Faculty

Jennifer Mensch

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Science, Technology and Society

Education:
  • B.A., George Mason University
  • M.A., The University of Memphis
  • Ph.D., Emory University
Areas of Specialization:
  • 17th- and 18th-century Metaphysics and Epistemology
  • Kant
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Theoretical and Applied Ethics
Recent Courses:
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
  • German Idealism
  • The Darwinian Revolution
  • Bioethics
Recent Publications:
  • "Intuition and Nature in Kant and Goethe," European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming 2010).
  • “‘The Key to All Metaphysics’: Kant’s Letter to Herz, 1772” Kantian Review Vol. 13, Fall 2007.
  • Review of Kant’s System of Nature and Freedom: Selected Essays by Paul Guyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu, Summer, 2006.
  • “Kant and the Problem of Idealism: On the Significance of the Göttingen Review,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2006.
  • “Morality and Politics in Kant’s Philosophy of History” in Toward Greater Human Solidarity: Options for a Plural World, ed. Anindita Balslev (Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co, PVT. Ltd, 2005).
  • “Between Sense and Thought: Synthesis in Kant’s Deductions,” Epoché. A Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2005.
  • “Kant on Truth,” Idealistic Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, Fall 2004.
  Upcoming Courses:

 

Spring 2010:

  • PHIL 473: German Idealism

Fall 2010:


 

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