Research
My research is primarily in the history of philosophy, which I regard as a distinct form of intellectual inquiry to both the history of ideas and philosophy itself. My work to date has focused mainly upon the theoretical and practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. More recently I have written on a very different 18th Century figure, Bernard Mandeville.
Publications
Books
3. Kant and Metaphilosophy
(Forthcoming, Cambridge Elements – The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant)
2. Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe
(2025, Princeton University Press)
Review in The Spectator
Review in Literary Review
Review In History Today
1. Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Reader's Guide
(2013, Edinburgh University Press)
Review in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Edited Collections
1. Kant and Animals
(2020), eds. Lucy Allais and John J. Callanan, Oxford University Press
Articles
11. (2019) Kant on Misology and the Natural Dialectic, Philosophers’ Imprint, 19: 47, 1-22. [Open Access online] [pre-print]
10. (2019) Methodological conservativism in Kant and Strawson, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27:2, 422-442. [online] [pre-print]
9. (2017) Kant on the spontaneous power of the mind, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25:3, 565-588. [online] [pre-print]
8. (2014) Kant on the Acquisition of Geometrical Concepts, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 44:5-6, 580-604. [online] [pre-print] (Reprinted in Kant: Studies on Mathematics in the Critical Period, eds. Emily Carson and Lisa Shabel, Routledge, 2015)
7. (2014) Mendelssohn and Kant on Mathematics and Metaphysics, Kant Yearbook, Volume 6, Issue 1, 1–22. [online] [pre-print]
6. (2014) Kant and the Role of the Holy Will, Hegel Bulletin, 35(2), 163-184. [online] [pre-print]
5. (2013) Kant on Nativism, Scepticism and Necessity, Kantian Review, 18, (1), 1-27. [online]
4. (2011) Normativity and the Acquisition of the Categories, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 2011, Nos. 63/64, 1-26. [online]
3. (2011) Making Sense of Doubt: Strawson’s Anti-Scepticism, Theoria, 77 (3), 2011, 261-278. [online]
2. (2008) Kant on Analogy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 16 (4), 2008, 747 – 772. [online]
1. (2006) Kant’s Transcendental Strategy, The Philosophical Quarterly, 56 (224), 2006, 360-381. [online]
Chapters in Edited Collections
Forthcoming, Obligation and History, Festschrift for Bob Stern (eds. Joshua Fortenzer & Joe Saunders)
Forthcoming, Rousseau on Reading Romance, Routledge Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Love (eds. Natasha McKeever & Joe Saunders)
Forthcoming, Infinite Judgment about Things in Themselves, Proceedings of the 14th International Kant Congress ‘Kant's Project of Enlightenment’
7. (2021), The Boundary of Pure Reason, in Peter Thielke (ed.), Cambridge Guide to Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 133-153. [online] [pre-print]
6. (2021), Less than Zero: The Historical Context of Kant’s Opposition to Suicide, in Susan James (ed.), Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy , Oxford University Press. [online][pre-print]
5. (2020), The Comparison of Animals, in Lucy Allais and John J. Callanan (eds.), Kant and Animals, Oxford University Press, 19-41. [online] [pre-print]
4. (2019) Transcendental Idealism: Kant, in John Shand (ed.) A Companion to 19th Century Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell. [online] [pre-print]
3. (2017b) The Ideal of Reason, in James R. O’Shea (ed.) Cambridge Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. [online] [pre-print]
2. (2015) Mandeville on Pride and Animal Nature, in Bernard de Mandeville’s Tropology of Paradoxes, Springer. [online] [pre-print]
1. (2010) Kant on Innate Ideas – Another Look at B167-8, Kant Und Die Philosophie in Weltburgerlicher Absicht: Akten Des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010, 2013, Walter de Gruyter, pp. 53-64.
