Peter Adamson

This was a great episode, listened to it on the train home from Berlin Hbf yesterday

I wonder if you could really get money for that study?

When I hear my own voice recorded I always think it sounds like him; my theory is that this is why my own voice doesn't bother me when I listen back to the podcast episodes (many people hate the sound of their own voice "from outside").

Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age. | @histphilosophy.bsky.social www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism... #Descartes #women #philsky

Do Identical Twins Write Identically? Evidence from Authorship Attribution This study investigates the writing styles of identical twins to determine if their shared genetics result in identical writing. We used computational authorship analysis techniques on writing samp...

A study has just been published comparing writings by three pairs of twins to see whether they write differently, including me and my art historian brother Glenn. The upshot is that our styles are apparently very dissimilar.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YFIRR...

#linguistics #twinstudies #philsky

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Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Early modern image of women in 17th c France

Today's new episode: Cartesianism and Gender

www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism...

Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.

#philsky #podcast

El capítulo 22 lo escribí yo. :)

What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians

Early Cartesians including Cordemoy and de La Forge develop, but also challenge, Descartes’ ideas, defending atomism and occasionalism. s361.podbean.com/pb/e3724a8b2... #EarlyCartesians #Descartes #philosophy #philsky

Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy "Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy" published on 29 Sep 2025 by Brill.

Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.

brill.com/display/titl...

Coming up in a few hours on the new #HoPWaG podcast episode...

Cartesianism and women: why figures like Poullain de la Barre (whose name I just managed to spell right on the first try!) thought Descartes' ideas would be an ideal basis for arguing in favor of gender equality.

In logic as discussed by Nyāya and Buddhist epistemologists, each syllogism requires two examples, one of something like the subject at hand (hence, an example bringing an analogy), and one of something unlike it (hence, an example bringing a disanalogy).
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Ideas of Women in Philosophy - Department of Philosophy A one-day event celebrating the ideas of women in philosophy as presented by women from our very own department.

In a week (Oct. 10) at U of Toronto:

A one-day event celebrating the ideas of women in philosophy as presented by women from Toronto's philosophy department.

philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/ideas-...

#philsky

I was traveling so didn't get a chance to post links to the most recent episodes. Here they are!

The Early Cartesians

www.historyofphilosophy.net/early-cartes...

Feminity in the Laozi (Daodejing)

www.historyofphilosophy.net/laozi-femini...

#daoism #philsky #descartes

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Marilù Papandreou, Builders and Weavers of the Animal Kingdom: Non-Human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the Ancient Commentators - PhilPapers

Fresh off the press! A paper in a wonderful volume edited by Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social and Miira Tuominen ("Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy"). This has been the most fun I had in writing a paper, as it combines my favourite topics: Aristotle, animals, and artefacts.

Coming up on Sunday's new #HoPWaG episode, we look at the early thinkers who followed in the wake of Descartes, like Cordemoy and La Forge, and discover how they already began to develop the theory of occasionalism!

#philsky #descartes

Reminds me of the Epicurean argument against fearing death: it makes no sense because you will not miss life once it is lost. Different rationale (you won't be there to miss it) but the argument is structurally similar.

Cobblestone pathway leading to the red-brick Institute of Philosophy building at KU Leuven in Belgium (home of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science), framed by ivy-covered walls, arched windows, and lush greenery with purple wisteria flowers in the foreground.

Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky

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Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta authors like Veṅkaṭanātha object to the Advaita Vedānta idea that there can be contentless cognition. They claim that cognition is always about something (i.e., "intentional" in Brentano's sense).
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Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt - Royal Institute of Philosophy In this London Lecture, Peter Adamson argues in support of Avicennan and Cartesian “arguments from doubt”. Book tickets for 13 November 2025.

I'll be in London on Nov 13 to speak about "Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt" at the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Come on down if you're in town!

royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/avicen...

According to the upholders of intrinsic validity (svataḥ prāmāṇya), i.e., Mīmāṃsā epistemologists one does not need to look for tests for invalidity, whereas one needs to test for validity according to the upholders of extrinsic validity, i.e. Buddhist and Nyāya epistemologists.
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According to Buddhist epistemologists, universals fail the test for being real, namely that of practical efficacy. One can milk a cow, but one cannot derive anything out of a so-called universal. Universals are, they maintain, causally inert.
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That was Karyn's idea actually!

The Philosophy in China series is back from summer break! Today we look at the significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/daoism-polar...

#philsky #laozi #daoism #podcasts #hopwag

Coming up in a few hours on #HoPWaG, it's the return of Chinese Philosophy as we delve into the idea of complementarity in the Laozi (Daodejing)!

I can reveal that the pun in the title is a doozy.

Interesting! So in general do Mimamsakas think that relations or relational properties are immediately graspable? Like, being to the left of, or being bigger than? Are these given in sensation and immune to error?

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Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture (deadline: October 7, 2025): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...