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7.30pm 26th March ‘Philosophy Matters to the Public’ - an event at School of Advanced Studies London with the Philosophy Bites team Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds interviewed by Heather Widdows philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev… #philosophymatters
Upcoming online talk about women philosophers in the middle ages:
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/did-w...
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Boom tish! I did do that joke in the podcast already but it bears repeating.
#openaccess until March 20: a book on Theophrastus on First Principles
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Probably because they know they exist?
It's a special occasion this week, as we start to look at Malebranche on #HoPWaG! Starting with his solution to the problem of evil.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/malebranche
#philsky #philosophy #podcast #malebranche
It looks a bit like it could mean the thesis that God does after all play dice?
Funded PhD position for medieval scholasticism:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#philosophyjobs
In tomorrow's new #podcast we'll start to look at the author whose name is synonymous with occasionalism: Malebranche!
Though in this first episode I'll be focusing on his theodicy, with occasionalism coming along in the following episode.
#philsky #malebranche
And for more info about my talks at Berkeley in the coming weeks you can go here:
www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal...
#philsky
I'll be speaking at Stanford on March 31, about logic and language in Islamic philosophy! Here's the info:
events.stanford.edu/event/path-p...
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Day 5 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher and historian Anna Julia Cooper!
Cooper rethought 19th century ideas of progress to define race and foreground women. To quote bell hooks: “one of the first black activists to urge black women to articulate their own experiences.”
#blackhistory
Ha thanks! I was actually more proud of the title for the episode on the Counter-Reformation: "Don't Give Up Pope"
We warmly welcome Theodore R. Brennan @cornelluniversity.bsky.social as #CASFellow. As a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy, he will collaborate with Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social. www.cas.lmu.de/de/personen-...
A student asked me resources to work on a comparison between virtue ethics in Aristotle and in Sanskrit philosophy. Now, let's bracket the problems of comparison in general.
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#Philosophy #philsky #SanskritPhilosophy
LMU Munich's Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson (@histphilosophy.bsky.social), will give a number of talks in California in March & early April. More info here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal... #philosophy
One of the greatest exemplars #MdwNfr was devoted to #MAat (truth, balance, order, law, morality, justice, breath, life): the Sekhti-nefer-medu (#EloquentPeasant).
www.worldhistory.org/article/1127...
www.britishmuseum.org/sites/defaul...
I‘ll ask if the budget will accommodate that. Oh, and the height of the doors.
Here is the poster for my public lecture at Berkeley.
If you're in striking distance, come see me speaking at Berkeley in California in the coming weeks! Info here on the #HoPWaG blog (I will add more links as I get them):
www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal...
#berkeley #philsky #philosophy
New🎙️episode:
Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst) talks about the effects of slavery on enslaved people and the role of those effects in 18th-century antislavery arguments, drawing on voices shaped by lived experience of enslavement and racism #philsky
Listen: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html
Yes good question! I think to answer that one needs to turn to other aspects of the Zhuangzi we've discussed: the idea of learning to shift between perspectives (think about the happy fish passage). So the two paths are not just seen from the outside but fully embraced even if they seem to conflict.
Chinese landscape painting with a sage
It's #HoPWaG time again! Today we look at the theme of "wandering" in the Zhuangzi, comparing this to Thomas Nagel's idea of "philosophical absurdity."
www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-wan...
#philsky #philosophy #podcasts #daoism #zhuangzi
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne#/media/File:Portrait_of_Michel_de_Montaigne,_circa_unknown.jpg
Title page from the first edition of Montaigne's Essais, 1588 Heribert Tenschert Booksellers https://www.heribert-tenschert.com/inventory-printed-books-1/montaigne-essais-first-edition-1588
"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor causes a war betwixt princes."
A timely quotation from Michel de Montaigne, born #OnThisDay in 1533.
#philosophy #essays
#philsky #booksky
Just recorded two episodes tonight: on the French garden (scientific experiments at the Jardin du Roi and the Cartesian philosophy and political ideology shaping formal gardens like the one at Versailles) and on La Rochefoucauld and other "moralists." These will be episodes 493 and 494.
“According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time.” aeon.co/ideas/descar... #person #identity #philsky #PhilosophySky
Last weekend I enjoyed recording two episodes for @bufordrat.bsky.social's excellent Elucidations podcast (elucidations.vercel.app). One episode was on ideas from my book, Evolution and the Machinery of Chance (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). #evosky, #hpbio.
Oh true, that would have been better. I take comfort in the fact that if occasionalism is true, it wasn't me who did it (or in this case, didn't do it).
