@danielcallcut

Philosopher and writer. Articles and reviews for @Aeonmag @NewStatesman @prospect_uk @NewHumanist @ArtsPro @psyche_the_mag Editor of Reading Bernard Williams

 England, United Kingdom
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Joined May 2013
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New essay on Bernard Williams, moral relativism, and the culture wars with nods to Herodotus, Sally Rooney, Judith Butler, Christine Korsgaard, Richard Rorty, Derek Parfit, Kant, Nietzsche, Wilde and @pameladruck and @holland_tom and @StephanieCoontz aeon.co/essays/bernard-willi…

Bernard Williams, moral relativism and the culture wars | Aeon Essays

Bernard Williams argued that one’s ethics is shaped by culture and history. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is right

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Tanjil Rashid@tanjil_rashid_Oct 9
Without doubt, @AmitChaudhuri is one of India's finest writers, a true craftsman of prose and a theorist who has helped me understand everything from poetry to postcoloniality. He joined me last week on our @NewStatesman culture podcast The New Society open.spotify.com/episode/3vu…

How to write when everything’s in flux

The New Society | culture from the New Statesman · Episode

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Faculty member Ian Kidd has a new paper in the Journal of Ethics: "Philosophical Pessimism and the Heterogeneity of Suffering", link.springer.com/epdf/10.10…
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Leo Robson@leorobsonwriterOct 7
Here’s my long-gestating magnum opus: @The_Fence_Mag misery-memoir about the period in the early-to-mid 2020s that I spent living with two Taylor Swift fanatics, one of them eight, the other seventy-eight the-fence.com/article/end-of…
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Hermione Hoby@hermionehobyOct 5
For this week's @NewYorker I wrote about illness in literature, specifically the difficulties of rendering bodily experience on the page newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?

A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still struggling to put physical suffering into words.

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'[Hegelianism] is like a very dark wood, and those who once enter it very seldom come back to tell us what it is that they have seen.' – Isaiah Berlin, 1952
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Tanjil Rashid@tanjil_rashid_Oct 3
For @NewStatesman's New Society podcast, I spoke to Katherine Rundell. Her AI comments went viral (millions of views), but do listen to our discussion in full, one of the most interesting I've had, on the politics of wonder and the role of faith in fantasy open.spotify.com/episode/7yw…
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A Polyphonic Conception of AI Understanding by Matthieu Queloz & Pierre Beckmann philpapers.org/rec/QUEAPC

Matthieu Queloz & Pierre Beckmann, A Polyphonic Conception of AI Understanding - PhilPapers

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Carl Elliott@FearLoathingBTXOct 2
My latest article -- "Welcome to the Bioemporium" - is out in The American Scholar, and I talked about it with Stephanie Bastek on the Smarty Pants podcast. theamericanscholar.org/dawn-…

Dawn of the Brain-Dead - The American Scholar

Carl Elliott on the ethical implications of going beyond organ transplantation

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V. Joshua Adams@vjoshuaadamsOct 2
I will be dressing up as a philosopher for Halloween. Come through if you are in NYC.
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Rhodri Lewis@profrhodrilewisOct 2
Mists, mellow fruitfulness, etc.
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Philipp Lenhard@PhilippLenhardOct 1
It has a cover! Next spring @yalepress @YaleBooks yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780…
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Jonathan Fine@jonathanbfineOct 1
i don’t know what would give instagram the idea that i might want this
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Nathan Nobis . com@NathanNobisOct 1
I have a charming "old school" (teaching) philosophy question! Are there translations (in English) of Kant's categorical imperatives that are considered the best, or authoritative, or whatever? If so, what are they? Who or where are they from? #Kant
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Peter Gordon in the NYRB reviews new books on the life/work of Jürgen Habermas: “Over the course of his life Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.” nybooks.com/articles/2026/10…

Message in a Bottle | Peter E. Gordon

Over the course of his life Jürgen Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.

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Our 10/22 issue is now online, with @gavinfranc on musclemen, @carolinefraser on hobos, Ben Tarnoff on AI oligarchs, Alan Hollinghurst on Peter Hujar, @aucoincomposer on Philip Glass, Catherine Nicholson on ye olde VDs, a poem by Ben Lerner, and much more. go.nybooks.com/4yJ283z

October 22, 2026 Issue

Table of Contents

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Rhodri Lewis@profrhodrilewisOct 1
Opinions sought. Frank Kermode: A Critical Life? Kermode: A Critical Life? Rage for Order: A Life of Frank Kermode? Something else?
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The Orwell Prize@TheOrwellPrizeOct 1
Booking is now open for this year's Orwell Lecture, which will be delivered by Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of global public policy at Facebook. @southbankcentre Thu 26 Nov 2026, 7.30pm Reserve your place and find out more: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-…
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Simon Kuper@KuperSimonOct 1
Very psyched to be hosting this event with Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle, in Paris on Oct 20. Link to tickets here. Prof Jackson wrote the prizewinning biography of De Gaulle on which the brilliant new biopic is based americanlibraryinparis.org/e…

De Gaulle: A Certain Idea of France with Julian Jackson and Simon Kuper

American Library in Paris 2018 Book Award winner Julian Jackson explores the man, the myth, and the legacy of Charles de Gaulle.

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Catharine Morris@CatharineMorrisOct 1
The new issue of @TheTLS, out tomorrow:
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