We are delighted to welcome our four new British Society for the History of Philosophy Fellows for 2022-2023: Lea Cantor, Wouter A. Cohen, Hannah Laurens and Richard Elliott. The BSHP offers two postgraduate and two postdoctoral fellowships annually - for more information about the scheme and how to apply see here.

Lea Cantor and Wouter A. Cohen have each been awarded £4000 to enable them to continue with their postgraduate work.

Lea Cantor’s thesis, “Parmenides and Zhuangzi on Expressing What Can (and Cannot) Be Known” is a comparative study of the epistemologies of two foundational thinkers in the global history of philosophy. Lea is based at University of Oxford University, and is supervised by Prof. Luca Castagnoli (Philosophy, Oxford), Prof. Dirk Meyer (Oriental Studies, Oxford), and Dr Shaul Tor (Philosophy/Classics, King’s College London).

Wouter A. Cohen (Cambridge University) is writing a thesis on negative existential sentences, with a focus on the work of Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein. He is working with Professors Alex Oliver and Michael Potter. Among Cohen’s publications to date is a forthcoming paper, ‘Frege’s many existence concepts’, which argues that Frege did not think that the only existence concept is the one represented by the existential quantifier.

Hannah Laurens and Richard Elliott were each awarded £6000 under our postdoctoral fellowship scheme.

Hannah Laurens completed her PhD at St. Andrews, on ‘'Nous and Nature in Aristotle’,’ with Prof. Sarah Broadie and Dr Alex Long. Her postdoctoral project, “Aristotle on Life, Consciousness, and the Self” will also be based at St. Andrews. It will explore what Aristotle’s conception of the Prime Mover as self-thinking and a paradigm instance of life says about his conception of life more generally.

Richard Elliott completed his PhD, “Productive Omissions in Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology” at Birkbeck with Professor Andrew Huddleston and Dr Ken Gemes. During his time as BSHP postdoctoral fellow he hopes to complete three connected papers, exploring a positive form of ‘conscience’ that is found in Nietzsche’s later works.