Education Experience

 

Magistra Artium 2002, PhD 2006, Habilitation 2015 (University of Tübingen).

 

 

  Main Research Field

 

Aristotle and Immanuel Kant, ancient and modern philosophy; philosophy of nature, especially the history and philosophy of biology, metaphysics, epistemology, metaethics, moral psychology, environmental ethics, philosophy of religion.

 

 

  Main Published Books

 

Monographs

in progress: Aristotle on Reproduction and Heredity.

Kants Theorie der Biologie. Ein Kommentar. Eine Lesart. Eine historische Einordnung, (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2017).

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110473230

Edited Volumes

Kant on Proofs for God’s Existence, ed. (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2023).

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688962

Kant’s Theory of Biology, co-ed. (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2014).

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225792

Articles and Book Chapters

forthcoming: “Supplement of Replacement? The Physico-theological and Ethicotheological Arguments for the Existence of God in Kant’s CPJ.” 

“Kant on Divine Artistry in Nature. Variants of the Physico-theological Argument.” In: Kant on Proofs for God’s Existence, ed. by Ina Goy (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2023), 205–22.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688962-012

“Introduction.” In: Kant on Proofs for God’s Existence, ed. by Ina Goy (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2023), 1–15.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688962-003

“Kant’s Views on Preformation and Epigenesis (A visão de Kant sobre pré-formação e epigênese).” Kant E-Prints 17.3 (2022): 142–72 [Special Issue: Kant and the Sciences].

https://doi.org/10.20396/kant.v17i3.8673695

“Kant on Nonhuman Animals and God.” In: Kant and Animals, ed. by Lucy Allais and John Callanan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 89–104.

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859918.003.0005

“‘All Is Leaf’. Goethe’s Plant Philosophy and Poetry.” In: Philosophy of Biology Before Biology, ed. by Charles Wolfe and Cecilia Bognon-Küss (London: Routledge, 2019), 146–69.

“Was Aristotle the ‘Father’ of the Epigenesis Doctrine?” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40.2 (2018): 16pp [Special Issue: Sketches of a Conceptual History of Epigenesis, ed. by Charles T. Wolfe & Antonine Nicoglou].

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-018-0193-2

“Momente der Freiheit.” Kant-Studien-Ergänzungshefte 193 (2016): 149–73 [Special Issue: Kants Kategorien der Freiheit, ed. by Stephan Zimmermann].

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110491135-009

“Hegels Analysen des Organischen.” Hegel-Jahrbuch/Hegel Yearbook 2016 (2016): 476–81 [Special Issue: Hegel’s Response to Kant, ed. by Andreas Arndt et. al.].

https://doi.org/10.1515/hgjb-2016-0179

““… wie dich selbst”. Kant über Liebe und Selbst-Liebe im Liebesgebot.” In: Religion und Aufklärung, ed. by Albrecht Beutel and Martha Nooke (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016), 589–602.

“The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment.” Studi Kantiani 28 (2015): 65–88 [Special Issue: Kant and Biology, ed. by Stefano Bacin and Claudio LaRocca].

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26543168

“Die Deduktion des Sittengesetzes 1785, 1788 und 1788–90 und der Wandel in Kants Naturbegriff.” In: Kants Rechtfertigung des Sittengesetzes in Grundlegung III. Deduktion oder Faktum?, ed. by Heiko Puls (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2014), 167–88.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365894.167

“Über Liebe. Kants Auseinandersetzung mit den biblischen Geboten der Gottesliebe, der Nächstenliebe und der Selbstliebe.” Philosophical Readings 6.1 (2014): 6–29 [Special Issue: Ideengeschichtliche Quellen der Ethik Kants, ed. by Federica Basaglia and Eva Oggionni].

“Kant’s Theory of Biology and the Argument from Design.” In: Kant’s Theory of Biology, ed. by Ina Goy and Eric Watkins (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2014), 203–20.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225792.203

“Epigenetic Theories. Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Immanuel Kant.” In: Kant’s Theory of Biology, ed. by Ina Goy and Eric Watkins (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2014), 45–60.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225792.43

“Introduction.” In: Kant’s Theory of Biology, ed. by Ina Goy and Eric Watkins (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2014), 1–22.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225792.1

“On Judging Nature as a System of Ends. Exegetical Problems of §67 of the Critique of the Power of Judgment.” In: Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Pisa 2010, ed. by Claudio LaRocca, Stefano Bacin, et al. (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2013), vol. 5, 65–76.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246490.3925

“Virtue and Sensibility (6:399–409).” In: Kant’s ‘Tugendlehre’. A Comprehensive Commentary, ed. by Oliver Sensen, Jens Timmermann, and Andreas Trampota (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2013), 183–206.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229875.183

“Kritik der reinen Vernunft.” In: Kant-Lexikon, ed. by Marcus Willaschek, Jürgen Stolzenberg, and Georg Mohr, (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2015), 3 vols., vol. 2, 1323–40, online 2014.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110762532

“Kritik der praktischen Vernunft.” In: Kant-Lexikon, ed. by Marcus Willaschek, Jürgen Stolzenberg, and Georg Mohr (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2015), 3 vols., vol. 2, 1315–23, online 2014.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110762532

“Immanuel Kant on the Moral Feeling of Respect.” In: Rethinking Kant. Current Trends in North American Kantian Scholarship, ed. by Pablo Muchnik (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), vol. 2, 156–79.

“Die Teleologie der Natur (§§64–68).” In: Immanuel Kant. Kritik der Urteilskraft, ed. by Otfried Höffe (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008), 223–39.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110782417-015

“Immanuel Kant über das moralische Gefühl der Achtung.” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 61.3 (2007): 337–60.

https://doi.org/10.3196/004433007782418126