John Callanan
Philosopher at King's College London - johnjcallanan.weebly.com
- Reposted by John Callanan“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:
- Reposted by John CallananTODAY 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.
- Reposted by John CallananGive ‘er a listen! pod.fo/e/35681a
- Reposted by John CallananTHIS 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…
- Reposted by John Callanan📣 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 👇
- I 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...
- When 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).
- Nice review in The Montreal Review www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Man...
- Reposted by John Callanan“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...
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- Reposted by John CallananWe kick off the annual BSHP conference today! Looking forward to welcoming our speakers this afternoon at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics
- Reposted by John CallananThanks to @johnjocallanan.bsky.social for this extremely generous and incisive review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant...
- Reposted by John CallananIn 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...
- Reposted by John CallananA Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
- Reposted by John CallananJust 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...
- Publication Day! #mandeville @princetonupress.bsky.social
- Reposted by John CallananICYMI 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
- Reposted by John CallananMany 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...
- Reposted by John CallananNew 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/FdKs8
- The first chapter of Man-Devil is excerpted in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, for those with access. #Mandeville www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
- Man-Devil reviewed in The Spectator! #Mandeville www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
- Reposted by John CallananResignation 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.
- Reposted by John CallananOur most recent virtual special issue celebrates 300 years since Kant’s death Explore here: oxford.ly/3YZzr2C
- Reposted by John CallananThis 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)
- My book on Mandeville gets a kind mention here, hurrah! engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...
- Reposted by John CallananWe 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
- Reposted by John Callanan15 Dec 1673: d. Margaret Cavendish, duchess of #Newcastle, author, natural philosopher, who among many other things wrote early Science Fiction #otd (eebo)
- Reposted by John CallananNew free Elements book. Andrew Arana on Mathematical Purity. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- The 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.
- Reposted by John Callanan🚨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.
- Reposted by John CallananThe Call for Papers for the next NAKS Biennial is out now >>> northamericankantsociety.org/Call-for-Sub...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - My 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...
- Reposted by John Callanan"[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
- Clare 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-...
- Hearing 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.
- Reposted by John Callanan🔔 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...
- Reposted by John CallananI wrote an obituary of my former colleague Ted Honderich www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
- I'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...
- Reposted by John CallananI 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 #ethics
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- Reposted by John CallananOk, created a starter pack for people interested in German Philosophy. Hit me up to be added or for suggestions. go.bsky.app/M8EW1waat://did:plc:gearovk2zipvvk4jgk53rhna/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lam7tihxwr2n
- Reposted by John CallananI 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/8Qvnsgbat://did:plc:eixqwg4o3sek2deuhyiisbt3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laqyrfgbsw2j
- Also, another 18 month teaching job at Kings, this time in Epistemology and Metaphysics. Tight application window kids! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096165-...
- 18 month job in ethics at King's! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096130-...
- Wondering 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.
- Reposted by John CallananThe 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...
- Reposted by John CallananExcited 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
- Reposted by John CallananThis 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.
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- Reposted by John CallananHoward Stein, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Chicago, has died.
- Reposted by John Callanan1) It's official book release day for The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract, which I have co-edited with my colleague, Matthew W. Maguire. This volume features 14 brand-new essays on a wide range of themes in Rousseau's most celebrated work of political philosophy.
- Signs I'm approaching fifty years of age:
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- Sent to Whamhalla in the biscuit aisle of M&S
- An enjoyable read too
- I loved writing this (short) piece) and look at the publication timeline! Received 03 Nov 2023, Accepted 23 Nov 2023, Published online: 11 Dec 2023 Open access. Partly a comparison between my experience of being a graduate student at UCL and at Harvard mid-80s. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by John Callanan🚨New article alert 🚨 'Existentialism and Exemplars' is now on early view (Open Access) Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on the pedagogical potential of exemplar narratives, it brings Nussbaum and Zagzebski into dialogue with Beauvoir onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHV... Lot of Philosophical Truth spoken here by the lead singer of the Southern River Band
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- Reposted by John CallananJOB: Sessional Tutor in Philosophy at University of Warwick. Please do get in touch if you’d like to discuss. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDX246/s...
- Reposted by John CallananArticle by me in @nytimes.com 😃 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/o...
- The memorial lecture for Rosa by the BSHP that is happening later this month at King's is now a registered event (still free, of course). Registration can be found on the new Philevents link - please come! philevents.org/event/show/1...
- Reposted by John CallananIt's out!!! Read a sample for free! www.amazon.co.uk/cks-Sake-Swe...
- IK reading about SBF’s utilitarianism in the LRB:
- Daughter told me that I had a face ‘like a cake gone wrong’ - stunning, stunned.
- Reposted by John CallananSomething I found out very early in my career. Never agree to review a book simply because you’ve been asked, or you’d like a copy of it. Only review something if you genuinely want to read and engage. Otherwise you’ll be bitter and resentful about the time it takes to do a decent job.
- Reposted by John CallananWe're hiring! AOS: Asian/nonwestern and/or philosophy of race! Pls spread the news, and hit me up with any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/822/lowell/e...
- Reposted by John CallananSaint-Lazare Station, Exterior, 1876 botfrens.com/collections/41/cont…
- Reposted by John CallananWe talk a lot abt increasing access but forget the real pioneers in this, namely the Open University n its remarkable initiative in 1970s to bring the best of British philosophy to the public. @huwprice.bsky.social n I had the honour of reenacting one such convo involving Bernard Williams. #philsky
- Reposted by John CallananHusserl's Crisis is getting the attention it deserves, thanks to the wonderful Steven French: iai.tv/articles/aui...
- The last minute loss to the All Blacks in 2013 broke something in me and ever since I’m never as sad at any Irish loss as I was then, even though it was only an Autumn test
- Reposted by John CallananJust released on the Philosophy Bites podcast: Hannah Dawson on Mary Wollstonecraft philosophybites.libsyn.com/hannah-dawso...
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