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chris shambaugh

@cshambaugh.bsky.social
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phil phd at the University of Oregon. 19th century German philosophy and philosophy of biology. he/him. cshambaugh.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Silvia Federici, The Development of Lukacs' Realism - Minor Compositions, April 2027 (print and open access) www.minorcompositions.info/the-developm... Thanks to @morton.bsky.social n for the link. Open access pdf available now. archive.org/details/the-...
Cover of book in shades of brown with photograph of Federici smoking a cigarette
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite. Novalis
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rödl's forthcoming metaethical treatise looks epic too: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Good and Evil — Harvard University Press
An agenda-setting account of the foundation of ethics that brings together Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, analytic metaethics, and existential thought.The meaning of the good is the oldest problem in moral p...
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Very excited for this guide to the history of Darwinian evolutionary biology from David Depew. It sheds great light on the creative power of natural selection, while offering characteristically insightful analyses of Darwinism's profound implications for science, society, philosophy, and politics.
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Darwinism
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Darwinism
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Symphilosophie @symphilosophie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Issue 8 (2026) of SYMPHILOSOPHIE on "Symphilosophizing" is now published!! 320 pages of new research on German romantic philosophy fully open access: symphilosophie.com/issue-8-2026/ It's a special issue of the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2025 at University of Bonn.
cover of symphilosophie journal issue 8 on the topic of symphilosophizing in German romanticism with a photo of a sculpture by Eduardo Chillida called De Musica IV in Bonn city centre.
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their back which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping. | Woolf
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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great new open access book by Pim Edelaar: "The Selective Organism: An Expanded Theory of Adaptive Evolution" Check it out here: academic.oup.com/book/63165?l... #HPBio #PhilSci
Front cover of the book "The selective organism: An expanded theory of adaptive evolution" by Pim Edelaar.
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Critical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
MARGIN NOTES 2 IS OUT! Featuring original contributions from J. E. Morain and CTWG alongside translations of texts by Georg Lukács, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Julius Schaxel, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno—all appearing here in English for the first time! ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/3_p... 👇🧵
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
False clarity is only another name for myth. | Adorno and Horkheimer
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Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lily Hu reviews A Social History of Analytic Philosophy in Mind academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
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A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy, by Christoph Schuringa
Frankly speaking, the analytic philosopher can be a bit of an insufferable asshole. Into every conversation, on any conceivable topic, he enters with a con
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nothing is known in biology that dictates the limits of human social organization or individual fulfillment. Claims to the contrary must be regarded with extreme suspicion, for they usually turn out to benefit their authors. | Lewontin
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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ever-inspiring Wimsatt -- on philosophy, its role, and the standards it should meet. That philosophy should help us "do science," that philosophers need to understand the language and practice of science, and that philosophical work should have "normative force" (p. 26). #philsci #philsky #HPS
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The cell is Hegelian 'being in itself’ and its development follows the Hegelian process step by step right up to the final emergence of the 'idea'—i.e. each completed organism. | Engels
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Giulia Valpione @hope-msca.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Only a few weeks to go until the publication of my book: "The Romantic Self: Sovereignty and the Politics of Nature"!🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Nothing is more characteristic than that precisely this most intimate and mysterious affair, the working of the weather on humans, should have become the theme of their emptiest chatter. | Benjamin
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A common interest in rhythm is still the tie which holds science and art in kinship. | Dewey
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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On Persistence
A bold meditation on endurance as interruption rather than progress, offering a radical rethinking of time, agency, and survival.  On Persistence is an exploration into the elusive, unruly force of en...
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Dalia Nassar @dalianassar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My article on Schelling's conception of life and death is now out at European Journal of Philosophy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Life and Death in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature
F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature (Naturphilosophie) has received significant renewed interest and reappraisal. This research has – like the majority of work in the philosophy of nature and t...
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Life is nothing other than a productivity held back from the absolute transition into a product. The absolute transition into product is death. That which interrupts productivity, therefore, sustains life. | Schelling
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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Read Marjorie Grene! The interview, her autobiography ("A Philosophical Testament"), as well as her work! She is quoted in my senses book (pre-revision, there was a longer section on her, but the word limit made cuts necessary). The woman was 🔥 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
We can pin posts now! Here's mine—please check out my new book, _The Land Is Our Community Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_, available for purchase or free #OpenAccess download from UChicago Press. 🌱🐋 🌎 #EnvHist #EnvHums press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Land Is Our Community
A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservati...
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The form has a better claim than the matter to be called nature. | Aristotle
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology July 18-23, 2027: ISHPSSB conference in Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 💃🏻 October 15, 2026: Submissions deadline / Fecha límite para el envío de propuestas #HPS #evobio #paleosky #STS
Pink sunset sky over vibrant city View of Avenida 9 de Julio with the Obelisk at the center and the Río de la Plata in the background
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...
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Anna Ezekiel @annaezekiel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A little while ago, Alison Stone wrote a lovely guest blog on the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe - check it out for free here: acezekiel.com/2022/08/04/w...
