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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...)
- 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...)
BSHP Postgraduate Fellowship | British Society for the History of Philosophy
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January 20, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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...)
- 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...)
Applicants should send a completed application form and a cv to Jeremy Dunham at jeremy.w.dunham[at]durham.ac.uk by January 31st.
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Applicants should send a completed application form and a cv to Jeremy Dunham at jeremy.w.dunham[at]durham.ac.uk by January 31st.
Applications are especially encouraged from PG students from underrepresented groups, including students with disabilities, students from BAME backgrounds, first generation university students, and women. The scheme is open to international applicants.
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Applications are especially encouraged from PG students from underrepresented groups, including students with disabilities, students from BAME backgrounds, first generation university students, and women. The scheme is open to international applicants.
The Society expects to make 5 appointments, running from April 2026 to April 2027. At the end of the year, successful candidates will be required to submit a short report (maximum 300 words) outlining their activities and achievements.
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Society expects to make 5 appointments, running from April 2026 to April 2027. At the end of the year, successful candidates will be required to submit a short report (maximum 300 words) outlining their activities and achievements.
In return for their contribution to the work of the Society, Ambassadors will be eligible to receive a number of benefits. See further here: bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-am...
BSHP Ambassador Scheme - Deadline 31 January | British Society for the History of Philosophy
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December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In return for their contribution to the work of the Society, Ambassadors will be eligible to receive a number of benefits. See further here: bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-am...
The principal tasks of an Ambassador will be to work with the Officers and Management Committee of the British Society for the History of Philosophy to promote the Society and increase its membership. We shall welcome innovative ideas as to how this can be done.
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The principal tasks of an Ambassador will be to work with the Officers and Management Committee of the British Society for the History of Philosophy to promote the Society and increase its membership. We shall welcome innovative ideas as to how this can be done.
📣 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 👇
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 👇
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
📣 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 👇
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 👇
Details also on our website: bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-so...
BSHP Social Media Officer - Deadline 31 January | British Society for the History of Philosophy
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December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Details also on our website: bshp.org.uk/news/bshp-so...
Please send a CV and a one page letter (summarising why you would like to take on this role and explaining your relevant background, ideas, and skills) to jeremy.w.dunham[at]durham.ac.uk by January 31st.
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Please send a CV and a one page letter (summarising why you would like to take on this role and explaining your relevant background, ideas, and skills) to jeremy.w.dunham[at]durham.ac.uk by January 31st.
The successful candidate will be appointed for 40 hours work during one year and will be paid an honorarium of £1000. The Society will also cover any expenses associated with the job.
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The successful candidate will be appointed for 40 hours work during one year and will be paid an honorarium of £1000. The Society will also cover any expenses associated with the job.
While we are open to suggestions about how to achieve these aims, the job will include making videos at the Society’s conferences and lectures, recording interviews with some of its members, and promoting new research in the history of philosophy.
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
While we are open to suggestions about how to achieve these aims, the job will include making videos at the Society’s conferences and lectures, recording interviews with some of its members, and promoting new research in the history of philosophy.
Working with the Society’s officers, the successful candidate will promote our activities online and increase engagement and follower counts.
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Working with the Society’s officers, the successful candidate will promote our activities online and increase engagement and follower counts.
📣 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 👇
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 👇
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📣 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 👇
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 👇
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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.
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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.
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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...
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Antognazza Lecture 2025: Professor Sandrine Bergès, 'ASTELL, MARRIAGE AND CHATTEL SLAVERY''
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December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRy1...
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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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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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...
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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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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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...
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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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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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...
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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
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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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
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📣 New publication! 📣
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
Schopenhauer’s worst of all possible worlds
Few are persuaded by Schopenhauer’s argument that ours is the worst of all possible worlds. In this paper, I propose and defend an alternative reading of Schopenhauer’s argument. According to my re...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
📣 New publication! 📣
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
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/
Become a Member | History of philosophy | British Society for the History of Philosophy
Anyone with an interest in the history of philosophy is encouraged to become a member of the BSHP. Our members come from all over the world and have interests across the whole range of history of phil...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
'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/
- Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia), 'Living like pigs & gobbling like gully-birds: disgust as an ethical response in Plato' (www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44E...)
- Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University), "A Midgleyean Metaphysics for Mixed Communities" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyH...)
- Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University), "A Midgleyean Metaphysics for Mixed Communities" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyH...)
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
- Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia), 'Living like pigs & gobbling like gully-birds: disgust as an ethical response in Plato' (www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44E...)
- Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University), "A Midgleyean Metaphysics for Mixed Communities" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyH...)
- Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University), "A Midgleyean Metaphysics for Mixed Communities" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyH...)
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...
The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below.
bshp.org.uk/events/video...
Videos and Podcasts | British Society for the History of Philosophy
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July 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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...
The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below.
bshp.org.uk/events/video...
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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
doi.org/10.1080/0960... #logic #philosophy #middleages #medievalphilosophy
The two schools of formal consequence in the fourteenth century: redrawing the distinction
The distinction between formal and material consequence was introduced into medieval logic in the fourteenth century. Authors widely adopted the new terms but disagreed on their definition. The so-...
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July 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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
doi.org/10.1080/0960... #logic #philosophy #middleages #medievalphilosophy
- Pre-doctoral Scholarly Awards: Roisin Gibbons; Clara Costa
- Scholarly Activity Grants: Jonathan Head; Michaela Manson; Elizabeth Thorson
Warmest congratulations to all the recipients of our prizes and scholarships!
- Scholarly Activity Grants: Jonathan Head; Michaela Manson; Elizabeth Thorson
Warmest congratulations to all the recipients of our prizes and scholarships!
June 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
- Pre-doctoral Scholarly Awards: Roisin Gibbons; Clara Costa
- Scholarly Activity Grants: Jonathan Head; Michaela Manson; Elizabeth Thorson
Warmest congratulations to all the recipients of our prizes and scholarships!
- Scholarly Activity Grants: Jonathan Head; Michaela Manson; Elizabeth Thorson
Warmest congratulations to all the recipients of our prizes and scholarships!