Sitting in my newly unpacked study in new house, thinking how pleasant it will be to start working again once everything else is unpacked, I looked at my to do list and saw I have to prepare two indexes next... Will unpack slowly then.

Little flowers

Free speech absolutists

On a scale of 1 to 13.5, how acceptable would it be to use 'Lol' to paraphrase Mary Astell in a big lecture? Asking for a friend.

Really hating that even the word counter app I'm using (to count words not on word docs) is trying to get me to use AI. 'Your text might contain writing issues! Check now!' WTF is a writing issue. And what does it have to do with the number of words?

One reason I find analytic moral philosophy difficult is the examples given, or case studies. They never really convey anything significant. Just read one feat. Turkish (fictional) people. It's a bit racist. And the authors get the names wrong.

Philo-Femmes online seminar Here are two upcoming sessions of the Philo-Femmes online seminar, organized by Eleonora Alfano (McGill University) and Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), whose theme is: And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy : Disciplinary…

APS Franklin Research Grant Program Now Accepting Applications The deadline to request funding for work to commence in February 2026 or after is October 1. This deadline includes the opportunity to apply for the APS/British Academy Fellowship and for top-off funding from the American Trust for the…

Women In Parenthesis: Online Seminar Series 25/6 From philos-l We are excited to announce our 2025-6 Online Seminar Series! Please do join us online for some promising talks and discussion of themes related to the (women) In Parenthesis project. All talks are scheduled for 3pm-4.30pm UK time, and…

Today the clouds deprived us of two shows: the Red Arrows were supposed to fly over but apparently didn't, and the red moon may be rising but all I can see is pinkish clouds 😔

Reading Albertine Disparue for the first time and am quite shocked by what happens in chapter 1. After several volumes of not much happening at all this feels almost cruel on Proust's part.

Julia Wedgwood – a new website Alison Stone, the author of Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain has set up a website about the 19th century philosopher Julia Wedgwood -  It contains lots of her writings on topics including free will and determinism, Darwinism, Christianity,…

Reading through the bibliography for a paper I'm reviewing, I've just discovered a paper of mine I'd no idea I'd written, let alone published. It is very unsettling.

Making moving lists again...

I have paint swatches. I've become the kind of person who is excited about paint swatches. I have coral pink, violet night, and my favourite: enchanted ivy.

Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) – First issue and CFP The inaugural volume of Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is scheduled to publish this Fall. The contents are listed on the website:  Here is a call for papers for the second volume:…

LIBORI SUMMER SCHOOL 2025: THE EARLY WORKS OF ÉMILIE DU CHÂTELET – NOW WITH LINKS TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION From September 8-12, 2025, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists will host the nextLibori Summer School. During this exciting summer school, we will explore the…

Workshop “Cartesian Feminism and Women Cartesians” Workshop “Cartesian Feminism and Women Cartesians” Human Abilities Center, Berlin (Schönhauser Allee 10-11, 10119 Berlin, Germany) October 11th – 12th, 2025 Organizers: Luce deLire, Pedro Pricladnitzky, Ariane Schneck This workshop aims at…

Coming the same week I get emails from two publishers asking if they can feed my work to AI. Do they have a clue what they are doing?

How are academic authors feeling about the AI licensing deals emails? I have had several and while some require me to do nothing if I don't want to be included, others ask me to jump through a number of hoops. And while I'm just inclined to say 'no', I'm feeling very confused about the whole thing.

#gendersky #polisky

This is a galette des rois ! The same type (couronne) that we find in the southwest of France. It even has a bean in it (a fève). And it's an Elizabethan recipe! www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...

“I strove to be a shitty person to impress shitty people and win their admiration and patronage and it turns out shitty people are shitty. I was not expecting that because I am very dim in addition to being shitty.”

Where's the petition to ban JK Rowling from clothes shops?

J.K. Mosley in action.

"The Normanby mega-rat is an outlier – most rats are only 6-11in long." repeat till you no longer want to scream.

I was interviewed by Elodie Pinel for her podcast Un Amour de Sophie, on my work on women philosophers. If you want to hear me talk fast in French click this link : open.spotify.com/episode/3r5Q...

Did Alexis Piron say anywhere that to write good theatre one must have a beard? #18thcentury

I couldn't help myself so I did a round-up of people losing their shit over Justin not doing a public forum about the bad article horselesstelegraph.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/w...

Have you read @sandrineankara.bsky.social's The Nietzsche Affair? (ellipsisimprints.com/the-nietzsch...)? I think you'd love it! (Lou Salomé features in it.)

Today I started two novels that start with the premise of a young woman inheriting money from an aunt. Le repos du guerrier and Safekeep. Who knew that was a thing?

First summer trip back to Turkey after our York move. The températures are higher than they've been in a long while. It's a shock to the system.

A crop of golden women coming up in Paris. Did someone plant the teeth of Medusa?

I suggest a variant 'au revoir les vieux mecs ringards et hello les femmes philosophes engagées' @manongarcia.bsky.social et Elodie Pinel.

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

today in #spamfolder news: I am invited to a forensic science conference (yay!) and to join a golf club (nope).

When Max and I walked in the museum gardens, we saw a sign about the hosepipe ban which had just come in, and as we walked past it got soaked by a perforated hosepipe.

I need #18thcentury #frenchlanguage help again! Ça veut dire quoi 'jeanlorgnerie'???

 Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy  May 13-15, 2026 Emory University Atlanta, Georgia Call for Papers Recent studies of eighteenth-century philosophy have generated incisive questions about the limitations of the moral and political insight of British and European philosophers…

7th Women in Ancient Graeco-Roman Philosophy (7th WiAP) 14th-15th November, 2025, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Call for Abstracts We would like to invite female identifying graduate students and early career researchers (no more than 2years post PhD defense) to submit abstracts for a two-day…

This looks super interesting and very timely by @elispacetime.bsky.social

New call for papers: think.taylorandfranc... Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! What a lovely way to honour our editorial board member Helen De Cruz who was a philosopher, a musician, an artist, and a fiction writer! #philsky

Does anyone have a clue what 'les épaules plates' might mean in the context of bitching about a writer? #18thcentury #olympedegouges

What is the longest one can survive with a beeping fire alarm? (waiting for a screwdriver so I can change the battery)

Grey day on the patio. Painting, drawing and listening to the @academicimp.bsky.social

So apparently we're having a heatwave in the uk. Tell that to the Welsh.

In #borth since early afternoon. We've seen a red kite and were given duck eggs.

Sitting on a train, next to me a teenager has a small handbag on her lap and just pulled out three large paperbacks (they came out easily, no snag). I can also see a laptop with a thick pink cover. Everything back in, bag zipped and there's some slack in it as if it's not full.

Nothing like ending a difficult week and a difficult day with a great email from my editor, who happens to be the very best editor @lucyrandall802.bsky.social !

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