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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations, David. Looks like a fascinating book!

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Aug 15

Please say hello for me!

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Aug 14

lol, fair enough about Rorty!

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Aug 14

Agreed! I believe he took that claim from Judith Shklar.

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Aug 7

Can't wait to read this!
(The first two books in this trilogy are exceptionally good, also)

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 7

New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’ll keep my ears open. Does it have to be lefty?

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jul 2

Some people say the biggest gap in research funding is at mid career level. So here is our new call for our mid career fellowship programme which provides buyout for 6 to 12 months to devote to the completion of a major piece of research. Spread the word!
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Mid-Career Fellowships

The Mid-Career Fellowships are designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and soc...

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Jun 30

Another find from Houghton. James’s salary at Harvard (from 1897-1899) topped out at 5k per year!

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Jun 28

Friday night in the Bronx with the fam! #Yankees

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Jun 22

Lawren Harris at MFA Boston

@mfaboston.bsky.social

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Jun 20

First cool find of the morning. Here’s a letter James wrote to his former student, Teddy Roosevelt, dated March 3, 1909 (the penultimate day of his presidency).

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Jun 20

Getting ready to spend the day rummaging through boxes of William James’s papers at Harvard!

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Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · Jun 10

Looking for philosophers to follow on Bluesky? Here are over 2,000 of them on my #philosophy (bsky.app/profile/did:...) and philosophy organisations (bsky.app/profile/did:...) lists! #PhilSky

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · Jun 4

Raymond Geuss on Alasdair MacIntyre

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Raymond Geuss, Storyteller — Sidecar

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).

newleftreview.org

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · Jun 4

Call for submissions!

Richard Rorty Society Panel at the 2026 Eastern APA in Baltimore.

Call for papers for the Richard Rorty Society panel at the upcoming Eastern APA in Baltimore.

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · May 30

Quiet Summer Quad
#UniversityofNevada

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · May 24

Venice Beach

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · May 22

I had the pleasure of revisiting After Virtue recently for a chapter I was writing, and boy oh boy, what a deep and wonderful book.

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre.

The first page of a book chapter by David Rondel on MacIntyre’s critique of liberalism.

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David Rondel @davidrondel.bsky.social · May 15

#TBT to a couple of weeks ago…

Incredible workshop on the philosophy of anxiety at Brown University.

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Sara Protasi @saraprotasi.bsky.social · May 5

If you are an American Philosophical Association member, come chat about "bad" emotions this Thursday at 10am Pacific! @kkthomason.bsky.social and Samir Chopra are the other panelists, and @jdelston.bsky.social will moderate.
#philsky
#philosophy