

Here is an #OpenAccess article in which I describe and explain a syllabus on women thinkers in ancient and medieval philosophy; this is based on a class I teach for King's College London: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The whole issue is on teaching women philosophers. #philsky #philosophy

Coming up Sunday on #HoPWaG: we finish our mini-series on 17th century French art and literature by considering the philosophical themes of Racine's tragedies! The previous episode from two weeks ago was on Moliere and makes for an interesting comparison: historyofphilosophy.net/moliere #philsky

Outstanding news from our faculty! Congratulations to Professor Alyssa Ney on being awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her project The Nature of Reality According to Quantum Physics (MetaQ). We are proud to celebrate this achievement and wish her every success. #ERC #LMU #Philosophy #QuantumPhysics

New podcast episode! 🎧 Emily Thomas (Durham) on Victoria Welby: motion, energy, space, time, and a philosophical salon at the heart of an extraordinary intellectual network. www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html #philsky #womenphilosophers

Congrats to my brilliant colleague Alyssa! She is also a very engaged, passionate, and constructive member of our faculty, we are so lucky to have her.

Interview with me on the "Philosophy Everyday" series, about Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and his "flying man" thought experiment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkpv... #philsky #philosophy #avicenna

The other day, I had the pleasure of speaking with Deepak Bhatt, host of the "Business Talk" podcast. Our conversation covers a range of topics from my new book (*The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*), and is available here: youtu.be/yIxbw-mOTkY?... #aiethics

How do we establish reliable medical knowledge in the age of AI, big data, and evidence-based medicine? Looking forward to The Epistemology of Medicine workshop (25–26 June, Munich), bringing together philosophers, statisticians, and medical researchers for two days of interdisciplinary discussion.

"Bell's Theorem and Beyond" (June 26) One-day workshop at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. More info here: www.philosophie.lmu.de/mcmp/en/late... #philosophy #bellstheorem

Today on #HoPWaG, it's our last episode on the Warring States period! We speak to Yuri Pines about the Legalists and whether they deserve their grim reputation. In two weeks, we start to look at philosophy during the Han Dynasty! historyofphilosophy.net/legalism-pines #philsky #podcast #legalism

Great new paper by Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė, Julian Savulescu, and Brian D. Earp: "Love and Cause: When is Biomedical Enhanced Love Desirable?" www.researchgate.net/publication/... The paper engages with some of the most recent interventions on this topic by Emma Gordon and me. #bioethics #philosophy

For a counter-philosophy to Versailles, see Voltaire’s gardens and gardening. I’ve a chapter on this in Philosophy in the Garden.

An early exit for France in the World Cup would be either comedic or tragic. Either way #HoPWaG has you covered, since in today's new episode and the next one, we're looking at philosophical aspects of the plays of Moliere and Racine! historyofphilosophy.net/moliere #philsky #frenchliterature

There are now over 2,300 people on my Philosophers list, plus over 250 philosophy groups and organisations in the orgs list! The #PhilosophySky (formerly PhilSky＋) feed is still the best place to catch up with all the latest #philosophy posts on Bluesky. Pin and ❤️ the feed if you find it useful! 🙏

Coming up on Sunday on #HoPWaG, the first of two episodes on great French playwrights of the 17th century. It's Moliere, followed in the next episode by Racine! We'll look at how both reflected on the philosophical themes current in their day. #philsky #podcasts

Just up now! History of Philosophy in China, episode 55: More Gain, Less Pain: the Legalists on Human Nature tinyurl.com/455xzx5f Did the fa-thinkers recognize that human beings natural have moral capacities or dispositions? How did they try to manipulate human nature? #philsky #podcasts

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: how did Han Feizi and the other "Legalists" of Warring States China understand human nature? Did they think it could be molded by a strict regime of punishment and reward, or just kept in check? #philsky #legalism #chinesephilosophy

Conference on July 7 in London on: Before 'The Pursuit of Happiness': Emotional Flourishing in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam Go here to book a place: www.ticketsource.com/the-institut...

