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  1. Ockham’s Nominalism: A Philosophical Introduction by Claude Panaccio (review).Jon Bornholdt - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):311-313.
    The historical significance of Panaccio’s chosen topic is obvious: the debate between nominalism and realism is a topic of perennial and continuing interest, and William Ockham, though he never designated himself as such, is arguably the best-known and most systematic nominalist in the history of Western philosophy. But much of Ockham’s work is relatively inaccessible even to philosophically sophisticated readers. Not only has much of it not yet been translated, but it is articulated in the terminology and conceptual framework of (...)
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    Qūshjī (d. 1474) and Dawānī (d. 1502) on Truth and Correspondence.Khaled El-Rouayheb - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):191-208.
    abstract: The present article presents the views of two fifteenth-century Islamic scholars, ‘Alī al-Qūshjī (d. 1474) and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (d. 1502), on the following issue: When we make claims about extramental subjects and predicates, it seems plausible to suggest that such claims are true by virtue of corresponding to extramental reality. But what do we make of claims whose subjects and predicates are not extramental existents, such as philosophical claims like ‘An actual infinity is impossible’ or ‘Existence is a (...)
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    Kant’s “Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science”: A Critical Guide ed. by Michael Bennett McNulty (review).Kristina Engelhard - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):319-320.
    In his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (MAN) (1786), Kant aims to lay out an a priori foundation of physics, in his view the fundamental natural science, on the basis of his newly developed transcendental philosophy. Until recently, MAN has been one of Kant’s works that have received least attention. This might be due to its technical content, which reflects the physics and chemistry of his time, or its difficult style, or its quick way of moving from topic to topic: (...)
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    The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes ed. by David Charles (review).Christopher Frey - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):324-325.
    Hylomorphism is the view that particular objects are composites of form and matter. Something’s form is what causes it to be the specific kind of being it is and this form is realized in a suitable matter. When contemporary philosophers defend a broadly hylomorphic metaphysics and deign to discuss historical precursors at all, Aristotle is typically the only figure they engage. But hylomorphic theory after Aristotle is both complex and rich, and what we miss if we neglect this history is (...)
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  5. A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality by Christina Van Dyke (review).Amy Hollywood - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):313-315.
    In this important book, Christina Van Dyke asks what it would look like if scholars of medieval philosophy looked beyond the scholastic tradition in their accounts of key conceptual issues. As Van Dyke notes, the range of texts considered to be part of the medieval philosophical world has already expanded with scholarly recognition of the vital role played by Jewish and Islamic sources both in handing down and interpreting ancient Greek texts and in their substantive thinking about the questions raised (...)
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  6. Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant: The Violence and the Charity by Morganna Lambeth (review).Stephen Howard - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):320-322.
    Morganna Lambeth’s book reconstructs Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant, as articulated immediately after the publication of Being and Time (1927) in a 1927–28 lecture course and a 1929 book, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, often called Heidegger’s Kantbuch. Lambeth also outlines a Heideggerian method of historical-philosophical interpretation. So even historians of philosophy uninterested in the details of Heidegger’s reading of Kant will find stimulating historiographical proposals in Lambeth’s clearly written and illuminating book, particularly in its first chapter.As is well known, (...)
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    Stephen Darwall, Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant. [REVIEW]Getty L. Lustila - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):317-319.
    Stephen Darwall’s Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant is the first volume of a two-part series on the history of Western moral philosophy from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. This first part covers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and, in some ways, reads as a response to Terence Irwin’s The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study, Vol. II: From Suarez to Rousseau (Oxford University Press, 2008). Irwin sees modern moral philosophy through the lens of “Aristotelian naturalism” (...)
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    The Genesis of Salomon Maimon’s Kantian Interpretation of Maimonides.Yoav Schaefer - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):259-283.
    abstract: This essay explores Salomon Maimon’s first published articles: an article on Moses Maimonides that he published in the Berlinische Monatsschrift in 1789 and a slightly revised version of the same article that he published in Ha-Meassef, the leading journal of the Jewish Enlightenment, several months later. These articles represent the first time that Maimon interprets Maimonides’s thought along the lines of Kantian philosophy, anticipating his interpretations of Maimonides in Giv’at ha-Moreh (1791), his Hebrew commentary on Maimonides’s Guide of the (...)
