Antonio S. Borge

The UK Spinoza Circle presents:

Karolina Hübner–Spinoza's ontology of ideas: affirmation and
existence.

March 13th, 16:00 (UK Time)
Zoom link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk

The UK Spinoza Circle presents

Clare Carlisle: Revisiting scientia intuitiva

February 13, 16:00 (UK Time)
Zoom link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk

The London Spinoza Circle has been reborn as the UK Spinoza Circle, thanks to the hard work of @asalgadoborge.bsky.social. Please see the website here to sign up and for info on the first event, happening this Friday!

www.spinozacircle.co.uk

The UK Spinoza Circle presents:

Michael Della Rocca: Broad Humeanism and the Ethics of Radical Monism: Spinoza and Hume

January 16, 16:00 (UK Time)
Zoom link and mailing list: antonio.borge@nottingham.ac.uk

Exciting new article by @1part-harmony.bsky.social !!

jmphil.org/article/id/2...

Academic Philosophers and “Writing Clearly” The word is flesh

The cognitive content to thought “will not survive the transplantation if its lush environment is not rebuilt for it upon arrival.” Another great text by @axdouglas.bsky.social

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II’m very excited to announce that the UK Spinoza Circle (formerly known as the London Spinoza Circle) will be relaunching in 2026, exclusively online, with a fantastic line-up!!

More information coming soon...
www.spinozacircle.co.uk

Chairs: Antonio S. Borge, Clare Carlisle, Alexander Douglas.

Excited for our autumn 2026 series of the Penelope Mackie research seminars!

#philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun

How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight

An absolutely fantastic article by @axdouglas.bsky.social at @aeon.co .

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RESEARCH!

@asalgadoborge.bsky.social spoke at Heidelberg this week on the Distinction between Modes and Propria.

#philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #history #talk

Today!

RESEARCH!

@asalgadoborge.bsky.social on Spinoza, God, parts, and attributes!

Read: tinyurl.com/je3k66ju (open access).

#philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #god #metaphysics

Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊

One is the brilliant #EllieRobson @philosophellie.bsky.social on #MaryMidgley and #Animals! Not to be missed and again, what an incredible resource and gift #PhilosophyBites is #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social
#Midgley

I really enjoyed my conversation with David, who asked very deep and difficult questions!

Cartesianism and Philosophy of Mind This book explores themes in the philosophy of mind as they emerge within the early modern Cartesian tradition. It brings together thirteen contributions from international scholars, to provide a fine...

Exciting new book on Cartesianism, featuring my wife and others!

Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic.

www.routledge.com/Cartesianism...

Peter Thiel in Locksley Hall Dip into the future, far as human eye can see

New blog post: Peter Thiel in Locksley Hall

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Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments!
doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Throwaway Culture in Philosophy Try recycling

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Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes In this paper, I argue for a novel defence of the view that attributes are numerically distinct for Spinoza, which, contrary to paradigmatic objectivist readings, does not contradict his substance ...

I'm very happy to share that my paper 'Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes" has been published today at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 🙂
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m organizing a conference for philosophy graduate students—The 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! This will be a great opportunity for students to present their work, network, and spend some time on the charming Scottish coastal town, St Andrews! Please share with your network. #philsky

📣 The BSHP has several funding schemes and fellowships with an upcoming deadline: *31st January 2025*

The BSHP offers one Postgraduate and one Postdoctoral Fellowship annually. These are worth £4000 and £6000, respectively.

More information 👇

bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...

Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out A contrarian account of our prehistory argues that cities once flourished without rulers and rules—and still could.

Teotihuacan was first constructed with palaces that indicate social hierarchy. But, at some point, the citizens began “supplying high-quality apartments for nearly all the city’s population, regardless of wealth,” David Graeber and David Wengrow write.

The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon, which includes my entry on Spinoza's Absolute, is now available!

It features entries from incredible scholars whose work has influenced mine and whom I admire deeply.

I'm truly grateful to the editors, Karolina Hübner and Justin Steinberg, for their invitation.

The Worst Argument in the World: A Defence David Stove was wrong to dismiss idealism as legitimate philosophy

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Thanks, AI. So far Kristin seems to be on pretty solid ground.

Thank you, Alex! I look forward to it :)

Thrilled and honoured to begin 2025 participatinh in this workshop with Spinoza scholars that I respect and admire so much!

Thank you to Leonardo Moauro and Domink Perler for their generous invitation.