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    Hegel and the Hatäta Zär'a Ya‛ǝqob: Africa in the Philosophy of History and the History of Philosophy.Jonathan Egid - forthcoming - Hegel Bulletin:1-24.
    This article explores an episode in the reception of Hegel's philosophy of history and historiography of philosophy with reference to the question of the possibility of non-Western philosophy, in particular African philosophy. Section I briefly outlines the contents of the Hatäta Zär'a Ya‛ǝqob and the controversy over its authorship, focusing in particular on the argument of the Ethiopianist and scholar of Semitic languages Carlo Conti Rossini that ‘rationalistic’ philosophy was impossible in Ethiopia. In section II I suggest that a major (...)
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    How does philosophy learn to speak a new language?Jonathan Egid - 2022 - Perspectives Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 31 (1):104-118.
    How does philosophy learn to speak a new language? That is, how does some particular language come to serve as the means for the expression of philosophical ideas? In this paper, I present an answer grounded in four historical case studies and suggest that this answer has broad implications for contemporary philosophy. I begin with Jonathan Rée’s account of philosophical translation into English in the sixteenth century, and the debate between philosopher-translators who wanted to acquire – wholesale or with modifications (...)
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    Forging Philosophy.Jonathan Egid - 2023 - Aeon.
    In 2017, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy issued a rare retraction, informing their readers that one of their articles was not in fact written by a cat. The short article, a critique of David Lewis’s ‘Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision’, was published in 1981 under the name of ‘Bruce Le Catt’, a figure with no discernible institutional affiliation or track record of publishing, but who appears to have been familiar with Lewis’s work. As indeed he might have been, being the (...)
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    The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities, by Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat. Edited by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku, and Wendy Laura Belcher.Jonathan Egid - forthcoming - Mind.
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    Nationalism and Philosophy.Edward Kanterian & Jonathan Egid - 2017 - 42 Magazine 2 (1).
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    Algebra & Other Idle Pursuits. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2024 - Literary Review.
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    Questioning Language. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2023 - Times Literary Supplement.
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    A Novelist’s Philosopher. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2023 - Times Literary Supplement.
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    Impossible Freedom. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2022 - New Humanist.
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    Inward Empire. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2022 - Times Literary Supplement.
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    Making a Mingle Mangle. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2019 - Times Literary Supplement 6071:24.
  12. A Tract for our Times. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2023 - Times Literary Supplement.
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    Kant, God and Metaphysics: The Secret Thorn by Edward Kanterian. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2020 - Philosophy 95:229-233.
  14. Maths rules. [REVIEW]Jonathan Egid - 2020 - Times Literary Supplement 6114:xx-xx.