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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 30/09/2026

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 30/09/2026

The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place this Friday Oct. 2 at 11:00am (CEST). Melissa Merritt (UNSW) will be speaking about ‘Kant and Stoic Cosmopolitanism’

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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 · 03/09/2026

You're absolutely right - lots of discussion in that century concerns 'calculating' goodness via a formula - it's interesting stuff! Thanks for the kind words :)

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 02/09/2026

My contribution to the Oxford Handbook of 18th-century German philosophy is now online! I'm particularly proud of this one – it's one of only a few overviews of 18th-C German moral philosophy, in any language! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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The Principle of Morality in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy

Abstract. A central topic discussed by nearly every major eighteenth-century German philosopher is the principle of morality, that is, the supreme norm at

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 31/07/2026

2. Cambridge University Press recently approved the Cambridge Critical Guide to Francis Hutcheson’s Inquiry, which I’ll also be editing! Lots of fun work ahead. But now: a break. See you in September!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 31/07/2026

Before unplugging for a few weeks, I want to share a few cool pieces of news: 1. I’m going to be editing the ‘Kaehler Manuscript’ (student notes from Kant’s lectures on ethics during the 1770s) for the Academy Edition of Kant’s collected works(!); and

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 27/07/2026

Deadline Extended (until Aug. 17)! TWO postdoc positions in Milan (for two years each) on 18th-C British/German ethics (18ethics.unimi.it). Fluency in Italian is NOT required. See here for more details and share widely! www.unimi.it/en/node/54703

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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 · 15/06/2026

I've got two new articles online: one about the development of Kant's moral philosophy between the first and second Critique (philpapers.org/rec/WALPRF-3) and another about Locke's influence on the German 'popular philosophy' movement (philpapers.org/rec/WALLAP-13). Feedback welcome!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 04/06/2026

I'm off to Halifax for the Canadian Philosophical Association's annual meeting! I'm speaking on Saturday morning about duties to oneself in early modern philosophy, and judging an ethics bowl in the afternoon. Hope to see lots of Canadian folks there! www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/current

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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 · 11/05/2026

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 11/05/2026

The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place this Friday May 15th at 15:00 (CEST). Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham) will be speaking about: 'From Sentiment to Sentimentality'

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 07/05/2026

In case you missed Aaron Garrett's wonderful presentation of his book project last month as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, the video of the talk is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaMA...

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Aaron Garrett - Modern Moral Philosophy: A Book Project

YouTube video by 18ETHICS

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 23/04/2026

I'm on my way to London this morning for the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. Stefano Bacin and I have organized a panel on 'Early Modern German Ethics' - a surprisingly understudied area! More information and full programme here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

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The BSHP Annual Conference, at which the Annual General Meeting is held, usually takes place in the spring at a UK university. Normally, in even-numbered years, we hold themed conferences, and in odd-...

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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 · 14/03/2026

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 14/03/2026

The next meeting of The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy will take place on Friday March 20th at 15:00 (CET). Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) will be speaking about 'Conflict, Sociality, and the State in Pufendorf’s Theory of Natural Law’.

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 11/03/2026

In case you missed Paul Guyer's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar for the History of Modern Moral Philosophy (A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson), it's now on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xR...

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Paul Guyer - A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 13/02/2026

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is next Friday Feb. 20. Paul Guyer (Brown) will be speaking about 'A Supposed Right to Lie: Kant and Hutcheson'

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 03/02/2026

If you missed Ruth Boeker's excellent talk in the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, it's now on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfH...

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Ruth Boeker - Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the 18th Century

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 15/01/2026

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is TOMORROW, Friday Jan. 16th. Ruth Boeker (UCD) is speaking about 'Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century'

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 21/12/2025

If you missed Ryan Patrick Hanley's excellent talk (Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy you can now find it on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvj9...

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Ryan Patrick Hanley - Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 03/12/2025

On my way to Zurich and Konstanz to give a couple of talks (on my book and a paper in progress - see below for more details). Looking forward to seeing a few new cities! See: www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/phgz.html and www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/forschung/fa...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 28/11/2025

The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is meeting again next Friday, Dec. 5th. Ryan Patrick Hanley will be speaking about 'Love and Disinterestedness in Hutcheson's Inquiry' To register see here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da66e3...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 26/11/2025

If you missed Jacqueline Taylor's talk (Hume on Modesty, Esteem, and Self-esteem, with Some Insights from Wollstonecraft) as part of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, you can now find it on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Sg...

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Jacqueline Taylor - Hume on Modesty, Esteem, and Self-esteem, with Some Insights from Wollstonecraft

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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 · 05/11/2025

On my way to Regensburg for 'Moral Psychology in the German Enlightenment' - looking forward to chatting with everyone about such a great topic! www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-...

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Moral psychology in German Enlightenment philosophy (November 2025) - Universität Regensburg

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 22/10/2025

In St. Andrews for a few days to speak at this wonderful event celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Francis Hutcheson's 'Inquiry': www.intellectualhistory.net/ma-stewart-w...

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Dugald Stewart Workshop 2024 — Institute of Intellectual History

In honour of Knud Haakonssen. Roundtable on the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Dugald Stewart

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 15/10/2025

Deadline for these is coming up soon - get in touch if you have questions!

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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 · 25/09/2025

2 Postdoc Positions in Milan! Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-... Please share widely!

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Two further post-doc positions advertised! - 18ETHICS

Check out the job advertisement @ the University of Milan: https://www.unimi.it/en/node/52925. (Deadline: October 20, 2025.) For queries please contact Stefano Bacin.

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 23/09/2025

For at least 5 years! If you're ever in the area, please let me know!

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 23/09/2025

Next Friday, Oct. 3 is the launch of the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - an online seminar series in connection with the ERC Advanced Grant '18ETHICS'. The inaugural lecture is by Stephen Darwall! More info here: 18ethics.unimi.it/the-milan-se...

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The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy - 18ETHICS

The Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is a regular event series covering topics in the history of moral philosophy from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with a special focus on the 18th century.

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 05/09/2025

New preprint of mine now online: 'Desire in Modern European Philosophy', forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (ed. by Alex Gregory). Includes some discussion of early modern women philosophers on desire! philpapers.org/rec/WALDIM

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Michael Walschots, Desire in Modern European Philosophy - PhilPapers

The nature of desire, the way in which it is distinct from other mental states, and the role it plays in action (to name just a few central topics) are common ...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 20/08/2025

New review of my translation volume in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy: "Walschots’ study challenges the assumption that systematic philosophy can dispense with historical inquiry." doi.org/10.1080/0960...

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Kant’s critique of practical reason: background source materials

Published in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery

cover of the forthcoming anthology Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500–1765

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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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Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

As promised, here are translations of the very short texts by Olympe de Gouges I posted last week. Comments are very welcome! (I am also working on annotating as I hope to bring out a small volume of translations of Gouges' political texts). #18Century #FrenchRevolutionTheatre #abolition

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Staging Abolition: Gouge's Letters to the Press

Olympe de Gouges wrote her first abolitionist play, Zamore et Mirza, ou l'Heureux Naufrage in 1784 (she started working on it some years earlier), before the creation of either the English or the...

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 26/06/2025

Wonderful! De Gouges is underrated

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY. For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments! I'll announce the winner a week from now!

Emily Herring's book Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People outside on a wooden table in front of a nice floral backdrop

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Michael Walschots @michaelwalschots.com · 05/05/2025

On my way to the Paderborn Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists to present on J.C. Unzer - the first female German philosopher: historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/resear...

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Events for May 2025 - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

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