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    Plato on Object Perception ( Theaetetus 184–87 and 191–96).Lea Aurelia Schroeder - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):165-189.
    abstract: In the Theaetetus, Plato seems to rule out the possibility of perceiving ordinary objects ( Tht. 184–87), only to rely on it shortly afterward ( Tht.191–96). Unlike existing interpretations, this paper develops a unified conception of perception that resolves not only this apparent inconsistency, but also a substantive puzzle about how to understand object perception and its relation to perception of special sensibles. This conception is part of a surprisingly rich account of perceptual experience in the Theaetetus that illuminates (...)
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    Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy by Steven Nadler (review).Jorge Secada - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):315-316.
    Steve Nadler’s Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy is an extended “Life and Works” essay framed by a question it sets out to answer: when does philosophy become modern? The book thus invites being read from the perspective of the reception of Descartes’s works. But this would fail to do justice to its contents, a well-informed and readable narrative, in eight chapters, of Descartes’s life from birth to death, interspersed with interesting details both biographical and otherwise.The focus is naturally on the (...)
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    The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic ed. by Luca Castagnoli and Paolo Fait (review).Robin Smith - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):309-311.
    This latest addition to the Cambridge Companion series covers the development of logic in ancient Greece, from its origins in the fourth century BCE through its rapid development by Aristotle and the Stoics and subsequent stagnation in later antiquity. It is an excellent collection. Four initial chapters summarize the history, followed by nine on “Key Themes”; three final chapters address the legacy of ancient logic. The contributors generally limit themselves to summarizing current scholarship (often with remarkable thoroughness). The extensive thirty-eight-page (...)
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  12. Justified True Belief: The Remarkable History of Mainstream Epistemology.Sander Verhaegh - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):285-307.
    abstract: This paper reconstructs the origins of Gettier-style epistemology, highlighting the philosophical and methodological debates that led to its development in the 1960s. Though present-day epistemologists assume that the search for necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge began with Gettier’s 1963 argument against the JTB definition, I show that this research program can be traced back to British discussions about knowledge and analysis in the 1940s and 1950s. I discuss work of, among others, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, A. J. (...)
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    J. L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer by M. W. Rowe (review). [REVIEW]Sander Verhaegh - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):322-323.
    This is a magnificent biography, balanced, comprehensive, and meticulously researched. It reconstructs the life of a scholar whose analyses helped shape mid-twentieth-century British philosophy; and it traces the work of an intelligence officer whose analyses helped save tens of thousands of lives. Interestingly, it draws illuminating connections between Austin’s two careers. Rowe argues that the organization of Austin’s seminal Saturday Morning discussion group was informed by his experiences as leader of the Advanced Intelligence Section. Problems were broken down into smaller (...)
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    Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century by Julia Jorati (review).Margaret Watkins - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):316-317.
    A telling footnote in Slavery and Race remarks that the existence of a strong antislavery movement prior to the American founding “is common knowledge among scholars who study early antislavery movements in America. However, historians of early modern philosophy are not always aware of it” (26n). This is true, and Jorati’s observation that we imitate the general American public in this respect should not assuage shame in our ignorance. For many Americans, this ignorance enables dubious justification. Contemporary philosophers, however, suffer (...)
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    Kant’s Point of Law.Robert Watt - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):235-258.
    abstract: It is generally agreed that what Kant means by quid juris in the first sentence of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding is the question whether the claim at hand is legally valid, and that what he means by quid facti is a “neutral foil” to quid juris. I defend an alternative interpretation, according to which quid juris is the question whether certain facts are sufficient for the legal validity of the claim at hand, and quid (...)
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  16. La Peyrère's Polygenism and Human Species Hierarchy.Jacob Zellmer - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (2):211-234.
    abstract: In 1655, La Peyrère was the first to substantially argue for and popularize polygenism—the view that God created multiple original human mating pairs in separate acts of creation with numerous pairs created before Adam. Positing or rejecting polygenism has been central to modern theorizing about human types and origins. Prominent recent interpreters have maintained that La Peyrère’s polygenism does not imply a hierarchy of human types. This paper reconstructs La Peyrère’s account and, in opposition to the dominant view, argues (...)
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  17. Grotius Contra Carneades: Natural Law and the Problem of Self-Interest.Scott Casleton - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):49-74.
    In the Prolegomena to De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Hugo Grotius expounds his theory of natural law by way of reply to a skeptical challenge from the Greek Academic Carneades. Though this dialectical context is undeniably important for understanding Grotian natural law, commentators disagree about the substance of Carneades’s challenge. This paper aims to give a definitive reading of Carneades’s skeptical argument, and, by reconstructing Grotius’s reply, to settle some longstanding debates about Grotius’s conception of natural law. I argue that (...)
