The BSHP is pleased to announce, David Sommer's new book! New from Bloomsbury Academic: Form and Matter in Early German Idealism, a study of how Reinhold, Maimon and Fichte transformed Kant’s hylomorphism in their attempts to establish a systematic foundation for transcendental philosophy.

We're proud to introduce Luca Dondoni, an Ambassador to the BSHP! He is currently a DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellow and soon-to-be Humboldt Research Fellow at Ruhr University Bochum

Featured today: Sara Uckelman's keynote lecture at the BSHP Annual Conference 2026 'What the History of Logic Can Teach Us About the Future of Logic' (25/04/2026) youtu.be/mElViY9tyQc Don't miss out on new content! Hit subscribe to the BSHP YouTube channel

Sara Uckelman, 'What the History of Logic Can Teach Us About the Future of Logic'

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The BSHP is pleased to announce the latest volume in the BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy series: Letters of English Women Philosophers 1902-1951 Edited by Emily Thomas, Oxford University Press, 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Introducing Maria Cristina Mennuti, a Research and Teaching Fello at the University of Tübingen, and a 2026 Ambassador for the BSHP:

Featured today: Monima Chadha's keynote lecture at the BSHP Annual Conference 2026 'Reimagining Responsible Agency' (24/04/2026) youtu.be/IWsMzH93zpY Don't miss out on new content! Hit subscribe to the BSHP YouTube channel

Featured today: Raphael Woolf's keynote lecture at the BSHP Annual Conference 2026 'Why the Dialogue Form Doesn't Matter: Plato, His Characters, and the Writing of Philosophy' (23/04/2026) youtu.be/FzDcKNusRlA Don't miss out on new content! Hit subscribe to the BSHP YouTube channel

Raphael Woolf, 'Why the Dialogue Form Doesn't Matter'

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At the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy in April, @thebshp.bsky.social interviewed me about my keynote talk and my research. The interview is now up on YouTube: youtu.be/mElViY9tyQc?...

Sara Uckelman, 'What the History of Logic Can Teach Us About the Future of Logic'

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On the train back to Durham from London and @thebshp.bsky.social 's annual conference. It was an honor to give the last keynote of the conference, and even nicer that the organizers responded so enthusiastically to my tentative, "can I talk about the history of logic instead of the hist of phil?"

The BSHP annual conference starts today at KCL! We will be kicking off the conference with a keynote by Professor Raphael Woolf (KCL) More details on the programme here 👇 bshp.org.uk/site/assets/... #philsky

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📣 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

📣 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*

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📣 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

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...

Antognazza Lecture 2025: Professor Sandrine Bergès, 'ASTELL, MARRIAGE AND CHATTEL SLAVERY''

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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