Articles
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- "Kant on the Conceptual Possibility of Actually Infinite Tota Synthetica," Kantian Review (2024).
- "Personal Reactive Attitudes and Partial Responses to Others: A Partiality-Based Approach to Strawson's Reactive Attitudes," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2023)
- "Kant on the Givenness of Space and Time," European Journal of Philosophy (2022)
- "Kant's First Antinomy and the Indeterminate Extent of the Empirical World," Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress: The Court of Reason (2021)
- "Taking it Personally: Third-Party Forgiveness, Close Relationships, and the Standing to Forgive," Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol 9 (2019)
In Progress and Under Review
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History of Philosophy
- A paper on Kant's assessment of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Draft available.
- A paper on Kant's solution to the second antinomy and the difference between quantitative indeterminacy and potential infinity. Draft available.
- A paper on metaphysically neutral readings of the first antinomy's solution. Draft available.
- A paper on Kant's rejection of self-grounding things. Draft in progress.
- A paper on Kant's distinction between two notions of totality and their role in his criticisms of rational cosmology. Draft in progress.
- A paper on Crusius's distinction between 'actual' and 'ideal' space and time. Draft in progress.
- A paper on self-appraisal and feeling ashamed of others. Draft available.
- A paper on Strawson's claim that only "impersonal" reactive attitudes are moral. Draft in progress.
- A paper arguing that loving people for their good qualities does not generate even prima facie reasons to 'trade up'. Draft in progress.
Book Reviews and Reply Pieces
- “How Competitive Can Virtuous Envy Be?,” APA Studies in Feminism and Philosophy, forthcoming.
- Ian Proops, The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant’s Dialectic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021 Pp. xi 486 ISBN 9780199656042 (hbk) £105.00. Kantian Review, 27(2), 329-334. doi:10.1017/S136941542200005X
Dissertation
Indeterminacy, Infinity, Ideality: Kant's Mathematical Antinomies. My dissertation focused on the resolutions of the first and second antinomies, which concern the cosmological questions of the world's spatiotemporal extent and the divisibility of matter. In the resolution of the antinomies, Kant claims that transcendental idealism proves the thesis and antithesis statements of the antinomies both to be false. That is, it is false that the world is spatiotemporally finite, and it is false that it is spatiotemporally infinite; likewise, it is false that objects are composed from a finite number of simple parts, and it is false that objects are composed of infinitely many parts, none of which are simple. I argue that in making these claims, Kant means to attribute metaphysical indeterminacy to the spatiotemporal extent and compositional structure of the empirical world. Moreover, in fleshing out exactly what these claims to indeterminacy amount to, we see more clearly how Kant understands the ideality of appearances. Along the way, I make several key claims about how Kant understands the relationship between infinite phenomena and indeterminate phenomena and about why Kant thinks the spatiotemporal world must be indeterminate, given that transcendental idealism is true.
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