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

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

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 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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