Call for papers (<10K words unpublished) for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Newton’s Principia & its reception (300th anniversary of 3rd Ed.) Prize $1,000, workshop, & pub in SHPS Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD Deadline: September 1, 2026 www.duchateletprize.org #HPS

During our faculty research day on May 29, one of many presentations was by the PhD student Johannes Reisinger, who presented work-in-progress on "AI Companions and Infidelity". For a short description of what this paper-in-progress is about, see below: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #aiethics

Today's new #HoPWaG episode looks at the delightfully cynical and quotable aphorisms of La Rochefoucauld: we explore the profound ethical theory underlying his "maxims" and writings of other French Moralists: historyofphilosophy.net/french-moral... #philosophy #podcast #earlymodern #philsky

Adding another volume to the collection: Byzantine & Renaissance Philosophy. Shout out to @histphilosophy.bsky.social. If you haven’t yet checked out his History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, you’re missing out! 😊

🎶 Völlig losgelöst von der Erde… 🎶 …schwebst Du in der Luft, aller Sinne beraubt. Was kannst Du jetzt noch über Dich und Deinen Körper wissen? 🪁 Diskutiert mit #denXte & Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson, @histphilosophy.bsky.social (@lmu.de) über das Leib-Seele-Problem 💭 👉 18. Juni 2026, 19 Uhr im HdU 1/2

This Monday was #Africa Day 🌍 P.O Bodunrin's 'The Question of African #Philosophy' investigates the rich history of #philosophical thought in the continent. 📖 Read & download for free: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 📚🤔💭

Interesting new paper on Darwin and movement in plants by Kärin Nickelsen. 🌿 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio

I was just interviewed for the YouTube channel "Oases of Wisdom" on al-Ghazali and some other topics in Islamic philosophy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViI5... #philsky #islamicphilosophy

Today's new #HoPWaG episode: tinyurl.com/3actkf67 "Learning to Unlearn: Han Feizi and Confucianism" Does Han Fei's focus on “standards” allow him to provide a more realistic political theory than the Confucian focus on moral cultivation? #philsky #chinesephilosophy #podcast

Tomorrow on #HoPWaG, we look at the contrast between the fa-thinkers or Legalists and the Confucians: why did Han Feizi compare the Confucian approach to waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump? #philsky

Vormoderne Praktiken der Philologie / Beate Kellner & Susanne Reichlin, eds. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social #openaccess @histphilosophy.bsky.social

Pierre Bayle on Spinoza: “Very few persons are suspected of adhering to his theory; and among those who are suspected of it, there are few who have studied it; and among the latter group, there are few who have understood it.” #philsky #philosophyburns

Here is an #openaccess article of mine on philosophical method in Alexander of Aphrodisias: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #philosophy #ancientphilosophy

Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality | Mindscape from @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Compatibilist free will from the explanatorily non-reductive autonomy, and independently non-deterministic status, of different levels of description/scale? | #philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBDE...

In this interview for the Max Planck Institute, I answer 10 questions on history of science: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-stor... #histsci #philsky

Continuing today! Between You & Me: A workshop on interpersonal ethics @univie.ac.at Speakers include: Monika Betzler (LMU Munich) Samuel Dishaw (Université Catholique de Louvain) Cathy Mason (CEU) Anni A. Räty (Vienna) Jonas Vandieken (LMU Munich) P. Quinn White (Harvard) #philsky

Podcast co-author Chike Jeffers (@chikej.bsky.social) alerted me that the most recent #HoPWaG on the philosophy of the French garden is the 750th episode overall, counting all series! historyofphilosophy.net Thanks to everyone who has listened along the way. #podcast #philsky

LMU Philosophy Faculty member Dr. Benjamin Lange's essay "Keeping Your Distance" has been shortlisted for the inaugural Aeon Philosophy Prize. For more info, see below. #philosophy www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

On Tuesday I'll be chatting about Global Philosophy at 1 pm UK time with Sajjad Rizvi and my Chinese philosophy co-host Karyn Lai! You can follow it on Zoom; to register go here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #philosophy #philsky

Today's episode is one of my favorites among recent topics: a look at the formal French garden, and its surprisingly intricate relationship to philosophy under Louis XIV! (Also look out for a fabulous pun about him.) www.historyofphilosophy.net/french-garden #philsky #gardens #philosophy #podcast

I was interviewed about medieval philosophy for the German language podcast Dissenzpflege; I come in about halfway through I think. dissenspflege.podigee.io/46-philosoph...

An interview with me and Frank Griffel on post-classical Islamic philosophy: marginaliareview.substack.com/p/did-al-gha... #philsky #islamicphilosophy

New episode of the History of Philosophy in China: the "three pillars" of Legalism! historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/warr...

Wisdom of China: Laozi This brief documentary introduces Laozi (Lao Tzu), who, according to tradition, was an ancient philosopher who founded Daoism (Taoism) and wrote the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), the "Classic of the Way and Virtue." youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?... #philosophy #Laozi #PhilosophySky