Michael Walschots
@michaelwalschots.com
Postdoc in philosophy at the University of Milan
Assistant PI: https://18ethics.unimi.it/
Book: https://cambridge.org/9781108810487
Assistant PI: https://18ethics.unimi.it/
Book: https://cambridge.org/9781108810487
The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is this Friday, Nov. 14th. Jacqueline Taylor (San Francisco) is speaking about 'Hume on Modesty, Esteem and Self-Esteem, with some insights from Wollstonecraft'. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10cec3...
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is this Friday, Nov. 14th. Jacqueline Taylor (San Francisco) is speaking about 'Hume on Modesty, Esteem and Self-Esteem, with some insights from Wollstonecraft'. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10cec3...
On my way to Regensburg for 'Moral Psychology in the German Enlightenment' - looking forward to chatting with everyone about such a great topic! www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-...
Moral psychology in German Enlightenment philosophy (November 2025) - Universität Regensburg
www.uni-regensburg.de
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
On my way to Regensburg for 'Moral Psychology in the German Enlightenment' - looking forward to chatting with everyone about such a great topic! www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-...
In St. Andrews for a few days to speak at this wonderful event celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Francis Hutcheson's 'Inquiry': www.intellectualhistory.net/ma-stewart-w...
Dugald Stewart Workshop 2024 — Institute of Intellectual History
In honour of Knud Haakonssen. Roundtable on the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Dugald Stewart
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October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In St. Andrews for a few days to speak at this wonderful event celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Francis Hutcheson's 'Inquiry': www.intellectualhistory.net/ma-stewart-w...
Deadline for these is coming up soon - get in touch if you have questions!
2 Postdoc Positions in Milan!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
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Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
Please share widely!
Two further post-doc positions advertised! - 18ETHICS
Check out the job advertisement @ the University of Milan: https://www.unimi.it/en/node/52925. (Deadline: October 20, 2025.) For queries please contact Stefano Bacin.
18ethics.unimi.it
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Deadline for these is coming up soon - get in touch if you have questions!
BIG NEWS: I've signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for my next book (and first monograph) called 'Kant and the British Moralists' - a comprehensive account of Kant's relationship to 18th-century British moral philosophy. It should be out in 2027!
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
BIG NEWS: I've signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for my next book (and first monograph) called 'Kant and the British Moralists' - a comprehensive account of Kant's relationship to 18th-century British moral philosophy. It should be out in 2027!
2 Postdoc Positions in Milan!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
Please share widely!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
Please share widely!
Two further post-doc positions advertised! - 18ETHICS
Check out the job advertisement @ the University of Milan: https://www.unimi.it/en/node/52925. (Deadline: October 20, 2025.) For queries please contact Stefano Bacin.
18ethics.unimi.it
September 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
2 Postdoc Positions in Milan!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
Please share widely!
Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-...
Please share widely!
Next Friday, Oct. 3 is the launch of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - an online seminar series in connection with the ERC Advanced Grant '18ETHICS'. The inaugural lecture is by Stephen Darwall! More info here: 18ethics.unimi.it/the-milan-se...
The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - 18ETHICS
The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is a regular event series covering topics in the history of moral philosophy from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with a special focus on the 18th century.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Next Friday, Oct. 3 is the launch of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - an online seminar series in connection with the ERC Advanced Grant '18ETHICS'. The inaugural lecture is by Stephen Darwall! More info here: 18ethics.unimi.it/the-milan-se...
New preprint of mine now online: 'Desire in Modern European Philosophy', forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (ed. by Alex Gregory). Includes some discussion of early modern women philosophers on desire!
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Michael Walschots, Desire in Modern European Philosophy - PhilPapers
The nature of desire, the way in which it is distinct from other mental states, and the role it plays in action (to name just a few central topics) are common ...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
New preprint of mine now online: 'Desire in Modern European Philosophy', forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (ed. by Alex Gregory). Includes some discussion of early modern women philosophers on desire!
philpapers.org/rec/WALDIM
philpapers.org/rec/WALDIM
New review of my translation volume in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy: "Walschots’ study challenges the assumption that systematic philosophy can dispense with historical inquiry." doi.org/10.1080/0960...
Kant’s critique of practical reason: background source materials
Published in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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August 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New review of my translation volume in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy: "Walschots’ study challenges the assumption that systematic philosophy can dispense with historical inquiry." doi.org/10.1080/0960...
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The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery
August 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery
New journal in the history of philosophy! dailynous.com/2025/08/11/n...
New: Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy - Daily Nous
Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is a new, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal's focus is "leading-edge research relating to new narratives in any pe...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
New journal in the history of philosophy! dailynous.com/2025/08/11/n...
Finally got my contributor copy of this great volume - hopefully it will help Baumgarten become a bit more widely known!
August 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Finally got my contributor copy of this great volume - hopefully it will help Baumgarten become a bit more widely known!
