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David Harmon

@1part-harmony.bsky.social
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Associate Lecturer in Early Modern Philosophy, University of St Andrews || Spinoza, Physics, Motion, and Conway ⚪ he/him/his

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Expect a talk with lots of variety (qualitatively speaking). Come for the metaphysics, stay for the mechanics.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Very happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Expansive Necessitarianism," has been published open access in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Turns out when you have a wild metaphysics, as Spinoza does, you also get a pretty wild ontology.
The first page of the article.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I'm happy to share (on Anne Conway's 394th birthday, by coincidence) that my paper, "Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole," has been published in the Journal of Modern Philosophy doi.org/10.25894/jmp...
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Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole
There are passages of Conway’s Principles that treat all of creation as one integrated substance, but others that treat creation as constituted by indefinitely many substances. Recent work attem...
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
disliking Descartes is a character flaw
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Sometimes I regret choosing academia, but then other times I listen to my non-academic wife go "mhm, right" on a work call for 90 minutes straight and realize I made the right choice.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Spam e-mails are getting way too advanced and personally tailored. I just received a message boasting "a new theory of aether." I nearly short-circuited as my early modern brain had to resist clicking the attached .exe file poorly disguised as a .pdf
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bug 🪲 @goblinbugs.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
why does bluey always make me cry wtf
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments! doi.org/10.1017/S003...
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Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies | Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies - Volume 100 Issue 1
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I need to have a kid so that I have a socially respectable reason to watch Bluey.
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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 27/06/2025
this A. I. model trained exclusively on dvd copies of A. I. Artificial Intelligence produced a pixel perfect copy of A. I. Artificial Intelligence on dvd
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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It’s out today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Velvet-purple Coronet #hummingbird at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #colombia #birds #nature
A small bird with a glossy black head and shimmering purple and blue feathers sits alertly on a slender branch.
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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Advance copies arrived 😃😬
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
strong hint of grape in this one
two glasses of wine and a bottle
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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
'm very happy to finally be able to announce the programme for the conference 'Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections.' To register, please use the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... I look forward to meeting you all in May!
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Check out this excellent mode of God or Nature.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Since publishing my first paper, predatory journals have frequently sent me emails. These have always been addressed to "Dr." Harmon, even before I finished my PhD. Since passing my viva, nothing about their epistemic position has changed, but they're now getting it right. Gettier strikes again.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Kind of insane that there's no comic book supervillain whose origin story involves madness brought on by frustration with train wifi.
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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Available open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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God as Moral Anti-Exemplar in Spinoza - Topoi
This paper addresses the question of whether Spinoza subscribes to moral exemplarism, defined as any moral theory including the idea that it is morally good, right, virtuous, praiseworthy, or obligato...
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Theme song for me and the rest of the diabetics.
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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Good morning Bluesky !
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
please excuse me for the next six months while my entire personality becomes this album
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British Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Dr Saloni de Souza (Bath Spa) delivered a fantastic keynote lecture at our annual Conference in Cambridge last week: "Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy" 👇 #philsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...
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Saloni de Souza, 'Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy
YouTube video by British Society for the History of Philosophy
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Just Mike @justmike.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If R2 is short for R2D2, and Chewie is short for Chewbacca, and Ani is short for Anakin, then Luke is short for a stormtrooper.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"easy peasy" goes so hard
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British Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Dr Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews) gave a fantastic keynote talk on 'The Cosmic and the Creaturely' yesterday at our annual conference at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social #philsky bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Many thanks to everyone who came along to my talk at the BSHP today! I've uploaded the script and slides to my Academia.edu, anyone interested should be able to see them here: www.academia.edu/128618008/Ex...
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Extraterrestrials and Ethics in Enlightenment France - Script
Extraterrestrials and Ethics in Enlightenment France - Script
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I am happy to share that I have passed my viva 🥳 so the history of philosophy has now been completed. Well done everyone!
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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My paper for this year's Oxford Spinoza conference has been accepted! I felt a little bit cheeky submitting a paper since I was one of the organisers last year, but it looks like this will be an amazing lineup based on the provisional programme.
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Enrico Galvagni @enricogalvagni.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BSHP starts soon! Looking forward to being part of a fabulous symposium on Mary Midgley (very strongly represented at the conference with 6 talks on her, including a keynote 😱)! Full programme here: bshp.org.uk/site/assets/...
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Meg Gottschall @megottschall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Only a week left to submit to the 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! More details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/... @standrewsphil.bsky.social #philsky
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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Catch me this Friday in Cambridge at the BSHP Annual Conference on 'Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy' with my wacky paper on aliens in the Enlightenment 🙃
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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Today at the Center for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Katherine Snow (Princeton) - ‘Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis’ @ceppa.bsky.social #philosophymatters
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
i have a hot take: i love receiving an email. when outlook dings, i actually get excited.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The entire history of philosophy is basically just the buildup to my viva next week.
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 21/03/2025
Reading about the Dutch Republic. Religious tolerance helped to attract lots of people persecuted in their countries of origin, eg Jews and Quakers. The result was staggering cultural heights. You can't have Spinoza and his influence on Enlightenment without mass migration to major Dutch cities.
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Lina🐸🍄 @linaharmon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
How wide is Mount Everest?
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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Really happy to be able to present my paper on aliens in the Enlightenment, and on a panel with my good friend @1part-harmony.bsky.social too!
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Meg Gottschall @megottschall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We’re one month away from the Arché Graduate Conference submission deadline! Happy to share that Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers) will be joining us as a keynote speaker! More TBA. Looking forward to submissions! #philsky #philosophy
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
omg ♥️♥️♥️ THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON 😍😍😍🥳🎉
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It's not a guarantee, but if you don't like High School Musical 2, then there's a solid chance you and I just won't get along
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Sometimes Duolingo is like "😱 you dropped out of the top 5 in the emerald league." And it's like duo you're literally an owl. Get real.
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Discover @discover.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
An update on the Spinoza and Simone Weil conference: the other organisers and I have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to March 10th, to give anyone who wanted to submit an additional week to prepare their abstracts. See the new CFP below:
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 27/02/2025
I just saw a post alleging that among the “tells” a post is written by ChatGPT is use of an em dash—not to be confused with its younger sibling the en dash, or lil’ baby hyphen—and frankly fuck that. The noble em dash is maybe the most versatile punctuation—I use it constantly.
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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
my dog is afraid of beeps
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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Just 12 days left to submit your papers for the Spinoza and Simone Weil conference, please share far and wide!
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 12/02/2025
me reading a contemporary philosophical position: this is just Locke's view with a paint job me reading historical philosophers: if you look at the change in wording between the fourth and fifth editions of the Essay, he says "by only" instead of "only by", so it's essentially an entirely new view
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Meg Gottschall @megottschall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I’m organizing a conference for philosophy graduate students—The 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! This will be a great opportunity for students to present their work, network, and spend some time on the charming Scottish coastal town, St Andrews! Please share with your network. #philsky
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Christopher Masterman @philosophyjim.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Here's a new paper of mine, forthcoming in Analysis. It's on two ways of making precise the distinction between truth in vs. truth at a possible world. Check it out if that sort of thing floats your boat! philpapers.org/rec/MASTDA-8
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Christopher James Masterman, Two Distinctions about World-Relative Truth - PhilPapers
The distinction between truth in, and truth at, a possible world plays a significant role in many debates in modal metaphysics. In this note, I argue that there are two radically ...
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