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Why We Should Read Frances Power Cobbe as a Philosopher – Guest Blog by Alison Stone
Until recently, women were systematically excluded from the history of philosophy – so systematically that it used to be assumed that there were no women philosophers in the past. Women have …
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The whole of organic nature is one continuous proof of the identity or inseparability of form and content. Morphological and physiological phenomena, form and function, mutually determine one another. | Engels
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It is only by a real hallucination that the separate parts of our body appear to be sensitive; for it is our entire being that feels or rather undergoes a general effect, on the stimulus of some affective cause. | Lamarck
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We are very excited to share our latest 📄 (@philsci.bsky.social): a revamped version of #nicheconstruction theory that captures the evolutionary consequences of organismic activities beyond changes in selection. We call it the 'Matrix Account' 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30043/ #evobio #HPS #hpbio
Promotional poster for an academic paper titled “The Matrix Account of Niche Construction” by Grant Ramsey and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The background features cascading green code on a black field, visually evoking the aesthetic of the film The Matrix. Curved white text at the top left reads, “A Ramsey & Fabregas-Tejeda Production,” while matching curved text at the top right reads, “Appearing Soon in Philosophy of Science.” Centered near the bottom, the stylized Matrix logo appears above the subtitle “Account of,” followed by the large title “Niche Construction” in white serif lettering.
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
nice place to read a great book. congrats again! @alejandrofabregastejeda.com
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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I'm very excited to share my book, Natural Lection, with you all! A deconstruction of "cultural evolution" and notions of nature/culture that circulate in the sciences and the humanities:
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m happy to share that our book proposal has been accepted in Routledge’s History and Philosophy of Biology series! I’m so excited and honored to be co-editing the volume - titled Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin - with Jonathan Basile and Denis Walsh.
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Another great paper on phenomenology and science by @themispant.bsky.social and @haraldwiltsche.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The life-world as the empirical basis of science - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
The empirical foundation of science has often been characterised in terms of the observable-unobservable distinction, developed either syntactically, as a set of statements, or semantically, as aspect...
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Flexibility is the hallmark of human evolution. If humans evolved, as I believe, by neoteny, then we are, in a more than metaphorical sense, permanent children. | Gould
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Dissertation defended! Feeling very grateful for all the support from my committee, colleagues, friends, and family
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 12/05/2026
It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky
Photograph of the book The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal (MIT Press, 2026) displayed on a small wooden easel. The green cover features multicolored title text and an image of a monarch butterfly resting on pink milkweed flowers, layered over a larger pale-green butterfly silhouette. The spine, visible at an angle, repeats the title and author’s name, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. Softly blurred purple-and-white flowers appear in the background.
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Anatarah عنترة @damashummus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is a good book. I’ve been having a bunch of fun reading it. If you want to be a “left-Aristotelian,” it’s a must read!
Pictured is the cover of “The History and Philosophy of Materialism” Edited by Charles T. Wolfe and John Symons
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
What are your laws and systems compared with a bird that knows how to build its nest and fills the warm summer nights with songs? Or compared with a flower, or in comparison with the world that forms in and around a flowering tree? | von Arnim
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Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It's Karl Marx's Birthday today (He'd be 208). And by a happy coincidence, it's also the publication day of my book, Flourishing Together Karl Marx's Vision of the Good Society. academic.oup.com/book/62523
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Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society
Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th
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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We're very happy to announce a new lecture series organized by Sergei Shevchenko. It reconsiders Soviet biology as a science of life changing together with its milieu. The four lectures take place online via zoom in May and June. Information and registration 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
Program of the online lecture series, entitled "Soviet Biology in Changing Environments: Nature Knowledge, and Life under Transformation". More information about the series and the possibility for registration for the individual lectures can be found here: https://rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture-series/lecture-series-soviet-biology-in-changing-environments-nature-knowledge-and-life-under-transformation/
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The blank between life and death does not come in place of an and or an is. | Derrida
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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@karenkyng.bsky.social reviewing @vcwills.bsky.social 's Marx's Ethical Vision ( @academic.oup.com ) for Constellations. bit.ly/41KTpPi
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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
You can still register for tomorrow's talk in our Lecture Series: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... Alejandra Petino Zappala will talk about canalization, stabilizing selection and evolution. It's a hybrid talk, so come around if you're at RUB! If not, see you on zoom!🤗 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio
Poster for the talk by Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr-University Bochum), entitled "Canalization, Stabilizing Selection and Evolution: A Case of Conceptual Gatekeeping in 20th Century Evolutionary Biology?". It will take place on Thursday, 30 April 2026, at 6 pm (CET) via Zoom and in person in room GA 3/143.
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 28/04/2026
The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋
Promotional graphic on a beige background for the book The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The title appears in large black text on the left, while a 3D rendering of the book stands on the right, showing a green cover with a monarch butterfly on pink milkweed and a faint butterfly silhouette encircling them. The logo of MIT Press sits in the lower left corner.
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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
My paper on metabolic rift is out in @histmat.bsky.social! The piece develops the notion of self-consciousness implicit in the concept of rift. Against Moore & others, I argue that overcoming dualism requires accounting for human distinctiveness, not relinquishing it: brill.com/view/journal...
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
back to the basics
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Philippe huneman @philippehune.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I was thrilled to read this great review of my book Death by Gordon McOuat in the JHB Thanks Gordon ! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philbio #histbio #philsci #evobio #aging
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Philippe Huneman: Death: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology - Journal of the History of Biology
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Love only wants to change, not wither… it will hunt down what is excellent. | Günderrode
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KLI @kli.ac.at · 10/04/2026
Join our KLI Colloquium: "A Metaphysics for Dialectical Biology" Speaker: Denis WALSH (University of Toronto) 🕒 16 April 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)
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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next week, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... We look forward to seeing you there 🤗 #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci
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