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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...
- 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...)
- 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!
More information about the prize, past winners, and submisssion information for the 2025 competition👇
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Graduate Essay Prize | UK | British Society for the History of Philosophy
The BSHP Graduate Essay Prize of £1000 is awarded annually to the writer of an essay that makes a significant contribution to the history of philosophy.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
More information about the prize, past winners, and submisssion information for the 2025 competition👇
bshp.org.uk/funding/grad...
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Eric's winning essay is called 'Locke’s Epistemic Individualism Revisited: Observation and the Domain of Testimony'.
Darcy's is 'Two Accounts of Intellectual Intuition in Schelling's Early Philosophy'.
Darcy's is 'Two Accounts of Intellectual Intuition in Schelling's Early Philosophy'.
February 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Eric's winning essay is called 'Locke’s Epistemic Individualism Revisited: Observation and the Domain of Testimony'.
Darcy's is 'Two Accounts of Intellectual Intuition in Schelling's Early Philosophy'.
Darcy's is 'Two Accounts of Intellectual Intuition in Schelling's Early Philosophy'.