Corey W. DyckPhD, FRSC
Historian of German philosophy, with a focus on Kant and the eighteenth century.
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German philosophy
in context.
My research explores eighteenth-century German philosophy, especially metaphysics and the philosophy of mind in the period from Leibniz to Kant. I work on Kant, Christian Wolff, Moses Mendelssohn, and the wider intellectual debates in which their thought developed.
I am also interested in recovering the contributions of women to German philosophy and in making the period’s philosophical texts available through editions and translations.
Kant · Wolff · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Women in the history of philosophy
Academic background
PhD, Boston College (2006)
MA, Catholic University of Leuven (2001)
BA, University of British Columbia (1999)
Books, editions & translations
Complete publications, including articles and forthcoming work →Monographs
- Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics (Oxford UP, 2024)
- Kant and Rational Psychology (Oxford UP, 2014)
Edited anthologies
- Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Corey W. Dyck, Frederick Beiser, and Brandon Look, eds. (Oxford UP, 2026)
- Evil, Suffering, and Pessimism: An Introduction to Modern Philosophy, Corey W. Dyck, Fabio Malfara, and Ignacio Moya, eds. (Broadview Press, 2026)
- Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany, edited with an introduction by Corey W. Dyck (Oxford UP, 2021)
- Kant and his German Contemporaries, edited with an introduction by Corey W. Dyck & Falk Wunderlich (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Translations
- Early Modern German Philosophy (1690–1750) (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019)
- Morning Hours: Lectures on God’s Existence by Moses Mendelssohn, translated with an introduction by Dan Dahlstrom and Corey Dyck (Springer, 2011)
Editions of texts
- Georg Friedrich Meier, Über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele, edited with an introductory essay by Corey W. Dyck (a volume in the series Christian Wolff Gesammelte Werke, Abt. III, Hildesheim: Olms, 2018)
- Israel Gottlieb Canz, Uberzeugender Beweiß aus der Vernunft von der Unsterblichkeit, edited with a preface by Corey W. Dyck (a volume in the series Christian Wolff Gesammelte Werke, Abt. III, Hildesheim: Olms, 2017)
Teaching &
supervision
My graduate teaching covers Kant’s philosophy and its contemporary reception, including questions in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Prospective graduate students with interests in the history of German thought are welcome to contact me to discuss their research.
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Department of Philosophy
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
Office: Stevenson Hall 3145
519-661-2111 ext. 85749