"In this book, Allen W. Wood investigates Kant's conception of ethical theory, using it to develop a viable approach to the rights and moral duties of human beings. By remaining closer to Kant's own view of the aims of ethics, Wood's understanding of Kantian ethics differs from …
"In this book, Allen W. Wood investigates Kant's conception of ethical theory, using it to develop a viable approach to the rights and moral duties of human beings. By remaining closer to Kant's own view of the aims of ethics, Wood's understanding of Kantian ethics differs from …
"In this book, Allen W. Wood investigates Kant's conception of ethical theory, using it to develop a viable approach to the rights and moral duties of human beings. By remaining closer to Kant's own view of the aims of ethics, Wood's understanding of Kantian ethics differs from …
This project works to disassemble a tragedy into its parts, both in terms of stagecraft & composition by staging the biography of The Dowager Empress Cixi as an exhibition. This is a text written in lieu of a physical exhibition that could not happen, in preparation for one that…
Recent scholarly attention has been paid to the use of an epigenetic metaphor in Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy, e.g. Mensch (2013), Helbig and Nassar (2016), and Nassar (2017), a metaphor closely bound up with not only Kant’s theory of mind, but also his theory of a …
The most commonly ignored doctrine in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is his defense of his own critical methodology. This dissertation analyzes Kant’s statements on method in the “Discipline of Pure Reason” and a series of lectures from the 1760s and 1770s to prepare the way for…
Kant’s practical philosophy has two ideals, but Kant seems mostly silent on the connection between them: namely the Just State and the Kingdom of Ends. Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason certainly gives a semblance of an answer, in claiming that we, as a community of huma…
This dissertation investigates exactly what role the proofs for the existence of God, and rational theology more widely, played in the history of modern philosophy from Descartes up to our own day. If the proofs are poorly suited to the role of religious apologetics, just as lit…
My dissertation The Unknown Future examines the notion of Ahnung or Ahndung (in English: premonition) in German literature, philosophy, anthropology, and the sciences around 1800. Focusing on the heated debates among philosophers, writers and intellectuals as to whether humans c…
Kant believed that the moral law is a law that the rational will legislates. This thesis examines this claim and its broader implications for Kant’s moral theory. Many are drawn to Kantian ethics because of its emphasis on the dignity and legislative authority of the rational be…
Die in diesem Tagungsband versammelten Beiträge widmen sich der Analyse von facettenreichen Deutungen und Bedeutungen der Philosophie als Wissenschaft sowie den unterschiedlichen Auslegungen des Wissenschaftsbegriffs im Deutschen Idealismus. Dabei kommen die bedeutendsten Vertre…
Die in diesem Tagungsband versammelten Beiträge widmen sich der Analyse von facettenreichen Deutungen und Bedeutungen der Philosophie als Wissenschaft sowie den unterschiedlichen Auslegungen des Wissenschaftsbegriffs im Deutschen Idealismus. Dabei kommen die bedeutendsten Vertre…
Wozu Metaphysik?: Historisch-systematische Perspektiven
by Abe, Hiroshi, Erhard, Christopher, Franke, Christopher Alexander, Frisch, Thomas, Garcia, Marcela, Graband, Claudia, Meissner, David, Noller, Jörg, Hausmann, Marco, Heisenberg, Thimo, Hermanni, Friedrich, Hübner, Johannes, Jaskolla, Ludwig, King, R. A. H., Koch, Anton Friedrich, Liu, Chun-Fa, Lutz-Bachmann, Matthias, Mandrella, Isabelle, Martin, Christian, Meincke, Anne Sophie, Schönberger, Rolf, Schweidler, Walter, Vossenkuhl, Wilhelm, Wachsmann, Nora Constanze, Stekeler, Pirmin