British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Scudéry’s portraits: patriarchy, agency, and genre
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 November 2024By Allauren Samantha Forbes Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
“ ‘Here is one hand’ … , ‘and here is another’ “: comments on Mark Textor’s The Disappearance of Soul
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 November 2024By Landon D. C. Elkind Department of Political Science, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA
Schlick on intuition and prediction
British Journal for the History of Philosophy08 November 2024By Andreas Vrahimis Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Korean women philosophers and the ideal of a female sage: essential writings of Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang
British Journal for the History of Philosophy08 November 2024By Dobin Choi University Lecturer Korean and Comparative Philosophy, The Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
“All knowledge is either conception or assent”. On the history and significance of a fundamental distinction in Islamic philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy04 November 2024By Dustin D. Klinger Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Knowledge of universals
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 October 2024By Monima Chadha a Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKb Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Learning from models: knowing sages as sages in Confucian philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy24 October 2024By Karyn Lai School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Mengzian knowledge practicalism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 October 2024By Waldemar Brys School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Existential import and Peirce’s early realism about universals: the True Gorgias
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 October 2024By Richard Kenneth Atkins T. Starling Reid a Philosophy Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USAb Veritas Academy, Leola, PA, USA
Rudolf Eucken and the crisis of spiritual life
British Journal for the History of Philosophy14 October 2024By Andrea Cimino Center for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, KU Leuven – Higher Institute of Philosophy, Leuven, Belgium
Continuity, limits, and quantity in Al-Fārābī’s paraphrase of Aristotle’s Categories
British Journal for the History of Philosophy10 October 2024By Yehuda Halper Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Aristotle on happiness, virtue, and wisdom
British Journal for the History of Philosophy03 October 2024By Joachim Aufderheide Daniel Ferguson a KCL
Kant, Hume, and the ‘ontological arguments’
British Journal for the History of Philosophy30 September 2024By Richard Fincham Department of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
The guise of the good: a philosophical history by Francesco Orsi, Oxford, Routledge, 2023, pp. 188, £125.00 (hb), ISBN: 9781032120171
British Journal for the History of Philosophy30 September 2024By Amir Saemi Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
Hans-Georg Gadamer’s “On the idea of a system in philosophy” (1924)
British Journal for the History of Philosophy26 September 2024By Haley Burke Fridolin Neumann a Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USAb Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Simple esteem and the method of commonplaces in Pufendorf
British Journal for the History of Philosophy19 September 2024By Andreas Blank Department of Philosophy, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Mary Midgley’s meta-ethics and Neo-Aristotelian naturalism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy16 September 2024By Ellie Robson Department of Philosophy, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK
Physical influx theory: the case of Émilie Du Châtelet
British Journal for the History of Philosophy16 September 2024By Christian Henkel Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Divine teleology in Spinoza’s thought: an underexplored side of Spinoza’s philosophical journey
British Journal for the History of Philosophy12 September 2024By Shozo Kamiya Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Against the extremes: Simmel’s social and economic pluralism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy12 September 2024By Johannes Steizinger Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Hobbes and the ‘great deception of sense’
British Journal for the History of Philosophy10 September 2024By Walter Ott Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Locke on life: the vital union and the embodied person
British Journal for the History of Philosophy02 September 2024By James Hill Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czechia
Mind and knowledge of mind in classical Islamic philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy23 August 2024By Anthony Robert Booth Jari Kaukua Andrew Stephenson a Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UKb Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finlandc Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Du Châtelet’s causal idealism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 August 2024By Fatema Amijee Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Prolegomenon for Fazang’s Essay on the Golden Lion
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 August 2024By Nicholaos Jones Department of Philosophy and Political Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA
Peter of Mantua and the ‘piecemeal’ conception of substantial change*
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 August 2024By Roberto Zambiasi De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
A taxonomy of divisibilism and Gregory of Rimini’s place
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 August 2024By Clelia V. Crialesi Institute of Philosophy, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
A resolute reading of Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 August 2024By Evgenia Mylonaki Megan J. Laverty a Contemporary Practical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Patras, Patras, Greeceb Philosophy and Education Program, Department of Arts and Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Helen Knight and Margaret Macdonald on the meaning of ‘good’
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 August 2024By Oliver Thomas Spinney Department of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK
