Mario Schärli
@marioschaerli.bsky.social
Philosopher. Kantian by day, Cartesian by night, Hegelian on weekends.
Postdoc @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Formerly @princeton.edu, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, U of Zurich, U of Lucerne, U of Fribourg, U of Basel.
https://www.marioschaerli.com
Postdoc @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Formerly @princeton.edu, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, U of Zurich, U of Lucerne, U of Fribourg, U of Basel.
https://www.marioschaerli.com
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Tyler Austin Harper landed his dream job, a tenure-track position at an elite liberal-arts college—but he found himself “being treated like a racial prop rather than a professor.” Read more in our newest cover story:
Confessions of a Token Black Professor
The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia
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August 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Tyler Austin Harper landed his dream job, a tenure-track position at an elite liberal-arts college—but he found himself “being treated like a racial prop rather than a professor.” Read more in our newest cover story:
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In HPQ 43.1 @marioschaerli.bsky.social expounds A. G. Baumgarten's innovative account of contingent existents. Baumgarten's contribution consists in accounting for the difference between merely possible and actual beings in terms of determinacy.
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August 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
In HPQ 43.1 @marioschaerli.bsky.social expounds A. G. Baumgarten's innovative account of contingent existents. Baumgarten's contribution consists in accounting for the difference between merely possible and actual beings in terms of determinacy.
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Announcing History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 1! Featuring four new articles by Massimo Reichlin (@unisr.bsky.social), Mario Schärli (@marioschaerli.bsky.social), Colin C. Smith, and Benedict Rumbold (@uonphilosophy.bsky.social). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/issu...
July 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Announcing History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 1! Featuring four new articles by Massimo Reichlin (@unisr.bsky.social), Mario Schärli (@marioschaerli.bsky.social), Colin C. Smith, and Benedict Rumbold (@uonphilosophy.bsky.social). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/issu...
Delighted to share that "Dreams and Paintings: Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States" is now out in PPR!
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Dreams and Paintings: Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States
Contemporary epistemologists typically read Descartes’ dream argument as an argument for external world skepticism. This paper argues that Descartes’ own development of the issues suggests otherwise ....
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July 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Delighted to share that "Dreams and Paintings: Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States" is now out in PPR!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 1 (2026) scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/issu... @marioschaerli.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social
Volume 43 Issue 1 | History of Philosophy Quarterly | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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July 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 1 (2026) scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/issu... @marioschaerli.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social
Yale Offers Free Tuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
Yale Offers Free Tuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000
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January 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Yale Offers Free Tuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
Enjoyed a great discussion on real possibility and objectivity at the Eastern @apaphilosophy.bsky.social meeting yesterday!
January 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Enjoyed a great discussion on real possibility and objectivity at the Eastern @apaphilosophy.bsky.social meeting yesterday!
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Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
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This may be the largest single grant for a project led by a philosophy professor.
Notre Dame AI Ethics Project Wins $50.8 Million Grant - Daily Nous
The University of Notre Dame's Institute for the Ethics and the Common Good (ECG), directed by philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan, has received a $50.8 million grant for work on various moral proble...
dailynous.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This may be the largest single grant for a project led by a philosophy professor.
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I am frustrated by the anti-AI obsession on this place. I understand people are annoyed by AI being imposed on us for trivial things and by the AI uber alles discourse but it really feels like older people complaining about a new technology.
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I am frustrated by the anti-AI obsession on this place. I understand people are annoyed by AI being imposed on us for trivial things and by the AI uber alles discourse but it really feels like older people complaining about a new technology.
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Argumenta will have a special issue on #epistemicinjustice guest-edited by @lalumera.bsky.social & myself. Deadline: September 2026. Open access. The line-up of invited contributors is already spectacular but we'll add more! #philsky @philhead.bsky.social www.argumenta.org/cfp/the-epis...
THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE? - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy
The notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Argumenta will have a special issue on #epistemicinjustice guest-edited by @lalumera.bsky.social & myself. Deadline: September 2026. Open access. The line-up of invited contributors is already spectacular but we'll add more! #philsky @philhead.bsky.social www.argumenta.org/cfp/the-epis...
New OA journal launching with the same editorial team & board = same high standards. Excellent news for accessible, rigorous scholarship.
We’re excited to announce the launch of Philosophical Logic at the Open Library of Humanities.
This follows another mass editorial resignation at Springer Nature (open letter linked in the announcement).
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This follows another mass editorial resignation at Springer Nature (open letter linked in the announcement).
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Flagship Springer Nature journal flips to diamond open access at the OLH
We’re excited to announce the launch of a major new journal, following news of another mass editorial resignation (read open letter) at Springer Nature. This week, the Editors-in-Chief and Associate …
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December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New OA journal launching with the same editorial team & board = same high standards. Excellent news for accessible, rigorous scholarship.
