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British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Overview
The British Journal for the History of Philosophy (BJHP) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, publishing articles on the history of philosophy since 1993. It is widely regarded as one of the leading international journals in the area. It has played a central role in broadening the philosophical canon to include marginalised figures and traditions. From 2013 to 2020, the editor-in-chief was Michael A. Beaney, currently Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen. From 2021, the editors-in-chief are Alix Cohen (Edinburgh) and Sacha Golob (King's College London).
It is published by the British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), a charitable learned society founded in 1984 based on Kings College, with the aim of promoting the study and teaching of the history of philosophy, and which manages the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. The current home of the society is King's College London, and its current president is Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza.
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What is actually done is rather to make the contrary presupposition. Histories with such an object as religion or philosophy are understood to have only subjective aims for their theme, i.e. only opinions and mere ideas, not an essential and realised object like the truth. And that with the mere excuse that there is no truth. On this assumption the sympathy with truth appears as only a partiality of the usual sort…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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I say “I sit at my table”, but I ought to say: “One of a certain string of events causally connected in the sort of way that makes the whole series that is called a ‘person’ has a certain spatial relation to one of another string of events causally connected with each other in a different way and having a spatial configuration of the sort denoted by the word ‘table’”. I do not say so, because life is too short; but…
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
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A “Philosophic Journal” in England, edited by Thompson, treats of Chemistry, Agriculture, Manuring, Husbandry, Technology, like Hermbstädt’s Journal, and gives inventions connected therewith. The English call physical instruments, such as the barometer and thermometer, philosophical instruments. Theories too, and especially morality and the moral sciences, which are derived from the feelings of the human heart or…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Part of Thales of Miletus.
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