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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For anybody interested in philosophy and its history, this is podcast is for you. If podcasts aren’t your thing, he has been publishing book versions of the series. They are wonderful overviews and intros to philosophical texts. And the no gaps approach is real but not unreasonable.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 18h

My article "Women of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophy" is available open access - it offers a syllabus on the topic with discussion of my thinking in putting it together. Hope it will prove useful! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #philosophy

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Women of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophy

This paper reflects on experiences teaching courses on women thinkers from antiquity and the medieval period. The discussion is built around a proposed syllabus (similar to one used in teaching at ...

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LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Professor Peter Adamson's original History of Philosophy without any Gaps podcast series has reached 500 episodes: historyofphilosophy.net See also Prof. Adamson's spin-off series on the Histories of Africana Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Classical Indian Philosophy. #podcast #philosophy #nogaps

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Home | History of Philosophy without any gaps

Podcast by Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich and KCL London. Includes western, Islamic, Indian, and Africana philsosophy.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Congratulations Peter on HoPWAG episode 500 🥳🍾🙌 and filling in a gap with an episode on Sappho! #philsky 🏺 #AncientBluesky

A well-known portrait of Sappho from Pompeii, Insula Occidentalis.
55-79 AD from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (photo by me).

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As of today the original #HoPWAG series has reached 500 episodes! Thanks to all who have listened and the many who have supported the series over the years, not least all the interview guests. #philsky #podcast #philosophy

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello from Toronto, where HoPWaG co-author Jonardon Ganeri brought me to this "paraconsistent cafe", as he put it. #philsky #impossibleworlds

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The History of Philosophy in China is back from summer break, with a new interview podcast episode: we talk to archeologist Alice Yao about what her discipline can tell historians of philosophy about the Han Dynasty. historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/chin... #philsky #podcast #handynasty #archeology

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen (@lmu.de) is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics #postdoc #philsky #metaphysics

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen (@lmu.de) is hiring: PhD Student in Metaphysical Questions Related to Quantum Physics #phd #philsky #metaphysicsofquantumphysics

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: we talk to Alice Yao, a real live archeologist, to learn what archeology can tell us about the culture of the Han dynasty and why historians of philosophers should take an interest!

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️🐧 @redkagami.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"This Gland is Your Gland" goes hard

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes even the title page of a book can tell a story: "Pierre Le Blanc à Villefranche" is a false publishing imprint used by the Dutch publisher Abraham Wolfgang who also left Bayle’s name off of the title page to shield both himself and the author from French authorities. #booksky

Title page from a 341 year old book by refugee Pierre Bayle who believed forcing people to believe a certain way was a violation of conscience. "Les
Nouvelles lettres de l'auteur de la Critique générale de l'histoire du calvinisme."

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“What is this author thinking, to judge his neighbor's conscience in such a way?” My copy of a 📕 by French philosopher Pierre Bayle that he wrote in 1685, the same year as the revocation of the edict of Nantes, as a follow-up critique of Maimbourg’s Histoire du Calvinism & a defense of tolerance.

A page from a 341 year old book by refugee Pierre Bayle who believed forcing people to believe a certain way was a violation of conscience. Text is in French and a side note in Latin.

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Jason Chen @chenphilosophy.com · 13/09/2026

The newest philosophy podcast episodes! Basics of legalism from ancient China, is eating meat wrong, taking down the cultural elite, on solitude, Xunzi on human nature, and more. #philosophydiscussion philosophypodcasthub.substack.com/p/new-episod...

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New Episodes 9/6/26 - 9/12/26

Basics of legalism from ancient China, is eating meat wrong, taking down the cultural elite, on solitude, Xunzi on human nature, and more.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 14/09/2026

For other #philosophy resources on Bluesky, see the links below, additional feeds on my profile, and the new @philosophy.eurosky.social lists. #PhilSky

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh, what did Delaware, boy, what did Delaware? What did Delaware, boy, what did Delaware? She wore a brand New Jersey, she wore a brand New Jersey She wore a brand New Jersey, that's what she did wear. - Perry Como, "Delware" (it goes on in a similar vein)

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We're back! Summer break is over and we're starting up again with an exciting episode, in which we look at Bayle on religious toleration and the emergence of stunningly frank works on atheism like "Theophrastus Redivivus." tinyurl.com/5drh6vvb #philsky #podcast #atheism #philosophy

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In a few hour #HoPWaG returns with a look at Bayle and early modern atheism!

