John Callanan
@johnjocallanan.bsky.social
Philosopher at King's College London - https://johnjcallanan.weebly.com/
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TODAY ON TGS: Our second This Guy Rocked episode featuring Prof. John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social on Bernard Mandeville, a thinker who was so far ahead of his time that his writing got put on trial for it. Very cool.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
TODAY ON TGS: Our second This Guy Rocked episode featuring Prof. John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social on Bernard Mandeville, a thinker who was so far ahead of his time that his writing got put on trial for it. Very cool.
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THIS WEEK ON TGS: It’s our second-ever This Guy Rocked episode, featuring John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social! We’ve been absolutely buzzing since we recorded it…
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
THIS WEEK ON TGS: It’s our second-ever This Guy Rocked episode, featuring John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social! We’ve been absolutely buzzing since we recorded it…
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📣 CfA - BSHP Annual Conference 2026
📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026
Keynote Speakers:
• Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)
• Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham)
• Raphael Woolf (King’s College London)
Submission deadline: 30 September
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📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026
Keynote Speakers:
• Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)
• Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham)
• Raphael Woolf (King’s College London)
Submission deadline: 30 September
More details 👇
June 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📣 CfA - BSHP Annual Conference 2026
📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026
Keynote Speakers:
• Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)
• Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham)
• Raphael Woolf (King’s College London)
Submission deadline: 30 September
More details 👇
📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026
Keynote Speakers:
• Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)
• Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham)
• Raphael Woolf (King’s College London)
Submission deadline: 30 September
More details 👇
I reviewed @karlschafer.bsky.social and Nick Stang's great edited collection on Kant on epistemology and metaphysics for Kantian Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Karl Schaferand Nicholas F. Stang , eds., The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds: New Essays on Kant’s Metaphysics and Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN: 9780199688265 (hbk) $130....
Karl Schaferand Nicholas F. Stang , eds., The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds: New Essays on Kant’s Metaphysics and Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN: 9780199688265 (hbk) $130....
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June 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I reviewed @karlschafer.bsky.social and Nick Stang's great edited collection on Kant on epistemology and metaphysics for Kantian Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When philosophers of mind bring a thrill of first-personal empirical immediacy to their writing with the line 'Consider the object on my desk in front of me as I write this - it's a coffee cup', it should at least come with an asterisk (*nb - this will be the only empirical example in this book).
May 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
When philosophers of mind bring a thrill of first-personal empirical immediacy to their writing with the line 'Consider the object on my desk in front of me as I write this - it's a coffee cup', it should at least come with an asterisk (*nb - this will be the only empirical example in this book).
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“An engaging, expansive and effortlessly erudite study of a man who today too few people know”
Read more about @johnjocallanan.bsky.social’s Man-Devil in this recent The Critic review: thecritic.co.uk/the-misunder...
Read more about @johnjocallanan.bsky.social’s Man-Devil in this recent The Critic review: thecritic.co.uk/the-misunder...
The misunderstood satirist of sin | Patrick West | The Critic Magazine
The publication of one book in Britain in the early 18th century scandalised and outraged the nation.
thecritic.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“An engaging, expansive and effortlessly erudite study of a man who today too few people know”
Read more about @johnjocallanan.bsky.social’s Man-Devil in this recent The Critic review: thecritic.co.uk/the-misunder...
Read more about @johnjocallanan.bsky.social’s Man-Devil in this recent The Critic review: thecritic.co.uk/the-misunder...
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I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will.
April 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will.
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We kick off the annual BSHP conference today! Looking forward to welcoming our speakers this afternoon at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics
April 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We kick off the annual BSHP conference today! Looking forward to welcoming our speakers this afternoon at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics
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Thanks to @johnjocallanan.bsky.social for this extremely generous and incisive review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant...
Kant’s Reason: The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in Kant
When Kant wrote the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, he addressed the question of the status of metaphysics itself. It had fallen into low regard i...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thanks to @johnjocallanan.bsky.social for this extremely generous and incisive review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant...
