BMoral ERC Project

Today we held our team meeting in the new BMoral project office space for the first time! #DreamTeam

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Congratulations to Ruth Boeker on the publication of her article "Mary Astell on Self-Improvement, Friendship, and Religion," published open access in Locke Studies ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/lo...
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Call for Papers: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries. University College Dublin, 23-24 June 2026. Submission deadline: February 27, 2026. For more information, see the full CFP at philevents.org/event/show/1....
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Vacancies | BMoral

A reminder that applications for the ERC Postdoctoral Research Associate position close this Tuesday 10 February at 12:00 noon local Irish time. We look forward to receiving applications from candidates interested in the BMoral Project. Further details: www.bmoralproject.com/projects-6
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✨ Welcoming our new posdoc James Mackey to the #BMoral team! James is interested in Early Modern philosophy, women in 18th c. British #philosophy, history of #ethics, Stoicism, Renaissance Humanism, philosophy of religion, moral psychology. #NewHire #WelcomeToTheTeam

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✨ Big welcome to the BMoral team, Pietro! We are so excited to have you join us as our new PhD Researcher! Pietro's PhD research focuses on the relationship between Hume and Catharine Macaulay (an outspoken critic of Hume!). 🚀 #NewHire #WelcomeToTheTeam #Teamwork #BMoral #UCDPhilosophy #Philosophy

The next meeting of the online Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy is TOMORROW, Friday Jan. 16th. Ruth Boeker (UCD) is speaking about 'Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century'

Thanks Keith!

We are hiring! BMoral #erc project is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate hosted by @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social (University College Dublin, Ireland). For further details/how to apply: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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Our project website is now live! Please visit us at www.bmoralproject.com to find out more about the BMoral project, the team, news and events, publications etc.!

Save the date: Ruth Boeker will be giving an online talk on "Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century" in the Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy on 16 January 2026. More details: 18ethics.unimi.it/the-milan-se...
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Ruth Boeker & Evie Filea, Catharine Trotter Cockburn's and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot's contributions to Scottish philosophy - PhilPapers The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we draw attention to the contributions that Catharine Trotter Cockburn and her niece Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot made to Scottish Enlightenment philosophy and arg...

A preprint version can be found on PhilPapers: philpapers.org/rec/BOECTC-3

Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot’s contributions to Scottish philosophy The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we draw attention to the contributions that Catharine Trotter Cockburn and her niece Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot made to Scottish Enlightenment philosophy and ...

Interested in women’s contributions to Scottish philosophy? Check out this paper on Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot, by Ruth Boeker and Evie Filea, published in Intellectual History Review:
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To mark the start of the BMoral project we hosted a launch on 23 October 2025. Thanks to all who joined us! #ERCResearch #BritishMoralPhilosophy #UCD

The project aims to fundamentally rethink existing narratives about 18th-century British moral philosophy. By bringing together philosophical methods and digital humanities research the project intends to revive women’s contributions to moral debates. #ERCResearch #BritishMoralPhilosophy

Welcome to the Bluesky account of the ERC BMoral Project! We’ll share project updates, news, and events here. Thanks for following. #ERCResearch #UCD #HistoryofPhilosophy #PhilSky