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Matteo Mameli
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Philosopher at King’s College London - Philosophy Department

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Matteo Mameli @matteomameli.bsky.social · Nov 19
Thanks to Tim Lewens and BJPS for this wonderful review. A lot for me to think about!
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Join us next Friday 21 for a roundtable on John McCormick's excellent new book The People's Princes at King's College London w/ comments by David Wootton (York), Lawrence Hamilton (Cambridge) & myself. There will be wine & great conversation on leadership & politics
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November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Very pleased to be giving keynote: ‘Duties to Posterity and the “Me Generation”’ at the KCL Public Policy Graduate Conference on Nov 26th.

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KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 2025
Graduate conference at King's College London on November 26, 2025. PPE for Public Policy.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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histphilosophy.bsky.social
Today's new #HoPWaG: the famous "Art of War" by Sunzi (or Sun Tzu, if you prefer), and its surprising links to Daoism!

www.historyofphilosophy.net/sunzi-art-of...

#artofwar #daoism #philsky #philosophy #podcast
Chinese terracotta army
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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davidmabb.bsky.social
“Historical Materialism Book Cover Design: The Politics of Form in Modernist Pattern Design”, is published by the Journal of William Morris Studies Volume XXVI Nos 1-2 2025 is available in print from the William Morris Society, a pre-copyedited version is here
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October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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davidmabb.bsky.social
‘One Hundred Historical Materialism Book Cover Designs’ as part of a panel on ‘Communist and Socialist Aesthetics: The Early Twentieth Century and Its Legacies’ at the London Historical Materialism Conference conference.historicalmaterialism.org
Sunday 9th November 12.00-13.45 if you are there.
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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histmat.bsky.social
Now online: 'Marx and Engels as Polyglots', by Kaan Kangal.
Marx and Engels as Polyglots - Historical Materialism
Karl Marx’s 1852 work The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte opens with the famous remark that men ‘make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please.’[1] He goes on to argue tha...
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August 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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histmat.bsky.social
Now online: 'Young Marx and the Wood-Theft Debates in Prussian Rhineland in the Early Nineteenth Century' by Kaan Kangal – and featuring this nineteenth-century caricature of Marx as Prometheus bound to a printing machine, published in the Rheinische Zeitung.

Essay: brill.com/view/journal...
A nineteenth-century black and white caricature of Karl Marx, showing him bound to a printing machine and pecked by an imperial eagle. Crushed beneath the printing machine, six female figures, each representing a different German city (such as Trier, Dusseldorf, and Aachen), wail in despair. The eagle has its foot tied, the string leading to the upper-left corner, where it is held by a squirrel.
August 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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lisabortolotti.com
Super happy to receive my first paper in French, with @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social and @matteomameli.bsky.social, on confabulation and conspiracy theories, in a book entitled “Les fables de l’homme”. Thanks David Simonin for leading the project and translating the paper. #philsky #philpsy
Lisa with book The start of the chapter Le renard et le hibou: confabulation, conspirations et regulation de soi Back of the book explaining the project on human fables
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Truly and deeply honoured
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The Deutscher Prize on X: "🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat" / X
🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat
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November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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alybatt.bsky.social
and looking forward to joining HM panels for great new books by @brunoleipold.com, @michaellazarus.bsky.social, and @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social, plus some musings on state theory...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Eva Mameli Calvino, la botánica italiana que dio importancia a algas, musgos y flores
Eva Mameli Calvino, la botánica italiana que dio importancia a algas, musgos y flores - Mujeres con ciencia
Eva Mameli Calvino. Botánica. Algas. Musgos. Plantas medicinales. Liquenología. Micología. Fisiología vegetal. Plantas ornamentales. Fitopatología. Floricultura.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
An evaluation of the concept of innateness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The concept of innateness is often used in explanations and classifications of biological and cognitive traits. But does this concept have a legitimate role to play in contemporary scientific discours...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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michelamassimi.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @eenphilsci.bsky.social and especially @tmarvan.bsky.social and @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social for a terrific program — and what a treat the historical retrospective on the Vienna Circle and the profound legacies of Eastern European philosophy in the plenary panel! 🤩 many thanks all 👏
danielkostic.bsky.social Daniel Kostic @danielkostic.bsky.social · 8d
What a successful kick-off of the PSA around the World - Eastern Europe! So many super interesting talks. Kudos to @tmarvan.bsky.social, @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social, @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social for such a great job at organizing it! Looking forward to the next one on 14 Nov.
annaalexandrova.bsky.social Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 28d
Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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New paper! @matteomameli.bsky.social and I comment on Neil Van Leeuwen's book, Religion as Make Believe. Spoiler: doxasticism still rocks! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky
On evidential vulnerability and compartmentalization
Published in Religion, Brain & Behavior (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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tomaashby.bsky.social
Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)
The title page The first page of "Of Man" with extensive marginalia
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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davidbatherwoods.bsky.social
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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stuartelden.bsky.social
Roman Jakobson’s paper to The First World Conference on Yiddish Studies, 1958: “The Languages of the Diaspora as a Particular Linguistic Problem”

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Roman Jakobson’s paper to The First World Conference on Yiddish Studies, 1958: “The Languages of the Diaspora as a Particular Linguistic Problem”
In an earlier piece in the ‘Sunday Histories’ series, I discussed the work Roman Jakobson did for Franz Boas on the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Librar…
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October 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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stuartelden.bsky.social
Just learned that Edward Said was born 90 years ago today - one day after David Harvey. Here's a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career - progressivegeographies.com/2025/05/25/t...
The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift
Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s lit…
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November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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stuartelden.bsky.social
Daniel James and Franz Knappik, Hegel and Colonialism - Cambridge University Press, October 2025 - print and open access
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Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
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November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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michaellazarus.bsky.social
Podcast on my book:
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October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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barrycsmith.bsky.social
The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute Nayef Al-Rodhan book prize is Prof Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social . Commiserations and apologies @jonathanbirch.bsky.social
barrycsmith.bsky.social Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d
The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize is @jonathanbirch.bsky.social for his book, The Edge of Sentience. Congratulations! And bravo for the vision speech about how philosophy is changing
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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birchlse.bsky.social
Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!
Nayef Al-Rodhan book prize trophy.
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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bprainsack.bsky.social
My new book will be out in February!

"States of Solidarity: How to Build a Society" treats solidarity not as an abstract ideal, but as a practice that can hold societies together and help with today’s defining challenges: Climate crisis, democratic erosion, and the rise of AI

Link 👇
October 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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histphilosophy.bsky.social
Thanks Barry!
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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barrycsmith.bsky.social
Purists in philosophy forget that even their heroes knew and contributed to science. Worth hearing how much Descartes contributed by listening to the excellent podcast by @histphilosophy.bsky.social
histphilosophy.bsky.social Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 26d
Today's new episode: Cartesian Science!

From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc...

#hopwag #philsky #descartes #historyofscience #podcasts
Early modern diagram of the brain
October 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM