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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The aesthetic dimensions of esteem in Rousseau: amour-propre , general will, and general taste17
Approval, reflective emotions, and virtue: sentimentalist elements in Husserl’s philosophy16
Cartesian intuition13
Hermann Lotze’s influence on twentieth century philosophy9
Editorial9
“‘Here is one hand’…, ‘and here is another’”: Comments on Mark Textor's The Disappearance of Soul7
The concept of dignity in Edmund Burke’s writings on the French revolution6
“How to disappear completely”: responses to commentators5
The obsession with time in 1880s–1930s American-British philosophy5
A hint as to my grounds for judgement: Frege’s positive account of modality5
Either wealth or the ‘Kingdom of God’: the Hebrews’ xenophobia and the economic argument of Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise5
Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023): preeminent historian of philosophy and chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy4
Spinoza’s metaphysics of infinity: from indeterminacy, infinity follows4
W.E.B. Du Bois’ misrecognition4
Unknowing: Christian and Buddhist soteriological epistemology4
Ørsted, Mach, and the history of ‘thought experiment’3
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 Je3
Reply to comments3
Huang Zongxi’s Confucian political moralism3
Calculating ethics in the fourteenth century3
Feeling, cognition, and the eighteenth-century context of Kantian sympathy3
Avicennian essentialism3
On personal identity and space: some remarks on Ruth Boeker’s Catharine Trotter Cockburn3
Knowledge of universals3
Intuition in the history of philosophy (what’s in it for philosophers today?)3
Beatrice Edgell’s myth of the given3
Everything is conceivable: a note on an unused axiom in Spinoza's Ethics2
Kant’s distinction between absolute and relative spontaneity reconsidered2
Pricean reflection2
Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna2
Avicenna and Khūnajī on de re and de dicto modality2
Conscience, conviction, and moral autonomy in Fichte’s ethics2
The metaphysics of Christology in the late middle ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel2
James Sully’s psychological reduction of philosophical pessimism2
Attribution arguments and the metaphysics of immanent actions: cognitive acts from Peter John Olivi to Durand of St. Pourçain2
Kant's critique of pure reason and the method of metaphysics2
Remembering Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)2
Johann Benjamin Erhard on economic injustice2
Berkeley2
Mary Astell on self-government and custom2
Pratibhā, intuition, and practical knowledge2
Comments on Samantha Matherne’s Cassirer2
Aristotle on logical consequence2
Kant and Mendelssohn on the limits of religious pluralism and tolerance, or: two conceptions of Judaism2
Avicenna on common natures and the ground of the categories1
Austrian philosophy and the persistence of metaphysics1
Divine intersubjectivity? On Lenz on Locke1
Martin Heidegger, “The argument against need (for the being-in-Itself of entities)”1
Samuel Alexander on relations, Russell, and Bradley1
Ancestrality and (in-)dependence – on Heidegger on being-in-itself1
Hobbes and the ‘great deception of sense’1
Al-Ghazālī, nativism, and divine interventionism1
Thinking with Rosa: assent in philosophy of the Islamic world1
Jaspers and Sartre: transcendence and the difference of the divine1
Correction1
Recognition and respect in early modern philosophy1
Scudéry’s portraits: patriarchy, agency, and genre1
Prolegomenon for Fazang’s Essay on the Golden Lion1
Hume: a very short introduction1
Editorial1
L. Susan Stebbing Philosophy and the Physicists (1937): a re-appraisal1
Why Epicurean happiness is not for everyone1
Kant and Rehberg on political theory and practice1
Class-struggle in the rational state: proto-marxist ideas in Hegel’s account of poverty1
The mark of the mental in the fourteenth century: Volitio , cognitio , and Adam Wodeham’s experience argument1
The dark side of recognition: Bernard Mandeville and the morality of pride1
Mary Midgley’s meta-ethics and Neo-Aristotelian naturalism1
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 Uni1
The eudaimonist ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna1
Mirroring omni-present suffering: a Chan Buddhist alternative to phronesis1
Leibniz’s opposition to monism1
Leibniz on free and responsible wrongdoing1
Patterns of sickness: Nietzsche’s physio-historical account of asceticism1
An inconsistency in Cassirer’s conception of the a priori1
Hegel and Plato on how to become good1
Identity and real distinction according to Duns Scotus1
Temporal experience and the present in George P. Adams’ eternalism1
Correction1
The social and the medical in Hume1
The philosophy of hope: beatitude in Spinoza1
Kant, Hume, and the ‘ontological arguments’1
Mary Calkins, Victoria Welby, and the spatialization of time1
Aristotle’s unlimited dunamis argument: an unrecognized proof of the immobility of the Prime Mover1
Cassirer and energetics: an investigation of Cassirer's early philosophy of physics1
Nothing less than the whole Cassirer1
The historical history of philosophy: a discussion with Michael Frede The historiography of philosophy , by Michael Frede, with a postface by Jonathan Barnes, edited by 1
William King on election, reason, and desire: a reply to Kenneth Pearce1
Human becomings: theorizing persons for Confucian role ethics1
Cassirer on method, the a priori, and culture: a reply1
Russell’s proof and meaning in isolation1
Johann Friedrich Herbart. Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy Johann Friedrich Herbart. Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy , by Friedrick Carl Beiser, Oxford, Oxford Univ1
Exploring the mind in Austria (1874–1918) and defending Mach’s neutral monism0
Martin Heidegger, “Das Argument gegen den Brauch (für das Ansichsein des Seienden)”0
Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes0
James Africanus Beale Horton’s philosophy of history: progress, race, and the fate of Africa0
What can Maimonides' understanding of the shamefulness of touch teach us about Aristotle'sNEIII.10, 1118b1–3?0
Nietzsche as panpsychist0
Limits of intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein0
Madeleine de Scudéry on conversation and its feminist ends0
Justin Martyr and the evaluative priority of practical activity0
A priori philosophy of nature in Hegel and German rationalism0
Bergsonism and the history of analytic philosophy Bergsonism and the history of analytic philosophy , by Andreas Vrahimis, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, pp. xix + 390
Editorial0
Recognition and the self in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit0
Zhuangzi onYu,Zhou, and the ontic indeterminacy of the Dao0
How good was Shepherd’s response to Hume’s epistemological challenge?0
Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher0
The philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt: from Mach’s positivism to Einstein’s relativity The philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt: from Mach’s positivism to Einstein’s relativity , b0
Reason and Conversion in Kierkegaard and the German Idealists0
A.W. Rehberg, Investigations Concerning the French Revolution (1793)0
Heidegger on deep time and being-in-itself: introductory thoughts on “The Argument against Need”0
Friedrich Albert Lange’s theory of values0
Different beasts: humans and animals in Spinoza and the Zhuangzi0
Physical influx theory: the case of Émilie Du Châtelet0
Monads, situation, and infinite explanation0
The question of ontological dependency0
The possibility of knowing the essence of bodies through scientific experiments in Spinoza’s controversy with Boyle0
The unity of consciousness in Sartre’s early thought: reading The Transcendence of the Ego with The Imaginary0
Dark matters: Pessimism and the problem of suffering0
From the ‘History of Western Philosophy’ to entangled histories of philosophy: the Contribution of Ben Kies0
The power and limits of friendship in Spinoza’s Ethics0
Kantian freedom at a distance0
Shepherd on reason0
Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic0
On Aristotle’s use of examples and how to read them0
The philosopher versus the physicist: Susan Stebbing on Eddington and the passage of time0
Hobbes against hate speech0
History of logic in Latin America: the case of Ayda Ignez Arruda0
Reply to Manuel Fasko’s discussion of Mary Shepherd: a guide0
Kant’s critique of practical reason: background source materials0
Recent studies on Kant’s third Critique0
Correspondance René Descartes – Henry More0
Synthesis and analysis: Jean Nicod as a mediator between Bergson and Russell0
Freedom and agency in the Zhuangzi: navigating life’s constraints0
Metaphysical separatism and epistemological autonomy in Frege’s philosophy and beyond0
Potentia eximia & Excellentia facultatum : the relation between liberty and power from the Leviathan to 0
Sellars on modality: possible worlds and rules of inference0
Locke’s Humean conventionalism0
Early Arabic logicians on the contraposition of the particular affirmative0
Continuity, limits, and quantity in Al-Fārābī’s paraphrase of Aristotle’s Categories0
Hume’s philosophy in historical perspective0
Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time0
Schopenhauer on inner awareness and world-understanding0
Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis0
Leibniz against occasionalism and Newtonianism: the objection from perpetual miracles revisited0
Correction0
Raghunātha on seeing absence0
Just prospering: Plato and the sophistic debate about justice0
C.C.E. Schmid and the doctrine of intelligible fatalism0
The Mouse’s Tale: al-Jāḥiẓ, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Animal Thinking0
On philosophy in Plato’s Republic0
Two deductions of right in early post-Kantianism0
A taxonomy of divisibilism and Gregory of Rimini’s place0
Henri Bergson and the philosophy of religion0
Hans-Georg Gadamer's “On the idea of a system in philosophy” (1924)0
A crisis of recognition: gender, race, and the struggle to be seen in pre-modernity0
How to write a history of philosophy? The case of eighteenth-century Britain0
Reparative agency and commitment in William James’ pragmatism0
Descartes and his critics on passions and animals0
Intentionality in Avicenna: a reconstruction based on his notion of ‘consideration’0
Berkeley on religious truths: a reply to Keota Fields0
Descartes on the source of error: the Fourth Meditation and the Correspondence with Elisabeth0
Going through the motions: memory and remembrance in Cavendish0
Pragmatism and scientific philosophy in Carnap and Quine0
That’s correct! Brentano on intuitive judgement0
Erhard on recognition, revolution, and natural law0
Quantifying Aristotelian essences: on some fourteenth-century applications of limit decision problems to the perfection of species0
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain0
Esteem and sociality in Pufendorf’s natural law theory0
