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  1. (1 other version)James Africanus Beale Horton’s philosophy of history: progress, race, and the fate of Africa.Zeyad el Nabolsy - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Philosophy:1-24.
    Many Victorian philosophers of history attempted to explain what they took to be the evident divergence in the level of civilizational achievement that was attained by different peoples. One prominent paradigm for explaining this divergence was the biological-racialist paradigm. According to this paradigm, endorsed by the likes of Robert Knox, Samuel George Morton, Carl Vogt, and James Hunt, what explains divergence is racial difference. In this paper, I show how one African philosopher, James Africanus Beale Horton, sought to undermine this (...)
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