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    A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael B. Gill (review).Timothy M. Costelloe - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):154-156.
    Few philosophers of note have been subject to the exigencies of intellectual fad and fashion quite like Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), once an influential and widely read author of a best-seller, who was largely forgotten until rediscovered by twentieth-century aestheticians claiming him as a founder of their discipline (11–14). The collection of his mature works, Characteristicks of Men, Manner, Times (1711), now boasts three modern editions and is routinely anthologized, and an expanding body of scholarship is (...)
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    The Contingency of the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles in Leibniz.Martin Lin - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):75-96.
    abstract: Leibniz holds that there are no two perfectly similar things, a doctrine he calls the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (the PII). What is his attitude toward its modal status? Most commentators hold that the principle is best understood as a necessary truth because it is allegedly entailed by doctrines such as the conceptual containment theory of truth, the Principle of Sufficient Reason (the PSR), and the denial of purely extrinsic denominations, which are arguably regarded by Leibniz as (...)
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    Heidegger on Logic ed. by Filippo Casati and Daniel O. Dahlstrom, and: Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger by Filippo Casati (review).David Lindeman - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):160-163.
    In his inaugural lecture, Heidegger declares that “the idea of ‘logic’ itself disintegrates into the turbulence of a more original questioning” (Wegmarken [Pathmarks], ed. William McNeil [Cambridge University Press, 1998], 117/92). The question pursued in this questioning is that of the meaning of Being (Sein), the Seinsfrage. As an indication of what we are seeking, Heidegger writes in Being and Time: “In the question which we are to work out, what is asked about is Being—that which determines entities as entities, (...)
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    Henry of Ghent on the Relational Character of Causal Powers.Can Laurens Löwe & Gillian Shaftoe - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):27-48.
    abstract: Henry of Ghent contends that a causal power is a relation that a substance bears to an act. Scholars have taken this relational account to commit Henry to the Megaric view that a power exists only if it is actualized. We argue that this reading is mistaken because, for Henry, a power is not a “real relation” between a substance and an act. Rather, it is a “relation of reason.” We then consider the worry that if a power is (...)
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    The Philosophy of Hope: Beatitude in Spinoza by Alexander Douglas (review).Zijian Lyu & Michael LeBuffe - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):153-154.
    This learned, elegant book builds an interpretation of beatitude in Spinoza’s Ethics through interaction with a range of primary texts, including prominently the Zhuangzi, as well as secondary literature on Spinoza. Douglas’s focus is the promise that Spinoza’s doctrine of beatitude offers for eluding what is worst about death.The book starts with an account of beatitude that will serve as a foil. Chapter 1 sets out André Comte-Sponville’s account of beatitude in Spinoza, advertised as a Stoic account, on which one (...)
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    Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political by Melissa Lane (review).Brennan McDavid - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):147-148.
    While the American electorate is being roiled by a series of high-profile court cases that examine accountability among politicians, and legal minds are grappling with the question of whether the president of the United States even counts as an “officer” of the same, Melissa Lane has delivered a masterful study on the historical origins of these notions. Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political explores the concepts of rule and office as they were conceived by the pioneers of (...)
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    C. D. Broad on Precognitions and John William Dunne.Matyáš Moravec - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):121-146.
    C. D. Broad developed three different accounts of time over the course of his career. Emily Thomas has recently argued that the shift from the first to the second of these was motivated by his engagement with the philosophy of Samuel Alexander. In this paper, I argue that the shift from the second to the third was instigated by Broad’s engagement with precognitive dreams and with the thought of John William Dunne. Furthermore, I argue that fully appreciating Broad’s interest in (...)
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    System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte: Festschrift in Honor of Günter Zöller by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy (review).Lara Ostaric - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):156-158.
    Basile and Lyssy’s volume is a collection of eleven essays published in honor of Günter Zöller and dedicated to the conceptions of system and freedom in Kant and Fichte, which have been central to Zöller’s research. The editors rightly emphasize that systematicity in Kant is related to metaphysics as a disposition of reason. For Kant, reason is teleological, namely, directed toward its final end, the realization of the highest good in the world. This is why Kant’s theoretical philosophy—his transcendental idealism (...)
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    Higher-Order Predicates in the Categories.Gabriel Shapiro - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):1-26.
    abstract: In the Categories, Aristotle relies on the truth of claims like ‘Socrates is an individual’ and ‘human is a species,’ but it is not clear how terms like ‘species’ and ‘individual’ fit into the framework of the Categories. Do these terms introduce substances or accidents? When we truly apply them to a subject, is the predication we express essential or accidental? These questions puzzled ancient commentators on the Categories but have largely been neglected in modern scholarship. My central contention (...)
