We need philosophers because they teach us how to think deeply and clearly about the most fundamental questions: what matters, what’s true, and how we should live. #TalkAboutHumanities
Antonio S. Borge
@asalgadoborge.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham|| Treasurer of the British Society for the History of Philosophy || Co-chair UK Spinoza Circle || 🇲🇽
The UK Spinoza Circle Presents: Leonardo Moauro April 17th, 4pm UK Link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk
The UK Spinoza Circle presents: Karolina Hübner–Spinoza's ontology of ideas: affirmation and existence. March 13th, 16:00 (UK Time) Zoom link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk
The UK Spinoza Circle presents: Karolina Hübner–Spinoza's ontology of ideas: affirmation and existence. March 13th, 16:00 (UK Time) Zoom link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk
The UK Spinoza Circle presents Clare Carlisle: Revisiting scientia intuitiva February 13, 16:00 (UK Time) Zoom link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk
The London Spinoza Circle has been reborn as the UK Spinoza Circle, thanks to the hard work of @asalgadoborge.bsky.social. Please see the website here to sign up and for info on the first event, happening this Friday! www.spinozacircle.co.uk
UK Spinoza Circle | A Monthly Online Workshop
Formerly known as the London Spinoza Circle, the UK Spinoza Circle is an ongoing monthly workshop open to academics, postgraduates and graduate students.
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The UK Spinoza Circle presents: Michael Della Rocca: Broad Humeanism and the Ethics of Radical Monism: Spinoza and Hume January 16, 16:00 (UK Time) Zoom link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk
Exciting new article by @1part-harmony.bsky.social !! jmphil.org/article/id/2...
Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole
There are passages of Conway’s Principles that treat all of creation as one integrated substance, but others that treat creation as constituted by indefinitely many substances. Recent work attem...
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The cognitive content to thought “will not survive the transplantation if its lush environment is not rebuilt for it upon arrival.” Another great text by @axdouglas.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/axdougla...
Academic Philosophers and “Writing Clearly”
The word is flesh
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II’m very excited to announce that the UK Spinoza Circle (formerly known as the London Spinoza Circle) will be relaunching in 2026, exclusively online, with a fantastic line-up!! More information coming soon... www.spinozacircle.co.uk Chairs: Antonio S. Borge, Clare Carlisle, Alexander Douglas.
Excited for our autumn 2026 series of the Penelope Mackie research seminars! #philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun
RESEARCH! @asalgadoborge.bsky.social spoke at Heidelberg this week on the Distinction between Modes and Propria. #philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #history #talk
RESEARCH! @asalgadoborge.bsky.social on Spinoza, God, parts, and attributes! Read: tinyurl.com/je3k66ju (open access). #philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #god #metaphysics
Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊
One is the brilliant #EllieRobson @philosophellie.bsky.social on #MaryMidgley and #Animals! Not to be missed and again, what an incredible resource and gift #PhilosophyBites is #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social #Midgley
Nigel Warburton@nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 12mo agoJust released - two new episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - listen here (and soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.philosophybites etc) Philosophybites.libsyn.com
I really enjoyed my conversation with David, who asked very deep and difficult questions!
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · last yr.NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For the final ep in our current series on the history of bad ideas, David talks to philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social about the damage that can be done by the idea of identity. Why is the search for a distinctive personal identity a futile quest? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Exciting new book on Cartesianism, featuring my wife and others! Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic. www.routledge.com/Cartesianism...
Cartesianism and Philosophy of Mind
This book explores themes in the philosophy of mind as they emerge within the early modern Cartesian tradition. It brings together thirteen contributions from international scholars, to provide a fine...
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New blog post: Peter Thiel in Locksley Hall open.substack.com/pub/axdougla...
Peter Thiel in Locksley Hall
Dip into the future, far as human eye can see
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Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments! doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies | Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies - Volume 100 Issue 1
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I'm very happy to share that my paper 'Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes" has been published today at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes
In this paper, I argue for a novel defence of the view that attributes are numerically distinct for Spinoza, which, contrary to paradigmatic objectivist readings, does not contradict his substance ...
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I’m organizing a conference for philosophy graduate students—The 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! This will be a great opportunity for students to present their work, network, and spend some time on the charming Scottish coastal town, St Andrews! Please share with your network. #philsky
📣 The BSHP has several funding schemes and fellowships with an upcoming deadline: *31st January 2025* The BSHP offers one Postgraduate and one Postdoctoral Fellowship annually. These are worth £4000 and £6000, respectively. More information 👇 bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...
BSHP Fellowships | British Society for the History of Philosophy
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Teotihuacan was first constructed with palaces that indicate social hierarchy. But, at some point, the citizens began “supplying high-quality apartments for nearly all the city’s population, regardless of wealth,” David Graeber and David Wengrow write.
Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out
A contrarian account of our prehistory argues that cities once flourished without rulers and rules—and still could.
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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon, which includes my entry on Spinoza's Absolute, is now available! It features entries from incredible scholars whose work has influenced mine and whom I admire deeply. I'm truly grateful to the editors, Karolina Hübner and Justin Steinberg, for their invitation.
Thanks, AI. So far Kristin seems to be on pretty solid ground.