Interpreting Duns Scotus: critical essays0
Simple esteem and the method of commonplaces in Pufendorf0
George Berkeley: a philosophical life0
Event semantics, or the project of hermeneutical philosophy0
A third realm ontology? Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and the nafs al-amr0
Does Mary Astell think that marriage is a form of slavery?0
Sentimental beings: subjects, nature, and society in romantic philosophy0
Ottobah Cugoano on chattel slavery and the moral limitations of ius gentium0
A hidden wisdom: medieval contemplatives on self-knowledge, reason, love, persons, and immortality0
Divine teleology in Spinoza's thought: an underexplored side of Spinoza’s philosophical journey0
The ontology of images in Plato’sTimaeus0
Plato’s Republic and Black feminist thought0
How things are: an introduction to Buddhist metaphysics How things are: an introduction to Buddhist metaphysics , by Mark Siderits, Buddhist Philosophy for Philosophers 0
Learning from models: knowing sages as sages in Confucian philosophy0
Cartesian sensory perception, agreeability, and the puzzle of aesthetic pleasure0
Intuitive cognition in the Latin medieval tradition0
Resonating strings: understanding the transition from Hume’s Treatise to Second Enquiry0
Critical discussion of recent work in Kantian ethics: Timmermann, Herman, Timmons0
Subjugation, freedom, and recognition in Poulain de la Barre and Simone de Beauvoir0
Kant on phenomenal substance0
John Rogers (1938–2022): In Memoriam0
Nihilist arguments in Gorgias and Nāgārjuna0
Ethics of atomism – Democritus, Vasubandhu, and the skepticism that wasn’t0
From being to acting: Kant and Fichte on intellectual intuition0
Confessions of the flesh. The history of sexuality: 40
The guise of the good: a philosophical history by Francesco Orsi, Oxford, Routledge, 2023, pp. 188, £125.00 (hb), ISBN: 97810321201710
Intuition in the Avicennan tradition0
Cook Wilson on judgement0
Margaret Macdonald on the definition of art0
Razian prophecy rationalized0
The most important thing: Wittgenstein, engineering, and the foundations of mathematics0
Intuitions in Stoic philosophy0
More on knowledge before Gettier0
Anne Conway on divine and creaturely freedom0
Varieties of consciousness in classical Arabic thought: Avicenna, Averroes, and the mutakallimūn0
Reorienting Clifford’s evidentialism: returning to social trust0
Panentheistic, monistic, non-necessitarian: Leibniz’s view of the relation between God and nature in 1675–16760
The geometrical atomism of Roger Bacon0
Avicenna on representation: towards an existential-relational account of intentionality0
Schopenhauer on boredom0
The goodness of the virtues and the sun-like good0
Avicenna on empty intentionality: a case study in analytical Avicennianism0
Do thoughts have parts? Peter Abelard: Yes! Alberic of Paris: No!0
Michael Frede and the history of philosophy The historiography of philosophy , by Michael Frede, with a postface by Jonathan Barnes, edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Oxf0
A time of novelty: logic, emotion, and intellectual life in early modern India, 1500–1700 C.E.0
Juliusz Domański on philosophy as a way of life0
Intuition, discursive thought, and truth in Aristotle0
Schlick on intuition and prediction0
Intuition in Plato and the Platonic tradition0
Norman Kemp Smith on the experience of duration0
Taking time seriously: the Bergsonism of Karin Costelloe-Stephen, Hilda Oakeley, and May Sinclair0
Reinhold on intellectual intuition0
Aristotle on sexual difference: metaphysics, biology, politics0
The meaning of existence (bhava) in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha0
Al-Farabi on acquiring a philosophical concept0
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Briefwechsel – Nachlaß – Dokumente/Nachlaß. Reihe I: Text. Band 1, 1-1, 2: Die Denkbücher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis0
The experience and knowledge of time, through Russell and Moore0
The right kind of nonsense – a study of McTaggart’s C and D series0
Are the later Mohists preference-satisfaction consequentialists? A discussion of Daniel Stephens’ “Later Mohist ethics and philosophical progress in ancient China”0
Editorial0
Thales – the ‘first philosopher’? A troubled chapter in the historiography of philosophy0
On the concept of subsistence in Thomas Aquinas0
Unifying themes and irresolvable tensions in Cassirer's system of symbolic forms0
Korean women philosophers and the ideal of a female sage: essential writings of Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang0
Virtuous actions in the Mengzi0
Seeing life steadily: Dorothy Emmet’s philosophy of perception and the crisis in metaphysics0
The Pure Natural Right, by Theodor Schmalz0
Du Châtelet's causal idealism0
Recent work on Aquinas' metaphysics0
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
Pricean ignorance0
Kant as a carpenter of reason: the highest good and systematic coherence0
Doing what you really want: an introduction to the philosophy of Mengzi0
Speaking of what is not: Hatibzâde and Taşköprizâde Kâsım on the existential import of negative propositions0
Peter of Mantua and the ‘piecemeal’ conception of substantial change0
Rudolf Eucken and the crisis of spiritual life0
The parmenidean ascent0
Twentieth-century French philosophy and the radicalization of Kant0
John Stuart Mill: socialism, pluralism, and competition0
Mind and knowledge of mind in classical Islamic philosophy0
The main features of Whitehead’s early temporal ontology0
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