My article on Schelling's conception of life and death is now out at European Journal of Philosophy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Life and Death in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature

F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature (Naturphilosophie) has received significant renewed interest and reappraisal. This research has – like the majority of work in the philosophy of nature and t...

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Excited to share something I've been working - A new podcast - The Wednesday Society Have a listen to the trailers, tell me what you think. Even better: subscribe so you don't miss the episodes when they land on 12 August! Launch event details and podcast link in comments.

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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So excited to announce our next conference: The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (4-5th June) Please do join us in Exeter to hear our fantastic speakers explore this fascinating topic Attendance is free but very limited forms.office.com/e/shHr43XuHf #womenshist #philsky

it's happening - my book *Romantic Empiricism* will be out in German in June! Watch out for "Romantischer Empirismus" from Königshausen & Neumann. I'll update with more information as it comes

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

This was special. I got to host ABC's The Philosophers' Zone, in celebration of International Women's Day. And - the best part - I interviewed my good friend Kristin Gjesdal. Hear Kristin (and me) talk about IWD and the woman behind it, Clara Zetkin, here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The reluctant feminist: Clara Zetkin and International Women's Day - ABC listen

Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) is widely celebrated as the founder of International Women's Day, yet she saw herself first and foremost as a socialist revolutionary. Far from embracing the mainstream women'...

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"It is said that his time was easier than ours, but I doubt it — no time can be easy if one is living through it." It is just such a pleasure reading Baldwin writing about Shakespeare (and really about love) www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/11/j...

DEADLINE EXTENSION: FEB. 8, 2026. For The North American Schelling Society (NASS) 9th Annual meeting in Mexico City: CALL FOR PROPOSALS 3-5 June, 2025 SPIRIT & NATURE @marcelagr.bsky.social @kylabruff.bsky.social @benjaminnorris.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social nass9.izt.uam.mx?fbclid=IwdGR...

so pleased that *Romantic Empiricism* is now out in Paperback for a much more reasonable price! *And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years* global.oup.com/academic/pro...

very happy to share my review of Naomi Fisher's excellent book "Schelling's Mystical Platonism," in European Journal of Philosophy *A must-read for anyone interested in Schelling* onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792–1802. By Naomi Fisher Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 248 pp., ISBN: 9780197752883

Click on the article title to read more.

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The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.

I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode - on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop - now online: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Is the experience of beauty slipping away in an age of frictionlessness, speed and AI slop? - ABC listen

The availability of increasingly powerful generative AI tools has radically altered the creative process. Anything that we can imagine can be turned into an image, a video, a text, a song — the proces...

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Very exciting conference coming up in November at University of Notre Dame Australia. Women in the History of Philosophy: On Nature Wednesday 26 – Thursday 27 November 2025

This was a really fun conversation with @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social who was a very generous and thoughtful dialogue partner. Many thanks for your time and all the work you are putting towards bringing (German) philosophy to the fore.

Chris Satoor@nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I am excited to share with you all another episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series featuring @dalianassar.bsky.social who navigates the viewers through her exciting philosophical work & discussing important issues like Knowledge, Aesthetics, Ethics, Nature & Ecology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPur...

Fantastic review of Ellen Hinsey's "Invisible Fugue" by Luke Fischer, Marginalia Rev of Books "...Hinsey’s work attests to the power of the marginalized art form of poetry to awaken our conscience and ignite the creative spark of existence." www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/ellen-h...

The Invisible Fugue: The Poetry and Metaphysics of Ellen Hinsey

LUKE FISCHER | Humanity is caught within the tension of light and dark, heaven and earth, the eternal and time, divinity and mortality. In its philosophical and mystical tenor and its meditations on t...

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The copy edits have started coming in for this! Online publication is scheduled for January-March 2026

Very exciting conference coming up in November at University of Notre Dame Australia. Women in the History of Philosophy: On Nature Wednesday 26 – Thursday 27 November 2025

i was incredibly excited to be published by the hopkins review a few years ago. it was something i’d read since undergrad. if they were looking for a way to suck every dram of good will i had for their press or their university out and spit it into an open sewer, baller move, i guess.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

"[5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib] had weighed over 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) when she was born, her mother said. When she died, she weighed less than 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) ... Zainab was one of [at least] 85 children to die of malnutrition-related causes in Gaza in the past three weeks."

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

Consider applying to the next conference of the East Asian Schelling Network. We’re meeting in Taipei. I’m stoked to be giving a keynote lecture. To the one and all!

【CFP】The 2nd Conference of the East Asia Schelling-Network

The 2nd conference of the East Asia Schelling-Network (EASN) will be held 5-6 March, 2026, at Academ

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If you haven't yet, please take the brief poll about faculty participation in department events at the end of this post. Thanks!

Philosophy Departments as Sites of Collective Intellectual Activities: a Decline? (guest post & poll) - Daily Nous

Has there been "a marked decline in faculty participation in seminars, colloquia, reading groups, and other intellectual gatherings that once formed the core of academic life"? Annalisa Costella (Vrij...

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Tuesday June 24: paysgermaniques.fr/atelier-ecologie-philosophie-du-langage-et-naturphilosophie/

Atelier Écologie, Philosophie du Langage et Naturphilosophie - Pays Germaniques

Cet atelier qui s’inscrit dans un cycle consacré à l’écologie allemande en 2024 et 2025, se propose d’examiner les liens féconds et multiples entre écologie, philosophie du langage et Naturphilosophie...

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Tuesday July 1 at 6pm, in Tübingen at the Villa Köstlin

so many great events coming up - tomorrow first day of the 250 anniversary Schelling conference @badw.de organised by Christoph Binkelmann and Int'l Schelling Gesellschaft. Full program here: schelling.hypotheses.org/files/2025/0...

This upcoming conference (organized by, among others, @alejandrofabregastejeda.com) might be of interest to followers of the #HPBio feed.

i'll be speaking today (28/05) on Humboldt and Schelling at the Philosophisches Seminar in Tübingen - hybrid event - but please email organisers for mtg id and pw more details below uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Oh no ... I am utterly speechless. The, late great, and brilliant Karl Ameriks has passed away. We have lost such a bright star! He was an excellent scholar, historian and Philosopher. :( R. I. P. Dr. Ameriks.

That's a wrap on my series of recent books on women in #philosophy for #womenshistorymonth! You can see them individually in my profile--an impressive list, and I'm sure there are others. If we don't think they're there, we won't look; if we don't look we won't find them. Here's to finding more!

Speaking today (in about an hour) on **Humboldt and Schelling** at the History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought - a hybrid conference, organised by Luis Garcia at Leuven. Join in if you can! hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/event...