On October 29, 1969, computer scientists at #UCLA (in 3420 Boelter Hall) sent the first Internet message to a team at Stanford. See a handful of images about that #Internethistory courtesy of @uclasamueli.bsky.social -> samueli.ucla.edu/internet50-p... #histstm #ARPANET

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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A new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial age.

Postcolonial Global Justice by Shuk Ying Chan is out now (14 Oct UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript

We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇

It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...

6/6 See also the full issue to which this article contributed, a groundbreaking special issue (& subsequently a book) on "Conceptions of Space in Intellectual History" edited by Daniel S. Allemann, Anton Jäger, Valentina Mann tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/3/2

Friends in #BuddhistStudies, do read Oliver Freiberger's fabulous new piece, "Qualities of Distinction," here, the author argues that we need to seriously reconsider what practices were foundational to early Indian Buddhism.

Free for download here: www.academia.edu/143337761/Qu...

Some will have noticed that I’ve quoted a fair amount of Richard Wollheim in the last eight years. That’s how long it has taken me to find the time to put this together: coming soon!

Call for Papers – Voltaire in the Baltic World: Circulations, Receptions, Legacies

Our colleague Sophie Turner is organising this exciting conference in Tarttu, Estonia, next year, which the Voltaire Foundation is supporting.

www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

A good read, with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. on.ft.com/41jGBiY

The April 2025 issue of ETHICS is now available on the University of Chicago Press site: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/2025/... #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

"..when ideas are neglected by those who ought to attend to them -that is to say, those who have been trained to think critically about ideas- they sometime acquire an unchecked momentum and an irresistible power over multitudes of men that may grow too violent to be affected by rational criticism"

1) It's book release week for "The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract," which I have co-edited with my colleague, Matthew W. Maguire.