Michael Walschots

Final CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Moral Demands Towards Animals: British and German Perspectives (1670–1820)’ For more information, see here: 18ethics.unimi.it/moral-demand...

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!

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...

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

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...

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!

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

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!

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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:

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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

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!

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!

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...

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

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...

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

New journal in the history of philosophy! dailynous.com/2025/08/11/n...

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

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

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!

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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