{"title":"Du Châtelet's causal idealism","authors":"Fatema Amijee","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2389869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2389869","url":null,"abstract":"I show that unlike her rationalist predecessor Leibniz, Du Châtelet is committed to epistemic causal idealism about natural causes. According to this view, it is constitutive of natural causes that...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"180 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A taxonomy of divisibilism and Gregory of Rimini’s place","authors":"Clelia V. Crialesi","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2376165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2376165","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a taxonomy of divisibilism, a philosophical perspective advocating for the infinite divisibility of continua. The taxonomy is founded on various conceptualizations of indivisibl...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"124 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helen Knight and Margaret Macdonald on the meaning of ‘good’","authors":"Oliver Thomas Spinney","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2379977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2379977","url":null,"abstract":"I argue that Helen Knight and Margaret Macdonald expressed views on the nature of ‘good’ in aesthetic contexts which anticipate to a striking extent the dispute between Peter Geach and R. M. Hare o...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prolegomenon for Fazang’s Essay on the Golden Lion","authors":"Nicholaos Jones","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2373131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2373131","url":null,"abstract":"Fazang is a seminal figure for the tradition of Huayan Buddhism. Essay on the Golden Lion is the most widely translated into English of his writings. Yet systematic English-language scholarship on ...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A resolute reading of Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals","authors":"Evgenia Mylonaki, Megan J. Laverty","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2376169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2376169","url":null,"abstract":"It is often remarked that Iris Murdoch’s thought deeply influenced the landscape of twentieth-century moral philosophy. It is certainly true that she inspired a generation of Anglo-American philoso...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter of Mantua and the ‘piecemeal’ conception of substantial change*","authors":"Roberto Zambiasi","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2376176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2376176","url":null,"abstract":"This paper compares the conception of substantial change put forth by Peter of Mantua (d. 1399) in his De primo et ultimo instanti with the one developed by Albert of Saxony (ca. 1320–1390). Accord...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The most important thing: Wittgenstein, engineering, and the foundations of mathematics","authors":"Johannes Lenhard","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2373133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2373133","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits Wittgenstein’s heavily criticized claims about the admissibility of inconsistencies in mathematics. It argues from the perspective of mathematics as a tool and combines material...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plato’s Republic and Black feminist thought","authors":"Josh Wilburn","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2364032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2364032","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019 I designed and taught two iterations of “Plato and Black Feminist Thought”, a special topics version of a course on Plato. It combined a reading of the Republic with texts from the Black fe...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141773637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aristotle on the causal efficacy of perceptible qualities","authors":"Ekrem Çetinkaya","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2363388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2363388","url":null,"abstract":"Aristotle grants perceptible qualities the power to generate sense perception in animals. But it is unclear whether, for him, these qualities can produce any effect other than perception. In this p...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The philosopher versus the physicist: Eddington’s rejoinder to Stebbing","authors":"Peter West","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2024.2363390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2363390","url":null,"abstract":"A number of recent papers or monographs have examined Susan Stebbing's criticisms of Arthur Eddington's scientific-philosophical writing. These papers focus on Stebbing's critique of Eddington's at...","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}