-
23Why is there Something, rather than Nothing? Kant on the Final End of CreationIn Luigi Filieri & Sofie Møller (eds.), Kant on Freedom and Human Nature, Routledge. 2023.
-
1Elise Reimarus: Reason, Religion, and EnlightenmentIn Corey W. Dyck (ed.), Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany, Oxford University Press. 2021.
-
2201To Suspend Finitude Itself: Hegel’s Reaction to Kant’s First AntinomyHegel Bulletin 37 (1): 81-103. 2016.Hegel famously criticizes Kant’s resolution of the antinomies. According to Sedgwick, Hegel primarily chastises Kant’s resolution for presupposing that concepts are ‘one-sided’, rather than identical to their opposites. If Kant had accepted the dialectical nature of concepts, then (according to Sedgwick) Kant would not have needed to resolve the antinomies. However, as Ameriks has noted, any such interpretation faces a serious challenge. Namely, Kant’s first antinomy concerns the universe’s phys…Read more
-
51Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy. The essays not only consider the ways that key figures viewed the concept. They also detail how these different beliefs about infinity influenced major philosophical systems throughout the era. These domains include mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, science, and theology. Coverage begins with an introduction that outlines the overall importance of infinity to early modern philosophy. It then moves from a …Read more
-
God's Mind in the 3rd CritiqueIn Violetta Waibel (ed.), Freiheit und Natur. Akten des XII. Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. 2018.Kant’s 3rd Critique claims that the concept of purposiveness bridges the chasm between nature and freedom. This concept derives from the reflecting power of judgment’s demand for a system of particular laws. The published Introduction represents this system as grounded on the Idea of a divine understanding. According to Tuschling, this divinity is the intuitive understanding of §§76-77. According to Allison, this divinity is discursive and purposive and, thus, numerically distinct from §§76-77’s…Read more
-
15Rudolf A. Makkreel, Kant’s Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021 Pp. xii + 284 ISBN 9780810144316 (hbk) $99.95 (review)Kantian Review 28 (1): 164-166. 2023.
-
Elise Reimarus on freedom and rebellionIn James A. Clarke & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Practical Philosophy From Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
-
52Kant's Three Conceptions of Infinite SpaceJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (4): 635-659. 2022.Abstractabstract:Kant's treatment of infinity seems to be plagued by two contradictions. First, the Transcendental Aesthetic claims that space is an infinite given magnitude, whereas the First Antinomy argues that the spatial world cannot be infinite. Second, the Transcendental Aesthetic claims that the representation of infinite space belongs to sensibility, but the third Critique seems to argue, instead, that infinity is an Idea of reason. This paper resolves these apparent contradictions by n…Read more
-
26Kant’s Antinomy of Taste and the SupersensibleIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1095-1102. 2021.
-
Kant and Hutcheson on Aesthetics and TeleologyIn Elizabeth Robinson & Chris W. Surprenant (eds.), Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment, Routledge. 2017.This article examines the relationship between aesthetics and teleology in Kant and Hutcheson.
-
19God’s Mind in the Third CritiqueIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 1685-1692. 2018.
-
95Kant on God’s Intuitive Understanding: Interpreting CJ §76’s Modal ClaimsKantian Review 22 (2): 305-329. 2017.In §76 of the 3rd Critique, Kant claims that an intuitive understanding would represent no distinction between possible and actual things. Prior interpretations of §76 take Kant to claim that an intuitive understanding would produce things merely in virtue of thinking about them and, thus, could not think of merely possible things. In contrast, I argue that §76’s modal claims hinge on Kant’s suggestion that God represents things in their thoroughgoing determination, including in their connection…Read more
-
27Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. By Stephen R. PalmquistInternational Philosophical Quarterly 58 (1): 113-115. 2018.