The most important thing: Wittgenstein, engineering, and the foundations of mathematics
British Journal for the History of Philosophy29 July 2024By Johannes Lenhard Philosophy in Science and Engineering, Laboratory for Engineering Thermodynamics, Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU), Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Resonating strings: understanding the transition from Hume’s Treatise to Second Enquiry
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 July 2024By Lauren Kopajtic Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA
Plato’s Republic and Black feminist thought
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 July 2024By Josh Wilburn Philosophy, Wayne State University, Detroit, United States
A third realm ontology? Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and the nafs al-amr
British Journal for the History of Philosophy19 July 2024By Agnieszka Erdt Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Aristotle on the causal efficacy of perceptible qualities
British Journal for the History of Philosophy02 July 2024By Ekrem Çetinkaya Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
The philosopher versus the physicist: Eddington’s rejoinder to Stebbing
British Journal for the History of Philosophy01 July 2024By Peter West Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Northeastern University London, London, UK
The metaphysics of Christology in the late middle ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 June 2024By Timothy J. Pawl Department of Philosophy, The University of St. Thomas
Roger Bacon’s indirect realism of quantity perception
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 June 2024By Elena Băltuță Multi Disciplinary Department, Tel Hai College, Qiryat Shemona, Israel
A.W. Rehberg, Investigations Concerning the French Revolution (1793)
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 June 2024By Michael Kryluk Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
The unity of matter
British Journal for the History of Philosophy17 June 2024By José Filipe Silva Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Do the wise always succeed? A split-level reading of Euthydemus 278–282
British Journal for the History of Philosophy17 June 2024By Matthew Matherne Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
The great guide to the preservation of life: Malebranche on the imagination
British Journal for the History of Philosophy13 June 2024By Colin Chamberlain Department of Philosophy, University College London, London, UK
Nietzsche as panpsychist
British Journal for the History of Philosophy13 June 2024By Justin Remhof Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Thinking with Rosa: assent in philosophy of the Islamic world
British Journal for the History of Philosophy10 June 2024By Peter Adamson Faculty of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany
Remembering Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)
British Journal for the History of Philosophy10 June 2024By Sacha Golob Michael Beaney Mogens Lærke
Leibniz’s opposition to monism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy10 June 2024By Maria Rosa Antognazza
The possibility of knowing the essence of bodies through scientific experiments in Spinoza’s controversy with Boyle
British Journal for the History of Philosophy29 May 2024By Oliver Istvan Toth Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
The geometrical atomism of Roger Bacon
British Journal for the History of Philosophy29 May 2024By Yael Kedar Multi Disciplinary Department, Tel Hai College, Kiryat Shemona, Israel
Quantifying Aristotelian essences: On some fourteenth-century applications of limit decision problems to the perfection of species
British Journal for the History of Philosophy14 May 2024By Sylvain RoudautInstitute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Why Epicurean happiness is not for everyone
British Journal for the History of Philosophy13 May 2024By Jan Maximilian RobitzschDepartment of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Untangling Robert Grosseteste’s hylomorphism: matter, form, and bodiness
British Journal for the History of Philosophy02 May 2024By Nicola PolloniDipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne (DICAM), Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
Ibn Sīnā, “Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Λ 6–10”
British Journal for the History of Philosophy30 April 2024By Elena Comay del JuncoDepartment of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Avicenna on representation: towards an existential-relational account of intentionality
British Journal for the History of Philosophy30 April 2024By Zhenyu CaiDepartment of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Hobbes and God in Locke’s law of nature
British Journal for the History of Philosophy26 April 2024By Daniel E. BurnsDepartment of Politics, University of Dallas, Irving, TX, USA
Beatrice Edgell’s myth of the given
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 April 2024By Uriah KriegelDepartment of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Pricean ignorance
British Journal for the History of Philosophy22 April 2024By Ralph WedgwoodSchool of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Johann Friedrich Herbart. Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 April 2024By Giuseppe GuastamacchiaResearch Fellow at the University of Turin (Italy)
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī’s ethical decision-making systems
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 April 2024By Muhammad Mahdi MontasseriDepartment of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
The philosophy of hope: beatitude in Spinoza
British Journal for the History of Philosophy16 April 2024By Johannes WagnerFaculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK
Contested spiritualism: Ravaisson’s French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
British Journal for the History of Philosophy09 April 2024By Marie Louise KroghInstitute of Philosophy, Leiden University, Netherlands
Henri Bergson and the philosophy of religion
British Journal for the History of Philosophy09 April 2024By Anthony FeneuilUniversité de Lorraine, Metz, France
Ottobah Cugoano on chattel slavery and the moral limitations of ius gentium
British Journal for the History of Philosophy05 April 2024By Aminah Hasan-BirdwellPhilosophy Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Recognition and the self in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 March 2024By Stephen HoulgateUniversity of Warwick
Do thoughts have parts? Peter Abelard: Yes! Alberic of Paris: No!
