Members
Faculty
Robert DiSalle
Research Interests
History & Philosophy of Science, Space-Time Theories
Selected Publications
Understanding Space-Time: The Philosophical Development of Physics From Newton to Einstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
"Conventionalism and modern physics: A re-assessment" Noûs 36.2 (2002): 169–200.
“Space-Time.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Science. (Forthcoming.)
“Synthesis, the Synthetic A Priori, and the Origins of Modern Space-time Theory.” Forthcoming in Synthesis, papers in honour of Michael Friedman. Ed. M. Dickson and M. Domski. Forthcoming, Open Court Press.
“Space and Time in the Early Modern World”. Oxford Companion to Early Modern Philosophy. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
“On the reception of Newtonian space and time on the Continent.” In Newton on the Continent, ed. S. Mandelbrot and H. Pulte. Forthcoming.
“Conventionalism and Modern Physics.” In Intuition and the Axiomatic Method, ed. M. Hallett and B. Falkenburg. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006, pp. 181-212.
“Kant, Helmholtz, and the Meaning of Empiricism.” In The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science, ed. M. Friedman and A. Nordmann. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, pp. 123-140.
“Conventionalism and modern physics: a re-assessment,” Noûs 36:2 (2002): 169-200.
“Reconsidering Kant, Friedman, Logical Positivism, and the Exact Sciences,” Philosophy of Science, 69:2 (2002): 191-211.
“Newton’s Philosophical Analysis of Space and Time,” in The Cambridge Companion to Newton, I. B. Cohen and G. Smith, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 33-56.
“Spacetime Theory as Physical Geometry,” Erkenntnis 42 (1995): 317-337.
Chapter entitled “Helmholtz’s Empiricist Philosophy of Mathematics: Between Laws of Perception and Laws of Nature,” Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth Century Science, ed. D. Cahan, University of California, 1993, pp. 498-521.
“Einstein, Newton, and the Empirical Foundations of Spacetime Geometry.” International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 6 (1992):181-189.
“The Essential Properties of Matter, Space, and Time,” in Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, ed. R.I.G. Hughes and P. Bricker, Bradford Books, M.I.T. Press, 1990, pp. 203-209.
Recent Graduate Courses
Metaphysics from Leibniz to Kant (graduate seminar)
Space and Time from Newton to Einstein
Seminar in Rationalism: Leibniz
Seminar in 19th Century Philosophy
Seminar in Philosophy of Nature
Foundations of Space-Time Theories
History of Space-Time Theories
Corey W. Dyck
Research Interests
History of German philosophy, with an emphasis on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind in the period from Wolff to Kant
Selected Publications
“A Wolff in Kant’s Clothing: Christian Wolff’s Influence on Kant’s Accounts of Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and Psychology” Philosophy Compass (forthcoming)
“Turning the Game against the Idealist: Mendelssohn’s Refutation of Idealism and Kant’s Replies” in Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics and Metaphysics, ed. G. Freudenthal and R.W. Munk (forthcoming)
“Kant’s Transcendental Deduction and the Ghosts of Descartes and Hume” British Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming)
“Chimerical Ethics and Flattering Moralists: Baumgarten’s Influence on Kant’s Moral Theory in the Observations and Remarks” in Cambridge Critical Guide to the Observations of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and the Remarks, ed. S. Shell and R. Velkley. Cambridge: Cambridge UP (forthcoming)
“The Aeneas Argument: Personality and Immortality in Kant’s Third Paralogism” Kant Yearbook 2, (2010): 95-122.
“The Divorce of Reason and Experience: Kant’s Paralogisms of Pure Reason in Context” Journal of the History of Philosophy 47.2 (2009): 249-75.
“The Subjective Deduction and the Search for a Fundamental Force” Kant-Studien 99 (2008): 152-79.
“Empirical Consciousness Explained: The Connection between Self-Affection, (Self-) Consciousness, and Perception in the B Deduction” Kantian Review 11 (2006): 29-54.
“Spirit without Lines: Kant’s Attempt to Reconcile the Genius and Society” Idealistic Studies 34 (2004): 151-62.
Recent Graduate Courses
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind
Kant's First Critique
Transcendental Arguments
Lorne Falkenstein
Research Interests
18th century theories of mind and mental representation with emphasis on visual and spatial perception
Selected Publications
Kant's Formal Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
"Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic," in Graham Bird, ed. A Companion to Kant (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006), 140-153.