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As promised, here are translations of the very short texts by Olympe de Gouges I posted last week. Comments are very welcome! (I am also working on annotating as I hope to bring out a small volume of translations of Gouges' political texts). #18Century #FrenchRevolutionTheatre #abolition
Staging Abolition: Gouge's Letters to the Press
Olympe de Gouges wrote her first abolitionist play, Zamore et Mirza, ou l'Heureux Naufrage in 1784 (she started working on it some years earlier), before the creation of either the English or the...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
As promised, here are translations of the very short texts by Olympe de Gouges I posted last week. Comments are very welcome! (I am also working on annotating as I hope to bring out a small volume of translations of Gouges' political texts). #18Century #FrenchRevolutionTheatre #abolition
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To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY.
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
June 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY.
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
On my way to the Paderborn Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists to present on J.C. Unzer - the first female German philosopher: historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/resear...
Events for May 2025 - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
On my way to the Paderborn Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists to present on J.C. Unzer - the first female German philosopher: historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/resear...
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Never thought we'd do this but...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Never thought we'd do this but...
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3-year postdoc on Avicena. The position is part of the ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (ALIVE)
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jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1...
Research Associate/Postdoc (f/m/x) for 3 years at the ERC-Project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation”
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April 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
3-year postdoc on Avicena. The position is part of the ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (ALIVE)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1...
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1...
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A reminder that Hypatia publishes translations of important pieces of feminist philosophy from other languages into English, up to the usual word-limit of 10k. Can be a paper or a book chapter, and it's the would-be translator that makes the submission. Scroll down to 'Feminism in translation':
submission guidelines - hypatia
Hypatia welcomes original papers on all topics in feminist philosophy. The Hypatia mission statement emphasizes a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and accessibility. We cannot consider manuscripts ...
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April 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A reminder that Hypatia publishes translations of important pieces of feminist philosophy from other languages into English, up to the usual word-limit of 10k. Can be a paper or a book chapter, and it's the would-be translator that makes the submission. Scroll down to 'Feminism in translation':
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Quite impressive: the Geschichte of the 'Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie' -
these are the contents of the 1914 issue (Vol. 1). Now, 111 years later, the journal goes #openaccess. Feel inspired? Find all info about submission & CfPs via the link below.
www.degruyter.com/jo...
these are the contents of the 1914 issue (Vol. 1). Now, 111 years later, the journal goes #openaccess. Feel inspired? Find all info about submission & CfPs via the link below.
www.degruyter.com/jo...
March 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Quite impressive: the Geschichte of the 'Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie' -
these are the contents of the 1914 issue (Vol. 1). Now, 111 years later, the journal goes #openaccess. Feel inspired? Find all info about submission & CfPs via the link below.
www.degruyter.com/jo...
these are the contents of the 1914 issue (Vol. 1). Now, 111 years later, the journal goes #openaccess. Feel inspired? Find all info about submission & CfPs via the link below.
www.degruyter.com/jo...
Well, it’s been a pretty exciting year on the job market for me, but now that the ink is dry, I’m happy to say that starting April 1st (next week!) I'll be joining Stefano Bacin at the University of Milan for 5 years (!) to help run his ERC project on 18th-century ethics!
March 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Well, it’s been a pretty exciting year on the job market for me, but now that the ink is dry, I’m happy to say that starting April 1st (next week!) I'll be joining Stefano Bacin at the University of Milan for 5 years (!) to help run his ERC project on 18th-century ethics!
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie is now open access!
🔓 Another #openaccess milestone! We're proud to announce that a further 37 journals in our DG20 Subscribe to Open portfolio have flipped to open access, making all 58 participating journals – and approximately 2,300 research articles – freely available to the global scholarly community now.
March 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie is now open access!
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Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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'Kingston University’s acclaimed philosophy centre is set to close under plans to shut the institution’s humanities department – a move that would also end English literature and modern languages courses.' 1/2
Kingston axes philosophy centre in humanities department shutdown
Staff and students fight to save famed unit, transferred from Middlesex University in 2010
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
'Kingston University’s acclaimed philosophy centre is set to close under plans to shut the institution’s humanities department – a move that would also end English literature and modern languages courses.' 1/2
My article on Kant and Baumgarten has been assigned an issue!
New issue of Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Vol. 107, No. 1 (2025) www.degruyter.com/journal/key/... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social @philcorkum.bsky.social @michaelwalschots.com
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Volume 107 Issue 1
Volume 107, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie was published in 2025.
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March 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My article on Kant and Baumgarten has been assigned an issue!
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I wrote something about the 'Buy Canadian' movement and ethical consumerism for @theconversationca.bsky.social - check it out! theconversation.com/buying-canad...
‘Buying Canadian’ is an opportunity to reflect on the ethics of consumerism
Most of us as consumers decide what to buy based on the price and quality of goods. But our values play a role in our decision-making: what we buy and where we buy it is influenced by our beliefs.
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February 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I wrote something about the 'Buy Canadian' movement and ethical consumerism for @theconversationca.bsky.social - check it out! theconversation.com/buying-canad...