Unanimously. No, you didn‘t misread that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
Italy Passes a Femicide Law, Seeking to Prevent Violence Against Women
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December 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unanimously. No, you didn‘t misread that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
Top philosophy journals have exceptionally low acceptance rates. Why do they still get so many submissions? The prestige or value of a publication in such a journal does only partly explain this. #philsky
December 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Top philosophy journals have exceptionally low acceptance rates. Why do they still get so many submissions? The prestige or value of a publication in such a journal does only partly explain this. #philsky
Been meaning to post about the Midwest @nakantsociety.bsky.social meeting at Notre Dame last month. The final panel honoring Karl Ameriks’s memory was a fitting and moving close to the conference.
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Been meaning to post about the Midwest @nakantsociety.bsky.social meeting at Notre Dame last month. The final panel honoring Karl Ameriks’s memory was a fitting and moving close to the conference.
Just finished reading this wonderful piece, which offers a snapshot of Swiss political culture, its localism and defiance of authorities, through the lens of debates about Romansh language.
Simon Akam reports on how an attempt to standardize Switzerland’s least known national language ignited quarrels that engulfed classrooms, newspapers, and eventually local politics.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lZB9pa
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lZB9pa
A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language
In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Just finished reading this wonderful piece, which offers a snapshot of Swiss political culture, its localism and defiance of authorities, through the lens of debates about Romansh language.
Thrilled to be joining the @dfg.de funded project "Reasonable Ideas" @humboldtuni.bsky.social, led by @rosefeldt.bsky.social, as a Postdoctoral Researcher! Over the next three years, we'll explore how much positive metaphysics survives #Kant ’s Transcendental Dialectic in the #CritiqueofPureReason.
October 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Thrilled to be joining the @dfg.de funded project "Reasonable Ideas" @humboldtuni.bsky.social, led by @rosefeldt.bsky.social, as a Postdoctoral Researcher! Over the next three years, we'll explore how much positive metaphysics survives #Kant ’s Transcendental Dialectic in the #CritiqueofPureReason.
Finally, we know what upset Quine‘s taste for desert landscapes so much back in 1948: overpriced frozen fruit.
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Finally, we know what upset Quine‘s taste for desert landscapes so much back in 1948: overpriced frozen fruit.
It’s been a couple of days and I still feel sorry for Inter. Up against a far superior side which thoroughly deserved to win—but a sad ending to an otherwise impressive CL campaign.
June 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It’s been a couple of days and I still feel sorry for Inter. Up against a far superior side which thoroughly deserved to win—but a sad ending to an otherwise impressive CL campaign.
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Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
Erst Merz, nun Spahn…ein schleichender Prozess.
Spahn, der mögliche zukünftige Fraktionsvorsitzende der CDU, fordert die Normalisierung von Rechtsextremen. www.deutschlandfunk.de/spahn-empfie...
Bundestag - Spahn empfiehlt anderen Umgang mit der AfD
Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Unions-Bundestagsfraktion, Spahn, hat sich für einen anderen Umgang mit der AfD im parlamentarischen Betrieb ausgesprochen.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
April 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Erst Merz, nun Spahn…ein schleichender Prozess.
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UBC philosophy professor’s research cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision
A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.
#philsky
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A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.
#philsky
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UBC philosophy professor's research cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision - UBC News
A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.
news.ubc.ca
April 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
UBC philosophy professor’s research cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision
A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.
#philsky
news.ubc.ca/2025/04/us-s...
A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.
#philsky
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Michael Ignatieff on university self-defense:
How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime
Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do.
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March 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Michael Ignatieff on university self-defense:
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So shocking to see much of what I admire about a country dissolve.
Many warned that civilisation is a thin veneer kept together by the good will of a small number of people, holding down a seething mass of forces. I accepted this as a theoretical point but didn’t expect to see it in practice.
Many warned that civilisation is a thin veneer kept together by the good will of a small number of people, holding down a seething mass of forces. I accepted this as a theoretical point but didn’t expect to see it in practice.
March 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So shocking to see much of what I admire about a country dissolve.
Many warned that civilisation is a thin veneer kept together by the good will of a small number of people, holding down a seething mass of forces. I accepted this as a theoretical point but didn’t expect to see it in practice.
Many warned that civilisation is a thin veneer kept together by the good will of a small number of people, holding down a seething mass of forces. I accepted this as a theoretical point but didn’t expect to see it in practice.
Couldn‘t find my AirPods this morning & shocked how frantically I was looking for them. I’m at a point where leaving the house w/o them feels nearly impossible.
March 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Couldn‘t find my AirPods this morning & shocked how frantically I was looking for them. I’m at a point where leaving the house w/o them feels nearly impossible.