Semiotic paradox alert!

cf. Leibniz's remark (in a 1714 letter to Nicolas Remond)

Last #HoPWaG episode of the year, on Blaise Pascal! He was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought? www.historyofphilosophy.net/pascal #philsky #philosophy #pascal #podcasts

Today's new #HoPWaG is an interview on the debates over argumentation and truth between the Zhuangzi and the Mohists, with Wai-Wai Chiu - a former student of Karyn's! www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-moh... #philsky #philosophy #daoism #mohism #chinesephilosophy

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: we speak to Wai-Wai Chiu about the debates between Mohists and Daoists on language and argumentation, focusing on the criticisms of Mohism found in the Zhuangzi. Who has the better of this dispute? Only one place to find out... #philsky #philosophy #podcast #daoism

"The AI Wager: Betting on Technology’s Future w/ Philosopher & Author Sven Nyholm". Interview on the Creative Process Podcast, available, in two versions: one shorter "highlights" version, and one longer version: www.creativeprocess.info/interviews25... #aiethics #podcast #philosophy

JOB: 1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy | Uppsala University (Sweden) www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #philosophy #job #PhilosophySky #philsky

Out soon: *Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence*, co-edited by me, @atoosakz.bsky.social & John Zerilli. Out on Jan 21, but preview already available on Google books: books.google.de/books?id=beK... #aiethics

My son (11yo) likes to be given LEGO tasks. Yesterday, I told him to 'make me a philosopher in the style of The School of Athens for my office at the university.' I love how he even captured some Diogenes-like too-cool-for-school. And of course a couple of really excellent NPUs going on. #philosophy

another fascinating podcast on #premodern #atomism ... the interaction between corpuscular philosophy and living nature still remains a huge point in seventeenth-century understanding of nature #seventeenthcentury #Democritus

New podcast for you today: the revival of atomism in the 17th century! We look especially at Gassendi and Basso. www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom... #philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast

New #HoPWaG for you today: The Zhuangzi's critique of dogmatism in argument and politics, which it calls "shi-fei" thinking. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-shi... #philsky #philosophy #podcast #daoism #zhuangzi

How did Avicenna’s legacy ignite a century of philosophical transformation in the Islamic East, reshaping debates on metaphysics, knowledge, and divine freedom? @histphilosophy.bsky.social, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/the-heirs-of... #philosophy

I was interviewed for the Faculti website discussing our project "The Heirs of Avicenna," in which our team here in Munich has been charting the impact of Ibn Sina on the following centuries of philosophy. faculti.net/the-heirs-of...

The newest philosophy podcast episodes! The limits of liberty, the virtue of selfishness, Anselm of Canterbury, the traces of consciousness, Mencius against Mohist impartialism, and more. #philsky #bioethics philosophypodcasthub.substack.com/p/new-episod...

On today's new episode we begin to look at Pierre Gassendi, focusing on the evolution of his thought from skepticism to “baptized Epicureanism.” www.historyofphilosophy.net/gassendi #philsky #podcast #philosophy #earlymodern #gassendi #atomism

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: we meet Pierre Gassendi, who rivaled Descartes as an early French protagonist of the "new science."

University of Helsinki is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Ethics

Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy now published! journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn... #philsky

A dictionary of Sanskrit philosophical terms (Sanskrit-French-English) Jean-Marie Verpoorten, Répertoire des termes sanskrits des Ecoles philosophiques indiennes, Strasbourg, 2025, 751 p. histoire.unistra.fr/websites/his... #SanskritPhilosophy #philsky #philosophy

Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske... #podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy

New open access book on Chinese philosophy by Mike Beaney, focusing on the wonderful "happy fish" passage from the Zhuangzi! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #daoism #zhuangzi #philosophy #openaccess

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky

Coming up on Sunday, we begin to look at everyone's favorite philosophical work from classical China, the Zhuangzi! #hopwag #philsky #daoism #philosophy #podcast

Awaken your senses at Coal Drops Yard with this mini exhibition as part of the Club Curling experience at Kings Cross. A huge thanks to our friends and partners @ip-sas.bsky.social for helping us create these multisensory experiences

Today‘s new episode: French skepticism around the time of Descartes, with a focus on Mothe le Vayer: historyofphilosophy.net/french-skept... #philsky #philosophy #podcast #skepticism

Season 5 of the ENN Podcast is here! Jacinta Shrimpton speaks with Anna Ezekiel on Karoline von Günderrode: her metaphysics, politics, and ideas on self, friendship & gender. Listen here: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html (Also on Podbean, Spotify, iTunes) #WomenPhilosophers #PhilSky

Several chapters of possible interest to history & philosophy of science folks, including Andrew Gregory on Greek ships & cosmology, Sylvia Berryman on ancient automata, Ellen Harlizius-Klück & Giovanni Fanfani on weaving & mathematics, & Harold Terrant on Greek philosophy & science. #HistSTM

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...

#philjobs #philsky

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