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk) is hiring: Assistant Professorship in Islamic Philosophy #assistantprofessor #philsky #islamicphilosophy

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Stanford Encyclopedia on the brilliant and innovative post-classical Islamic logician al-Khūnajī, by Behnam Zolghadr: plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-k... #philsky #sep #logic

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Afḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajī (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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magalogika @magalogika.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My friends Nastassja Pugliese and Renato Matoso just published a wonderful text on how to teach non-canonical philosophical texts. It’s Open Access. Please read and spread the word of (good) South American historians of philosophy #philosophy #nisiafloresta www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Teaching non-canonical texts: discussing concepts as the minimal unit of analysis

The retrieval of the works of women philosophers has challenged boundaries of the philosophical canon and raised new methodological questions for teaching and research. Although scholars have argue...

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Philosophy of Memory Organization @phomode-vp.bsky.social keeps a set of teaching resources, including sample syllabi, here. www.phomo.org/teaching-res... This includes a course I have taught a couple of terms ago on "Topics in Philosophy of Memory" at LMU Munich. #cogsci #philsky #philsci

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Teaching resources | The Philosophy of Memory Organization

A repository of teaching resources for courses that bear on philosophical issues about memory.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Master's student at the University of Hannover is doing a project developing a visualization of the content of the HoPWaG podcast and is looking for a few volunteers to participate in a pilot study: 3 sessions, 30 minutes apiece. Help out if you can!

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the last week of summer break for us at #HoPWaG, we'll start up again on Sept 13 with an episode on Pierre Bayle, religious toleration, and atheism! (Believe it or not.)

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Call for Proposals for the 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, to be held June 4–7, 2027, at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, South Korea. The conference theme is: Embodiment and Agency Across Texts and Traditions 1/

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Annual SACP Conference 2027 – Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Monarchs hate studies and knowledge… because they realize that an intelligent community is not tyrannized or ruled as peacefully as one that is less intelligent, therefore these monarchs extinguish all knowledge as much as they can. - Pieter de la Court

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@histphilosophy.bsky.social is still going with side quests into Indian, Africana and Chinese philosophy too. Can't recommend it enough (if you're interested in philosophy)

THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT ANY GAPS
QR code linking to the podcast
https://historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/all-episodes

QR code linking to the kindle book series (probably Amazon UK )
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074CCKVYF?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tkin_tpbk&qid=1744125204&sr=1-2

Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, he offers an accessible, humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy with the Presocratics, the probing questions of Socrates, and the first full flowering of philosophy with the dialogues of Plato and the treatises of Aristotle. The story is told 'without any gaps', discussing not only such major figures but also less commonly discussed topics like the Hippocratic Corpus, the Platonic Academy, and the role of women in ancient philosophy. Within the thought of Plato and Aristotle, the reader will find in-depth introductions to major works, such as the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, which are treated in detail that is unusual in an introduction to ancient philosophy. Adamson looks at fascinating but less frequently read Platonic dialogues like the Charmides and Cratylus, and Aristotle's ideas in zoology and poetics. This full coverage allows him to tackle ancient discussions in all areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, ethics and politics. Attention is also given to the historical and literary context of classical philosophy, with exploration of how early Greek cosmology responded to the poets Homer and Hesiod, how Socrates was presented by the comic playwright Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon, and how events in Greek history may have influenced Plato's thought. This is a new kind of history which w…

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We're still on summer break here at #HoPWaG headquarters but there is lots in store for the coming months: a special miniseries to celebrate reaching 500 episodes and the launch of a whole new spinoff series! More details coming in September... www.historyofphilosophy.net

