British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the History of Philosophy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lost voices: on counteracting exclusion of women from histories of contemporary philosophy9
Bergson on number8
Freedom and agency in the Zhuangzi: navigating life’s constraints7
Thales – the ‘first philosopher’? A troubled chapter in the historiography of philosophy6
Stebbing, Moore (and Wittgenstein) on common sense and metaphysical analysis6
The philosopher versus the physicist: Susan Stebbing on Eddington and the passage of time6
Taking time seriously: the Bergsonism of Karin Costelloe-Stephen, Hilda Oakeley, and May Sinclair5
Margaret Cavendish on conceivability, possibility, and the case of colours5
Margaret MacDonald’s scientific common-sense philosophy5
Madness and spiritualist philosophy of mind: Maine de Biran and A. A. Royer-Collard on a ‘true dualism’5
Frege, the self-consciousness of judgement, and the indefinability of truth4
The institutional stabilization of philosophy of science and its withdrawal from social concerns after the Second World War4
Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic4
Margaret MacDonald and Gilbert Ryle: a philosophical friendship4
Inferentialism and semantic externalism: a neglected debate between Sellars and Putnam4
Mary Shepherd and the meaning of ‘life’3
Later Mohist ethics and philosophical progress in ancient China3
Introduction to Salomon Maimon’s “On the First Grounds of Natural Right” (1795)3
Introduction to nineteenth-century British and American women philosophers3
Alice Ambrose and early analytic philosophy3
“Political … civil and domestic slavery”: Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Doyle Wheeler on marriage, servitude, and socialism3
Pratibhā, intuition, and practical knowledge3
The ‘empowered king’ of French spiritualism: Théodore Jouffroy3
From being to acting: Kant and Fichte on intellectual intuition3
Maine de Biran and Gall’s phrenology: the origins of a debate about the localization of mental faculties3
How to write a history of philosophy? The case of eighteenth-century Britain3
How good was Shepherd’s response to Hume’s epistemological challenge?3
The we and its many forms: Kurt Stavenhagen’s contribution to social phenomenology3
Kingdoms and crowds: William Ockham on the ontology of social groups2
Revolution and revitalization: Karoline von Günderrode’s political philosophy and its metaphysical foundations2
Death in Berlin: Hegel on mortality and the social order2
Cartesian intuition2
On effort and causal power: Maine de Biran’s critique of Hume revisited2
Contradictions and falling bridges: what was Wittgenstein’s reply to Turing?2
Is this me?A story about personal identity from the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa / Dà zhìdù lùn2
Berkeley on meaning, truth, and assent2
Intuition in the Avicennan tradition2
E. E. Constance Jones on the dualism of practical reason2
Théodule Ribot and the spiritualist tradition: the philosophical roots of scientific psychology2
Shepherd on reason1
Hobbes against hate speech1
Metaphysical separatism and epistemological autonomy in Frege’s philosophy and beyond1
L. Susan Stebbing Philosophy and the Physicists (1937): a re-appraisal1
Psychological disease and action-guiding impressions in early Stoicism1
The history of qualia and C.I. Lewis’ role in it1
Temporal experience and the present in George P. Adams’ eternalism1
History of physics and the Platonic legacy: a problem in Marburg Neo-Kantianism1
Schleiermacher on recognition1
Descartes and his critics on passions and animals1
Ørsted, Mach, and the history of ‘thought experiment’1
Christine Ladd-Franklin on the nature and unity of the proposition1
Sentimental beings: subjects, nature, and society in romantic philosophy1
Salomon Maimon, “On the First Grounds of Natural Right”1
Certainly useless: empiricists’ uncomfortable relationship with intuition1
Law and structure in Dilthey’s philosophy of history1
Everything is conceivable: a note on an unused axiom in Spinoza's Ethics1
The clockwork universe and the mechanical hypothesis1
The postulate of private right and Kant’s semi-historical principles of property1
Historiographies of philosophy 1800–19501
The Mouse’s Tale: al-Jāḥiẓ, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Animal Thinking1
Intuition in the history of philosophy (what’s in it for philosophers today?)1
‘God said “Let us make man in our image after our likeness”’ – Mary Shepherd, the imago-dei-thesis, and the human mind1
Avicenna on empty intentionality: a case study in analytical Avicennianism1
Habit, contingency, love: on Félix Ravaisson and Charles S. Peirce1
Avicennian essentialism1
Leopoldo Zea, “Is a Latin American philosophy possible?”1
