Wow counting down the days... 😂 #leibniz #philosophy

Next week's talk will be on Sanskrit epistemology (on Gaṅgeśa) by Jack Beaulieu: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... #GlobalPhilosophy #Philosophy #philsky

Just published: "Seven Classical Perspectives for Islam and Science" edited by Shoaib Ahmed Malik, free to download as #openaccess: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

My brilliant former Phd student G. Fay Edwards has started up a podcast on Alexander the Great! Check it out here: alexanderthegreatpodcast.com/episodes/dea...

Neugierig auf #Philosophie, aber kein Profi? 🧐 Dann sind unsere denXte-Abende genau das Richtige! 🌟 Im Sommer 2026 möchten wir mit Euch #interaktiv philosophieren & laden Euch ein, an aktuellen philosophischen Debatten teilzunehmen: 3 Philosoph:innen, 3 Gedankenexperimente, Eure Entscheidung!🤝 1/4

Discussing #FrantzFanon on #PhilosophyBites philosophybites.com/podcast/lewi... #Fanon

Join us today for a special episode in the China series: to celebrate reaching the milestone of 50 episodes we look back at Warring States thought with the help of Bryan Van Norden! www.historyofphilosophy.net/warring-stat... #philsky #philosophy #podcasts #chinesephilosophy

To celebrate reaching fifty episodes in this series, Karyn Lai and Peter Adamson of the @histphilosophy.bsky.social podcast chat with a leading scholar of Chinese philosophy, Bryan W. Van Norden about Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism. www.historyofphilosophy.net/warring-stat...

Coming up in a few hours on #HoPWaG: Karyn and I speak to Bryan Van Norden, one of the most prominent and eloquent interpreters of Chinese philosophy! We ask him, among other things, how should we convince skeptics to make the effort to investigate non-European philosophical traditions?

Is God unable to stop Manchester City from winning trophies, and thus not omnipotent, or unwilling, and thus morally bankrupt? I assume He knows about it because it's, like, on the news all the time. #philsky

Out now: I am thrilled that my new book - *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction* - has just been published by Hackett. Available from all major book sellers. #aiethics #philosophy #ethicsofai

Today's new #HoPWaG episode looks at the occasionalism of Malebranche: why did he think that God is the only cause that can make anything happen? His arguments are surprisingly good as it turns out... www.historyofphilosophy.net/malebranche-... #philsky #philosophy #malebranche #podcasts

Here's an interview I did recently with the Responsability podcast, on intercultural philosophy: responsability.transistor.fm/episodes/27-... #philsky #philosophy #podcasts

If you can get to Berkeley this Saturday join us for a workshop on grounding in the history of philosophy! I'll be talking about grounding in Neoplatonism. events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/3...

Funded PhD position to work with the Averroes edition project in Cologne (fun fact: this is the same city as Köln, which I only belatedly figured out when I moved to Germany, which was very embarassing): averroes.uni-koeln.de/call-for-app...

Tomorrow at Deutsches Museum Kārin Nicklesen, Tamar Novick and I host Greg Radick, who will reflect on how history & #philsci in framing key concepts through the example of his book Disputing Inheritance. If in Munich, come join this brilliant discussion! www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/home/...

Just published: a volume in honor of the great Neoplatonism scholar Paul Kalligas! I have a piece in it about Iamblichus and Proclus and how they read Plato's Alcibiades. brill.com/display/titl... #philosophy #philsky #neoplatonism

Hey Californians, come on down to see me speak at Berkeley this evening! I'll be talking about "The Anatomy of Avicenna's Philosophy" (no online participation, sorry, but please come in person if you can): events.berkeley.edu/cmes/event/3...

"Macht AI unser Leben besser – oder nur bequemer, Prof. Sven Nyholm?" - new podcast interview w/ LMU Prof. Sven Nyholm (in German) on the #digdeep podcast hosted by Frauke Kreuter & Christof Horn: digdeep.de/2026/03/12/m... #aiethics #podcast #philosophy

Peter Adamson finally found the ideal guest! PA: "So, the Zhaungzi is unthinkable without Confucius" H-GM: "Yes, but this is true of every philosopher. No philosopher is thinkable without the philosophers they were reacting to" #Philosophy #philsky #methodology

Today's new #HoPWaG episode: an interview with Hans-Georg Moeller on humor and amoral ethics in a Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi - and its relation to Confucianism and Legalism. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-moe... #philsky #philosophy #zhuangzi #daoism #podcast

Coming up on tomorrow's new #HoPWaG episode, we talk to Hans-Georg Moeller about humor, talking animals, and "genuine pretending" in the Daoist classic, "Zhuangzi."

