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Michael Walschots

@michaelwalschots.com

Postdoc in philosophy at the University of Milan Assistant PI: https://18ethics.unimi.it/ Book: https://cambridge.org/9781108810487

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Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 5d ago

Before unplugging for a few weeks, I want to share a few cool pieces of news: 1. I’m going to be editing the ‘Kaehler Manuscript’ (student notes from Kant’s lectures on ethics during the 1770s) for the Academy Edition of Kant’s collected works(!); and

Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 3mo ago

The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place this Friday May 15th at 15:00 (CEST). Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham) will be speaking about: 'From Sentiment to Sentimentality'

Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 3mo ago

I'm on my way to London this morning for the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. Stefano Bacin and I have organized a panel on 'Early Modern German Ethics' - a surprisingly understudied area! More information and full programme here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

BSHP Annual Conference | UK | Women in the History of Philosophy | 23 – 25 April 2020 | University of Durham | British Society for the History of Philosophy

The BSHP Annual Conference, at which the Annual General Meeting is held, usually takes place in the spring at a UK university. Normally, in even-numbered years, we hold themed conferences, and in odd-...

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Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 5mo ago

The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place on Friday March 20th at 15:00 (CET). Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) will be speaking about 'Conflict, Sociality, and the State in Pufendorf’s Theory of Natural Law’.

Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 6mo ago

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is next Friday Feb. 20. Paul Guyer (Brown) will be speaking about 'A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson'

Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 7mo ago

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is TOMORROW, Friday Jan. 16th. Ruth Boeker (UCD) is speaking about 'Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century'

Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 10mo ago

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-... Please share widely!

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.

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Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 11mo ago

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.

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Michael Walschots@michaelwalschots.com · 11mo ago

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 ...

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