King’s College London is one of the top 5 research centres for philosophy in the country. One area of particular strength is Early Modern Philosophy, and a large proportion of our faculty members work in the field.

Maria Alvarez, Maria Rosa Antognazza, John Callanan, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech, Thomas Pink, and Jasper Reid have published substantially in the subject recently.

Selected Recent Publications in Modern Philosophy

Maria Alvarez

• 2010. Thomas Reid. In T. O’Connor, & C. Sandis (Eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Action. (pp. 505-512). Oxford: WILEY-BLACKWELL

Maria Rosa Antognazza

• 2017. Truth and Toleration in Early Modern Thought. In R. Whatmore, & I. Hunter (Eds.), Natural Law and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• 2017. The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz. (Oxford Handbooks). New York – Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 2017. Theory and Praxis in Leibniz’s Theological Thought. In W. Li, & H. Rudolph (Eds.), Leibniz im Lichte der Theologien . (pp. 35-57). (Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa; Vol. 40). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag
• 2016. Leibniz: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2016. God, Creatures, and Neoplatonism in Leibniz. In W. Li (Ed.), Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer: X. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress. (Vol. 3, pp. 351-364). Hildesheim: Olms
• 2016. Philosophy and Science in Leibniz. In L. Strickland, E. Vynckier, & J. Weckend (Eds.), Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy & Science of G.W. Leibniz . (pp. 19-46). Palgrave Macmillan
• 2015. The Hypercategorematic Infinite. LEIBNIZ REVIEW, 25, 5-30
• 2015. Leibniz’s theory of substance and his metaphysics of the incarnation. In Locke and Leibniz on Substance. (pp. 231-252). Taylor and Francis Inc
• 2014. ‘Primary Matter, Primitive Passive Power, and Creaturely Limitation in Leibniz’. Studia Leibnitiana 46/2 (2014): 167-186.
• 2014. ‘Metaphysical Evil Revisited’. In New Essays on Leibniz’s Theodicy. Edited by Samuel Newlands and Larry Jorgensen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 112-134.
• 2014. ‘Reason, revelation, and arguments for the Deity‘. Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy. Edited by Aaron Garrett. Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 145-166.

John Callanan

• 2017. Kant on the spontaneous power of the mind. British Journal for the History of Philosophy , 1-24
• 2017. The Ideal of Reason. In Cambridge Critical Guide to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• 2015. Mandeville on Pride and Animal Nature. In E. B. Pires, & J. Braga (Eds.), Bernard Mandeville’s Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy. (pp. 125-136). Springer.
• 2014. Kant on the Acquisition of Geometrical Concepts. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 44(5-6), 580-604
• 2014. The Role of the Holy Will. Hegel Bulletin, 163-184
• 2014. Mendelssohn and Kant on Mathematics and Metaphysics. Kant Yearbook, 1–22
• 2013. Kant on Nativism, Scepticism and Necessity. Kantian Review, 18(1), 1-27. [1]
• 2013. Kant’s groundwork of the metaphysics of morals: An Edinburgh philosophical guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Sacha Golob

• 2017. Kant and Thought Insertion. Palgrave Communications.
• 2017. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction, by Henry Allison. MIND
• 2016. Kant as Both Conceptualist and Nonconceptualist. Kantian Review, 21(3), 367-391
• 2016. Critical Essay on Sorin Baiasu’s Kant and Sartre: Rediscovering Critical Ethics. Critique
• 2015. Hume, Kant, and the Representational Role of the Imagination. In K. Vermeir (Ed.), The Imagination in Early Modern Philosophy. Springer
• 2011. Kant on Intentionality, Magnitude, and the Unity of Perception. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Jessica Leech

• 2016. The Mereology of Representation. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 116 (2): 205-228
• Forthcoming. The Normativity of Kant’s Logical Laws. History of Philosophy Quarterly
• 2014. Making Modal Distinctions: Kant on the possible, the actual, and the intuitive understanding. Kantian Review 19:3, 339-365
• 2012. Kant’s Modalities of Judgement. The European Journal of Philosophy. 20:2, 60-284

Thomas Pink

• 2017. Agents, Objects and Their Powers in Suarez and Hobbes. In C. Sandis (Ed.), Philosophical Accounts of Action from Suarez to Davidson . Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 2017. Hume, Virtue and Natural Law. In G. Duke, & R. George (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• 2016. Hobbes on liberty, action and free will. In A. P. Martinich, & K. Hoekstra (Eds.), Oxford Handbook to Hobbes. (pp. 171-195). Oxford University Press
• 2011. Thomas Hobbes. In C. Sandis, & T. O’Connor (Eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. (pp. 473-480). Blackwell
• 2011. Thomas Hobbes and the ethics of freedom. Inquiry, 54(5), 541-63

Jasper Reid

• Forthcoming. The Cambridge Platonists: Material and Immaterial Substance. In R. Copenhaver (Ed.), History of the Philosophy of Mind, vol. 4: Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern Age and Enlightenment. Routledge
• 2015. Henry More and Nicolas Malebranche’s Critiques of Spinoza. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 23(3), 764-792
• 2015. The Common Consent Argument from Herbert to Hume. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, 53(3), 401-433
• 2014. Descartes and the Individuation of Bodies. ARCHIV FUR GESCHICHTE DER PHILOSOPHIE, 96(1), 38-70.
• 2014. Immaterialism. In A. Garrett (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy. (pp. 119-142). Routledge
• 2012. The Metaphysics of Henry More. ( International Archives of the History of Ideas; Vol. 207). Dordrecht: Springer.