Patrick Leland
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Professional
- Biography
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
Selected Publications
- “Kant, Organisms, and Representation” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 79 (2020) 101223: 1-10 (11,000 words)
- “Kant and the Primacy of Judgment Before the First Critique,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 57:2 (2019) 281-312 (16,000 words)
- “Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Technical Idiom of Post-Leibnizian Philosophy of Mind,” Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 21 (2018) 129-48 (11,000 words)
- “Kant on Consciousness in Animals,” Studi Kantiani 31 (2018) 75-107 (19,000 words)
- “Unconscious Representations in Kant’s Early Writings,” Kantian Review 23:2 (2018) 257-84 (12,000 words)
- “Rational Responsibility and the Assertoric Character of Bald-Faced Lies,” Analysis 75:4 (2015) 550-54
Biography
As a teacher of philosophy, I very much enjoy both 1) introducing new students to this exciting discipline and 2) teaching broadly across its many different subfields. I have taught courses in the following areas: logic, ethics (incl. metaethics and moral psychology), epistemology, philosophy of mind and language, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and all periods in the history of Western philosophy. That’s not an exhaustive list (!), and I have many philosophical interests beyond these areas.
As a scholar, I specialize in 18th and 19th century German philosophy, with a particular focus on the writings of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and, more specifically, his “theoretical” philosophy (i.e. his metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind). Most of my publications are in this area, and I continue to conduct research in it.
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