We are pleased to announce that the 2023 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Eva Piirimäe for Herder and Enlightenment Politics (CUP).

The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History.
In honour of Knud Haakonssen.
24-25 October 2024.

Join us on this St. Andrews podcast as we interview academics and researchers of German Intellectual History with an eye to reflecting on the integral influence German thinkers have had on our intellectual landscape.

The workshop will take place 25th - 27th June 2025 at St Andrews Business School, Scotland, UK.

Deadline for abstracts (300-500 words): 1st November 2024.

The Institute of Intellectual History is pleased to announce a call for papers dedicated to the 20th publication anniversary of Professor Eric Nelson’s book The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (CUP, 2004), which will take place at the University of St Andrews in mid-February 2025.

“‘Normal for Norfolk’: Two Legal Antiquaries on the Norman Conquest”

13, 14 & 16 May 2024.

Old Class Library, St Andrews.

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

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

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

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

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.

Listen to interviews with intellectual historians about new research and recent publications.

The Intellectual History Archive has been relaunched in a new and improved version. Explore our extensive collection of unpublished papers from eminent intellectual historians.

The prize is given annually for the best book published in intellectual history.