University of Notre Dame
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1994
San Diego, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy
PhilPapers Editorships
Kant: Causation
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    Kants Übergangskonzeption im ‘Opus Postumum’, by Dina Emundts (review)
    European Journal of Philosophy 16 (2): 332-336. 2008.
    No Abstract
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    Entstehung und Aufstieg des Neukantianismus (review)
    The Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 215-226. 1993.
    It would certainly be an exaggeration to say that there has been a plethora of work on Neo-Kantianism in recent years. There has, however, been a modest increase, due not only to Köhnke's work but also to Hans-Ludwig Ollig's Der Neukantianismus and Materialien zur Neukantianismus-Diskussion, Thomas Willey's Back To Kant, and Werner Flach's and Helmut Holzey's Erkenntnistheorie und Logik in Neukantianismus. On several counts there is reason to suspect, or at least to hope, that this tendency will…Read more
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    Givenness and Cognition: Reply to Grüne and Chignell
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (1): 143-152. 2017.
    stefanie grüne takes issue with our claim that for an object to be given, this object must exist. On her view, givenness, according to Kant, does not require the existence of the object, but only its real possibility. She develops her critique in three steps. First, she argues that the reason why Kant requires objects to be given in intuition is that otherwise our concepts would not have ‘objective reality’ and would thus not constitute cognitions. But since the objective reality of a concept co…Read more
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    Entstehung und Aufstieg des Neukantianismus (review)
    The Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 215-226. 1993.
    It would certainly be an exaggeration to say that there has been a plethora of work on Neo-Kantianism in recent years. There has, however, been a modest increase, due not only to Köhnke's work but also to Hans-Ludwig Ollig's Der Neukantianismus and Materialien zur Neukantianismus-Diskussion, Thomas Willey's Back To Kant, and Werner Flach's and Helmut Holzey's Erkenntnistheorie und Logik in Neukantianismus. On several counts there is reason to suspect, or at least to hope, that this tendency will…Read more
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    Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources (edited book)
    Hackett Pub. Co.. 2009.
    The leading anthology of its kind, this volume provides the key works of seven major philosophers, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other ...
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Kants Philosophic des Subjekts. Systematische und entuncklungsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Selbstbewusstsein und Selbslerkennlnis by Heiner F. KlemmeEric WatkinsHeiner F. Klemme. Kants Philosophic des Subjekts. Systematische und entuncklungsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Selbstbewusstsein und Selbslerkennlnis. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1996. Pp. ix + 430. Cloth, DM 148.In this imp…Read more
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    Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2009.
    This volume provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kant's predecessors and contemporaries in eighteenth-century Germany, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with 'pure reason', the criticisms of pure reason that had developed prior to Kant's, and alternative attempts at synthesizing empiricist elements within a rationalist framework. The volume contains chap…Read more
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    Kant and the myth of the given
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51 (5). 2008.
    Sellars and McDowell, among others, attribute a prominent role to the Myth of the Given. In this paper, I suggest that they have in mind two different versions of the Myth of the Given and I argue that Kant is not the target of one version and, though explicitly under attack from the other, has resources sufficient to mount a satisfactory response. What is essential to this response is a proper understanding of (empirical) concepts as involving unifying functions that can take sensations as inpu…Read more
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    Kant’s Theory of Physical Influx
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 77 (3): 285-324. 1995.
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    In Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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    This anthology offers the key works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz in their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.
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    Kant's Philosophy of Science
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2023.
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    Kant and the Sciences (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2001.
    Kant and the Sciences aims to reveal the deep unity of Kant's conception of science as it bears on the particular sciences of his day and on his conception of ...
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    Name der Zeitschrift: Kant Yearbook Jahrgang: 8 Heft: 1 Seiten: 117-142.
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    Is a Transcendental Deduction Necessary for the Metaphysical Foundations?
    Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 381-387. 1995.
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    Review: Ameriks, Karl, Autonomy and Idealism in and after Kant (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (3). 2004.
    Regardless of one’s particular philosophical interests and convictions, it is evident that the notion of autonomy is an important one. However, agreement about the nature of autonomy and about what it requires has proven elusive in contemporary discussions. In Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Karl Ameriks addresses this impasse by going back to the historical roots of this notion in Kant and arguing that many contemporary conceptions of autonomy are based on misunderstandings of Kant’s position, mi…Read more
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    Kant's Theory of Biology (edited book)
    with Ina Goy
    De Gruyter. 2014.
    During the last twenty years, Kant's theory of biology has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and developed into a field which is growing rapidly in importance within Kant studies. The volume presents fifteen interpretative essays written by experts working in the field, covering topics from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biological theories, the development of the philosophy of biology in Kant's writings, the theory of organisms in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, an…Read more