John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026More Mandeville Fans - the movement is growing 011
Reposted by John CallananPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 02/12/2025“Man-Devil is exceptionally pleasant to read.” We're delighted to see @johnjocallanan.bsky.social reviewed in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social! Read more:the-tls.comSympathy for the devilA society of industrious anthropomorphic bees spend their lives buzzing around a large and prosperous hive in a flurry of commerce, litigation, deception 053
Reposted by John CallananClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 20/11/2025TODAY ON TGS: Our second This Guy Rocked episode featuring Prof. John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social on Bernard Mandeville, a thinker who was so far ahead of his time that his writing got put on trial for it. Very cool. 3457
Reposted by John CallananClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 20/11/2025Give ‘er a listen! pod.fo/e/35681apod.foThis Guy Sucked: Bernard Mandeville with John Callanan (Subscriber Preview)Claire and John Callanan explain why Bernard Mandeville is the bee’s knees. That joke might not make sense yet, but it will once you’re done with the episode.GuestOur guest Dr. John Callanan is... 051
Reposted by John CallananClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 17/11/2025THIS WEEK ON TGS: It’s our second-ever This Guy Rocked episode, featuring John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social! We’ve been absolutely buzzing since we recorded it… 0232
Reposted by John CallananBritish Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025📣 CfA - BSHP Annual Conference 2026 📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026 Keynote Speakers: • Monima Chadha (University of Oxford) • Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham) • Raphael Woolf (King’s College London) Submission deadline: 30 September More details 👇 065
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I reviewed @karlschafer.bsky.social and Nick Stang's great edited collection on Kant on epistemology and metaphysics for Kantian Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgKarl Schaferand Nicholas F. Stang , eds., The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds: New Essays on Kant’s Metaphysics and Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN: 9780199688265 (hbk) $130....Karl Schaferand Nicholas F. Stang , eds., The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds: New Essays on Kant’s Metaphysics and Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN: 9780199688265 (hbk) $130.... 0144
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025When philosophers of mind bring a thrill of first-personal empirical immediacy to their writing with the line 'Consider the object on my desk in front of me as I write this - it's a coffee cup', it should at least come with an asterisk (*nb - this will be the only empirical example in this book). 010
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Nice review in The Montreal Review www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Man...themontrealreview.comBernard Mandeville, the "Man-Devil"When I saw that Princeton University Press had recently published a book titled Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by John Callanan, I was immediately int... 040
Reposted by John CallananPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 02/05/2025“An engaging, expansive and effortlessly erudite study of a man who today too few people know” Read more about @johnjocallanan.bsky.social’s Man-Devil in this recent The Critic review: thecritic.co.uk/the-misunder...thecritic.co.ukThe misunderstood satirist of sin | Patrick West | The Critic MagazineThe publication of one book in Britain in the early 18th century scandalised and outraged the nation. 001
Reposted by John CallananBritish Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025We kick off the annual BSHP conference today! Looking forward to welcoming our speakers this afternoon at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics 094
Reposted by John CallananKarl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Thanks to @johnjocallanan.bsky.social for this extremely generous and incisive review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant...ndpr.nd.eduKant’s Reason: The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in KantWhen Kant wrote the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, he addressed the question of the status of metaphysics itself. It had fallen into low regard i... 1182
Reposted by John CallananPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 24/01/2025In Man-Devil, @johnjocallanan.bsky.social examines Bernard Mandeville & his famous fable, showing how its contentious claim—that vice was essential to the economic flourishing of any society—formed part of Mandeville’s theory of human nature. Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 3136
Reposted by John CallananChristoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social · 16/01/2025A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...versobooks.comA Social History of Analytic PhilosophyAnalytic philosophy is the dominant form of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and beyond, today. What explains its continuing success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can on... 1316356
Reposted by John CallananTom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters 25632
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Publication Day! #mandeville @princetonupress.bsky.social 2389
Reposted by John CallananBritish Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 13/01/2025ICYMI 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...academic.oup.comThe Oxford Handbook of KantAbstract. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is a towering figure of Western philosophy, someone whose work continues to exert an influence across all areas of the 0104
Reposted by John CallananBritish Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Many congratulations to Leo Catana on the recent publication of his English translation of Jacob Brucker's Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse and The Socratic School global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1125
Reposted by John CallananAristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 10/01/2025New AS podcast!! In this episode, we talk with Peter Momtchiloff - former editor for philosophy at Oxford University Press. We get his exclusive insights on his 30 years at the job. Listen on Apple podcasts: shorturl.at/zMvVB Or your browser: shorturl.at/FdKs8shorturl.atPeter Momtchiloff on Thirty Years at OUPPodcast Episode · Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society · 03/01/2025 · 54m 0267
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The first chapter of Man-Devil is excerpted in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, for those with access. #Mandeville www.chronicle.com/article/how-...chronicle.comHow Bernard Mandeville Scandalized EuropeBernard Mandeville’s defense of vice. 022
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Man-Devil reviewed in The Spectator! #Mandeville www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...spectator.co.uk‘The wickedest man in Europe’ was just an intellectual provocateurIn Paris in 1740 the hangman publicly burned his most famous book. In England some of the best and brightest – Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Bishop George Berkeley, Jonathan Swift and John Wesley – ... 040
Reposted by John CallananClément Zanolli @clement-zanolli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below. 25225
Reposted by John CallananAristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Our most recent virtual special issue celebrates 300 years since Kant’s death Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C 0107