British Journal for the History of Philosophy22 March 2024By Boaz Faraday SchumanThe Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Recognition and respect in early modern philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 March 2024By Heikki HaaraTim Stuart-Buttlea Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finlandb Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York, York, United Kingdom
A crisis of recognition: gender, race, and the struggle to be seen in pre-modernity
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 March 2024By Hannah DawsonDepartment of History, King’s College London, London, UK
Reorienting Clifford’s evidentialism: returning to social trust
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 March 2024By Ian MacDonaldPhilosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Augustine on memory, the mind, and human flourishing
British Journal for the History of Philosophy12 March 2024By T. Parker HaratineDepartment of History, Political Science, and Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA
Speaking of what is not: Hatibzâde and Taşköprizâde Kâsım on the existential import of negative propositions
British Journal for the History of Philosophy07 March 2024By Yusuf DaşdemirDepartment of Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Carlos Vaz Ferreira on intellectual flourishing as intellectual liberation
British Journal for the History of Philosophy04 March 2024By Juan Garcia TorresDepartment of Philosophy, Wingate University, Wingate, NC, USA
Pragmatism and scientific philosophy in Carnap and Quine
British Journal for the History of Philosophy22 February 2024By Robert SinclairFaculty of International Liberal Arts, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan
Kant on phenomenal substance
British Journal for the History of Philosophy22 February 2024By Lorenzo SpagnesiDepartment of Philosophy, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany
Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis; Boethii Daci aliorumque sophismata
British Journal for the History of Philosophy22 February 2024By John MarenbonTrinity College, Cambridge, UK
Hume’s philosophy in historical perspective
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 February 2024By Willem LemmensDepartment of Philosophy, University of Antwerp
Hermann Lotze’s influence on twentieth century philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy15 February 2024By Jacinto Páez BonifaciInstituto de Filosofía, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
A hidden wisdom: medieval contemplatives on self-knowledge, reason, love, persons, and immortality
British Journal for the History of Philosophy12 February 2024By Peter AdamsonLMU München, München, Germany
The eudaimonist ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna
British Journal for the History of Philosophy12 February 2024By Peter TarrasMunich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures, Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Munich, Germany
On personal identity and space: some remarks on Ruth Boeker’s Catharine Trotter Cockburn
British Journal for the History of Philosophy29 January 2024By Emilio Maria De TommasoDepartment of Human Sciences, IUL Online University, Italy
Recent studies on Kant’s third Critique
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 January 2024By Jessica J. WilliamsDepartment of Philosophy, University of South Florida
Kant as a carpenter of reason: the highest good and systematic coherence
British Journal for the History of Philosophy19 January 2024By Alexander T. EnglertInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Induction and certainty in the physics of Wolff and Crusius
British Journal for the History of Philosophy18 January 2024By Hein van den BergBoris Demaresta Department of Philosophy, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlandsb Department of Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Discussion of Deborah Boyle’s Mary Shepherd: a guide
British Journal for the History of Philosophy05 January 2024By Manuel FaskoPhilosophisches Seminar, Universität Basel, Basel, CH, Switzerland
Reply to Manuel Fasko’s discussion of Mary Shepherd: a guide
British Journal for the History of Philosophy05 January 2024By Deborah BoylePhilosophy, College of Charleston, USA
Mary Midgley’s Beast and man: the roots of human nature (1978): a re-appraisal
British Journal for the History of Philosophy11 December 2023By Ellie RobsonDepartment of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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