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2406Kant’s Physical Geography and the Critical PhilosophyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. 2018.Kant’s geographical theory, which was informed by contemporary travel reports, diaries, and journals, developed before his so-called “critical turn.” There are several reasons to study Kant’s lectures and material on geography. The geography provided Kant with terms, concepts, and metaphors which he employed in order to present or elucidate the critical philosophy. Some of the germs of what would become Kant’s critical philosophy can already be detected in the geography course. Finally, Kant’s g…Read more
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248Kant’s Lectures on Philosophical Theology -- Training-Ground for the Moral Pedagogy of Religion?In Reading Kant's Lectures, De Gruyter. pp. 365-390. 2015.How serious was Kant about his suggestion, in the first edition Preface to Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason (6:10), that he hoped his book would be suitable for use as compulsory reading for a philosophy class that theology students of the future would be required to take in their final year of study? This chapter (of a forthcoming anthology that will include chapters on all of Kant's lecturing activity) begins by sketching the pedagogical themes that develop progressively throughout Re…Read more
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170The Sublime Reader (edited book)Bloomsbury. 2018.The first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been overlooked. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied…Read more
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113Why the Sublime Is Aesthetic AweJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (3): 301-314. 2021.This article focuses on the conceptual relationship between awe and the experience of the sublime. I argue that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as a species of awe, namely, as aesthetic awe. I support this conclusion by considering the prominent conceptual relations between awe and the experience of the sublime, showing that all of the options except the proposed one suffer from serious shortcomings. In maintaining that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as aesthetic…Read more
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101Beauty and Utility in Kant’s Aesthetics: The Origins of Adherent BeautyJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2): 305-335. 2018.within western philosophy, there is a long and rich tradition of treating the beautiful and the good as closely related and mutually reinforcing.1 Different models of the relation have been proposed. An ‘identity’ model can be seen in Plato’s identification of the beautiful and the good in the Symposium and perhaps in the Greek notion of kalokagathia.2 Yet, according to Plato’s Republic, the form of the good illuminates, and differs from, the forms of beauty and truth: “both knowledge and truth …Read more
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79A Case for Kantian Artistic Sublimity: A Response to AbaciJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68 (2): 167-170. 2010.
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64Editor’s IntroductionIn Reading Kant's Lectures, De Gruyter. pp. 1-30. 2015.The editor's introduction to the volume gives an overview of its main themes and provides a summary of each of the twenty-two chapters.
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59What's the Big Idea? On Emily Brady's SublimeJournal of Aesthetic Education 50 (2): 104-118. 2016.“The sublime is a massive concept,” Emily Brady states in her book’s first sentence. Her lucid study of the sublime should interest scholars from a wide range of disciplines, from environmental philosophy and aesthetics to the history of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism. Although its title refers to modern philosophy, the book examines not only the period typically classified in philosophy as “modern,” but also romanticism and contemporary aesthetics. Brady aims “to reassess, and …Read more
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51Kant's consistency regarding the regime change in FrancePhilosophy and Social Criticism 32 (4): 443-460. 2006.Can it be consistent to be interested, for moral reasons, in the fact that uninvolved spectators of a regime change are enthusiastic about that change, when the latter is carried out according to means considered immoral or unjust? Yes. In An Old Question Raised Again ( The Conflict of the Faculties , 1798), Kant demonstrates a morally based interest in disinterested spectators expressions (aesthetic judgments) of enthusiasm for the idea of a republican form of government. This interest is pu…Read more
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50The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of FreedomCambridge University Press. 2009.In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of Kant's philosophy. He examines the ways in which different kinds of sublimity reveal freedom and indirectly contribute to morality, and discusses how Kant's account of natural sublimity suggests that we have an indirect duty with regard to natur…Read more
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46Kant’s Natural Teleology? The Case of Physical GeographyKant Studien 107 (2): 314-342. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 107 Heft: 2 Seiten: 314-342.
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43Review: Frierson, Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy (review)Kantian Review 12 (2): 196-199. 2007.
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38What Can Hume Teach Us About Film EvaluationAisthema 1 (2): 1-22. 2014.This article identifies three distinct temporal notions in Hume’s aesthetics: passing the test of time, repeated viewing of a work, and the personal aging of the critic. It applies these ideas to the evaluation and enjoyment of films. It characterizes positive, negative, and ambivalent film aging, which are associated with nostalgia, boredom, and comic amusement, respectively, and which bear on our enjoyment, not evaluation, of film. The paper discusses Allen’s Zelig, Antonioni’s La Notte, Camer…Read more
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37Does Kantian Ethics Condone Mood and Cognitive Enhancement?Neuroethics 10 (3): 349-361. 2017.The author examines whether Kantian ethics would condone the use of pharmaceutical drugs to enhance one’s moods and cognitive abilities. If key assumptions concerning safety and efficacy, non-addictiveness, non-coercion, and accessibility are not met, Kantian ethics would consider mood and cognitive enhancement to be impermissible. But what if these assumptions are granted? The arguments for the permissibility of neuroenhancement are stronger than those against it. After giving a general account…Read more
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28The Normativity of Aesthetic Judgments: Kant’s DevelopmentIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1017-1026. 2021.
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25Kant’s Conception of Philosophy, 1764 –1765In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 491-502. 2013.
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18Reading Kant's Lectures (edited book)De Gruyter. 2015.This important collection of more than twenty original essays by prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant’s teaching in relation to his published works. With the Academy edition’s continuing publication of Kant’s lectures, the role of his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved attention. Several of Kant’s lectures on metaphysics, logic, ethics, anthropology, theology, and pedagogy have been translated into English, and important studies have appeared in man…Read more
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16Aesthetic Normativity in FreiburgHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 39 (2): 183-197. 2022.Aesthetic normativity continues to be of interest in contemporary aesthetics, and significant contributions to the topic can be found in neo-Kantianism. This article examines the account of aesthetic normativity presented by Jonas Cohn (1869–1947), a member of the Southwestern school of neo-Kantianism and author of a 1901 book on aesthetics. Cohn's Kantian-Hegelian theory of aesthetic normativity deserves more examination than it has so far received. Even if one does not accept all of its main a…Read more
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15Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (2): 74-76. 2017.
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15The Origins of Kant's AestheticsCambridge University Press. 2022.Organized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of eight themes: aesthetic judgment and normativity, formal beauty, partly conceptual beauty, artistic creativity or genius, the fine arts, the sublime, ugliness and disgust, and humor. Robert R. Clewis considers how Kant's thought was shaped by authors…Read more
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14Chapter 22. Kant’s Natural Teleology? The Case of Physical GeographyIn Reading Kant's Lectures, De Gruyter. pp. 526-552. 2015.
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14Gualtiero Lorini, Fonti e lessico dell’ontologia kantiana: I Corsi di Metafisica (1762–1795) Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2017 Pp. 270 ISBN 978-884674738-9 9 (pbk) € 23.00 (review)Kantian Review 25 (3): 492-497. 2020.
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