Reposted by John CallananBonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 21/12/2024This is so disgusting in its details that I had to stop reading before the end. I hope she wins, decisively, and that these reputation murderers are put out of business and banned from society (as used to be said)nytimes.comBlake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ (Gift Article)Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.” 2366
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024My book on Mandeville gets a kind mention here, hurrah! engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...engelsbergideas.comBooks of the Year 2024Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2024. 051
Reposted by John CallananErik Angner @erikangner.com · 19/12/2024We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social 67252
Reposted by John CallananJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 15/12/202415 Dec 1673: d. Margaret Cavendish, duchess of #Newcastle, author, natural philosopher, who among many other things wrote early Science Fiction #otd (eebo) 051
Reposted by John CallananFenner Tanswell @fennert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024New free Elements book. Andrew Arana on Mathematical Purity. www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgElements of PurityCambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Elements of Purity 0103
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The New Yorker piece on Laurie Paul has Elizabeth Barnes saying that the mark of 'Transformative Experience''s greatness is that her class think it is wrong but they all have different reasons why. Reminded me of Stanley and Williamson on 'Knowing How'. It's an odd model of intellectual fecundity. 020
Reposted by John CallananJulie Benson @juliebenson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024🚨Settings->Siri->Apps->(pick an app)->UNCHECK LEARN FROM THIS APP🚫.🚨 Congratulations, now A.I. won't be learning from your apps without your permission on your iPhone. Took me a bit with a gazillion apps, but easy to do.media.tenor.coma group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor .ALT: a group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor . 35976662
Reposted by John CallananNorth American Kant Society @nakantsociety.bsky.social · 06/12/2024The Call for Papers for the next NAKS Biennial is out now >>> northamericankantsociety.org/Call-for-Sub... 0116
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024My book on Bernard Mandeville should be out next month,and has received a review in the Literary Review, and indeed is on the cover, as befits his status of course. literaryreview.co.uk/current-issu...literaryreview.co.ukLiterary Review - December 2024 IssueHoward Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * P... 192
Reposted by John CallananPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 02/12/2024"[Callanan] has convinced me that exposing Mandeville and his writings to a new generation of readers is indeed worthwhile," says Howard Davies of Man-Devil by @johnjocallanan.bsky.social in the Literary Review. Read more (£): literaryreview.co.uk/current-issue 055
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Clare Carlisle, who joined the Philosophy Department at King's this Autumn, has won a PEN award for her work on Eliot and Marriage - pen.org/program/pen-...pen.orgPEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography - PEN AmericaThe PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. The winner receives a prize of $5,000. 0153
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Hearing a reading of Milton's Sonnet XXIII on BBC Radio 3 this morning. Certainly my favourite, but also a solid way of being devastated at breakfast. 030
Reposted by John CallananOxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social · 26/11/2024🔔 Enlightenment Workshop & Oxford Political Thought Seminar | WEDS 27 NOV - 17.00 | @voltaire.ox.ac.uk Lea Ypi (LSE) @leaypi.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social | Colonialism, cosmopolitanism and Kant’s justification of territorial rights intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/lea-yp...intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.ukLea Ypi (LSE): 'Colonialism, cosmopolitanism and Kant’s justification of territorial rights' (joint session with the Oxford Political Thought seminar) 06018
Reposted by John CallananTim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I wrote an obituary of my former colleague Ted Honderich www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...theguardian.comTed Honderich obituaryColourful philosopher whose readiness to examine current controversies sometimes brought him notoriety 79319
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I've edited a virtual issue of some Kant-themed greatest hits from the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. I've given brief descriptions of a dozen interesting papers from the last century or so - from G.E. Moore to Longuenesse - all free to access. academic.oup.com/aristotelian...academic.oup.com 03815
Reposted by John CallananAnna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I keep asking the older fellows of Kings who influenced this or that of Williams’s ideas and their answer is always no one. He only ever was counter-influenced (by his teacher RM Hare for example). This new book puts Alasdair MacIntyre is a major inspiration, good to know. #philsky #ethicscambridge.orgThe Ethical Philosophy of Bernard WilliamsCambridge Core - Ethics - The Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams 36719
Reposted by John CallananGabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Ok, created a starter pack for people interested in German Philosophy. Hit me up to be added or for suggestions. go.bsky.app/M8EW1wa 4315539
Reposted by John CallananEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I did a starter pack! It's philosophy people I know from the other place. I may have forgotten some of you, please don't take it personally. If we were mutuals at the other place and I left you out let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb 5624758
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Also, another 18 month teaching job at Kings, this time in Epistemology and Metaphysics. Tight application window kids! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096165-...kcl.ac.ukLecturer in Epistemology or Metaphysics 000
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 04/10/202418 month job in ethics at King's! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096130-...kcl.ac.ukLecturer in Ethics 010
John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social · 23/05/2024Wondering when contemporary philosophy will start doing the history of political thought thing of starting every article title with a quoted phrase: 'An incredulous stare': Lewis and cost-benefit metaphysics, etc. Can't be long. 010
Reposted by John CallananJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/05/2024The Kings College London Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law (YTL) is advertising an Early Career Fellowship, a 12-month appointment due to commence in September 2024 in legal or political philosophical research and scholarship. my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...my.corehr.com 033
Reposted by John CallananDr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 30/04/2024Excited to announce that from 2024/25, #UCD will offer a taught Masters in Philosophy of Mind and Embodied Cognition. Alongside a wide range of #philosophy modules, students can choose options from UCD’s interdisciplinary #CognitiveScience programme. Email or message for details! #PhilMind #CogSci 3258
Reposted by John CallananBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/04/2024This part of the Strand in London used to be a congested road for cars. Now it’s a magnetic place for people. Good trade. It can feel hard to muster the vision and leadership needed for smart urban change. But it pays off with a better city. Gorgeous pic by @livinglondonhis. 115832
