British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Kant’s distinction between absolute and relative spontaneity reconsidered
British Journal for the History of Philosophy08 May 2025By Claudi Brink Department of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Kant’s critique of pure reason and the method of metaphysics
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 April 2025By Lewis Wang Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA
Juliusz Domański on philosophy as a way of life
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 April 2025By John Sellars Royal Holloway, University of London
Avicenna and Khūnajī on de re and de dicto modality
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 April 2025By Behnam Zolghadr Faculty of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany
Monads, situation, and infinite explanation
British Journal for the History of Philosophy11 April 2025By Filippo Costantini Richard T. W. Arthur a Laboratoire SPHÈRE, CNRS, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, Franceb Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Going through the motions: memory and remembrance in Cavendish
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 March 2025By Tobias Sandoval Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Saint Augustine and the meaning(s) of voluntas
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 March 2025By Matthew Wennemann Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 March 2025By Antonio Salgado Borge Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
On the concept of subsistence in Thomas Aquinas
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 March 2025By Raphael Mary Salzillo Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, CA, USA
“How to disappear completely”: responses to commentators
British Journal for the History of Philosophy25 March 2025By Mark Textor Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, London, UK
Austrian philosophy and the persistence of metaphysics
British Journal for the History of Philosophy14 March 2025By Thomas Uebel Department of Philosophy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Russell’s proof and meaning in isolation
British Journal for the History of Philosophy07 March 2025By Michael Rieppel Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Exploring the mind in Austria (1874–1918) and defending Mach’s neutral monism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy04 March 2025By María de Paz Department of Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
Extension and division: the ontological status of quantity in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
British Journal for the History of Philosophy04 March 2025By Elena Băltuță Yael Kedar Multi-disciplinary Studies, Tel-Hai College, Israel
Attribution arguments and the metaphysics of immanent actions: cognitive acts from Peter John Olivi to Durand of St. Pourçain
British Journal for the History of Philosophy24 February 2025By André Martin Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
On Aristotle’s use of examples and how to read them
British Journal for the History of Philosophy24 February 2025By Gabriela Rossi Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
Johann Benjamin Erhard on economic injustice
British Journal for the History of Philosophy20 February 2025By Elisabeth Theresia Widmer Department of Government, London School of Economics, London, UK
Unknowing: Christian and Buddhist soteriological epistemology
British Journal for the History of Philosophy20 February 2025By James Dominic Rooney Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
John Stuart Mill: socialism, pluralism, and competition
British Journal for the History of Philosophy10 February 2025By Helen McCabe School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
A hint as to my grounds for judgement: Frege’s positive account of modality
British Journal for the History of Philosophy06 February 2025By Thorsten Sander Institut für Philosophie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Spinoza’s metaphysics of infinity: from indeterminacy, infinity follows
British Journal for the History of Philosophy04 February 2025By Luce deLire Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
James Africanus Beale Horton’s philosophy of history: progress, race, and the fate of Africa
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 January 2025By Zeyad el Nabolsy Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada
“I think therefore I was”: Sartre, Kant, and the self
British Journal for the History of Philosophy28 January 2025By Henry Somers-Hall Department of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK
Identity and real distinction according to Duns Scotus
British Journal for the History of Philosophy07 January 2025By Dominic LaMantia Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA
Aristotle on logical consequence
British Journal for the History of Philosophy16 December 2024By Phil Corkum Philosophy Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
At the roots of causality: ontology and aetiology from Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
British Journal for the History of Philosophy13 December 2024By Kara Richardson Syracuse University
Justin Martyr and the evaluative priority of practical activity
British Journal for the History of Philosophy13 December 2024By Thomas Slabon Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Different beasts: humans and animals in Spinoza and the Zhuangzi
British Journal for the History of Philosophy13 December 2024By Alexander Douglas University of St Andrews
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

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