📣 We're delighted to announce that the 2026 Antognazza Lecture, 'Ethics for Humans: Spinoza and Moral Philosophy', will be delivered by Professor Donald Rutherford 📍St. Andrews University @standrewsphil.bsky.social, evening of 4 November 2026 Abstract here 👇 bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-an... #philsky

Warmest congratulations to this year's BSHP/BJHP prize-winners, Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia) and Kurt Sylvan (University of Southampton)! bshp.org.uk/news/congrat... #Philsky

Many congratulations to this year's postgraduate fellowship winner, Boxiang Yu (Edinburgh), whose thesis concerns Descartes on Intellectual Representation! For more information about our fellowship schemes, and to find out about the work of our past fellows, see here 👇 bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...

REMINDER: Registration is open for the 2026 BSHP Conference Please note that *Registration will close on the 20th of April*

We are also delighted to announcement the appointment of our new social media officer, Eric Sancho-Adamson (Liverpool) bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-ap...

We are excited to welcome 5 BSHP Ambassadors! Jack Beaulieu (Magdalen College, Oxford) Luca Dondoni (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Liz Frissell (Nottingham) Xingding Liu (New South Wales) Maria Cristina Mennuti (Tübingen) More information about this newly launched scheme👇 bshp.org.uk/society/bshp...

The London Spinoza Circle has been reborn as the UK Spinoza Circle, thanks to the hard work of @asalgadoborge.bsky.social. Please see the website here to sign up and for info on the first event, happening this Friday! www.spinozacircle.co.uk

📣 Programme & Registration for the 2026 BSHP Conference We are delighted to share the programme for the Annual Conference 2026, to take place at KCL on 23-25 April: bshp.org.uk/site/assets/... Mandatory registration 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/briti... #philsky

📣 UK Kant Society: Andrew Cooper Essay Prize 2026 The UK Kant Society has announced a newly-named early career essay prize, in honour of the society's late executive committee member and friend, Andrew Cooper. The prize is £500. Deadline: 30 June 2026 More details 👇 bshp.org.uk/news/uk-kant...

Warmest congratulations to Ian MacLean-Evans (York University, Canada) and Alvaro Antonio Prado Velasquez (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), who are the winner and runner up respectively in the BSHP Graduate Essay Prize competition for 2025! #philsky

Jonathan has also just published a fascinating article in the BJHP @thebshp.bsky.social on what's at stake for global approaches to the history of philosophy, available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

REMINDER - The deadline is coming up on 31 January for: - The BSHP Postgraduate Fellowship 2026 (bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...) - The BSHP Ambassador Scheme (bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-am...) - The BSHP Social Media Officer (bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-so...)

📣 Call for Applications: BSHP Ambassador Scheme The BSHP is seeking applications from postgraduate students and early-career researchers working on any area of the history of philosophy who do not yet have permanent posts to serve as BSHP Ambassadors. Deadline: January 31st Further details 👇

📣 Call for Applications: BSHP Social Media Officer The British Society for the History of Philosophy is seeking a Social Media Officer to help improve its online presence by creating and posting content on its website and social media channels Deadline: January 31st More details 👇

I received the news today that my abstract for the 2026 @thebshp.bsky.social conference has been accepted! Looking forward to seeing folks there at KCL in April.

Wonderful to have the opportunity to catch up on @sandrineankara.bsky.social lecture for @thebshp.bsky.social on Mary Astell, the language of freedom, & chattel slavery www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRy1...

Finally, Jonardon Ganeri offers a pathway beyond Eurocentrism, presenting a blueprint for cosmopolitan philosophy. Ganeri argues for a way of understanding the future of the history of philosophy through valuable philosophical skills and institutions doi.org/10.1080/0960...

Second, Lee Wilson discusses Straits Chinese philosopher Lim Boon Keng (1869–1957), whose medical Confucianism diagnoses 'pathogens' causing a philosophical Eurocentrism. Lim presents an early systematic attempt to create an Anglo-Chinese hybrid philosophy doi.org/10.1080/0960...

First up: Saloni de Souza highlights an important contribution from Garcia de Orta, a 16th century thinker who fled Portugal for Goa, India, and who critiqued various aspects of a kind of Eurocentrism widespread amongst European natural philosophers at the time doi.org/10.1080/0960...

Eurocentrism & its critics in the History of Philosophy - Special Issue co-edited with @leamundi.bsky.social in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (@thebshp.bsky.social). 3 new papers just published - more soon! #philsky #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #OA

📣 New publication! 📣 My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓 @philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social

'To celebrate the successful BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy series published by OUP, all BSHP members now receive a 30% discount on all OUP books. Here's the link to become a member: bshp.org.uk/members/

Videos of two keynote lectures from the BSHP Annual Conference 2025 are now available on our website! The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below. bshp.org.uk/events/video...

