CALL FOR PAPERS - 'Duties to Oneself in Modern Moral Philosophy' - Workshop and Special Issue. Please share widely! For more information see here: 18ethics.unimi.it/duties-to-on...

I'm off to Purdue University this weekend to comment on Patrick Kain's excellent new book on the development of Kant's moral philosophy:

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The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place on Friday March 20th at 15:00 (CET). Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) will be speaking about 'Conflict, Sociality, and the State in Pufendorf’s Theory of Natural Law’.

Paul Guyer - A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson YouTube video by 18ETHICS

In case you missed Paul Guyer's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar for the History of Modern Moral Philosophy (A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson), it's now on our YouTube channel:
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The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is next Friday Feb. 20. Paul Guyer (Brown) will be speaking about 'A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson'

Ruth Boeker - Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the 18th Century YouTube video by 18ETHICS

If you missed Ruth Boeker's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, it's now on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfH...

18ETHICS 18ETHICS - Ethics and Moral Life in the 18th Century An ERC-funded research project led by Stefano Bacin in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan

For past talks, check out our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@18ETHICS

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The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is TOMORROW, Friday Jan. 16th. Ruth Boeker (UCD) is speaking about 'Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century'

Ryan Patrick Hanley - Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry YouTube video by 18ETHICS

If you missed Ryan Patrick Hanley's excellent talk (Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy you can now find it on our YouTube channel:
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On my way to Zurich and Konstanz to give a couple of talks (on my book and a paper in progress - see below for more details). Looking forward to seeing a few new cities!
See:
www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/phgz.html
and
www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/forschung/fa...

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The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is meeting again next Friday, Dec. 5th. Ryan Patrick Hanley will be speaking about 'Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry' To register see here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da66e3...

Jacqueline Taylor - Hume on Modesty, Esteem, and Self-esteem, with Some Insights from Wollstonecraft YouTube video by 18ETHICS

If you missed Jacqueline Taylor's talk (Hume on Modesty, Esteem, and Self-esteem, with Some Insights from Wollstonecraft) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, you can now find it on YouTube here:
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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-...

Dugald Stewart Workshop 2024 — Institute of Intellectual History In honour of Knud Haakonssen. Roundtable on the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Dugald Stewart

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!

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-...

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For at least 5 years! If you're ever in the area, please let me know!

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...

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 ...

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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Kant’s critique of practical reason: background source materials Published in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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...

cover of the forthcoming anthology Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500–1765

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 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...

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!

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...

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

Wonderful! De Gouges is underrated