J. Colin McQuillan grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana. His father made him listen to lectures on metaphysics and epistemology before allowing him to play sports in school, but Colin denies that had anything to do with his decision to major in philosophy when he went to college.
Colin received a BA in philosophy and history from Loyola University Chicago in 2002 and an MA in philosophy from Boston College in 2004. He spent a year as a visiting scholar at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 2006-2007 before receiving his PhD. in philosophy from Emory University in 2010. Colin has previously taught at Emory University, Oglethorpe Univ…
J. Colin McQuillan grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana. His father made him listen to lectures on metaphysics and epistemology before allowing him to play sports in school, but Colin denies that had anything to do with his decision to major in philosophy when he went to college.
Colin received a BA in philosophy and history from Loyola University Chicago in 2002 and an MA in philosophy from Boston College in 2004. He spent a year as a visiting scholar at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 2006-2007 before receiving his PhD. in philosophy from Emory University in 2010. Colin has previously taught at Emory University, Oglethorpe University, and The University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.
Colin has published widely on the history of modern European philosophy, Kant, and aesthetics. He is the author of Early Modern Aesthetics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason (Northwestern University Press, 2016). He is the editor of Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and the co-editor (with Joseph Tanke) of The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2012) as well as Critique in German Philosophy (with María del Rosario Acosta López, SUNY Press, 2020). With the support of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Colin spent 2018 and 2019 at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, hosted by Professors Christoph Menke and Marcus Willaschek. There he started work on a new monograph called Aesthetics and Logic: The Elements of Kant’s Critique.