Intellectual History in a Thousand Manuscripts

Item no. 24: A letter to Isaiah Berlin from 1955.

The History of Scottish Philosophy wi’ Muckle Gaps is back! Listen to new episodes here.

On 9 March, colleagues and friends of J. G. A. Pocock gathered in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews to celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest and most influential historians of the 20th century.

Deadline: 28 March 2024.

Saturday 9 March.
Parliament Hall, St Andrews.

Read the programme here.

This project seeks to advance philosophy in business ethics by drawing upon the history of moral, political, or legal thought.

Deadline: March 15th 2024.

We are pleased to announce that the 2022 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Claire Rydell Arcenas for America’s Philosopher - John Locke in American Intellectual Life (UCP).

John Pocock, who has died at the age of ninety-nine only a little short of his hundredth birthday, was a giant of the historical profession.

Obituary by Colin Kidd

Talk given by Richard Whatmore in Vienna, December 2023.

Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment will be published on December 7th 2023. Join us for the book launch in St Andrews.

Robin Mills speaks with Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam) about his recently published book Europe against Revolution (OUP, 2023).

Robin Mills speaks with Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas about the history of basic income, from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic and political crisis to its present-day popularity in Silicon Valley.

Robin Mills speaks with Fredrik A. Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, who examine the origins of the vision of scarcity embedded in modern economics and demonstrate its historical contingency, even in the age of capitalism.

In October 2023, Professor Béla Kapossy (Lausanne) will give the annual Donald Winch lectures in intellectual history.

The discussion covers many of the topics of Stephen’s book, including the life of Viscount Stair, the central innovations in Stair’s Institutions of the Law of Scotland (1681), and the reception of Stair’s ideas in the 18th century.

The programme for ISIH2023 is now available online at the ISIH website.

From the 18th to the 21th of July 2023, the IIH will host a conference to celebrate the 300th birthdays of Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John Witherspoon, and also the 250th anniversary of Johnson and Boswell’s tour of the Highlands and Western Isles.

Lasse Andersen interviews James Stafford about his recent book The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1776-1948 (CUP, 2022).

Max Skjönsberg speaks with Greg Conti about his newly published scholarly edition of Albert Venn Dicey's writings on democracy and the referendum.

Emilie Aebischer interviews Alison Stone about her recent book Women Philosophers in Nineteenth Century Britain (OUP, 2023).