Jordan Walters

Stephen Mulhall · Self-Interpreting Animals New linguistic articulations can reconfigure the way we make sense of our own feelings, thoughts and responses – our...

‘According to the philosophical account Taylor draws on, the articulations of poetry are as fully capable of disclosing the existential significance of human life as the words of philosophers or saints.’

Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Longtermism and its Limits | Blog of the APA Is humanity on its way out? It’s hard to say for sure, but the deck is certainly stacked against us. We are currently facing a constellation of existential risks. Climate change may wipe us out. Or pe...

Wrote a short piece for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social on longtermism and its limits: blog.apaonline.org/2025/10/09/l...

I guess I was reading about cats in Harper’s:

Love these pics! Meanwhile, half of the Montreal photos on my phone are of random pages of whatever I was reading at Myriade. That’s life, though, eh?

Just finished. Highly recommended! Felt timely too. Last Montreal summer.

Life update: I’ll be heading to Oxford as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow from September 2025-2027! Thanks to many, many people for all the support along the way. Sad to leave McGill and Montreal. Life is nearly perfect here. But I’m looking forward to life in Oxford.

St. George’s Anglican downtown. Great natural reverb!

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy In the wake of the nonideal theory turn in political philosophy, few have paused to ask: Is nonideal theory a form of ideology? And perhaps even fewer have paused to ask: Is the debate between ideal/n...

New from Jordan Walters
Nonideal Theory as Ideology
30(1) Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 74-97
www.jesp.org/index.php/je...

I spent more than a year working on this SEP entry on ideology, and I actually think it is some of the best work I've ever done.

There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with:

plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...

Excited for this!

Montreal Bach Festival :)

Choosing Pragmatism Over Textualism | Stephen Breyer A method of judicial interpretation that looks only to the original meaning of legal texts risks producing a Constitution and laws that no one would want.

Synopsis: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Really enjoying this so far!

It’s excellent! And you’re welcome! Feel free to email if you want a folder of PDF’s on the topic.

Also, Jacob Levy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Daniel Greco: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Rereading my presentation notes from class: there it is under question 2! Still trying to answer question 1. So it goes.

Me when I need to remember a Rawls footnote: 🧠🧠🧠

Haha, just checked my presentation notes!

Yeah, I think so? Love the red.

There we are!

Aw, thanks Will!! That was indeed the best seminar ever! The paper is, in part, just the result of a bunch of cool conversations we all had in class, and my attempt to make sense of things.

Thanks to many, many people. Thanks especially to @marxinhell.bsky.social for his wonderful 2022 seminar on ideology, and the whole crew of McGill political theorists in it. You’re all the best. Thanks too to @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social for the free espresso, a lovely desk, support, etc.

Thrilled that my paper “Non-ideal Theory as Ideology” has just been accepted at the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Link to preprint: philpapers.org/archive/WALN...

How the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity Enlightenment liberalism neglected the socially embedded nature of the self, Taylor contends, but the Romantics can tell us how to restore a shared sense of meaning and purpose.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New and old

Keith Thomas on his writing process.

Augustine

Just read this again. So good!

Lucian Freud