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26Review of Gregory Moss, Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 6. 2015.
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23CassirerRoutledge. 2021.Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) occupies a unique place in 20th-century philosophy. His view that human beings are not rational but symbolic animals and his famous dispute with Martin Heidegger at Davos in 1929 are compelling alternatives to the deadlock between 'analytic' and 'continental' approaches to philosophy. An astonishing polymath, Cassirer's work pays equal attention to mathematics and natural science but also art, language, myth, religion, technology, and history. However, until now the im…Read more
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18Cassirer on method, the a priori, and culture: a replyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-10. forthcoming.In the 1920s, Cassirer had the good fortune of participating in the intellectual community that gathered around the Warburg Library in Hamburg. 1This “dreamland of humanists” had a profound impact...
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14Are Artists Phenomenologists? Perspectives from Edith Landmann-Kalischer and Maurice Merleau-PontyIn Patrick Londen, Jeffrey Yoshimi & Philip Walsh (eds.), Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the Field and Its Applications, Springer Verlag. pp. 247-263. 2023.In order to explore the question of whether artists are phenomenologists, I consider the negative and affirmative answers defended by Edith Landmann-Kalischer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, respectively. Through this comparison, I bring to light reasons why phenomenologists take themselves to share a subject-matter with artists, viz., lived experience. However, with this comparison I also highlight the ways in which the answer to this question turns on how we conceive of what phenomenologists do. If…Read more
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Trends in aestheticsIn Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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Cognition by analogy and the possibility of metaphysicsIn Peter Thielke (ed.), Kant's Prolegomena: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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Schiller on Freedom and Aesthetic Value Part 2British Journal of Aesthetics. forthcoming.In his Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), Friedrich Schiller draws a striking connection between aesthetic value and individual and political freedom, claiming that, “it is only through beauty that man makes his way to freedom.” However, contemporary ways of thinking about freedom and aesthetic value make it difficult to see what the connection could be. Through a careful reconstruction of the Letters, we argue that Schiller’s theory of aesthetic value serves as the key to underst…Read more
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Beyond the either/or in aesthetic life : a new approach to aesthetic universalityIn Dominic Lopes, Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen & Bence Nanay (eds.), The Geography of Taste, Oxford University Press. 2024.
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Harvard UniversityAssociate Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Immanuel Kant |
Phenomenology |
Neo-Kantianism |
Aesthetics |