Nicholas Dunn

I am the Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. I am also Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Politics, and teach in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). I received my PhD from the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in 2020. The central topic of my research is the faculty of judgment: its nature as a mental activity and its practical potential. The primary thinkers I deal with in my work are Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt. My work on Kant concerns the philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics, while my work on Arendt concerns the reception of Kant in her political thought and its relevance for issues in contemporary politics, including pluralism, democracy, polarization, and disagreement.