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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 6d

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!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 13d

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-...

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Two further post-doc positions advertised! - 18ETHICS

Check out the job advertisement @ the University of Milan: https://www.unimi.it/en/node/52925. (Deadline: October 20, 2025.) For queries please contact Stefano Bacin.

18ethics.unimi.it

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 15d

For at least 5 years! If you're ever in the area, please let me know!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 15d

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...

The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - 18ETHICS

The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is a regular event series covering topics in the history of moral philosophy from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with a special focus on the 18th century.

18ethics.unimi.it

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Sep 5

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

Michael Walschots, Desire in Modern European Philosophy - PhilPapers

The nature of desire, the way in which it is distinct from other mental states, and the role it plays in action (to name just a few central topics) are common ...

philpapers.org

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Aug 20

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...

Kant’s critique of practical reason: background source materials

Published in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

cover of the forthcoming anthology Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500–1765

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Aug 12

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

New: Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy - Daily Nous

Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is a new, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal's focus is "leading-edge research relating to new narratives in any pe...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Aug 7

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

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Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

Staging Abolition: Gouge's Letters to the Press

Olympe de Gouges wrote her first abolitionist play, Zamore et Mirza, ou l'Heureux Naufrage in 1784 (she started working on it some years earlier), before the creation of either the English or the...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Jun 26

Wonderful! De Gouges is underrated

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · Jun 19

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!

Emily Herring's book Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People outside on a wooden table in front of a nice floral backdrop

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Jun 20

@drbommer.bsky.social you know about this book?

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · May 5

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...

Events for May 2025 - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

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historyofwomenphilosophers.org

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · May 1

Can you read the whole book for free on google books? If so that is only possible because there is no copyright

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · May 1

… what is the screenshot of? A book from 1740 is outside copyright and in the public domain

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Apr 24

Never thought we'd do this but...

Use discount code ALGORE for 30% off titles from Theodor Adorno

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Apr 23

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · Apr 24

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...

Research Associate/Postdoc (f/m/x) for 3 years at the ERC-Project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation”

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Apr 10

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':

submission guidelines - hypatia

Hypatia welcomes original papers on all topics in feminist philosophy. The Hypatia mission statement emphasizes a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and accessibility. We cannot consider manuscripts ...

hypatiaphilosophy.org

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De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · Mar 27

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...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Mar 24

Haha I’ll add you to the list!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Mar 24

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!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Mar 19

Ah yes but have you heard the rage about the new trend: where you’re established enough to be regularly invited but still need to submit to get a job so you’re constantly over-worked? It’s the best

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Mar 19

Wow cool!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · Mar 17

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie is now open access!

De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · Mar 14

🔓 Another #openaccess milestone! We're proud to announce that a further 37 journals in our DG20 Subscribe to Open portfolio have flipped to open access, making all 58 participating journals – and approximately 2,300 research articles – freely available to the global scholarly community now.

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