👉️ Philosophy Colloquium! Tuesday 17th March 2026 @weareceu.bsky.social Fundamentality of Physics without Completeness with Alyssa Ney (LMU München). @alyssaney.bsky.social More info here: buff.ly/fSB7hLF #philevent #philsky #philtalk #physics

Submissions (< 10,000 words) invited for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Topic Celebrating 300th anniversary of 3rd ed. Newton’s Principia. www.duchateletprize.org Winner will receive $1000, workshop & SHPS pub Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD Deadline September 1, 2026 #HPS

You can say that again! brill.com/display/titl... This is #openaccess by the way so you can download it and just skim through to get an idea. #philsky

Looks like there were excellent discussions on #logic in the medieval Islamic world. 😊

Happy to announce that the book I wrote with Ahmed Alwishah on the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World is finally out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

What can we perceive? External objects? Qualia? Substances? Cognitions? Kumārila on the topic (comments welcome!) elisafreschi.com/2026/03/11/k... #Philosophy #philsky

Love this! Huge thanks to Anna and Katie for making a brilliant thinker more accessible For more on Zetkin, this wonderful podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... #philsky #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth @kristingjesdal.bsky.social @herplacepod.bsky.social @ennhistphil.bsky.social

Are you an early-career philosopher hoping to reach beyond academia with your writing? We’re thrilled to be introducing the Aeon Philosophy Prize – a unique opportunity to receive editorial mentorship and see your ideas reach global audiences. Open for applications today buff.ly/p47BrKe

Upcoming online talk about women philosophers in the middle ages: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/did-w... #philsky

#openaccess until March 20: a book on Theophrastus on First Principles www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky

Probably because they know they exist?

It's a special occasion this week, as we start to look at Malebranche on #HoPWaG! Starting with his solution to the problem of evil. www.historyofphilosophy.net/malebranche #philsky #philosophy #podcast #malebranche

Funded PhD position for medieval scholasticism: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philosophyjobs

In tomorrow's new #podcast we'll start to look at the author whose name is synonymous with occasionalism: Malebranche! Though in this first episode I'll be focusing on his theodicy, with occasionalism coming along in the following episode. #philsky #malebranche

I'll be speaking at Stanford on March 31, about logic and language in Islamic philosophy! Here's the info: events.stanford.edu/event/path-p... #philsky

Day 5 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher and historian Anna Julia Cooper! Cooper rethought 19th century ideas of progress to define race and foreground women. To quote bell hooks: “one of the first black activists to urge black women to articulate their own experiences.” #blackhistory

We warmly welcome Theodore R. Brennan @cornelluniversity.bsky.social as #CASFellow. As a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy, he will collaborate with Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social. www.cas.lmu.de/de/personen-...

A student asked me resources to work on a comparison between virtue ethics in Aristotle and in Sanskrit philosophy. Now, let's bracket the problems of comparison in general. 1/ #Philosophy #philsky #SanskritPhilosophy

LMU Munich's Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson (@histphilosophy.bsky.social), will give a number of talks in California in March & early April. More info here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal... #philosophy

One of the greatest exemplars #MdwNfr was devoted to #MAat (truth, balance, order, law, morality, justice, breath, life): the Sekhti-nefer-medu (#EloquentPeasant). www.worldhistory.org/article/1127... www.britishmuseum.org/sites/defaul...

If you're in striking distance, come see me speaking at Berkeley in California in the coming weeks! Info here on the #HoPWaG blog (I will add more links as I get them): www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal... #berkeley #philsky #philosophy

New🎙️episode: Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst) talks about the effects of slavery on enslaved people and the role of those effects in 18th-century antislavery arguments, drawing on voices shaped by lived experience of enslavement and racism #philsky Listen: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html

It's #HoPWaG time again! Today we look at the theme of "wandering" in the Zhuangzi, comparing this to Thomas Nagel's idea of "philosophical absurdity." www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-wan... #philsky #philosophy #podcasts #daoism #zhuangzi

"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor causes a war betwixt princes." A timely quotation from Michel de Montaigne, born #OnThisDay in 1533. #philosophy #essays #philsky #booksky

Just recorded two episodes tonight: on the French garden (scientific experiments at the Jardin du Roi and the Cartesian philosophy and political ideology shaping formal gardens like the one at Versailles) and on La Rochefoucauld and other "moralists." These will be episodes 493 and 494.

“According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time.” aeon.co/ideas/descar... #person #identity #philsky #PhilosophySky