Publications

Work in Progress

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  • Paper on the theoretical use of the ideas of reason (under review)
  • Paper on the relationship between the idea of freedom and practical cognition thereof (under review)
  • “Kant’s Concept of Mind” (in preparation)
  • “Kant, Totality, and the Priority of the Whole” (in preparation)
  • “Kant on Comprehension and the Real Use of Reason” (in preparation)
  • “The Transcendental Deduction of the Ideas as a Regressive Argument” (in preparation)
  • “Kant and the Transparency of Pleasure” (in preparation)
  • “Rohmer’s Transcendental Idealism” (in preparation) 

Dissertation

Kant and the Origin of the Concept of Mind (2022)

Abstract: This dissertation articulates and defends a new interpretation of the concept of mind that underlies Kant’s account of mental faculties in the three Critiques. On my reading, Kant’s concept of mind is to be construed in terms of the transcendental idea of the soul (immaterial thinking substance) in its regulative use. This offers an alternative to previous accounts, which construe Kant’s claims about the mind either as metaphysically neutral claims, as claims to cognition of the mind as an appearance, or as claims to cognition of the mind as a noumenal entity. On my reading, although Kant’s concept of mind is metaphysically substantive and purports to represent noumenal reality, Kant’s use of this concept neither is grounded in cognitive access to an independently existing object nor entails a claim to cognition of the mind as it is in itself. Rather, Kant’s employment of this concept in Critical philosophy is warranted by reason’s demand for explanatory understanding (Begreifen), which cannot be fully met by our capacity for cognition.

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