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    Hypothèse matérialiste et pensée radicale: La philosophie de la nature de Blaise de Parma by Joël Biard (review).José Filipe Silva - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):151-153.
    The latest scholarly contribution by Joël Biard is a monograph about the late fourteenth-/ early fifteenth-century philosopher Blasius of Parma, known above all for his heterodox materialist views. This explains his nickname, doctor dyabolicus, the evil or diabolical doctor. Blasius is no stranger to Biard, who has edited both Blasius’s works and (recently) one volume on this thinker (J. Biard and A. Robert, editors, La Philosophie de Blaise de Parme: Physique, psychologie, éthique [Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2019]). Despite a growing number (...)
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    Autonomy Without Compromise: Wolff, Kant, and the Grounds of Moral Laws.Joe Stratmann - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):97-120.
    abstract: Moral autonomy might seem to harbor inconsistency. Whereas nomos suggests that moral laws are grounded in our essence or nature (and thus are not up to us), autos suggests that they are grounded in some free act of self-legislation or prescription (and thus are up to us). Latter-day Kantians often respond by compromising on autonomy, deflating either nomos or autos. This investigation reconstructs how Christian Wolff, Kant’s great rationalist predecessor, already forged a path for embracing autonomy without compromise. His (...)
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    Anselm’s Argument: Divine Necessity by Brian Leftow (review).Jennifer Hart Weed - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):149-151.
    The secondary literature on St. Anselm of Canterbury’s ontological argument is voluminous. Some of it attributes to Anselm the view that existence is a great-making property. In this book, Brian Leftow focuses on Anselm’s “Reply to Gaunilo” and Anselm’s claim that “if any perfect being existed, its existence would be absolutely necessary” (1). Leftow contextualizes his book-length project as an attempt to formulate a successful argument for this claim, but he distinguishes his interpretation of Anselm’s claim from other interpretations by (...)
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    The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History by Michael Rosen (review).Reed Winegar - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):158-159.
    This book focuses on the relationship between religion and secularism in Kant, Hegel, and subsequent modern thought. Rosen argues that Kant and Hegel’s philosophies should be seen as secularizing but not themselves secular. Specifically, Rosen argues for the continued importance of religion in Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophies, while also maintaining that their philosophies nevertheless contributed significantly to the transformation of traditional religious notions into secularized variants. Immortality serves as the book’s flagship illustration of these claims: “This book is particularly focused (...)
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  31. KOSTAS AXELOS : THE PLAY OF WORLD - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS.Alexis Karpouzos - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 9 (18):8.
    The Philosophical Contribution of Kostas Axelos: The Issue of the Open System and Technological Civilization -/- Kostas Axelos (1924–2010) remains one of the most intriguing and underexplored figures in contemporary philosophy. His work, situated at the crossroads of Marxism, Heideggerian phenomenology, and the philosophy of technology, raises critical questions about the nature of modern civilization and the fate of thought in an increasingly technological world. One of the central academic issues in Axelos’ thought is his concept of the "open system," (...)
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    ΘΟΥΚΥΔΙΔΗΣ - ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΙΚΗ - ΑΛΕΞΗΣ ΚΑΡΠΟΥΖΟΣ.Alexis Karpouzos - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 8 (14):8.
    Ο Θουκυδίδειος ρεαλισμός είναι Ανθρωποκεντρικός, βασισμένος στην έννοια της αμετάβλητης ανθρώπινης φύσης, Ιστορικά εμπειρικός, εστιάζει στην εμπειρική παρατήρηση και την αναλυτική ερμηνεία των γεγονότων, Απομυθοποιητικός, απορρίπτει τη θεϊκή ή μυθολογική αιτιολόγηση της ιστορίας και Ηθικά διαλεκτικός, αποκαλύπτει την ένταση μεταξύ πολιτικής ανάγκης και ηθικού ιδανικού. Ο Θουκυδίδειος ρεαλισμός αποτελεί μια από τις σημαντικότερες συνεισφορές του Θουκυδίδη όχι μόνο στην ιστοριογραφία αλλά και στην πολιτική φιλοσοφία και θεωρία των διεθνών σχέσεων. Ο Θουκυδίδης δεν είναι μόνο ιστορικός, αλλά και τραγικός στοχαστής. Η (...)
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