Publications

BOOKS:

The Role of Taste in Kant’s Theory of Cognition. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. (Reprint of 1989 Ph.D dissertation as part of the series “Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy.”) Reprinted in the series “Routledge Library Editions” (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016).

The Normativity of Nature: Essays on Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

EDITED BOOK:

Democratic Law. Seana Shiffrin’s 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, with an introduction by Hannah Ginsborg and commentary by Richard Brooks, Niko Kolodny, and Anna Stilz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

ARTICLES:

“Reflective Judgment and Taste,” Nous 24(1) (1990): 63-78

“On the Key to Kant’s Critique of Taste,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 72(4) (1991): 290-313

“Purposiveness and Normativity,” in Hoke Robinson (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995), volume II, 453-460

“Kant on Aesthetic and Biological Purposiveness,” in Andrews Reath, Barbara Herman, and Christine Korsgaard (eds.), Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 329-360

“Lawfulness Without a Law: Kant on the Free Play of Imagination and Understanding,” Philosophical Topics 25 (1) (1997): 37-81

“Kant on the Subjectivity of Taste,” in Herman Parret (ed.), Kants Ästhetik/ Kant’s Aesthetics/ L’esthetique de Kant (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998), 448-465

“Korsgaard on Choosing Nonmoral Ends,” Ethics 109 (1) (1998), 5-21

“Kant on Understanding Organisms as Natural Purposes,” in Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant and the Sciences, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 231-258.

“Aesthetic Judging and the Intentionality of Pleasure,” Inquiry 46 (2) (2003), 164-181

“Two Kinds of Mechanical Inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (1) (2004), 33-65

“Thinking the Particular as Contained Under the Universal,” in Rebecca Kukla (ed.), Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 35-60. Preprint available here

“Aesthetic Judgment and Perceptual Normativity,” Inquiry 49 (5) (2006), 403-437. Preprint available here

“Kant’s Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance,” in Graham Bird (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Kant (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006). Preprint available here

“Empirical Concepts and the Content of Experience,” European Journal of Philosophy 14 (3) (2006), 349-372. Preprint available here

“Reasons for Belief,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (2) (2006), 286–318. Preprint available here

“Kant and the Problem of Experience”, Philosophical Topics 34 (1&2) (2006), 59-106.

“Was Kant a Nonconceptualist?”, Philosophical Studies 137 (1) (2008), 65-77

“Qu’est-ce que la faculté de juger?”, in Christophe Bouton, Fabienne Brugère and Claudie Lavaud (eds.), Autour de la Critique de la faculté de juger (Paris: Vrin, 2008). Preprint available here

“Interesseloses Wohlgefallen und Allgemeinheit ohne Begriffe,” in Otfried Höffe (ed.), Kant: Kritik der Urteilskraft (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008). Preprint available here. English version (“Disinterested pleasure and universality without concepts”) available here.

“Kant,” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, edited by Theodore Gracyk and Andrew Kania (Oxford: Routledge, 2011). Preprint available here

“Perception, Generality and Reasons,” in Reasons for Belief, edited by Andrew Reisner and Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Preprint available here

“Primitive Normativity and Skepticism about Rules,”The Journal of Philosophy, 108 (5) (2011), 227-254

“Inside and Outside Language: Stroud’s Nonreductionism about Meaning,”in J. Bridges, N. Kolodny and W. Wong eds., The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

“Meaning, Understanding and Normativity,” Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 86 (1) (2012), 127-146.

“Kant’s Perceiver,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 87 (1) (2013), 221-228.

“The appearance of spontaneity: Kant on judgment and empirical self-knowledge.” In Dina Emundts (ed.), Self, World, and Aesthetics. Metaphysical Topics in Kant and Hegel (Berlin/New York, Walter De Gruyter, 2013), 119-144.

“Oughts Without Intentions: A Kantian Perspective on Biological Teleology,” in Ina Goy and Eric Watkins (eds.) Kant’s Theory of Biology (Berlin/New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2014).

“Le plaisir de juger.” Translated by François Calori. In François Calori, Michael Foessel and Dominique Pradelle (eds.), De la sensibilité : les esthétiques de Kant (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015).

“Why Must We Presuppose the Systematicity of Nature?” Forthcoming in Michela Massimi and Angela Breitenbach (eds.), Kant and Laws (Cambridge University Press).

“Synopsis” and “Replies to My Critics” (part of a book symposium on The Normativity of Nature). British Journal of Aesthetics 56 (4) (2016), 383–387 and 409-419.

“Two Debates about Absolute Music.” British Journal of Aesthetics 57 (1) (2017), 77–80.

“In Defence of the One-Act View : Reply to Guyer.” British Journal of Aesthetics 57 (4) (2017), 421–435

“Leaps in the Dark: Epistemological Skepticism in Kripke’s Wittgenstein.” In G. Anthony Bruno and Abby Rutherford (eds.), Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries (Oxford: Routledge, 2018), 149-166.

“Kant on the Systematicity and Purposiveness of Nature.” In Oliver Thorndike (ed.), Rethinking Kant, volume 5 (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), 131-162.

“Normativity and Concepts.” In Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 989-1014.

“Empiricism and Normative Constraint.” In Johan Gersel, Rasmus Thybo Jensen, Morten S. Thaning, and Søren Overgaard (eds.), In the Light of Experience: New Essays on Perception and Reasons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 101-138.

“Kant’s ‘Young Poet’ and the Subjectivity of Aesthetic Judgment.” In Violetta L. Waibel and Margit Ruffing (eds.), Nature and Freedom: Proceedings of the 12th International Kant Congress (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018).

“Wittgenstein on Going On.” (The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2018 Distinguished Lecture.) Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2020), 50: 1, 1–17.

“Aesthetic Normativity and Knowing How to Go On.” Con-Textos Kantianos 12 (2020), 52-70

“Conceptualism and the Notion of a Concept.” In Christoph Demmerling and Dirk Schröder (eds.) Concepts in Thought, Action and Emotion (Routledge, 2021), 42-59.

“Going On As One Ought: Kripke and Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Meaning.” Mind and Language 37 (5), 876-892.

“Kant’s Aesthetics and Teleology,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Originally published 2005, major updates 2013 and 2022)

“Skepticism and Quietism about Meaning and Normativity.” In Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: Essays in Honor of John McDowell (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press) (2022).

“Kant and Wittgenstein on Reflective Judgment and Rule-Following.” In Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 97 (2023)

“Putting Wittgenstein Back Into Kripkenstein: Rule-following Skepticism and Knowing How to Go On.” In Claudine Verheggen (ed.), Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

“The Reality of Primitive Norms.” Forthcoming in Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke (eds.), Normative Realism (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

“Spontaneity Without Rationality: A Kantian Approach to Self-Consciousness and Perceptual Content.” Forthcoming in Andrea Giananti, Johannes Roessler, and Gianfranco Soldati (eds.), Perceptual Knowledge and Self-Awareness (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

BOOK REVIEWS:

Review of Critique of the Power of Judgment, translated by Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews, edited by Paul Guyer. Philosophical Review 111 (3) (2002)

Review of Oughts and Thoughts, by Anandi Hattiangadi. Mind 119 (476) (2010), 1175-1186

SHORT PIECES:

“Glücklicher Zufall.” In Mechthild Fend, Anke te Heesen, Christine von Oertzen and Fernando Vidal (eds.), 107 Variations on the Unexpected (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2019), 132-134.

Post on Kit Warren’s Words I in the series “100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words,” on the blog Aesthetics for Birds, September 2016