My paper “The two schools of formal consequence in the fourteenth century: redrawing the distinction” has now been published with open access in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/0960... #logic #philosophy #middleages #medievalphilosophy

We are delighted to announce the BSHP's prizes and scholarships for 2024-2025 bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-aw... - Graduate Essay Prize: Eric Sheng - Beaney Prize: Aminah Hasan-Birdwell - Rogers Prize: Jari Kaukua - Post-doctoral Fellowship: I Xuan Chong - Post-graduate Fellowship: Kassandra Dugi

📣 CfA - BSHP Annual Conference 2026 📍King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, 23-25 April 2026 Keynote Speakers: • Monima Chadha (University of Oxford) • Sara L. Uckelman (University of Durham) • Raphael Woolf (King’s College London) Submission deadline: 30 September More details 👇

Bridges between Parallel Paths: Arabic-Islamic and Latin Christian Medieval Philosophies Conference June 13-14 King's College, London & online bridgesconference2025.wordpress.com @thebshp.bsky.social @mszarepour.bsky.social @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social

It looks like the final programme has now been released for this year's Oxford Spinoza Conference, organised by Olivier de France and James Read:

My paper 'The philosopher versus the physicist: Eddington's rejoinder' has just been published with the BJHP (@thebshp.bsky.social): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Warmest congratulations to this year's BSHP/BJHP prize-winners! The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä) The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)

Dr Saloni de Souza (Bath Spa) delivered a fantastic keynote lecture at our annual Conference in Cambridge last week: "Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy" 👇 #philsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...

We wrapped up day 2 of the annual conference with a moving panel in memory of Bob Stern, with contributions by BSHP Chair Susan James, @jeremydunham.bsky.social, @joe-saunders.bsky.social & Béatrice Han-Pile 📍 @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @cambridgephilos.bsky.social #philsky

Dr Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews) gave a fantastic keynote talk on 'The Cosmic and the Creaturely' yesterday at our annual conference at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social #philsky bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

We kick off the annual BSHP conference today! Looking forward to welcoming our speakers this afternoon at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics

One week to go until some much needed time with #TeamMidgley at the @thebshp.bsky.social annual conference at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social #philsky bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

📣 The BSHP Antognazza Lecture 2025 will be delivered by Professor Sandrine Bergès on the topic "‘Enslaved’ Women and Monstrous Men – Mary Astell, The Mancini Marriage and the case of Katherine Auker" 📍11 Nov. 2025 (6pm), The Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Library bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

There's still time to respond to our CFA for the DRL Anniversary Conference! Don't miss the chance to join us in Manchester from July 2 to 4 to celebrate 10 years of the DRL and look forward to new projects, ideas and challenges in diversifying philosophy! Details at philevents.org/event/show/1...

Warmest congratulations to Eric Sheng (University of Oxford) and Darcy Forster (University of Sydney), who are the winner and runner up in the BSHP Graduate Essay Prize competition for 2024 #philsky

Prof. Pauline Kleingeld's (University of Groningen) BSHP 2024 Antognazza lecture, "Republican Themes in Kant's Moral Theory", is now available to watch!👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpLg...

📣 Registration is now open for the *BSHP Annual Conference 2025: Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy* 📍 Faculty of Classics, Cambridge ⏰ Thu 3 Apr 2025 1:00 PM - Sat 5 Apr 2025 4:30 PM www.tickettailor.com/events/briti... #philsky

I'm pleased to finally be able to share the Call for Papers for the upcoming conference 'Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections,' taking place in Oxford on May 22nd-23rd. See the images below for the full details, and I look forward to receiving your abstracts!

Just a couple more days to send us your BSHP fellowship applications. Details here 👇

📣 The BSHP has several funding schemes and fellowships with an upcoming deadline: *31st January 2025* The BSHP offers one Postgraduate and one Postdoctoral Fellowship annually. These are worth £4000 and £6000, respectively. More information 👇 bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...

ICYMI Prof. Emily Thomas (Durham) delivered a keynote lecture at the 2022 BSHP Annual Conference, Royal Society of Edinburgh: "Perceiving Time: Specious Present Theories in Mid-18th Centuary England" 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta1q...

ICYMI Prof. Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social (Kings College London / LMU) delivered the BSHP 2023 Antognazza lecture, "Thinking With Rosa: Assent in the Islamic World" 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO8...

The latest interview in the 'Philosophising in...' series, 'Philosophising in Turkish' with Dr Kadir Filiz, has been published👇 www.philosophisingin.com/post/philoso... The series is run by by former BSHP doctoral fellow Dr Jonathan Egid.

📣 The BSHP has several funding schemes and fellowships with an upcoming deadline: *31st January 2025* The BSHP offers one Postgraduate and one Postdoctoral Fellowship annually. These are worth £4000 and £6000, respectively. More information 👇 bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...

ICYMI 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, is now out👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Many congratulations to Leo Catana on the recent publication of his English translation of Jacob Brucker's Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse and The Socratic School global.oup.com/academic/pro...

1 more day to submit an abstract 👇