The April issue of the journal includes an article by Lea Cantor and Jonathan Egid: "An Ethiopian Lucretius? Giusto da Urbino and the Origins of the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿɘqob Controversy." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @leamundi.bsky.social

The new issue of the journal includes articles by Matti Leprêtre, Hannah Anderson, and Lea Cantor & Jonathan Egid, and a cluster on "Race: Histories of an Idea" organized by Sarah C. Dunstan and Ian Stewart, with contributions by Meleisa Ono-George, Ian Stewart, Shruti Balaji, and Paola Zichi.

JHI 87.2 Now Available!

The new issue of the journal is now available to read on Project MUSE.

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Our JHI article on new evidence concerning the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob authorship dispute is now available to read online for free (for the coming year) here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... We talk about the archival work that led to it in a piece we wrote for the JHI blog, out today 👇 #philsky

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Lea Cantor and Jonathan Egid reflect on their experience conducting archival research for their article in the new issue of the journal (“An Ethiopian Lucretius? Giusto da Urbino and the Origins of the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿɘqob Controversy”) and offer an appendix for future work. @leamundi.bsky.social

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

Josh Platzky Miller (@joshplatzkymiller.bsky.social) and I are very excited to be speaking alongside Judith Butler and Rowan Williams at the 2026 Society for European Philosophy conference (@sephilo.bsky.social)! We'll be speaking about our work critiquing the idea of 'Western Philosophy'. #philsky

Upcoming online talk about women philosophers in the middle ages: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/did-w... #philsky

My co-authored article with Jonathan Egid on the controversy over the authorship of the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob – a brilliant philosophical autobiography set in seventeenth-century Ethiopia – is finally out (advanced access) in the Journal of the History of Ideas (@jhideas.bsky.social)! 🧵 #philsky

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...)

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...

Blueprint for cosmopolitan philosophy: a post-Eurocentric proposal

I defend a cosmopolitan conception of philosophy. I construct a typology of cosmopolitan philosophical skill around a division into seven categories: assimilative, autonomous, comparative, diaspori...

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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...

Eurocentrism as disease: a pathology between King and Qing

Reviving Confucianism with evolutionary and medical conceptual tools in the British Straits Settlements before the Pacific War, the Straits Chinese philosopher, physician, reformer, and revolutiona...

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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...

Mixing up the medicine: Garcia de Orta on the problems with Eurocentric philosophy

Garcia de Orta (1501–1568) is largely remembered in academic circles as a minor figure in the history of medicine. The son of converts from Judaism to Catholicism, he fled escalating persecution in...

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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

Colloque international 26-28 mai 2025 à l'ULB Nature et surnature en Grèce et en Chine organisé par Raphäle van Daele (ULB) et Nicolas Zaks (ULB) Programme : phi.phisoc.ulb.be/nature-et-su...

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

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...

The Diversity Reading List Anniversary Conference

Call for Abstracts: The Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference The DRL is celebrating its 10th birthday in 2025 with a two-and-half-day conference! WHEN: 2-4th July 2025 WHERE: University...

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Up to 3 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. Further details 👇 bshp.org.uk/funding/scho...

📣 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...

Coming up in a few hours on #HoPWaG: an interview with Sor-Hoon Tan on Confucianism and democracy! You can see more about our guest here: socsc.smu.edu.sg/faculty/prof...

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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...

ICYMI: The Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project invites proposals for papers on neglected figures or themes in the history of moral, social, and political philosophy, to be presented at at McGill University, June 6-8, 2025. www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements

📣 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-...

Keynotes are Saloni de Souza, Clare Mac Cumhaill, Dalia Nassar @dalianassar.bsky.social, Catherine Rowett @catherinerowett.bsky.social, and Mara van der Lugt

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