"Critique of Kantian Humility," Kantian Review. 5 (2001): 49-64.
"A Double Edged Sword? Kant's Refutation of Mendelssohn's Proof of the Immortality of the Soul and its implications for his theory of matter," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29 (1998): 561-588.
Lorne Falkenstein, "Hume's Answer to Kant," Noûs 32 (1998): 331-360.
"Kant's Empiricism," Review of Metaphysics 50 (1997): 547-589.
"Kant's Account of Intuition," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 21 (1991): 165-193.
"Kant, Mendelssohn, Lambert, and the Subjectivity of Time," Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (1991): 227-251.
"Was Kant a Nativist?" Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (1990): 573-597.
"Kant's Account of Sensation," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1990): 63-88.
"Kant's Argument for the Non-spatiotemporality of Things in Themselves," Kant-Studien 80 (1989): 265-283.
"Spaces and Times: A Kantian Response," Idealistic Studies 16 (1986): 1-11.
Recent Graduate Courses
Hume on Ethics and the Passions
The Clarke/Collins debate
Hume and Reid on Mental Representation
William Harper
Research Interests
Kant, Newton, History and Philosophy of Science
Selected Publications
Isaac Newton's Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence for Universal Gravity, forthcoming Oxford University Press
"Michael Friedman on Kant and Newton" Dialogue 39.2 (2000).
(with Robert DiSalle) "Inferences from phenomena in gravitational physics" Philosophy of Science 63.3 (1996).
"Kant on incongruent counterparts" in James Van~Cleve & Robert E. Frederick (eds.), The Philosophy of Right and Left. Kluwer, 1991.
"Kant on the a priori and Material Necessity" in in R. Butts (ed) Kant's Philosophy of Physical Science, Springer 1986.
"Kant on space, empirical realism and the foundations of geometry" Topoi 3.2 (1984).
"Kant's empirical realism and the second analogy of experience" Synthese 47.3 (1981).
Dennis Klimchuk
Research Interests
The history of political philosophy, contemporary private law theory (the theory of the laws of property, contract, tort, unjust enrichment and equity), and the rule of law
Selected Publications
"Three Accounts of Respect for Persons in Kant's Ethics" Kantian Review 8 (2004):38-61.
"Necessity, Deterrence and Standing" Legal Theory 8 (2002): 339-58.
Recent Graduate Courses
Kant’s Practical Philosophy
Hume and Kant on Ethics
Private Law Theory from Aristotle to Kant
Survey of Early Modern Political Philosophy
Kathleen Okruhlik
Research Interests
History and Philosophy of Science, Kant, Leibniz
Selected Publications
"Kant on Realism and Methodology" in R. Butts (ed) Kant's Philosophy of Physical Science. Springer, 1986.
"Kant on the Foundations of Science" in W. Shea and M. Ruse (eds) Nature Mathematized. Springer, 1983.
The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, (edited with J. Brown). Reidel, 1985.
Recent Graduate Courses
Scientific and Metaphysical Realism
Scientific Revolution: Space and Time, Matter and Method
Space and Time
Laws of Nature
Reductionism and the Unity of Science
Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science
Brigitte Sassen
Research Interests
Selected Publications
Reinhold's Critics: Kantian and Anti-Kantian,' in George di Giovanni ed., Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment. Springer, 2010 (209 - 220).
"Kant and Mendelssohn on the Implications of the 'I think'" in The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology. Springer, 2008.
Kant's Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
"18th century German philosophy prior to Kant." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008).
"Varieties of subjective judgments: Judgments of perception" Kant-Studien 99.3 (2008).
Review of Kenneth R. Westphal, Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006.
"Kant on Molyneux's problem." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12.3 (2004):471 – 485.
"Critical idealism in the eyes of Kant's contemporaries." Journal of the History of Philosophy 35.3 (1997).
Review of Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermeneutical Import of the Critique of Judgment Rudolf A. Makkreel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Dialogue 32.2 (1993).
“Artistic Genius and the Question of Creativity”. Akten des 7ten Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, vol. II ed. Gerhard Funke. Bonn: Bouvier, 1991, 757 – 66.
Reprinted in Paul Guyer ed., Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment Critical Essays. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, 171 – 9.