A.W. Rehberg, “On the relationship between theory and practice”1
“It is quite conceivable that judgment is a very complicated phenomenon”: Dorothy Wrinch, nonsense and the multiple relation theory of judgement1
Ramsey's record: Wittgenstein on infinity and generalization1
Auguste Comte and spiritualism1
History of logic in Latin America: the case of Ayda Ignez Arruda1
Margaret Macdonald on the definition of art1
The Oxford handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism1
That’s correct! Brentano on intuitive judgement1
Leibniz on free and responsible wrongdoing1
Introduction toFrench spiritualism in the nineteenth century1
Reason’s genuine historicity: the establishment of a history of philosophy as a philosophical sub-discipline in Marburg Neo-Kantianism1
The fate of autonomy in Kant’sMetaphysics of Morals1
Interpreting Duns Scotus: critical essays1
Virtuous actions in the Mengzi1
The meaning of existence (bhava) in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha1
Reparative agency and commitment in William James’ pragmatism1
Cartesian sensory perception, agreeability, and the puzzle of aesthetic pleasure1
Race and the ‘right to growth’: embodiment and education in the work of Anna Julia Cooper1
The last of his kind? Gottfried Ploucquet’s occasionalism and the grounding of sense-perception1
“Friendly to all beings”: Annie Besant as ethicist1
The debate over universals in the time of Peter Abelard: what it is, and is not, about1
Al-Farabi on acquiring a philosophical concept1
The early work of Martha Kneale, née Hurst1
Hume: a very short introduction1
Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna1
The Pure Natural Right, by Theodor Schmalz1
The developmental potential of the human mind: Hume on children and the formation of fiction1
Intuitive cognition in the Latin medieval tradition1
Intuition and discursive knowledge: Bachelard's criticism of Bergson1
Intuition in Plato and the Platonic tradition1
Elizabeth Hamilton’sMemoirs of Modern Philosophersas a philosophical text1
Kant on Laws1
Stumpf between criticism and psychologism: introducing “Psychologie und Erkenntnistheorie”1
Two deductions of right in early post-Kantianism0
A miracle creed: the principle of optimality in Leibniz’s physics and philosophy A miracle creed: the principle of optimality in Leibniz’s physics and philosophy , by Je0
Feeling, cognition, and the eighteenth-century context of Kantian sympathy0
The power and limits of friendship in Spinoza’s Ethics0
“A discipline or part of a discipline”: logic on the border of metaphysics and psychology in Avicenna’sKitāb al-Šifāʾ0
William King on election, reason, and desire: a reply to Kenneth Pearce0
Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time0
Hume’s philosophy in historical perspective Hume’s philosophy in historical perspective , by M.A. Stewart, edited with and Introduction by James A. Harris, Ruth Savage, 0
C.C.E. Schmid and the doctrine of intelligible fatalism0
Materialism from Hobbes to Locke Materialism from Hobbes to Locke , by Stewart Duncan, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 240, £ 56.00 (hb), ISBN 97801976130090
Martin Heidegger, “The argument against need (for the being-in-Itself of entities)”0
More on knowledge before Gettier0
Essence and definition in Aristotle’s Parts of Animals0
Twentieth-century French philosophy and the radicalization of Kant0
Approval, reflective emotions, and virtue: sentimentalist elements in Husserl’s philosophy0
Dark matters: Pessimism and the problem of suffering0
Robert Grosseteste on motion, bodies, and light0
Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023): preeminent historian of philosophy and chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy0
The parmenidean ascent0
John Locke’s Christianity0
“Count it all joy”: black women’s interventions in the abolitionist tradition0
George Berkeley: a philosophical life0
Constant’s liberal theory of popular sovereignty0
Heidegger on deep time and being-in-itself: introductory thoughts on “The Argument against Need”0
The voiding of being, the doing and undoing of metaphysics in modernity0
Marietta Kies on idealism and good governance0
Mary Calkins, Victoria Welby, and the spatialization of time0
The right kind of nonsense – a study of McTaggart’s C and D series0
Why did Frege reject the theory of types?0
The mark of the mental in the fourteenth century: Volitio , cognitio , and Adam Wodeham’s experience argument0
Mirroring omni-present suffering: a Chan Buddhist alternative to phronesis0
Carl Stumpf, “Psychologie und Erkenntnistheorie”0
Erhard on recognition, revolution, and natural law0
Evagrius of Pontus on corporeal reality: Taking the Stoics to the desert0
Editorial0
Seeing life steadily: Dorothy Emmet’s philosophy of perception and the crisis in metaphysics0
