Upcoming online talk about women philosophers in the middle ages:
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Upcoming online talk about women philosophers in the middle ages:
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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....
If you're interested in more⦠stay tuned for our forthcoming OUP sourcebook! This volume will include new archival materials, as well as translations of relevant secondary scholarship in Amharic, German, Latin, and Russian contributed by colleagues in Ethiopia, France, Germany, and the UK.
Against this received view and using previously unknown archival evidence, we demonstrate that the authorship dispute actually began in 1857β58, after the text was intriguingly described as a βtrue Lucretius of Ethiopian literatureβ in a Vatican report.
The scholarly consensus until now was that the first person to suspect Giusto of forging the text was Carlo Conti Rossini, an Italian orientalist and former colonial administrator of Italian Eritrea, who first raised his doubts about the textβs authorship in 1916.
We demonstrate that the textβs presumed discoverer, the nineteenth-century Italian missionary Giusto da Urbino, was suspected of forging the text half a century earlier than previously thought.
My co-authored article with Jonathan Egid on the controversy over the authorship of the αΈ€atΓ€ta ZΓ€rΚΎa YaΚΏΗqob β a brilliant philosophical autobiography set in seventeenth-century Ethiopia β is finally out (advanced access) in the Journal of the History of Ideas (@jhideas.bsky.social)! π§΅
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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...)
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...
Second, Lee Wilson discusses Straits Chinese philosopher Lim Boon Keng (1869β1957), 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...
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...
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 Γ l'ULB
Nature et surnature en Grèce et en Chine
organisΓ© par
RaphΓ€le 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...
Up to 3 Scholarly Activity Awards of up to Β£1000 each will be granted per year towards the costs of visiting archives and specialist libraries for research in history of philosophy. Further details π
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π£ 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 Β£4000 and Β£6000, respectively.
More information π
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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
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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.
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π£ CfA - Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy (Annual BSHP Conference 2025)
πCambridge, 3-5 April 2025
The deadline to submit a paper/symposium proposal for the conference is coming up on *11 December*
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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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