I am a historian of philosophy specialised in modern and early modern philosophy. My research focuses on Kant, natural philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of science, including philosophy of climate change.

As of September 2025, I am the principle investigator (DFG Eigene Stelle) of a research project at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt that explores what I call Kant's 'regulative cosmology'.

I gained my PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, and subsequently held junior and senior postdoctoral fellowships at KU Leuven, Belgium (2018-21, 2021-24), and a fellowship at FRIAS, Universität Freiburg, Germany (2024-25). I have been a visiting scholar at the universities of Ca' Foscari Venice, Notre Dame and Bucharest. I also teach philosophy at the P.A.R.T.S. dance school in Brussels.

Contact me at: 

howard [at] em.uni-frankfurt.de /

s.j.howard1 [at] gmail.com