Publications

Book Projects

1. The Reality of the Ideal: A Study of Kant’s Highest Good, under contract with Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

Available for order at: Amazon, Oxford University Press, and Barnes & Noble.

 

Popular Philosophy

1. “Virūpa, Meet Fichte: Uncanny resonances in comparative philosophy.” The Immanent Frame. July 31, 2024.

Here is the URL:

Virūpa, meet Fichte: Uncanny resonances in comparative philosophy

2. “We’ll Meet Again: The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife.” Aeon. January 2, 2024.

Here is the URL:

https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death

For a featured summary on The Academic Minute:

https://academicminute.org/2024/02/alexander-englert-institute-for-advanced-study-why-godel-believed-in-an-afterlife/

Here are Media Mentions:

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/opinion/the-crown.html?searchResultPosition=3

The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/the-debate-that-claudine-gay-is-evading/677032/

Real Clear Science: https://www.realclearscience.com/2024/01/03/why_logician_kurt_godel_believed_in_the_afterlife_1002418.html

Peer-Reviewed Papers Published (and Forthcoming)

1. “Kant as a Carpenter of Reason: The Highest Good and Systematic Coherence.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Vol. 32, No. 3 (pp. 496-524) 2024.

2. “Kant’s Favorite Argument for Our Immortality: The Teleological Argument.” (PDF) Res Philosophica, Vol. 100, No. 3 (pp. 357-388) 2023.

3. “The Conceptual Origin of Worldview in Kant and Fichte.” (PDF) Journal of Transcendental Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (pp. 1-24) 2023.

4. “How a Kantian Ideal Can Be Practical” (PDF)  Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 65 (pp. 1-28) 2022.*

   * This paper has received a commentary in Inquiry by A.F. Bella, who connects my analysis in fruitful ways to recent developments in psychological research.

5. “Philosophical Think Tanks.” (PDF) Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 43, No. 4 (pp. 1-25) 2020.

6. “Dutifully Wishing: Kant’s Re-Evaluation of a Strange Species of Desire.” (PDF) Kantian Review, Vol. 22, No. 3 (pp. 373-394) 2017.

7. “Life, Logic, and the Pursuit of Purity.” (PDF) Hegel-Studien, Vol. 50 (pp. 63-95) 2016.

8. “Pecca Fortiter for the Sake of Morality? Making Sense of Wrong in Hegel’s System of Right.” (PDF)  Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 35, Special Issue 2 (pp. 204-227) 2014.

*Top Image was created with the assistance of DALL•E 2. Thanks to Tom Wilk for conceiving of Kant at work as a carpenter.