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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 03/09/2026

Last week I was in Halle (Saale) taking a course on how to read 'Kurrentschrift' - a style of handwriting widely used during the eighteenth-century. This week I'm attending a conference on lake Como. Sometimes this job has its perks!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 23/07/2026

I'm in Cologne this week where I'm presenting a paper ('Kant on Moral Impossibility') to the Kant Working Group later today: concept.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/projects/dfg...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 21/05/2026

Stephen Darwall (Yale) will be in Milan next week for two exciting events sponsored by the ERC Advanced Grant 18ETHICS - see here (18ethics.unimi.it/stephen-darw...) for more information and the posters below!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 15/05/2026

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...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 02/04/2026

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...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 26/03/2026

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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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 10/11/2025

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...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 02/10/2025

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!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 07/08/2025

Finally got my contributor copy of this great volume - hopefully it will help Baumgarten become a bit more widely known!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 26/02/2025

The tombs of Boethius and Augustine of Hippo in Pavia, Italy

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 24/02/2025

I'm in Pavia this week giving a series of lectures on Kant's moral philosophy. Super lovely town, and one of its churches has the remains of Augustine of Hippo and Boethius! (San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro)

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 16/02/2025

The job market is tough - so I need comfort food (in this case Lebanese)

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 27/11/2024

Two interesting finds here at the university library in Mainz today: the first is the last known portrait of Kant (from 1802) from a Königsberg student's autograph book, and the second is a 1926 dissertation finding similarities in the lectures notes from Kant's courses on moral philosophy

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 04/10/2024

In Edinburgh for a few days for a workshop about the reception of Locke in 18th-C Germany, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. I'll be talking later today about how Locke's rejection of innate ideas influenced German 'popular philosophers'

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 12/05/2024

On my way to Ferrara, Italy for one week on an Erasmus Teaching Exchange where I'll also be doing a small book launch for my translation volume :)

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 23/04/2024

In NYC this Thurday? Then come to Fordham's Rose Hill Campus where I'll be talking about my book!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 12/04/2024

More author copies! It's even more beautiful in person 😍 academic.oup.com/book/56145

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 09/04/2024

Author copies are here! cambridge.org/9781108810487

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 28/03/2024

to celebrate, I'm trying out a new pistachio cream cake from my favourite Balkan bakery in town

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 21/12/2023

Christmas came early! Just received the proofs for Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: Background Source Materials. In a bookstore near you April (ish) 2024, just in time for Kant's birthday :)

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 09/12/2023

Just got the proofs! Coming to a store near you in... March 2024 (ish)

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 26/10/2023

We have a cover! Super happy with this. Pictured is Wolff's triumphant return to Halle after being expelled, symbolic (we hope) of Wolff's return to the canon.

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