I am a historian of philosophy specialised in modern and early modern philosophy, with a focus on Kant, natural philosophy, and metaphysics.

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

After receiving my PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, I held junior and senior postdoctoral fellowships at KU Leuven, Belgium (2018-21, 2021-24), funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders, and a research fellowship at FRIAS, Universität Freiburg, Germany. 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