Publications

Preprints of articles can be downloaded via the links below; feel free to contact me for the final versions (howard [at] em.uni-frankfurt.de / s.j.howard1 [at] gmail.com).

Book

Kant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus postumum. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

"Despite its brevity, Stephen Howard’s Kant’s Late Philosophy represents a very significant contribution to advanced scholarship on Kant’s metaphysics of nature in general and the Opus postumum in particular. At the same time, non-specialised readers with no previous knowledge of these dimensions of Kant’s thought will likely endorse the following assessment of the book’s use value: it is easily the most serviceable introduction to the Opus postumum available in English (or, arguably, in any other language) to date."

-- Jeffrey Edwards, Kantian Review

Reviews:

Davide Puzzolo, Universa. Recensioni di filosofia 12.2 (2023): 17-22

Silvia de Bianchi, Studi Kantiani 36 (2023): 169-72

Jeffrey Edwards, Kantian Review (2024): 501-6

Lara Scaglia, Naturaleza y Libertad. Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinares 19 (2025): 137-42

Articles

18. "Ether and Derivative Forces in Kant’s Natural Philosophy". Annals of Science (online first)

17. "Noumenal Forces? Essences, Things in Themselves, and Dispositions in Kant". Synthese (online first, full text available via link)

16. "'Also setzen alle mechanischen Gesetze die dynamischen voraus': Kant and his German Predecessors on Dynamical and Mechanical Forces". Kant-Studien 116.2 (2025): 248-265.

15. "Kant on the Philosophical Significance of the Telescope". Naturaleza y Libertad. Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinares 19 (2025): 63-82 (full text available via link)

14. "The Cosmological Ideas in Kant’s Critical Philosophy: Their Unique Status and Twofold Regulative Use". Southern Journal of Philosophy 62.3 (2024): 277-293. Preprint

13. "D’Alembert’s Cosmological View of the Sciences and its Legacy in Kant". Perspectives on Science 32.5 (2024): 670-700. Preprint

12. "Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation and the Problem of Rational Cosmology". Review of Metaphysics 76.2 (2022): 241-266. Preprint

11. "From the Boundary of the World to the Boundary of Reason: The First Antinomy and the Development of Kant’s Critical Philosophy". HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 12.1 (2022): 225-241. Preprint

10. "Kant on Limits, Boundaries, and the Positive Function of Ideas". European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2022): 64–78. Preprint

9. "The Essay and the Art of Interpretation: Caygill and Nietzsche". Philosophy & Rhetoric 55.3 (2022): 274-285. Preprint

8. "Kant on the Fundamental Forces of Matter: Why Attraction and Repulsion?" Kantian Review 26 (2021): 413–433. Preprint

7. "Dreams of Forces and Pneumatology: Kant’s Critique of Wolff and Crusius in 1766". Studi Kantiani 32 (2019): 91-115. Preprint

6. (With Karin de Boer) "A Ground Completely Overgrown: Heidegger, Kant, and the Problem of Metaphysics". British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27.2 (2019): 358-377.

5. "The Transition within the Transition: the Übergang from the Selbstsetzungslehre to the Ether Proofs in Kant’s Opus postumum". Kant-Studien 110.4 (2019): 595-617. Preprint

4. "Elastic Force in Kant's Early Works". Revista de Estudios Kantianos 3.2 (2018): 190-207 (full text available via link)

3. "The Material Literary Form of Kant's Opus postumum". Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 29 (2018): 65-87. Preprint

2. "Archaeology and/or Genealogy: Agamben’s Transformation of Foucauldian Methodology". Journal of Italian Philosophy 1 (2018): 27-45 (full text available via link)

1. "Why did Leibniz Fail to Complete his Dynamics?" British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25.1 (2017): 22-40. Preprint

Book chapters, conference proceedings, symposia

11. "Critical Transformations of Rational Cosmology in Kant’s Metaphysik Mrongovius". Akten des 14. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming.

10. (With Rudolf Meer) "Introduction" to special issue: Non-Newtonian Sources of Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Kant-Studien 116.2 (2025): 205-207.

9. "Seeking, Finding, and Doctrinal Belief: On Schafer’s Kant’s Reason". Symposium on Karl Schafer’s book in Studi Kantiani 37 (2024): 161-9.

8. "Systematicity and the Definition of a Science: Physics in Kant’s Opus postumum" in Gabriele Gava, Thomas Sturm and Achim Vesper eds., Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences. London: Routledge, 2025.

7. (With Laura Herrera Castillo) "The Individual and the Cosmos: Bruno, Leibniz, Kant". In Stephen Howard and Jack Stetter eds., The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.

6. "Kant’s Concept of Force and its Application in Physics and Psychology". In Luis Fellipe Garcia ed., The Concept of Nature in Classical German Philosophy. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, 111-133. Preprint

5. (With Pavel Reichl) "On Progress in Metaphysics: Responses to the Berlin Academy's 1792/95 Prize Essay Question". In Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Christian Leduc eds., Debates, Controversies, and Prizes: Philosophy in the German Enlightenment. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.

4. "Leibniz’s Conception of Place Against Casey’s Critique". In Jussi Palmusaari and Nicolas Schneider eds., Possibilities of Place in Continental Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.

3. "Kant’s Universal Natural History and Analogical Reasoning in Cosmology" in Wolfgang Lefèvre ed., Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant (new edition). Dordrecht: Springer, 2023, 247-270. Preprint

2. "Physics as System in Fascicles X/XI of Kant’s Opus postumum" in A. Lyssy and G.P. Basile eds., Perspectives on Kant’s Opus postumum. London: Routledge, 2023, 50-70. Preprint

1. "Modes of Cognition, Proto-Transcendentalism and Force in Kant’s Living Forces". In Violetta L. Waibel und Margit Ruffing eds., Akten des 12. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses ‚Natur und Freiheit‘ in Wien vom 21.-25. September 2015. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019, 875-883.

Edited volumes and special issues

(With Jack Stetter). The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.

(With Henny Blomme). Kant’s Theories of Matter. Special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

(With Rudolf Meer). Non-Newtonian Sources of Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Special issue of Kant-Studien 116.2 (2025): 205-303.

Howard Caygill, Force and Understanding: Writings on Philosophy and Resistance. Edited by Stephen Howard, Afterword by Jacqueline Rose. London: Bloomsbury, 2020

Reviews

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History. In HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 15.1 (2025): 262-265.

Morganna Lambeth, Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant: The Violence and the Charity. In the Journal of the History of Philosophy 63.2 (2025): 320-322.

Ian Proops, The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant's Dialectic. In the Journal of the History of Philosophy 61.3 (2023): 525-527.

Brandon Look ed., Leibniz and Kant. In the British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31.1 (2023): 144-147.

Marcus Willaschek, Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason. In Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 1.2 (2020): 251-256. Preprint

Maja Schepelmann, Der senile Kant? Zur Widerlegung einer populären These. In Kantian Review 24.4 (2019): 678-682. Preprint

J. Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason. In Continental Philosophy Review 50.3 (2017): 403-10. Preprint

Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle, Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy. In LSE Review of Books (2017).

Justin E. H. Smith, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy. In Radical Philosophy 196 (2016): 53-55.

Bryan Wesley Hall, The Post-Critical Kant: Understanding the Critical Philosophy through the Opus postumum. In Radical Philosophy 195 (2016): 65-66.

Jennifer Mensch, Kant’s Organicism. In Radical Philosophy 187 (2014): 49-52.

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