John Callanan

Sympathy for the devil A society of industrious anthropomorphic bees spend their lives buzzing around a large and prosperous hive in a flurry of commerce, litigation, deception

“Man-Devil is exceptionally pleasant to read.” We're delighted to see @johnjocallanan.bsky.social reviewed in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social! Read more:

TODAY ON TGS: Our second This Guy Rocked episode featuring Prof. John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social on Bernard Mandeville, a thinker who was so far ahead of his time that his writing got put on trial for it. Very cool.

This Guy Sucked: Bernard Mandeville with John Callanan (Subscriber Preview) Claire and John Callanan explain why Bernard Mandeville is the bee’s knees. That joke might not make sense yet, but it will once you’re done with the episode.GuestOur guest Dr. John Callanan is...

Give ‘er a listen!

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THIS WEEK ON TGS: It’s our second-ever This Guy Rocked episode, featuring John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social! We’ve been absolutely buzzing since we recorded it…

📣 CfA - BSHP Annual Conference 2026
📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026

Keynote Speakers:
• Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)
• Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham)
• Raphael Woolf (King’s College London)

Submission deadline: 30 September

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I reviewed @karlschafer.bsky.social and Nick Stang's great edited collection on Kant on epistemology and metaphysics for Kantian Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

When philosophers of mind bring a thrill of first-personal empirical immediacy to their writing with the line 'Consider the object on my desk in front of me as I write this - it's a coffee cup', it should at least come with an asterisk (*nb - this will be the only empirical example in this book).

Nice review in The Montreal Review

www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Man...

The misunderstood satirist of sin | Patrick West | The Critic Magazine The publication of one book in Britain in the early 18th century scandalised and outraged the nation.

“An engaging, expansive and effortlessly erudite study of a man who today too few people know”

Read more about @johnjocallanan.bsky.social’s Man-Devil in this recent The Critic review: thecritic.co.uk/the-misunder...

We kick off the annual BSHP conference today! Looking forward to welcoming our speakers this afternoon at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics

Kant’s Reason: The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in Kant When Kant wrote the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, he addressed the question of the status of metaphysics itself. It had fallen into low regard i...

Thanks to @johnjocallanan.bsky.social for this extremely generous and incisive review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant...

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by John Callanan

In Man-Devil, @johnjocallanan.bsky.social examines Bernard Mandeville & his famous fable, showing how its contentious claim—that vice was essential to the economic flourishing of any society—formed part of Mandeville’s theory of human nature.

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Thank you for your very generous review- you’re the first 18th Century person to review it, and I really appreciate a Pope person thinkjng about the tricky business of tone of voice….

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy Analytic philosophy is the dominant form of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and beyond, today. What explains its continuing success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can on...

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social

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Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Publication Day! #mandeville @princetonupress.bsky.social

The Oxford Handbook of Kant Abstract. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is a towering figure of Western philosophy, someone whose work continues to exert an influence across all areas of the

ICYMI 📚
The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇
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Many congratulations to Leo Catana on the recent publication of his English translation of Jacob Brucker's Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse and The Socratic School
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Peter Momtchiloff on Thirty Years at OUP Podcast Episode · Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society · 03/01/2025 · 54m

New AS podcast!!
In this episode, we talk with Peter Momtchiloff - former editor for philosophy at Oxford University Press. We get his exclusive insights on his 30 years at the job.

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How Bernard Mandeville Scandalized Europe Bernard Mandeville’s defense of vice.

The first chapter of Man-Devil is excerpted in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, for those with access. #Mandeville www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

‘The wickedest man in Europe’ was just an intellectual provocateur In Paris in 1740 the hangman publicly burned his most famous book. In England some of the best and brightest – Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Bishop George Berkeley, Jonathan Swift and John Wesley – ...

Man-Devil reviewed in The Spectator! #Mandeville www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Our most recent virtual special issue celebrates 300 years since Kant’s death

Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ (Gift Article) Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

This is so disgusting in its details that I had to stop reading before the end. I hope she wins, decisively, and that these reputation murderers are put out of business and banned from society (as used to be said)

Books of the Year 2024 Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2024.

My book on Mandeville gets a kind mention here, hurrah! engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...

We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social

15 Dec 1673: d. Margaret Cavendish, duchess of #Newcastle, author, natural philosopher, who among many other things wrote early Science Fiction #otd (eebo)

Elements of Purity Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Elements of Purity

New free Elements book. Andrew Arana on Mathematical Purity.

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