Online Publications
(2024) Editor, Virtual Issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society on Kant:
https://academic.oup.com/aristotelian/pages/aristotelian-society-virtual-issue-kant
My research is primarily in the history of philosophy, which I regard as a distinct form of intellectual inquiry to both the history of ideas and philosophy itself. My work to date has focused mainly upon the theoretical and practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. More recently I have written on a very different 18th Century figure, Bernard Mandeville.
Publications
Books
3. Kant and Metaphilosophy
(Forthcoming, Cambridge Elements – The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant)
2. Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe
(2025, Princeton University Press)
Review in The Spectator
Review in Literary Review
Review In History Today
1. Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Reader's Guide
(2013, Edinburgh University Press)
Review in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Edited Collections
1. Kant and Animals
(2020), eds. Lucy Allais and John J. Callanan, Oxford University Press
Articles
11. (2019) Kant on Misology and the Natural Dialectic, Philosophers’ Imprint, 19: 47, 1-22. [Open Access online] [pre-print]
10. (2019) Methodological conservativism in Kant and Strawson, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27:2, 422-442. [online] [pre-print]
9. (2017) Kant on the spontaneous power of the mind, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25:3, 565-588. [online] [pre-print]
8. (2014) Kant on the Acquisition of Geometrical Concepts, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 44:5-6, 580-604. [online] [pre-print] (Reprinted in Kant: Studies on Mathematics in the Critical Period, eds. Emily Carson and Lisa Shabel, Routledge, 2015)
7. (2014) Mendelssohn and Kant on Mathematics and Metaphysics, Kant Yearbook, Volume 6, Issue 1, 1–22. [online] [pre-print]
6. (2014) Kant and the Role of the Holy Will, Hegel Bulletin, 35(2), 163-184. [online] [pre-print]
5. (2013) Kant on Nativism, Scepticism and Necessity, Kantian Review, 18, (1), 1-27. [online]
4. (2011) Normativity and the Acquisition of the Categories, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 2011, Nos. 63/64, 1-26. [online]
3. (2011) Making Sense of Doubt: Strawson’s Anti-Scepticism, Theoria, 77 (3), 2011, 261-278. [online]
2. (2008) Kant on Analogy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 16 (4), 2008, 747 – 772. [online]
1. (2006) Kant’s Transcendental Strategy, The Philosophical Quarterly, 56 (224), 2006, 360-381. [online]
Chapters in Edited Collections
Forthcoming, Obligation and History, Festschrift for Bob Stern (eds. Joshua Fortenzer & Joe Saunders)
Forthcoming, Rousseau on Reading Romance, Routledge Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Love (eds. Natasha McKeever & Joe Saunders)
Forthcoming, Infinite Judgment about Things in Themselves, Proceedings of the 14th International Kant Congress ‘Kant's Project of Enlightenment’
7. (2021), The Boundary of Pure Reason, in Peter Thielke (ed.), Cambridge Guide to Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 133-153. [online] [pre-print]
6. (2021), Less than Zero: The Historical Context of Kant’s Opposition to Suicide, in Susan James (ed.), Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy , Oxford University Press. [online][pre-print]
5. (2020), The Comparison of Animals, in Lucy Allais and John J. Callanan (eds.), Kant and Animals, Oxford University Press, 19-41. [online] [pre-print]
4. (2019) Transcendental Idealism: Kant, in John Shand (ed.) A Companion to 19th Century Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell. [online] [pre-print]
3. (2017b) The Ideal of Reason, in James R. O’Shea (ed.) Cambridge Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. [online] [pre-print]
2. (2015) Mandeville on Pride and Animal Nature, in Bernard de Mandeville’s Tropology of Paradoxes, Springer. [online] [pre-print]
1. (2010) Kant on Innate Ideas – Another Look at B167-8, Kant Und Die Philosophie in Weltburgerlicher Absicht: Akten Des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010, 2013, Walter de Gruyter, pp. 53-64.
Online Publications
(2024) Editor, Virtual Issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society on Kant:
https://academic.oup.com/aristotelian/pages/aristotelian-society-virtual-issue-kant
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