I've got two new articles online: one about the development of Kant's moral philosophy between the first and second Critique (philpapers.org/rec/WALPRF-3) and another about Locke's influence on the German 'popular philosophy' movement (philpapers.org/rec/WALLAP-13). Feedback welcome!

I'm off to Halifax for the Canadian Philosophical Association's annual meeting! I'm speaking on Saturday morning about duties to oneself in early modern philosophy, and judging an ethics bowl in the afternoon. Hope to see lots of Canadian folks there! www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/current

Stephen Darwall (Yale) will be in Milan next week for two exciting events sponsored by the ERC Advanced Grant 18ETHICS - see here (18ethics.unimi.it/stephen-darw...) for more information and the posters below!

CALL FOR PAPERS - 'Duties to Oneself in Modern Moral Philosophy' - Workshop and Special Issue. Please share widely! For more information see here: 18ethics.unimi.it/duties-to-on...

The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place this Friday May 15th at 15:00 (CEST). Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham) will be speaking about: 'From Sentiment to Sentimentality'

In case you missed Aaron Garrett's wonderful presentation of his book project last month as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, the video of the talk is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaMA...

I'm on my way to London this morning for the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. Stefano Bacin and I have organized a panel on 'Early Modern German Ethics' - a surprisingly understudied area! More information and full programme here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

CALL FOR PAPERS - 'Duties to Oneself in Modern Moral Philosophy' - Workshop and Special Issue. Please share widely! For more information see here: 18ethics.unimi.it/duties-to-on...

I'm off to Purdue University this weekend to comment on Patrick Kain's excellent new book on the development of Kant's moral philosophy:

The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place on Friday March 20th at 15:00 (CET). Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) will be speaking about 'Conflict, Sociality, and the State in Pufendorf’s Theory of Natural Law’.

In case you missed Paul Guyer's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar for the History of Modern Moral Philosophy (A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson), it's now on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xR...

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is next Friday Feb. 20. Paul Guyer (Brown) will be speaking about 'A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson'

If you missed Ruth Boeker's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, it's now on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfH...

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is TOMORROW, Friday Jan. 16th. Ruth Boeker (UCD) is speaking about 'Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century'

If you missed Ryan Patrick Hanley's excellent talk (Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy you can now find it on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvj9...

On my way to Zurich and Konstanz to give a couple of talks (on my book and a paper in progress - see below for more details). Looking forward to seeing a few new cities! See: www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/phgz.html and www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/forschung/fa...

The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is meeting again next Friday, Dec. 5th. Ryan Patrick Hanley will be speaking about 'Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry' To register see here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da66e3...

If you missed Jacqueline Taylor's talk (Hume on Modesty, Esteem, and Self-esteem, with Some Insights from Wollstonecraft) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, you can now find it on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Sg...

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is this Friday, Nov. 14th. Jacqueline Taylor (San Francisco) is speaking about 'Hume on Modesty, Esteem and Self-Esteem, with some insights from Wollstonecraft'. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10cec3...

On my way to Regensburg for 'Moral Psychology in the German Enlightenment' - looking forward to chatting with everyone about such a great topic! www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-...

In St. Andrews for a few days to speak at this wonderful event celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Francis Hutcheson's 'Inquiry': www.intellectualhistory.net/ma-stewart-w...

Deadline for these is coming up soon - get in touch if you have questions!

BIG NEWS: I've signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for my next book (and first monograph) called 'Kant and the British Moralists' - a comprehensive account of Kant's relationship to 18th-century British moral philosophy. It should be out in 2027!

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!

Next Friday, Oct. 3 is the launch of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - an online seminar series in connection with the ERC Advanced Grant '18ETHICS'. The inaugural lecture is by Stephen Darwall! More info here: 18ethics.unimi.it/the-milan-se...

New preprint of mine now online: 'Desire in Modern European Philosophy', forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (ed. by Alex Gregory). Includes some discussion of early modern women philosophers on desire! philpapers.org/rec/WALDIM

New review of my translation volume in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy: "Walschots’ study challenges the assumption that systematic philosophy can dispense with historical inquiry." doi.org/10.1080/0960...

The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery

New journal in the history of philosophy! dailynous.com/2025/08/11/n...

Finally got my contributor copy of this great volume - hopefully it will help Baumgarten become a bit more widely known!

As promised, here are translations of the very short texts by Olympe de Gouges I posted last week. Comments are very welcome! (I am also working on annotating as I hope to bring out a small volume of translations of Gouges' political texts). #18Century #FrenchRevolutionTheatre #abolition

To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY. For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments! I'll announce the winner a week from now!

On my way to the Paderborn Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists to present on J.C. Unzer - the first female German philosopher: historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/resear...

Never thought we'd do this but... Use discount code ALGORE for 30% off titles from Theodor Adorno

3-year postdoc on Avicena. The position is part of the ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (ALIVE) jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1...

A reminder that Hypatia publishes translations of important pieces of feminist philosophy from other languages into English, up to the usual word-limit of 10k. Can be a paper or a book chapter, and it's the would-be translator that makes the submission. Scroll down to 'Feminism in translation':

Quite impressive: the Geschichte of the 'Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie' - these are the contents of the 1914 issue (Vol. 1). Now, 111 years later, the journal goes #openaccess. Feel inspired? Find all info about submission & CfPs via the link below. www.degruyter.com/jo...

Well, it’s been a pretty exciting year on the job market for me, but now that the ink is dry, I’m happy to say that starting April 1st (next week!) I'll be joining Stefano Bacin at the University of Milan for 5 years (!) to help run his ERC project on 18th-century ethics!

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie is now open access!

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers? Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

'Kingston University’s acclaimed philosophy centre is set to close under plans to shut the institution’s humanities department – a move that would also end English literature and modern languages courses.' 1/2

My article on Kant and Baumgarten has been assigned an issue!

I wrote something about the 'Buy Canadian' movement and ethical consumerism for @theconversationca.bsky.social - check it out! theconversation.com/buying-canad...

I wrote something about the 'Buy Canadian' movement and ethical consumerism for @theconversationca.bsky.social - check it out! theconversation.com/buying-canad...

The tombs of Boethius and Augustine of Hippo in Pavia, Italy

I'm in Pavia this week giving a series of lectures on Kant's moral philosophy. Super lovely town, and one of its churches has the remains of Augustine of Hippo and Boethius! (San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro)

The job market is tough - so I need comfort food (in this case Lebanese)

Tilda Swinton would make an amazing Immanuel Kant. #PhilosophyBiopics

Just in time for Valentine's Day, a blog entry of mine was just published summarizing my paper in Ergo about Kant's understanding of love: ergoblog.org/the-rational...

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university