-
23Metaphysics of Freedom? Kant's Concept of Cosmological Freedom in Historical and Systematic Perspective ed. by Christian KrijnenJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1): 182-183. 2020.This volume of essays, written in English and German, focuses primarily on Kant's concept of transcendental freedom. The first Critique famously introduces this concept of freedom in the third antinomy, where Kant examines the apparent tension between the world's need for an uncaused cause and the world's thorough causal determination. Thus, Kant's concept of transcendental freedom is, as this volume emphasizes, a cosmological conception of freedom. Although the volume claims to consider Kant's …Read more
-
47Kant and the Laws of Nature ed. by Michela Massimi, Angela BreitenbachJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2): 377-378. 2018.This is a welcome collection of essays addressing Kant’s treatment of natural laws. Kant’s best-known discussion of natural laws is the Critique of Pure Reason’s second analogy, which argues that all alterations take place according to causal laws. But Kant’s overall treatment of natural laws extends far beyond the second analogy. For instance, the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science aims to derive specific laws of motion. The appendix to the Critique of Pure Reason’s transcendental dial…Read more
-
11Introduction: Infinity in Early Modern PhilosophyIn Igor Agostini, Richard T. W. Arthur, Geoffrey Gorham, Paul Guyer, Mogens Lærke, Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Ohad Nachtomy, Sanja Särman, Anat Schechtman, Noa Shein & Reed Winegar (eds.), Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-8. 2018.In his Pensées, Blaise Pascal gives vivid voice to both the wonder and anxiety that many early modern thinkers felt towards infinity. Contemplating our place between the infinite expanse of space and the infinite divisibility of matter, Pascal writes
-
44Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2018.This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy. The essays not only consider the ways that key figures viewed the concept. They also detail how these different beliefs about infinity influenced major philosophical systems throughout the era. These domains include mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, science, and theology. Coverage begins with an introduction that outlines the overall importance of infinity to early modern philosophy. It then moves from a …Read more
-
695Good Sense, Art, and Morality in Hume's ‘Of the Standard of Taste’Journal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (1): 17-35. 2011.In his essay ‘Of the Standard of Taste,’ Hume argues that artworks with morally flawed outlooks are, to some extent, aesthetically flawed. While Hume's remarks regarding the relationship between art and morality have influenced contemporary aestheticians, Hume's own position has struck many people as incoherent. For Hume appears to entangle himself in two separate contradictions. First, Hume seems to claim both that true judges should not enter into vicious sentiments and that true judges should…Read more
-
93Kant on intuitive understanding and things in themselvesEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (4): 1238-1252. 2017.Kant claims that an intuitive understanding—such as God would possess—could cognize things in themselves. This claim has prompted many interpreters of Kant's theoretical philosophy to propose that things in themselves correspond to how an intuitive understanding would cognize things. In contrast, I argue that Kant's theoretical philosophy does not endorse the common proposal that all things in themselves correspond to how an intuitive understanding would cognize things. Instead, Kant's theoretic…Read more
-
1410An Unfamiliar and Positive Law: On Kant and SchillerArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 95 (3): 275-297. 2013.A familiar post-Kantian criticism contends that Kant enslaves sensibility under the yoke of practical reason. Friedrich Schiller advanced a version of this criticism to which Kant publicly responded. Recent commentators have emphasized the role that Kant’s reply assigns to the pleasure that accompanies successful moral action. In contrast, I argue that Kant’s reply relies primarily on the sublime feeling that arises when we merely contemplate the moral law. In fact, the pleasures emphasized by o…Read more
-
101Kant's Criticisms of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (5): 888-910. 2015.According to recent commentators like Paul Guyer, Kant agrees with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion that physico-theology can never provide knowledge of God and that the concept of God, nevertheless, provides a useful heuristic principle for scientific enquiry. This paper argues that Kant, far from agreeing with Hume, criticizes Hume's Dialogues for failing to prove that physico-theology can never yield knowledge of God and that Kant correctly views Hume's Dialogues as a threat to, r…Read more
University of Pennsylvania
PhD, 2012
New York, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Immanuel Kant |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
German Idealism |
History of Western Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |