Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal promoting leading-edge research relating to new narratives in any period in the history of philosophy. We are keenly interested in promoting discussion of and scholarship on diverse, underrepresented, and non-canonical approaches, themes, and figures in a wide variety of world philosophical traditions.

Upcoming Volume, Fall 2025

Margaret Cavendish’s Feminine Utopias: Speech, Silence, and Gendered Space

• Allauren Samantha Forbes (McMaster University)

Perception and Inference to the Best Explanation: Shepherd’s Epistemology of Perception and her Criticism of Reid/Perception et inférence à la meilleure explication: Shepherd critique de Reid

• Claire Etchegaray (Université Paris Nanterre)

La philosophie de Roza Egipcíaca, une esclave affranchie dans le Brésil du XVIIIe siècle

• Ulysses Pinheiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/CNPq) and Fabiano Lemos (University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (CNPq)

On Translation:

Translating Early Modern Thought: Selected Letters from Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophical Letters

• Pedro Priclianditzky (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Traduire Marie de Gournay en portugais brésilien : théorie et méthode

• Clemie Blaud (University of Sao Paulo)

Two New Letters of Amalia Holst

• Corey Dyck (Western University)

A republican poem on the complexity of the Indigenous condition: Nísia Floresta's A Lágrima de um Caeté 

• Nastassja Pugliese (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Call for Papers for Fall 2026 Volume

​Journal for the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) invites submissions for its second volume, to be published in Fall 2026. 

JNNHP is an open-access online journal committed to publishing papers on underrepresented figures or themes in the history of philosophy, both Western and non-Western traditions, from the ancient period to the mid-20th century. 

JNNHP accepts papers in English and French. Papers should be no more than 10000 words. 

JNNHP also seeks to highlight relevant translations or new editions of primary texts in progress. We will publish selections from such works, with critical notes and contextual introductions.

If you are interested in submitting work in progress of this kind, please contact the editor, Patricia Sheridan (https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nnhp/about/contact).

Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2026. Papers must be submitted via our website: submissions .