The second "common sense" video has just been published: Descartes and the Three Paradoxes of Common Sense. I'm trying to show how common sense functions ideologically, through a detailed reading of one paragraph of Descartes' "Discourse on the Method". youtube.com/watch?v=BGszRx…

Register now for the next SCRN Zoom seminar! Amy Chandran, "Of Creating the Commonwealth: Power, Projection and Religion in Hobbes’s Leviathan" Tuesday 25 March 2025, 9am Melbourne time Rego: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Upcoming SCRN Zoom seminar! Tom Simpson, Wadham College "Cultures of Trust" Tuesday 8 April 2025, 8pm Melbourne time Registration: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regist… More info: monash.edu/arts/languages…

New video "Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand, and the modern quest for the unified self" via Descartes, Montaigne, Augustine, the Bible, Charles Taylor and Michael Hanby. youtube.com/watch?v=q7spY8…

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Thank you Justin Brierley for your hospitality having me on the show! All the very best for Season 2. PS: check out Justin's profile in the latest edition of Christianity Today : "Justin Brierley Goes from Unbelievable to Re-Enchanting" christianitytoday.com/2025/03/justin…

Upcoming SCRN Zoom seminar! David M. McCourt, UC Davis "Standing Up to Beijing and the Common Good" Tuesday 15 April, 8pm Melbourne time | 2pm Abu Dhabi | 11am London | 6am New York City Register: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regist… More info: monash.edu/arts/languages…

Have you listened to ‘Is The Rebirth Right Wing?’ part 1 & 2? In our new podcast season I investigate a key criticism of the ‘Surprising Rebirth Of Belief In God’. Is the new interest in faith merely a manifestation of a conservative vibe shift? Or is Christianity capable of

In just over 24 hours' time: free Zoom seminar. Amy Chandran on Power, Projection and Religion in Hobbes's Leviathan. Tuesday 25 March, 9am Melbourne time. Monday 24 March, 6pm Florida, 10pm London. Register: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

New Video: "Jordan Peterson & Tim Keller on Jacob's Ladder: Two Visions of Identity and Meaning" youtube.com/watch?v=bLXgzg… Dr Jordan B Peterson Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

"The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity" is one step closer to coming out: it now has a cover design. Expected publication date, some time late in 2025. If you'd like to know more, here's a reading of the Introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=Ciw6-x…

Reminder: Social Contract Research Network Zoom seminar this coming Tuesday. Tom Simpson, "Cultures of Trust" Tuesday 8 April. Melbourne 8pm; London 11am; New York City 6am. Free registration: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regist… More info: monash.edu/arts/languages…

🚨New Social Contract Research Seminar video and podcast: Amy Chandran, "Creating the Commonwealth: Power, Projection and Religion in Hobbes’s Leviathan" Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cre… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1Bu1wW… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=ONemBZ…

New Social Contract Research Network seminar recording: Thomas Simpson, "Cultures of Trust" Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cul… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2b4UtG… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Wlyh7s…

Upcoming Social Contract Research Network seminar: "Standing Up to Beijing and the Common Good", with David M. McCourt Tuesday 15 April , 8pm Melbourne; 2pm Abu Dhabi; 11am London; 6am New York City. Registration: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Details: monash.edu/arts/languages…

As it continues the slow ascent of Mount Publication, "The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity" now has a webpage: cambridge.org/core/books/sta… According to the webpage, the publication date is December 2025. And here's me reading the Introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=Ciw6-x…

There's a new special issue of the Parrhesia journal, dedicated to the work of Michel Serres: Full open access PDF: parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/upl… TOC 👇

Upcoming Social Contract Research Network Zoom seminar: Prof Douglas Guilfoyle Douglas Guilfoyle , UNSW "The Oceans as a Commons: everyone’s, no-one’s, or a public good?" Tu 29 April: 8pm Melbourne 11am London; 6am NYC Register: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regist… More info: monash.edu/arts/languages…

New Social Contract Research Network Seminar: David M McCourt, "Standing up to Beijing" Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/35py6W… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sta… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=mMiMDb…

I'm responding to copyediting queries for the state of nature book today. It's pedants' corner, and I'm loving it. Here's sthg I didn't know: A word or phrase preceded by so-called need not be enclosed in quotation marks as the expression itself indicates irony or doubt--CMS 7.59