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In Man-Devil, @johnjocallanan.bsky.social examines Bernard Mandeville & his famous fable, showing how its contentious claim—that vice was essential to the economic flourishing of any society—formed part of Mandeville’s theory of human nature.
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
January 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In Man-Devil, @johnjocallanan.bsky.social examines Bernard Mandeville & his famous fable, showing how its contentious claim—that vice was essential to the economic flourishing of any society—formed part of Mandeville’s theory of human nature.
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social
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A Social History of Analytic Philosophy
Analytic philosophy is the dominant form of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and beyond, today. What explains its continuing success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can on...
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January 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social
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Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Project MUSE - J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters
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January 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Publication Day! #mandeville @princetonupress.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Publication Day! #mandeville @princetonupress.bsky.social
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ICYMI 📚
The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇
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The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇
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The Oxford Handbook of Kant
Abstract. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is a towering figure of Western philosophy, someone whose work continues to exert an influence across all areas of the
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January 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ICYMI 📚
The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Many congratulations to Leo Catana on the recent publication of his English translation of Jacob Brucker's Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse and The Socratic School
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January 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Many congratulations to Leo Catana on the recent publication of his English translation of Jacob Brucker's Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse and The Socratic School
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New AS podcast!!
In this episode, we talk with Peter Momtchiloff - former editor for philosophy at Oxford University Press. We get his exclusive insights on his 30 years at the job.
Listen on Apple podcasts: shorturl.at/zMvVB
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In this episode, we talk with Peter Momtchiloff - former editor for philosophy at Oxford University Press. We get his exclusive insights on his 30 years at the job.
Listen on Apple podcasts: shorturl.at/zMvVB
Or your browser: shorturl.at/FdKs8
Peter Momtchiloff on Thirty Years at OUP
Podcast Episode · Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society · 03/01/2025 · 54m
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January 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New AS podcast!!
In this episode, we talk with Peter Momtchiloff - former editor for philosophy at Oxford University Press. We get his exclusive insights on his 30 years at the job.
Listen on Apple podcasts: shorturl.at/zMvVB
Or your browser: shorturl.at/FdKs8
In this episode, we talk with Peter Momtchiloff - former editor for philosophy at Oxford University Press. We get his exclusive insights on his 30 years at the job.
Listen on Apple podcasts: shorturl.at/zMvVB
Or your browser: shorturl.at/FdKs8
The first chapter of Man-Devil is excerpted in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, for those with access. #Mandeville www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
How Bernard Mandeville Scandalized Europe
Bernard Mandeville’s defense of vice.
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January 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The first chapter of Man-Devil is excerpted in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, for those with access. #Mandeville www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Man-Devil reviewed in The Spectator! #Mandeville www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
‘The wickedest man in Europe’ was just an intellectual provocateur
In Paris in 1740 the hangman publicly burned his most famous book. In England some of the best and brightest – Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Bishop George Berkeley, Jonathan Swift and John Wesley – ...
www.spectator.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Man-Devil reviewed in The Spectator! #Mandeville www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 26, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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Our most recent virtual special issue celebrates 300 years since Kant’s death
Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C
Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C
December 17, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Our most recent virtual special issue celebrates 300 years since Kant’s death
Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C
Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C
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This is so disgusting in its details that I had to stop reading before the end. I hope she wins, decisively, and that these reputation murderers are put out of business and banned from society (as used to be said)
Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ (Gift Article)
Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:57 PM
This is so disgusting in its details that I had to stop reading before the end. I hope she wins, decisively, and that these reputation murderers are put out of business and banned from society (as used to be said)
My book on Mandeville gets a kind mention here, hurrah! engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...
Books of the Year 2024
Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2024.
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December 19, 2024 at 4:48 PM
My book on Mandeville gets a kind mention here, hurrah! engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...
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We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 7:45 AM
We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social