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17Animal welfare has been a subject of intellectual and academic study for a long time. In the past philosophers, thought-leaders and scientists have contributed to the debate, and seismic changes such as the advent of post-war industrial farming have brought about changes in attitudes to the way animals are farmed. Animal welfare as a science and philosophy can be understood as a trajectory through history of our understanding of our relationship with animals, enhanced in recent years through stu…Read more
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8Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of CommunityThe Good Society 2 (24): 118-145. 2015.The emergence of new platforms for public communication, public deliberation, and public action presents new possibilities for forming, organizing, and mobilizing public bodies, which invite philosophical reflection concerning the standards we currently look to for coordinating public movements and for evaluating their effects. Developing a broad understanding of public philosophy, this article begins with the view of philosophy and intellectual freedom articulated in Kant's publicly oriented wr…Read more
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38Book Review: Gary L. Comstock . Life Science Ethics. Iowa State Press, Ames, 2002. xviii + 380 pp. ISBN: 0-8138-2835-X (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 19 (2): 199-201. 2005.
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74Kant on beauty and biology: An interpretation of the critique of judgment (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (1). 2008.As the title of her book indicates, Zuckert’s approach to Kant’s Critique of Judgment differs somewhat from that taken by many recent commentators. Rather than focusing narrowly on aspects of the CJ that are directly relevant to a particular philosophical issue, Zuckert offers an interpretation of the work as a whole that is aimed at vindicating Kant’s claim concerning its unity. According to her interpretation, the “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” and the “Critique of Teleological Judgment” are…Read more
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18Metaphysics and Physiology in Kant’s Attitude towards Theories of PreformationIn Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 25-42. 2014.
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19Kant's Explanatory Natural HistoryIn Philippe Huneman (ed.), Understanding purpose: Kant and the philosophy of biology, University of Rochester Press. pp. 8--101. 2007.
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37Notes and Fragments (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (3): 502-503. 2007.Mark Fisher - Notes and Fragments - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.3 502-503 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Mark Fisher Pennsylvania State University Immanuel Kant. Notes and Fragments. Edited by Paul Guyer. Translated by Chris Bowman, Paul Guyer, and Frederick Rauscher. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxx + 663. Cloth, $140.00. The latest volu…Read more
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