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Professor Zeyad el Nabolsy’s article “Edward Wilmot Blyden and Fichte’s Nationalist Philosophy of History” has been published in the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
doi.org/10.1515/dzph...
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Edward Wilmot Blyden and Fichte’s Nationalist Philosophy of History
Edward Wilmot Blyden’s contributions to Pan-Africanism have been widely recognised. Scholars have noted that Blyden’s conception of what he called the “African Personality” reflects the influence of h...
https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2025-0008
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York Philosophy Deprtment’s Zeyad el Nabolsy’s latest book, “Paulin Hountondji and the Science Question in Africa,” has been published by Springer as part of their Political Epistemology series:
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Paulin Hountondji and the Science Question in Africa
This book offers a systematic reconstruction of Paulin Hountondji’s contributions to the debate about the place of modern science on the African continent.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-89775-7
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Professor Margaret O'Brien of York's Philosophy Department has a new paper out!
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#MeToo and #ShoutYourAbortion: Claiming Standing and Exploding the Private Sphere | Legal Theory | Cambridge Core
#MeToo and #ShoutYourAbortion: Claiming Standing and Exploding the Private Sphere
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/metoo-and-shoutyourabortion-claiming-standing-and-exploding-the-private-sphere/24FE42769C0FC2F2B04D0141CB19C8CD
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Zeyad el Nabolsy’s article “James Africanus Beale Horton’s Philosophy of History: Progress, Race, and the Fate of Africa” has been published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy:
doi.org/10.1080/0960...
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James Africanus Beale Horton’s philosophy of history: progress, race, and the fate of Africa
Many Victorian philosophers of history attempted to explain what they took to be the evident divergence in the level of civilizational achievement that was attained by different peoples. One promin...
https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2445605
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York Professor of Philosophy Zeyad el Nabolsy’s review of Sean Winkler’s *Boris Hessen and Philosophy: The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics is now out in Science & Society*
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Book Review: Boris Hessen and Philosophy: The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics - Zeyad El Nabolsy, 2025
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368237241312587?fbclid=IwY2xjawIyzzxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfM8qjUoJ_okqxWPeXNNXEdIHClP7KvyRWpkKfUBFksXcbpBC6DjXTUN4A_aem_ioHJ-Q-m06dd-s_TNVYwcA
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York Philosophy's Professor Kristin Andrews has a fascinating new article out in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evaluating animal consciousness
An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4990
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York Professor of Philosophy Jacob Beck discusses his academic journey and his take on animal minds in an interview with Jay Richardson for the podcast Cognitations.
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EP #12 | Understanding Animal Minds | Jacob Beck
Cognitations · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dncUrq2xvVFuyzVJwht2Y?si=Dgpz45ZzSbSEH588nlZF3g&fbclid=IwY2xjawIR09hleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSKZfV6qCF3PDBD2s2F8abjJdMr4akkFD5sxAXR2Pxo_spfHSsiTy3csKQ_aem_7wMZj_AXEliFixRPS-efMA&nd=1&dlsi=2bbe3e9aec594828
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Our York colleague Zeyad el Nabolsy’s chapter “The Question of Modern Science in Africa and the Middle East” has been published in the Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South:
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The Question of Modern Science in Africa and the Middle East
AbstractThis chapter focuses on an important problem in the intellectual history of the Global South, namely the relationship between modern scientific kno
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/59486/chapter-abstract/501354337?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
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York Philosophy Professor Zeyad el Nabolsy’s article, “James Africanus Beale Horton on Naturalism, Baconianism, and Race Science in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology,” has been published in the Journal of Modern Philosophy
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James Africanus Beale Horton on Naturalism, Baconianism, and Race Science in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology
In this paper I show that James Africanus Beale Horton launched an internal critique of race science as it developed in the hands of Robert Knox, Carl Vogt, and James Hunt. The latter three held an in...
https://jmphil.org/article/id/2501/
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York University Philosophy Department’s Zeyad el Nabolsy has just published a translation of Mourad Wahba’s *The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South* with Rowman & Littlefield:
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
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The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South
The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South argues that the claim that human reason—not inherited social institutions—is the ultimate source of ...
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666970647/The-Problematics-of-Enlightenment-Human-Reason-North-African-Philosophy-and-the-Global-South
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Apply to York's graduate program in philosophy! (Please share widely.)
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The 2025 NEWLAMP workshop will focus on African social and political philosophy, with an emphasis on work produced in Africa (rather than in the African diaspora). It will be led by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University), Bernard Matolino (University of Pretoria) and Zeyad El Nabolsy (York University).
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NEWLAMP 2025
THE IDEA
https://sites.google.com/wellesley.edu/newlamp-2025/home
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Let’s celebrate! York has been ranked as having the 5th best philosophy PhD program in Canada. In the philosophy of cognitive science, York’s PhD program is the best in Canada and ranks 8th globally. In philosophy of law, York is 2nd only to one other program in Canada.
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LA&PS’ Philosophy Program Shines in National and Global Rankings | Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS)
York University has achieved significant progress in the field of philosophy, as revealed in the latest edition of the Philosophical Gourmet Report for the 2024-25 academic year. According to the repo...
https://tinyurl.com/4e6at82w
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The Normativity of Law, by Prof. Michael Giudice, has just been published online by Cambridge University Press. It is available free online from 2nd December until 30th December 2024.
tinyurl.com/25cj226n
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The Normativity of Law
Cambridge Core - Legal Philosophy - The Normativity of Law
https://tinyurl.com/25cj226n
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The newly announced Barrantes Prizes in Philosophy (funded by a generous donation by York Philosophy alum Ben Barrantes), will annually reward 3 undergrad students and 3 MA/PhD students who showcase how philosophy can contribute to addressing contemporary social issues.
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Generous donation to LA&PS creates Barrantes Prizes in Philosophy - YFile
York University's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has received a generous donation from Department of Philosophy alumnus Benn Barrantes to establish academic prizes recognizing ...
https://tinyurl.com/Barrantes-Prizes
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