Race, gender, and the history of early analytic philosophy0
Are the later Mohists preference-satisfaction consequentialists? A discussion of Daniel Stephens’ “Later Mohist ethics and philosophical progress in ancient China”0
The new Cambridge companion to Nietzsche0
Intentionality in Avicenna: a reconstruction based on his notion of ‘consideration’0
Kantian freedom at a distance0
Reason and Conversion in Kierkegaard and the German Idealists0
Pricean reflection0
Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis ; Boethii Daci aliorumque sophismata Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, 0
Ernst Cassirer on historical thought and the demarcation problem of epistemology0
Correction0
The Cartesian semantics of the Port Royal logic: Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy The Cartesian semantics of the Port Royal logic: Routledge studies0
The unity of consciousness in Sartre’s early thought: reading The Transcendence of the Ego with The Imaginary0
Nothing less than the whole Cassirer0
From the ‘History of Western Philosophy’ to entangled histories of philosophy: the Contribution of Ben Kies0
Potentia eximia & Excellentia facultatum : the relation between liberty and power from the Leviathan to 0
Social minds, social brains Socializing minds: intersubjectivity in early modern philosophy , by Martin Lenz, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 272, £56.00 (h0
Al-Ghazālī, nativism, and divine interventionism0
Recent studies on Kant’s third Critique Kant and the claims of the empirical world: a transcendental reading of the Critique of the po0
The concept of dignity in Edmund Burke’s writings on the French revolution0
How Spinoza conceives being: a reply to Vlasits' “Note on an Unused Axiom”0
What can Maimonides' understanding of the shamefulness of touch teach us about Aristotle'sNEIII.10, 1118b1–3?0
Five perspectives on holding wrongdoers responsible in Kant0
Cassirer on method, the a priori, and culture: a reply0
Limits of intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein Limits of intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein , edited by Jens Pier, New York and London, Rou0
Historical thought in German neo-Kantianism0
Reply to comments Socializing minds: intersubjectivity in early modern philosophy , by Martin Lenz, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 272, £56.00 (hb), ISBN: 0
Martin Heidegger, “Das Argument gegen den Brauch (für das Ansichsein des Seienden)”0
Mary Midgley’s Beast and man: the roots of human nature (1978): a re-appraisal0
A time of novelty: logic, emotion, and intellectual life in early modern India, 1500–1700 C.E.0
The actual and the rational: Hegel and objective spirit0
Raghunātha on seeing absence0
Apparentia in the thought of Nicholas of Autrecourt: Intentionality, intersubjectivity, and probabilism in the status of mental being0
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott: radical ‘co-adjutors’ in the American women’s rights movement0
Class-struggle in the rational state: proto-marxist ideas in Hegel’s account of poverty0
Intuitions in Stoic philosophy0
Berkeley0
Huang Zongxi’s Confucian political moralism0
Subjugation, freedom, and recognition in Poulain de la Barre and Simone de Beauvoir0
Correction notice0
Editorial0
Madness and vice in Plato’s Republic0
Pragmatism and scientific philosophy in Carnap and Quine0
Wilson to Wittgenstein0
Editorial0
The pursuit of an authentic philosophy: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the everyday The pursuit of an authentic philosophy: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the everyday , by 0
The Cambridge companion to the Scottish enlightenment, 2nd ed.0
Metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life Metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life , by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rac0
Kant and Rehberg on political theory and practice0
James Sully’s psychological reduction of philosophical pessimism0
Aristotle’s unlimited dunamis argument: an unrecognized proof of the immobility of the Prime Mover0
Schopenhauer on boredom0
Crime, contract and humanity: Fichte’s theory of punishment0
Schopenhauer on suicide and negation of the will0
Kant as a carpenter of reason: the highest good and systematic coherence0
Kant’s justification of ethics Kant’s justification of ethics , by Owen Ware, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 276, $77.00 (hb), ISBN 978-0-19-884993-30
Friedrich Albert Lange’s theory of values0
Being and reason: an essay on Spinoza’s metaphysics0
Comparisons in the history of philosophy: a review of The metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway: monism, vitalism, and self-motion Comparisons in the history0
