Jordan Walters
@jdtw.bsky.social
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford.
Some exciting news: Starting July 2027, I’ll be joining the University of Western Australia as a Lecturer in Philosophy! Thanks to everyone for all the support along the way. Time to go celebrate with friends and family over the holidays. 😀
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Some exciting news: Starting July 2027, I’ll be joining the University of Western Australia as a Lecturer in Philosophy! Thanks to everyone for all the support along the way. Time to go celebrate with friends and family over the holidays. 😀
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‘According to the philosophical account Taylor draws on, the articulations of poetry are as fully capable of disclosing the existential significance of human life as the words of philosophers or saints.’
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Mulhall · Self-Interpreting Animals
New linguistic articulations can reconfigure the way we make sense of our own feelings, thoughts and responses – our...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
‘According to the philosophical account Taylor draws on, the articulations of poetry are as fully capable of disclosing the existential significance of human life as the words of philosophers or saints.’
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Just finished. Highly recommended! Felt timely too. Last Montreal summer.
July 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just finished. Highly recommended! Felt timely too. Last Montreal summer.
Life update: I’ll be heading to Oxford as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow from September 2025-2027! Thanks to many, many people for all the support along the way. Sad to leave McGill and Montreal. Life is nearly perfect here. But I’m looking forward to life in Oxford.
June 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Life update: I’ll be heading to Oxford as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow from September 2025-2027! Thanks to many, many people for all the support along the way. Sad to leave McGill and Montreal. Life is nearly perfect here. But I’m looking forward to life in Oxford.
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New from Jordan Walters
Nonideal Theory as Ideology
30(1) Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 74-97
www.jesp.org/index.php/je...
Nonideal Theory as Ideology
30(1) Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 74-97
www.jesp.org/index.php/je...
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
In the wake of the nonideal theory turn in political philosophy, few have paused to ask: Is nonideal theory a form of ideology? And perhaps even fewer have paused to ask: Is the debate between ideal/n...
www.jesp.org
March 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
New from Jordan Walters
Nonideal Theory as Ideology
30(1) Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 74-97
www.jesp.org/index.php/je...
Nonideal Theory as Ideology
30(1) Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 74-97
www.jesp.org/index.php/je...
Reposted by Jordan Walters
I spent more than a year working on this SEP entry on ideology, and I actually think it is some of the best work I've ever done.
There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...
There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...
Ideology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
March 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I spent more than a year working on this SEP entry on ideology, and I actually think it is some of the best work I've ever done.
There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...
There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...
Montreal Bach Festival :)
December 1, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Montreal Bach Festival :)
Really enjoying this so far!
November 24, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Really enjoying this so far!
Thrilled that my paper “Non-ideal Theory as Ideology” has just been accepted at the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Link to preprint: philpapers.org/archive/WALN...
November 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Thrilled that my paper “Non-ideal Theory as Ideology” has just been accepted at the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Link to preprint: philpapers.org/archive/WALN...
Keith Thomas on his writing process.
February 12, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Keith Thomas on his writing process.
Just read this again. So good!
January 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Just read this again. So good!
Top 10 books of 2023.
December 31, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Top 10 books of 2023.
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The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series presents
Emily Nacol
University of Toronto Mississauga
A "More Onerous Citizenship": Political Theory in Plague Time
Thursday, January 18, 2024
4:30-6 pm
Thomson House, @mcgillu.bsky.social
registrater:
www.facebook.com/events/11978...
Emily Nacol
University of Toronto Mississauga
A "More Onerous Citizenship": Political Theory in Plague Time
Thursday, January 18, 2024
4:30-6 pm
Thomson House, @mcgillu.bsky.social
registrater:
www.facebook.com/events/11978...
December 22, 2023 at 12:49 PM
The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series presents
Emily Nacol
University of Toronto Mississauga
A "More Onerous Citizenship": Political Theory in Plague Time
Thursday, January 18, 2024
4:30-6 pm
Thomson House, @mcgillu.bsky.social
registrater:
www.facebook.com/events/11978...
Emily Nacol
University of Toronto Mississauga
A "More Onerous Citizenship": Political Theory in Plague Time
Thursday, January 18, 2024
4:30-6 pm
Thomson House, @mcgillu.bsky.social
registrater:
www.facebook.com/events/11978...
Always pays to reread Williams.
November 14, 2023 at 2:43 PM
Always pays to reread Williams.
Funny joke from Richard Rorty:
October 26, 2023 at 2:46 PM
Funny joke from Richard Rorty:
Lovely fall colours at McGill
October 23, 2023 at 8:13 PM
Lovely fall colours at McGill