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Job: Lecturer in the History of Philosophy (Modern)
The Philosophy Department at King’s College London is seeking to appoint a fixed-term (one year) Lecturer with expertise in the history of philosophy, modern period, including Spinoza and Leibniz. Research specialization, competence and ability to teach at all levels and supervise postgraduate students in that area is required. Teaching competence in epistemology at undergraduate and MA level is also required; research expertise in this area is desirable.
King’s Philosophy Department is one of the largest and most distinguished departments in the UK. We have particular research strengths in the history of philosophy, philosophy of mind and psychology, philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science, and moral and political philosophy.
This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract for 12 months from 1st September 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.
For further details, contact Mark Textor or click here. The closing date for the post is 18 July 2023.
New website for KCL History of Philosophy research cluster
The History of Philosophy research cluster at KCL has a new website. Visit the link for details about upcoming reading groups, work-in-progress discussions, the KHOPS seminar series (resuming in Spring 2023), workshops on books published by members of the cluster and more. The current members of the cluster are:
- Maria Rosa Antognazza (Leibniz; early modern philosophy)
- Joachim Aufderheide (ancient philosophy)
- John Callanan (Kant; early modern philosophy)
- Rachel Cristy (19th-century philosophy; pragmatism)
- Sacha Golob (Kant; 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy)
- Jessica Leech (Kant; history of analytic philosophy)
- Thomas Pink (medieval and early modern philosophy)
- Jasper Reid (17th- and 18th-century philosophy)
- Mark Textor (history of analytic philosophy and phenomenology)
- Shaul Tor (ancient philosophy)
- Zita Toth (medieval philosophy)
- Raphael Woolf (ancient philosophy)
The Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy at King’s (24-26 April)
The Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy took place at King’s College London on 24-26 April 2019. Over 120 delegates gathered in London for three days of discussion. The conference covered all periods of the history of philosophy, including sessions on Chinese, Islamic, Indian, and other non-western parts of the canon, in nearly 100 papers.
Several KCL faculty, emeritus faculty and students gave papers at the event. Maria Rosa Antognazza delivered the welcome remarks as BSHP Chair. Other King’s speakers included: MM McCabe, Mike Beaney, Richard Sorabji, John Callanan, Jessica Leech, Mark Textor, Katharine O’Reilly, Jon W. Thompson, Carlo Cogliati, and Mike Coxhead.
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The British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), launched in 1984, is a registered charity, which exists to promote and foster all aspects of the study and teaching of the history of philosophy. It publishes one of the leading journals in the field, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Taylor and Francis), currently based at KCL. Both the BSHP Chair (Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza) and the BJHP Editor (Professor Mike Beaney) are members of King’s Philosophy Department.
First Annual Lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy held at King’s
John Cottingham spoke on “Why the history of philosophy matters”, on Friday 3 November 2017.
King’s History of Philosophy Seminar (KHOPS) — 2017/18
King’s History of Philosophy Seminar will meet regularly through the academic year at King’s College London. The Seminar aims to promote discussion of methods and approaches to the History of Philosophy as well as of thinkers and topics within the tradition. We wish to encourage contextual and interdisciplinary perspectives, and welcome researchers in disciplines such as History, Theology, and Political Theory as well as Philosophy. Meetings take place on Fridays from 11am to 1pm. All welcome. For inquiries contact John Callanan (john.callanan@kcl.ac.uk or Clare Carlisle (clare.carlisle@kcl.ac.uk).
KHOPS 2017-18 Schedule
November 10th 2017 (K2.41, King’s Building) – Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), On Malthus.
December 1st 2017 (K2.41, King’s Building) – David McNaughton (Edinburgh), On Joseph Butler.
February 16th 2018 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building)– Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), On Spinoza.
March 23rd 2018 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building)–- Sharon Kirshek (Tel Aviv), On Kierkegaard.
April 27th 2081 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building) – Christopher Insole (Durham), On Kant.
May 25th 2018 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building) – Emily Thomas (Durham), On May Sinclair.
Kant at King’s – Andrea Sangiovanni
The Department of Philosophy is one of the leading departments for the study of Kant’s philosophy. John Callanan, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech and Andrea Sangiovanni are all currently working on various issues in Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy.
Today in the spotlight, the recent work of Andrea Sangiovanni:
- ‘Why There Can Be No Truly Kantian Theory of Human Rights’ in Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, eds. Rowan Cruft and Massimo Renzo (Oxford University Press 2015), pp. 671-91.
- ‘Can the Innate Right to Freedom Alone Ground a System of Public and Private Rights?’ European Journal of Philosophy 40/3: 60-9 (2012)
Kant at King’s – Jessica Leech
The Department of Philosophy is one of the leading departments for the study of Kant’s philosophy. John Callanan, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech and Andrea Sangiovanni are all currently working on various issues in Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy.
Today in the spotlight, the recent work of Jessica Leech:
- ‘The Mereology of Representation’, Aristotelian Society, 2016.