Books Received: Volume 29.20
Reply to Manuel Fasko’s discussion of Mary Shepherd: a guide0
On personal identity and space: some remarks on Ruth Boeker’s Catharine Trotter Cockburn0
Patterns of sickness: Nietzsche’s physio-historical account of asceticism0
Nietzsche’s meta-philosophy: the nature, method and aims of philosophy Nietzsche’s meta-philosophy: the nature, method and aims of philosophy , edited by Paul S. Loeb an0
Kant on the sources of metaphysics. The dialectic of pure reason Kant on the sources of metaphysics. The dialectic of pure reason , by Marcus Willaschek, Cambridge, Camb0
Professor John Rogers (1938–2022) – Founding Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy0
The eudaimonist ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna The eudaimonist ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna by Janne Mattila, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2022, pp. 247, €99.00 (hb),0
Nihilist arguments in Gorgias and Nāgārjuna0
The Porretani on truth and propositional meaning0
Comments on Samantha Matherne’s Cassirer0
Jaspers and Sartre: transcendence and the difference of the divine0
Hegel and Plato on how to become good0
Hermann Lotze’s influence on twentieth century philosophy Hermann Lotze’s influence on twentieth century philosophy , by Nikolay Milkov, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter0
Intuition, discursive thought, and truth in Aristotle0
The fabric of creation: theories of place and space in sixth to ninth-century Byzantine philosophy0
Pragmatism at Cambridge, England before 19000
What’s wrong with philosophical history of philosophy?The historiography of philosophy, by Michael Frede, with a postface by Jonathan Barnes, edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Oxford, Oxford Uni0
Understanding historical life in its own terms: Dilthey on ethics, worldviews, and religious experience0
Aristotle’s anthropology0
Razian prophecy rationalized0
Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher0
Reinhold on intellectual intuition0
Sarah Broadie, scholar of ancient Greek philosophy0
John Rogers (1938–2022): In Memoriam0
Berkeley on religious truths: a reply to Keota Fields0
Spinozistic expression as signification0
Early Arabic logicians on the contraposition of the particular affirmative0
The obsession with time in 1880s–1930s American-British philosophy0
Vitalism and panpsychism in the philosophy of Anne Conway0
Origins of moral-political philosophy in early China: contestation of humaneness, justice, and personal freedom0
Doing what you really want: an introduction to the philosophy of Mengzi0
The aesthetic dimensions of esteem in Rousseau: amour-propre, general will, and general taste0
Martineau, Cobbe, and teleological progressivism0
The indefinite in the Descartes-More correspondence0
The goodness of the virtues and the sun-like good0
Recent work on freedom in Kant0
Samuel Alexander on relations, Russell, and Bradley0
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Briefwechsel – Nachlaß – Dokumente/Nachlaß. Reihe I: Text. Band 1, 1-1, 2: Die Denkbücher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis0
Sellars on modality: possible worlds and rules of inference0
Aristotle on sexual difference: metaphysics, biology, politics Aristotle on sexual difference: metaphysics, biology, politics , by Marguerite Deslauriers, New York, Oxfo0
Why Leibniz should have agreed with Berkeley about abstract ideas0
Mary Astell on self-government and custom0
The gold of knowledge – Nicolai Hartmann and historiography of philosophy0
The question of ontological dependency0
The social and the medical in Hume Socializing minds: intersubjectivity in early modern philosophy , by Martin Lenz, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 272, £50
Spinoza: then and now Spinoza: then and now , by Antonio Negri and translated by Ed Emery, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2020, pp. 243 + xiii, £17.99 (pb), ISBN: 9781509503510
Books Received: Volume 28, Issue 20
How things are: an introduction to Buddhist metaphysics How things are: an introduction to Buddhist metaphysics , by Mark Siderits, Buddhist Philosophy for Philosophers 0
J.S. Mill’s ‘psychological theory’ of the mind0
Editorial0
From scepticism to romanticism: Cavell’s accommodation of the ‘other’0
Correction0
Unifying themes and irresolvable tensions in Cassirer's system of symbolic forms0
A hidden wisdom: medieval contemplatives on self-knowledge, reason, love, persons, and immortality A hidden wisdom: medieval contemplatives on self-knowledge, reason, love, persons, and0
Possibility or necessity? On Robert Watt’s “Bergson on number”0
Esteem and sociality in Pufendorf’s natural law theory0
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