clinton tolley

New UC Irvine Center for Socially Engaged Philosophy aims to address real world problems

Hello! I just started at new center at UCI! Some main foci will be misinformation, metascience, and equity!

www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

Cover for the book "Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings" edited and translated by Anna Ezekiel for the Oxford New Histories of Philosophy series. A black cover with text in gold and white, and a black and white portrait of a young woman's upper torso, looking to the right.

The copy edits have started coming in for this! Online publication is scheduled for January-March 2026

Very exciting conference coming up in November at University of Notre Dame Australia.

Women in the History of Philosophy: On Nature

Wednesday 26 – Thursday 27 November 2025

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

My Site Welcome to our homepage. Here you can find all necessary information concerning our conference on June 12th/13th. In case of questions please contact us.

link with more info metaphysics-and-methods-2025-upb.weebly.com

conference poster: PADERBORN UNIVERSITY Funded by DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Celet weach owne Meta -PHYSICS and Method in Modern Philosophy and Phenomenology International Conference June 12th/13th Paderborn University With Keynote Addresses by Michela Summa (Uni Würzburg) and Clinton Tolley (UCSD San Diego)

CONFERENCE: METAPHYSICS AND METHOD IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGY Paderborn University, June 12-13, 2025 Building L1.102 & 202 Program 9:00 Thursday, 12 June Welcome (from Conference Organizers) Session I: Methodology, Ontology and Facticity Moderation: Daria-Leona MacAward (Paderborn) 9:15-10:00 ledwig Conrad-Martius' "Real-Ontological" Categorie r. Daniel Neumann (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 0:00-10:45 Is Res Cogitans Just a Piece of the World? Some Remarks on Hus erl's Critique of Descarte Stefano Franchini (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:45 Merleau-Ponty's Descartes: The Philosopher in Factical Situation Dr. David Suarez (University of Toronto) 11:45-12:30 What's in a Cogitatio? Descartes, Husserl, and Kant on the Possibility of a Distinctio Phenomenologica Dr. Tom Poljansek (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) 12:30-14:00 Lunch (& Group Photo Before Session II) Session II: Practical Philosophy Moderation: Aaron Wells (Denver Metropolitan University) 14:00-14:45 Rereading Spinoza: the Epoché of Religion According to Levinas Benedetta Catoni (La Sapienza University of Rome) 14:45-15:30 From Bundles to Habits: A Double Theory of the Self in Hume and Dr. Marco Cavallaro (Universität zu Köln, Husserl Archives) 15:30-16:15 Husserl's Re-Reading of Hume's Moral Theory During his Freiburg Years Michele Vinai (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

Keynote I 17:00-18:30 Finding Necessity Within Contingency: The Epistemic Role of Exam- ples in Kant and Husserl Michela Summa (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) 19:00 Conference Dinner (Bobberts, Downtown) Friday, 13 June Session III: Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology Moderation: Sebastian Luft 9:00-9:45 Phenomenology as an Aristotelian Metaphysics of Mind Dr. Gustav Melichar (Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) 9:45:10:30 Husserl on Concepts: From Bolzano to Kant? Victor Portugal (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:30 Synthesis and Diaresis: The Secondary Nature of Kantian Understand- ing Dr. Michael Blézy (University of Toronto) 11:30-12:15 Evidence Beyond Immanence: Descartes and Husserl on Mathematical and Eidetic Certainty Dr. Alexis Delamare (Paris) 12:15-13:30 Lunch Session IV: Speculative Metaphysics Moderation: Dimitris Apostolopoulos (Loyola Chicago) 13:30-14:15 Neither a Witness Nor a Wave: Jacobi, Fichte, and Husserl on Nihilism Dr. G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway University of London) 14:15-15:00 Negativity, History and Dialectics of Reality in Jan Patocka's Reception of the Phenomenology of Spirit Lorenzo Toro (University of Macerata) 15:00-15:45: The Metaphysics of Sleep and Dreams: A Cartesian Legacy in the Early Heidegger Dr. Aengus Daly (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

15:45-17:30 Coffee Break Transfer to Deelenhaus, Downtown, on the way tour of the city for those interested (by Volker Peckhaus) Keynote I| 17:30-19:00 The Phenomenology (and Metaphysics) of Spirit: Hegelian Themes in Scheler, Stein, and Walther Clinton Tolley (University of California, San Diego) 19:00- Reception (Drinks & Finger Food) Evening at Leisure End of Conference

looking forward to joining this great lineup later this week June 12th/13th 2025 for a conference at Paderborn University on Metaphysik und Methode in der Philosophie und Phänomenologie der Moderne, discussing the increasingly central role of spirit in phenomenology, thanks to Scheler Stein Walther

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...

this starts up later this afternoon — looking forward to the discussions!