- ‘Judging for Reasons: on Kant and the modalities of judgment’, due to appear in Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on Consciousness, Judgement, and the Self, eds A. Gomes and A. Stephenson.
- ‘Kant’s Material Condition of Real Possibility’, to appear in The Actual and the Possible: Modality in Modern Philosophy, ed. M Sinclair, (Mind Occasional Series)
- ‘A Transcendental Argument for the Principle of Possibility’, to appear in The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds: New Essays on Kant’s Metaphysics and Epistemology, eds. N. Stang and K. Schafer.
- ‘Making Modal Distinctions: Kant on the possible, the actual, and the intuitive understanding’, Kantian Review, 19:3 (2014) 339-365.
- ‘Baking with Kant and Bradley’, with Thomas, E. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 19:1 (2013) 75-94.
- ‘Kant’s Modalities of Judgment’ European Journal of Philosophy, 20:2 (2012) 60-284.
Kant at King’s – Sacha Golob
The Department of Philosophy is one of the leading departments for the study of Kant’s philosophy. John Callanan, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech and Andrea Sangiovanni are all currently working on various issues in Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy.
Today in the spotlight, the recent work of Sacha Golob:
- ‘What do animals see?’ in Kant and Animals, Allais and Callanan (eds.). Oxford University Press, in press with a publication date of 2017: pp.1-23
- ‘Why the Transcendental Deduction is Compatible with Nonconceptualism’ in Kantian Nonconceptualism, Schulting (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, in press with publication date of 2016: pp.43-66.
- ‘Hume, Kant, and the Representational Role of the Imagination’ in The Imagination in Early Modern Philosophy, Vermeir (ed.). Springer, in press with a publication date of 2016: pp.1-28
- ‘Kant as Both Conceptualist and Nonconceptualist’, Kantian Review, 2016, 21, pp.367–391.
- ‘Heidegger on Kant, Time, and the ‘Form’ of Intentionality’, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2013, Vol.21: pp.345– 367.
- ‘Kant on Intentionality, Magnitude, and the Unity of Perception’, European Journal of Philosophy, 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00503.x
History of Philosophy Seminar: Mon 7th, 4pm – Wendland on Heidegger
“_Authenticity, Truth, and Cultural Transformation: A Critical Reading of John Haugeland’s Heidegger._”
Speaker: Aaron Wendland (Tartu)
Join us next Monday in Room 405, Philosophy Building.
Afterwards Sacha Golob will be taking Aaron to dinner at Masala Zone Covent Garden – if you would like to join them please let Sacha know by Tue 1st. The department can cover the costs of up to two grads on a first come first served basis.
Abstract: According to the standard reading, Heidegger’s account of authenticity in Being and Time amounts to an existentialist theory of human freedom. Against this existentialist interpretation, John Haugeland reads Heidegger’s account of authenticity as a key feature of Heidegger’s fundamental ontology: i.e., Heidegger’s attempt to determine the meaning of being through an analysis of human beings. Haugeland’s argument is based on the idea that taking responsibility for our existence entails getting the being of entities right. Specifically, Haugeland says that our ability to choose allows us to question and test the disclosure of being through which entities are intelligible to us against the entities themselves, and he adds that taking responsibility for our existence involves transforming our current disclosure of being when it fails to meet the truth test. Although I agree that Heidegger’s existentialism is a crucial feature of his fundamental ontology, I argue that the details of Haugeland’s interpretation are inconsistent. My objection is that if, as Haugeland claims, entities are only intelligible via disclosures of being, then it is incoherent for Haugeland to say that entities themselves can serve as intelligible standard against which disclosures can be truth-tested or transformed. Finally, I offer an alternative to Haugeland’s truth-based take on authenticity and cultural transformation via an ends-based onto-methodological interpretation of Heidegger and Kuhn. Here I argue that the ends pursed by a specific community determine both the meaning of being and the movement of human history.
Kant at King’s – John Callanan
The Department of Philosophy is one of the leading departments for the study of Kant’s philosophy. John Callanan, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech and Andrea Sangiovanni are all currently working on various issues in Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy.
Today in the spotlight, the recent work of John Callanan:
- ‘Kant on the Spontaneous Power of the Mind’, forthcoming, British Journal of the History of Philosophy.
- ‘Kant on the Acquisition of Geometrical Concepts’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 44. Nos. 5-6, 580-604. (Reprinted in Kant: Studies on Mathematics in the Critical Period, eds. Emily Carson and Lisa Shabel, Routledge, 2015)
- ‘Mendelssohn and Kant on Mathematics and Metaphysics’, Kant Yearbook 2014, Vol. 6, No 1, 2014, 1-22.
- ‘Kant and the Role of the Holy Will’, Hegel Bulletin, 35 (2), 2014, 1-22.
- ‘Kant on Nativism, Scepticism and Necessity,’ Kantian Review, 18, (1), 2013, 1-27.
- ‘Kant and the Comparison of Animals’, in Kant and Animals, Allais and Callanan (eds.)