In Progress & Under Review

Kant

• A paper on Kant’s account of consciousness of the real self. (draft available)

• A paper on the relation between the real and the empirical self in Kant. (draft available)

• A paper on how many kinds of consciousness there are in Kant. (draft available)

• A paper on the role of consciousness in Kant’s theory of cognition. (in progress)

Philosophy of Mind

• A paper that argues that acts of attention themselves are normative: subject to moral rules and obligations. (draft available)

Early Modern Philosophy

• A paper on Cavendish’s account of individuation. (draft available)

• A paper about Cavendish’s theory of the self. (in progress)

Post-Kantian Philosophy

• A paper on Fichte’s account of belief. (draft available)

• A paper on the relationship between self-consciousness, belief, and mathematical axioms in Fichte. (in progress)

Dissertation: Kant’s Invisible Self

My dissertation is on Kant’s account of the metaphysically real self, and our representations and consciousness of ourselves as such. In it, I argue that Kant’s theoretical writings about the self and self-consciousness provide a framework for an account that is filled in with ethical content in the practical writings. This understanding lends insight into some key parts of Kant’s philosophy: his theory of cognition, the possible content of representations, the nature of genuine causal determination, and the relation that obtains between the appearances and things in themselves. In turn, these insights situate Kant’s account of the self as instructive for problems and questions in current thinking about the self and identity.