📣 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 👇

📣 CfA - Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy (Annual BSHP Conference 2025) 📍Cambridge, 3-5 April 2025 The deadline to submit a paper/symposium proposal for the conference is coming up on *11 December* bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

Warmest congratulations to our management committee member Clare Carlisle @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for winning the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography for her book 'The Marriage Question: George Elliot’s Double Life' pen.org/program/pen-...

My paper on Dorothy Emmet on perception now has an issue with @thebshp.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #philosophy

📣 Two more days to submit a paper for our 2024 Graduate Essay Prize! The BSHP Graduate Essay Prize of £1000 is awarded annually to the writer of an essay that makes a significant contribution to the history of philosophy. The deadline is coming up on *30 November* Details 👇

📣 CfA - Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy (Annual BSHP Conference 2025) 📍Cambridge, 3-5 April 2025 The deadline to submit a paper/symposium proposal for the conference is coming up on *11 December* bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

We currently offer two Predoctoral Scholarly Activity Awards per year. Candidates may apply for up to £500 to fund activities related to the history of philosophy, which will support their academic and professional development. The deadline is 28th February 2025: bshp.org.uk/funding/pred...

Up to three Scholarly Activity Awards of up to £1000 each will be granted per year towards the costs of visiting archives and specialist libraries for research in history of philosophy. The deadline for applications is 31st January 2025. Further details: bshp.org.uk/funding/scho...

The BSHP offers one Postgraduate and one Postdoctoral Fellowship annually. These are worth £4000 and £6000, respectively. The deadline for our postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships is 31st January 2025. Further details of these fellowships can be found here: bshp.org.uk/funding/bshp...

Here’s a thread of British Society for the History of Philosophy funding schemes with deadlines coming up in the next few months…

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