Daniel Layman

Locke, politics, and early modern philosophy @DavidsonCollege. Editor-in-Chief at Locke Studies. Papers @ & philpeople.

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Check out my new conversation with Otto Lehto on Conversations with Otto!

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I’m excited to part of this incredible program for this fall’s NYU Issues in Modern Philosophy Conference. If either early modern philosophy or political philosophy is your scene, I hope you’ll join us!

Issues in Modern Philosophy Conference https://t.co/6GiuoR6TqA

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Many thanks to Mike Lee for hosting me on When We Disagree! Check out our new episode on political legitimacy.

https://t.co/qg0ZoK6l9z

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With allies like these, who needs enemies? Me in ⁦@unherd⁩ on Israel’s attack on Iran: https://t.co/j3Fu4DzBgm https://t.co/j3Fu4DzBgm

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Very excited for this talk at Yale 3/6/25. If you’re at Yale, come join us! https://t.co/vfPAx3HxOS

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Fantastic news for all you Locke stans out there!

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Thrilling news! John Locke's journals have been digitised by the The Bodleian & The Clarendon Board. You can now read Locke's hand on yellowing paper on everything, from buying kid gloves to Alice George, who was 108 & only suffered rarely from the vapours
https://t.co/t3QvTkKDqj

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Exciting new work from Katharine Gillespie and Bas van der Vossen is now live at Locke Studies! https://t.co/4SdeBzA17K

A major new piece from Holly Brewer on Locke and Carolina is coming soon. Stay tuned!

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@ViliLahteenmaki But this just raises the question again: why should speaking slowly reduce the noise level?? Couldn’t he be bellowing at a sluggish tempo?

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Why does TS’s boyfriend in “Our Song” talk real slow? She says it’s so his momma don’t know, but how is speaking slowly going to help with that? This has bothered me since 2006.

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Excited to be a part of this awesome upcoming event at Virginia Tech! Thanks to @FabianWendt8 for organizing.

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One-day symposium on Nozick's classic, featuring @DanielLayman11, @HelgaVarden, @FabianWendt8, and Eric Mack (@TU_Philosophy).

August 8th in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech.

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John Jay is totally the Ringo of the Federalist Papers.

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Just wrote “Explain doctrine of the trinity” in my teaching notes. Tomorrow morning’s session of early modern is going to be a doozy 😬

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Excited to be a part of this volume along with @alexgourevitch and so many other awesome contributors. I wrote the chapter on republican criminal justice ⚖️

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I’ll self-promote: I’ve got a piece on republicanism, structural domination and social reproduction in there.

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@kvallier Hear hear! I couldn’t agree more. Misrepresentations of Locke, often egregious, have been pivotal within the current wave of postliberal thought.

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@nescio13 That definitely is a concern. I’d love to email and/or chat about this. Your point about the realistic power of the trustees is obviously important, and those of us taking my line need to address it.

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@nescio13 Yeah, fair enough. I’m inclined to think, though, that its being fiduciary means that the trustor (the politically constituted people) rather than the trustees (the magistrates) holds the sovereignty even if the trustees hold active control.

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@nescio13 Oh yeah? What gives you reservations?

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@nescio13 Agreed! Good catch.

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@nescio13 II, 89 is an important one. So is II, 141. There are some others in chapters 18 and 19, too.

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@nescio13 Yeah, that’s right.