vapor umidus omnes res creat

vapor umidus omnes res creat (ovid metam 465ish) / steamy heat creates all things ( @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social transl, which is 🤌🏼, btw)

apa program details for the symposium on mexican philosophy of history: Invited Symposium: Mexican Philosophy of History / Filosofía Mexicana de la Historia (Bilingual Session Spanish/English) Thursday, Apr. 17 9:00 AM - 11:50 AM Event #: 4D Room #: Elizabethan D (2nd floor) Location: Westin St. Francis

program details cont: Chair: Emiliano Salomon (University of California, San Diego) Speakers: Ainhoa Suárez Gómez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), "¿Es la Historiología de Edmundo O'Gorman una Crítica de la Razón Histórica?" Sergio Armando Gallegos Ordorica (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and Mariana Imaz (Humanities Washington), "La filosofía de la historia de José Fernando Ramírez: una visión de la Conquista" Juan Garcia Torres (University of California, Irvine), "Existential Care of the Self a la Jorge Portilla" Commentators: Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. (Occidental College) Carlos Alberto Sánchez (San José State University) Karina Ortiz Villa (University of California, San Diego)

heading to the symposium on mexican philosophy of history / filosofia mexicana de la historia - looking forward to the discussion and to seeing some of our ucsd filomex lab researchers ‘in action’! #apapacific #apapacific25 #philsky #filomex @ucsandiego.bsky.social @apaphilosophy.bsky.social

cover of gavas book w cup: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics

program entry for apa naks session 6-8pm weds: North American Kant Society, Session 1 Topic: Book Symposium: Gabriele Gava, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics Chair: Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego) Author: Gabriele Gava (Università degli Studi di Torino) Critics: Banafsheh Beizaei (Brown University) Clinton Tolley (University of California, San Diego) Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)

and then also looking forward to being a part of the group discussion of @ggava.bsky.social ‘s recent book with cambridge on kant on method critique and metaphysics, during the 6-8pm north american kant society session #apapacific #apapacific25 #philsky

apa program listing for weds 4-6: Colloquium: Husserl 4:00-4:50 p.m. Chair: Meghant Sudan (Boise State University) Speaker: Tyson Davies-Barton (University of British Columbia) "The Janus-Faced Transcendental: Paradoxes of Self-Constitution in Husserlian Phenomenology" ommentator: Michael Shim (California State University, Los Angeles) 5:00-5:50 p.m. Chair: Shannon Hayes (Tennessee State University) Speaker: G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway, University of London) leither a Witness Nor a Wave: Jacobi, Fichte, and Husserl on Nihilism" Commentator: Clinton Tolley (University of California, San Diego)

looking forward to participating in the apa colloquium sessions on husserl in the 4-6 slot this pm - ill be giving comments on anthony bruno’s paper on jacobi, fichte, and husserl, as all in their own ways attempting to respond to nihilism #apapacific #apapacific25 #philsky

pacific apa program entry for invited symposium on amalia holst: 2C. Invited Symposium: Amalia Holst Chair: Kristin Primus (University of California, Berkeley) Speakers: Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney) “A Walking Contradiction? Amalia Holst on Women and the Debate Concerning the Human Vocation” Andrew Cooper (University of Warwick) “Amalia Holst and the Paradox of Public Reason” Corey Dyck (Western University) “Amalia Holst and the Radical Enlightenment” Commentator: Katherine Gasdaglis (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

on my way to SF for the pacific apa, going on hour 2 of flight delay, but also still hoping to catch at least some(!) of this session on amalia holst with @dalianassar.bsky.social and others (great line-up!) from 1-350pm today #apapacific #philsky

THE TRITONS OF UC SAN DIEGO ARE DANCING!!

clock shows 0.0 as ucsd beats uci

gray ‘punches’ the ncaa tourney ticket for ucsd

big west champ shirts and banner

king triton approves of the W

and now another big congrats to @ucsandiego.bsky.social ncaam big west champions! following on the heels of the ucsd womens team to also secure their automatic qualifying to the @ncaa.bsky.social tournament! #marchmadness #champweek #ucsd #ncaam #ncaambb

UCSD WBB wins the Big West!

ucsd womens final 0.0s

ucsd womens team celebrating

ucsd ncaaw punched ticket

more ucsd womens celebrations w chiron ‘big west women’s basketball champion’

big congrats to @ucsandiego.bsky.social ncaaw big west champions! punched their ticket to the @ncaaw.bsky.social tournament - fingers crossed the ucsd ncaam can follow suit later this evening #champweek #ucsd #ncaaw #ncaawbb

cover of naomi fisher’s ‘schellings mystical platonism’ oup 2024

cover folds of naomi fisher’s new schelling book with oup

table of contents for naomi fishers oup schelling book 1/2

table of contents for fishers oup book on schelling 2/2

finally got my hands on this excellent new study by naomi fisher @loyolachicago.bsky.social illuminating the many significant dimensions of influence that (neo-)platonism had on the development of early schelling’s idealism #philsky #philosophy academic.oup.com/book/57358

other epistemic achievements conf main page may 2-4 2025 toronto

Other Epistemic Achievements Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts and scholars from ten different traditions in conversation with each other and contemporary epistemologists. These will include some of the perspectives from the Africana, Arabic, Chinese, Early Modern European, Greek, Indigenous Andean, Jewish, Latin American, Medieval Latin, and South Asian traditions.

