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Uygar Abaci

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Uygar Abaci

Uygar Abaci

Associate Professor of Philosophy
William J. and Charlotte K. Duddy University Endowed Fellow in the Humanities
206 Sparks Building

Education

PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2011
MA Middlesex University (London, UK), 2002
BSc Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey), 2000

Professional Bio

Areas of specialization

Kant

Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion

Aesthetics

Recent Publications

Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

"What does Existence add to Possibility? Wolff and Kant on Complementum Possibilitatis" in Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing, David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 3215-3222

"Kant, the Actualist Principle and the Fate of the Only Possible Proof", Journal of the History of Philosophy, 55(2), 2017, 261-291

“The Coextensiveness Thesis and Kant’s Modal Agnosticism in the ‘Postulates’”, European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24:1, March 2016, 129-158

“Kant’s Only Possible Argument and Chignell’s Real Harmony”, Kantian Review, vol. 19:1, March 2014, 1-25.

“Leibniz and Kant on the Syntheticity of Existential Statements,” in Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca, and Margi Ruffing (eds.) Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses, Berlin: de Gruyter, vol. 5, October 2013, 297-308

“Artistic Sublime Revisited: Reply to Clewis”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 68:2, 2010, 170-173

“Kant’s Theses on Existence,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 16:3, August 2008, 559-593

“Kant’s Justified Dismissal of Artistic Sublimity,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 66:3, 2008, 237-251

 

Forthcoming Publications

“Kant’s Enigmatic Transition: Practical Cognition of the Supersensible” in Nicholas Stang and Karl Schafer (eds.), On the Sensible and Intelligible Worlds: New Essays on Kant's Metaphysics and Epistemology, Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Research interests

Kant

History of Modern Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion

Aesthetics

Modality

Metaphysics

Uygar Abaci
Uygar Abaci