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The podcast is still on summer break; we'll return on Sept 13 with a look at early modern atheism. In the meantime you can enjoy this interview I recorded together with my twin brother Glenn, about his latest book about futurology! historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/bonu... #philsky #podcast

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reminder: Applications are due WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST for a lecturer/senior lecturer in philosophy in my department. Teaching/research area open, but it must speak to PPE. I'm happy to speak informally/unofficially to anyone interested in applying. #philjobs

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Universitat Wien (@univie.ac.at) is hiring: University Assistant Postdoctoral in the Research Area of Sanskrit Philosophy #postdoc #philsky #sanskritphilosophy

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Opening with the Nighthawk Star literary magazine, for an essay editor with expertise in global philosophy: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Bonus episode! I talk to my identical twin brother Glenn about his latest book, "A Century of Tomorrows," about the history of the future in the 20th century... historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/bonu... #podcast #futurology

Glenn and Peter Adamson (but which is which?)

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ETHICS journal @ethicsjournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Andrew Lambert reviews Colin J. Lewis and Jennifer Kling’s “Contemporary Politics and Classical Chinese Thought: Toward Globalizing Political Philosophy” for ETHICS at doi.org/10.1086/741039 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

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Lewis, Colin J., and Kling, Jennifer. Contemporary Politics and Classical Chinese Thought: Toward Globalizing Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 208. $99.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vo...

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Susanne Bobzien @susannebobzien.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The third paper has been delayed but is now in press, so I add it here. It's more #Frege, this time w/o the Stoics, just Frege pure: “The indexicality of ‘I’: Recalibrating Frege’s Lauben passage” global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky details & link to author copy below. =>

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

YouTube channel for the exciting Cross-Cultural Philology research cluster here at the LMU in Munich (@lmu.de). www.youtube.com/@CrossCultur... Pretty soon I'll have some exciting podcast-related news in connection to the cluster!

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Cross-Cultural Philology | Cluster of Excellence

The Cluster of Excellence ‘Cross-Cultural Philology’ researches 5,000 years of cultural heritage from multiple perspectives, across cultures, and with a solid historical foundation, all while showing ...

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Is there anything in any language of the world more ridiculous than the way the French say the numbers from 70 to 99? "Four-twenty-thirteen" for 93? Give me a break

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“The goal,” we explain, “was no longer just to change conditions for individual women; it was to change the system.” We first learned about her on the wonderful pod on the History of Africana Philosophy by Chike Jeffers and @histphilosophy.bsky.social historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/afri...

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121. No Agreement: Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka | History of Philosophy without any gaps

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Pretty pleased with this passage from an upcoming book review I wrote.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's summer break on the podcast! The next episodes will go up in September. To make it up to you a final episode is out one day early: history writing under the Han dynasty and its relation to philosophical "schools" like Confucianism and Daoism. historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/chin... #philsky

Text of a classical Chinese historical work.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Presumably it's fated whether or not you will attend, but just in case here's information about a talk I'll be giving in Berlin on Nov 12, 2026, on the philosophical relevance of astrology: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/writte...

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Written in the Stars? The Philosophical Defense of Astrology | MPIWG

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This week on #HoPWaG we look at Pierre Bayle, and ask whether his Dictionary is supposed to lead the reader towards skepticism or a more profound Christian faith. (Maybe both?) historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/earl... #philsky #philosophy #bayle #dictionaries #earlymodern #skepticism

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today's new #HoPWaG: How were the texts of the Han dynasty different from those in the Warring States period? How historical circumstances shaped philosophical writing, and how texts in turn shaped Han political culture. historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/chin... #philsky #philosophy #handynasty

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Tomorrow on #HoPWaG, Karyn Lai and I continue to look at philosophy in the Han dynasty, focusing on the way that Han political culture shaped philosophical texts (and vice-versa).

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Such a disappointment that the World Cup has produced this final. All the incredible matchups we could have had, and instead it's cynical thugs vs boring control freaks, both of whom have won recently anyway.

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