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= Other Epistemic Achievements Lea Cantor (Cambridge) Strategies for expressing skepticism in the Zhuangzi Zeyad El Nabolsy (York University) Participation as an Epistemic Achievement in African Philosophy Maria Heim (Amherst College) 'Some hold back and some overreach; only those with eyes see': Buddhaghosa on learning how to see Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä) Between Epistemic Optimism and Pessimism: Before and after Avicenna Tamer Nawar (Barcelona) The Epistemic Implications of Divine Omniscience and Foreknowledge Yitzhak Melamed (Hopkins) The Apikorsut of the Void: A Heresy beyond All Heresies Jessica Moss (NYU) Aristotle on Knowledge and Understanding Kristin Primus (Berkeley) Our Knowledge of Thought Jorge H. Sanchez-Perez (Alberta) The Harmony of Reality and the Duties of Knowledge: Epistemic Humility and Moral Obligations Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego) 'in xóchitl in cuícatl': Flower, song, and the ('Romantic') elevation of the aesthetic dimension of truth and knowledge in ancient and modern Mexican philosophy

excited to see (& be a part of!) the lineup for the upcoming conference in toronto this may 2-4 on ‘other epistemic achievements’, co-organized by @rezahadisi.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy sites.google.com/view/globalp...

Twin-volume alert: Hoping two vols – some 6 lb of solid research – on women #philosopers in the #19thCentury will leave a mark on the field. Thanks to @lydiamoland.bsky.social and Alison Stone for their superb editorship. Challenging a male-dominated canon, one page at a time. 
 
#philsky #books

Other Epistemic Achievements Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...

Come to our conference on Epistemic achievements and Virtues!

We'll have speakers from ten different traditions (Africana, Arabic, Chinese, Early Modern European, Greek, Indigenous Andean, Jewish, Latin American, Medieval Latin, and Sanskrit).

(Also, check out the local workshops!)

Cool, indeed!

Hope and the Kantian Legacy Hope is understood to be a significant part of human experience, including for motivating behaviour, promoting happiness, and justifying a conception of the sel…

I co-edited this anthology on Kant's conception of hope and its influence on late 18th and 19th century philosophy: www.bloomsbury.com/us/hope-and-...

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

The term card for this term's Oxford's Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar is now online: Anthony Bruno, Andreja Novakovic, Inga Römer, and Fabian Freyenhagen on Hegel (on Fichte), Hegel (on property), Heidegger, and Foucault.

www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/post-kantian...

Congrats to my collaborator Alison Stone on her "Women on Philosophy of Art," featuring Anna Barbauld, Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, Frances Power Cobbe, Emilia Dilke, and Vernon Lee. Just out from OUP. More evidence of #womeninphilosophy evident as soon as we look!
#aesthetics #philsky #19C

Happy #APAEastern25 to all who celebrate! I'm speaking on a panel on #19thcentury #American #philosophy on Thursday at 11:00 & looking forward to talks on #Hegel, #feminism and more. Also to the spectacle of hordes of philosophers in one place. @clintontolley.bsky.social @alisabokulich.bsky.social

If you are attending the Eastern APA this week, don't forget the two NAKS Group Sessions, one each on Thursday and Friday at 7pm — a great chance to learn about the obscure and the impure, and to commemorate Prof. Louden's influential book!

About the Institute - Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy Information about the NEH Institute "Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy," held in summer 2025.

Call for applications: NEH Summer Institute for US academics & advanced grad students. Topic: slavery & early modern philosophy. Location: Georgetown University, DC. Goal: equip participants to incorporate texts about slavery into their research & teaching. #academicsky #philsky @nehgov.bsky.social

Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century Thanks to Julia Jorati, it is now harder to be a researcher or teacher of early modern philosophy and not know what early modern European philosophers t...

great review over at ndpr by peter kj park of @juliajorati.bsky.social ‘s new wide ranging book with oup on the history of philosophical discussions of slavery, race, and racism in the 18th century ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/slav...

This Friday I'll be talking about some work in progress on Husserlian essences, free variation, and a way of understanding these concepts using an extended matrix analogy. I know it sounds ridiculous. I was tempted to put "hear me out" in front. But I will give an argument!