New podcast episode: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html Mary Purcell talks with Anik Waldow (U. of Sydney) about the life & philosophy of Marie de Gournay (1565–1645), incl. Gournay’s views on alliances and human flourishing, reason and virtue, self-identity, and intellectual courage.

Podcast

The New Voices podcast consists of conversations about women philosophers and individuals from other groups who have been underrepresented in the history of European and Western philosophy: their...

newnarrativesinphilosophy.net

'Ô muse, dis moi l' homme aux mille tours' is the first line of the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman, Anne Dacier in 1716. She had previously translated the Iliad in 1699. And she got involved in a controversy, much like the current Nolan vs Wilson one #QuerelleD'Homer

What a disgusting despicable little country we are Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving smallholders and poor districts of Adana to cope with the debris, microplastics and toxic smoke www.theguardian.com/environment/... #environment #plastics #pollution #labour

‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem

Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving smallholders and poor districts of Adana to cope with the debris, microplastics and toxic smoke

theguardian.com

"sa patisserie, ses confitures, ses liqueurs, tout étoit d’un goût exquis. Elle savoit même faire du pain excellent." Was Madame Dacier, famous translator of Greek and Latin texts, a closet tradwife?

Rome, 1829, Castiglioni has been chosen as the new pope! I'm very excited by this (retrospectively) because hopefully it means Châteaubriant will stop rabbiting on about the conclave now.

There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.

R&R process in ten easy steps: 1) these comments are perfectly reasonable and helpful 2) the reviewer hates me and all the nice things they say are code for 'go away and never write again' 3) I don't think I can do this. I'm not qualified. I'm never going to get it right.

Has anyone compiled material from the Sons of Africa? I've spent ages tracking one letter, in a journal called Diary: woodfall's register, 25 avril 1788, 2. It seems to be available at the BL, but also it apparently started in 1789. ???? Going a little crazy. #18thcentury #abolition

Burnham - I'm going to tax the rich, and lower bus tickets. Good use of the extra taxes, Andy! - no I was thinking I'd dip into the aid budget. 🤦

Open Access Book on Julia Wedgewood, by Alison Stone. New open access book by Alison Stone on Julia Wedgewood:  Julia Wedgwood (1833–1913) was a major intellectual presence in the Victorian period, yet her philosophical work has long remained overlooked. This book offers the first sustained study…

Open Access Book on Julia Wedgewood, by Alison Stone.

New open access book by Alison Stone on Julia Wedgewood:  Julia Wedgwood (1833–1913) was a major intellectual presence in the Victorian period, yet her philosophical work has long remained overlooked. This book offers the first sustained study of her philosophy, recovering a distinctive and original framework centred on what she called the ‘law of imperfect antithesis’. Drawing on both published texts and newly attributed anonymous essays, it reconstructs the unity of her thought across ethics, metaphysics, religion, and history.

feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com

10th Anniversary of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists When: Monday 27th of July 2026. Starting at 9.30am (Berlin time zone) Where: Online via Zoom or in Presence at Paderborn University, L-Builduing Pohlweg 57, 33098 Paderborn Since its foundation in 2016 by Prof. Dr…

10th Anniversary of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

When: Monday 27th of July 2026. Starting at 9.30am (Berlin time zone) Where: Online via Zoom or in Presence at Paderborn University, L-Builduing Pohlweg 57, 33098 Paderborn Since its foundation in 2016 by Prof. Dr Ruth E. Hagengruber with the support of Svenja Schulze, then Minister for Science and Innovation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Center has developed into an internationally recognised illuminating exemplar of research.

feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com

Walked into a book shop today and came out with this.

Starting to work on a new book, as part of my project on slavery and abolitionism. It feels harder than the books I've written before. I've decided to keep a diary of the writing process. But it's handwritten, so I'll probably never be able to read it.

Just met abolition historian Jim Walvin and now recovering from exposure to extreme knowledge. I need to remind myself that I'm only a philosopher so that on the whole I don't need to know things.

#Philosophy #philsky conference venue in Whitby?

Très très fière de faire partie de cette anthologie sur les femmes philosophes.

New Anthology of Women Philosophers

I'm very proud to be part of this beautiful volume, edited by Anne-Lise Rey, containing over 1000 pages of texts by women philosophers and commentaries on them by women and men philosophers. AryMS02_tabmatDownload You can purchase it using this form: AryMS02_publiciteDownload

feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com

New book on Louise Keralio Robert Vicki Mistacco who has been writing on Louise de Keralio for a long time, has just published a book on her with OUP: Louise de Keralio, Enlightenment Intellectual 06 May 2026 Available in print: 04 June 2026 Online ISBN: 9780198988342Print ISBN: 9780198988311 This…

New book on Louise Keralio Robert

Vicki Mistacco who has been writing on Louise de Keralio for a long time, has just published a book on her with OUP: Louise de Keralio, Enlightenment Intellectual 06 May 2026 Available in print: 04 June 2026 Online ISBN: 9780198988342Print ISBN: 9780198988311 This is available now on OUP, and if you don't have access, please consider ordering it for your university library!

feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com

New attempts at lino printing, from a ginkgo leaf I picked up at Trinity College Dublin

This looks like a great book. Perhaps especially interesting for those who work on #Wollstonecraft because it features some of her cronies, Helen Maria Williams and Margaret King!

Alexis Wolf@dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My book is on sale! It is a beautiful thing to hold in your hands. boydellandbrewer.com/book/transna...

Just discovered that Susanna Strickland, who recorded (and edited) Mary Prince's Slave Narrative became Susanna Moodie. In her memoir @margaretatwood.bsky.social she says Moodie wrote about the woman who became the heroine of Alias Grace. Turns out she was rather good at documenting women's lives.

Just saw a Thomas Mann quote on fb: 'a writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.' And I hate it. Why should the fact that I find writing easier than any other mode of being make me not a writer? I suppose he'd say it makes me a hack. Arsehole.

Has anyone received the latest AI rights message from CUP? This is basically what it says:

I discovered lino printing!

My phone is probably haunted. I'm listening to a downloaded album of Groover Washington Junior and the second track is Musical Youth, Pass the dutchie on the left hand side 🤣

Welsh MI5

OK Andy, I get that you want to work from home. But who's going to look after the n10 cat?!

hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/c...

CFP The Hobbes Scholars International Association

Visit the post for more.

hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com

Is everyone fed up with so-called AI 'improvements' to favourite apps yet? @evernote.bsky.social added that, but basic things no longer work. If I try to open a note it systematically opens the one I read last. And that's just after a big price increase!

Currently revising a paper, and I keep wanting to add sentences like 'It was hot, on the day that Wilberforce brought the petitions to Parliament'. Or 'Elizabeth Anderson argues that, despite the extreme heat, the movement was a success'.

Another lovely surprise today at the Women and the Nordic Enlightenment conference. This one is to take home and signed by the author 😍