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    Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives.J. Colin McQuillan (ed.) - 2021 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    With contributions by leading scholars in the field, this book is the first collection in the English language devoted to Baumgarten’s aesthetics.
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  2. Oaths, Promises, and Compulsory Duties: Kant’s Response to Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem.J. Colin McQuillan - 2014 - Journal of the History of Ideas 75 (4):581-604.
    This article argues that Kant's essay on enlightenment responds to Moses Mendelssohn's defense of the freedom of conscience in Jerusalem. While Mendelssohn holds that the freedom of conscience as an inalienable right, Kant argues that the use of one's reason may be constrained by oaths. Kant calls such a constrained use of reason the private use of reason. While he also defends the unconditional freedom of the public use of reason, Kant believes that one makes oneself a part of the (...)
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    Extensive Clarity in Baumgarten’s Poetics and Aesthetics.J. Colin McQuillan - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (1):71-93.
    Anglophone philosophers have shown a surprising interest in Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s aesthetics in recent years. At the same time, new approaches to aesthetics have been proposed that come very close to the original conception of aesthetics that Baumgarten introduced in the middle of the eighteenth century. In light of these developments, this article undertakes a critical examination of a central concept in Baumgarten’s poetics and aesthetics—extensive clarity. It argues that historians of philosophy and contemporary aestheticians should be wary of this (...)
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    The Remarriage of Reason and Experience in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.J. Colin McQuillan - 2019 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (1):53-69.
    This article argues that Immanuel Kant recreates in his critical philosophy one of the most distinctive features of Christian Wolff’s rationalism—the marriage of reason and experience. The article begins with an overview of Wolff’s connubium and then surveys the reasons some of his contemporaries opposed the marriage of reason and experience, paying special attention to the distinctions between phenomena and noumena, sensible and intellectual cognition, and empirical and pure cognition that Kant employs in his inaugural dissertation On the Form and (...)
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    Kant, the scholarship condition, and linguistic racialization: comments on Lu-Adler’s Kant on Public Reason and the Linguistic Other.J. Colin McQuillan - 2024 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 3 (2):1-7.
    In this response to Lu-Adler’s “Kant on Public Reason and the Linguistic Other,” I summarize the restrictions the scholarship condition imposes on the public use of reason in Kant’s essay “What is Enlightenment?” I then agree that Lu-Adler identifies an even more radical set of restrictions on the public use of reason, confirming that Kant is not the liberal egalitarian he is often supposed to be by intellectual historians, historians of philosophy, and Kant scholars. After that, I suggest that what (...)
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    Kant on the Science of Aesthetics and the Critique of Taste.J. Colin McQuillan - 2017 - Kant Yearbook 9 (1):113-132.
    This article considers the reasons Kant rejects the possibility of a science of aesthetics throughout his career. It begins by surveying the background of Kant’s denial, focusing first on the introduction of aesthetics as a new science in the works of Alexander Baumgarten and Georg Friedrich Meier. After showing that there are numerous ambiguities in the way Baumgarten and Meier present their new science, the article considers Kant’s account of the differences between aesthetics and logic in the transcripts of his (...)
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    Beyond the Analytic of Finitude: Kant, Heidegger, Foucault.J. Colin McQuillan - 2016 - Foucault Studies 21:184-199.
    The editors of the French edition of Michel Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology claim that Foucault started rereading Kant through Nietzsche in 1952 and then began rereading Kant and Nietzsche through Heidegger in 1953. This claim has not received much attention in the scholarly literature, but its significance should not be underestimated. In this article, I assess the likelihood that the editor’s claim is true and show how Foucault’s introduction to Kant’s Anthropology and his comments about Kant in The Order (...)
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    Philosophical Archaeology and the Historical A Priori.J. Colin McQuillan - 2016 - Symposium 20 (2):142-159.
    Most accounts of the historical a priori can be traced back to Husserlian phenomenology. Foucault’s appeals to the historical a priori are more problematic because of his hostility to this tradition. In this paper, I argue that Foucault’s diplôme thesis on Hegel, his studies of Kant’s Anthropology, his response to critics of The Order of Things, and his later work on Kant’s essay “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” all suggest that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German philosophy helped to (...)
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    Early Modern Aesthetics.J. Colin McQuillan - 2015 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield International.
    A clear and concise account of the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the development of aesthetics as a discipline in its own right.
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  10. Reading and Misreading Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-Seer.J. Colin McQuillan - 2015 - Kant Studies Online 2015 (1).
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  11. (1 other version)Baumgarten on Sensible Perfection.J. Colin McQuillan - 2014 - Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 44.
    One of the most important concepts Baumgarten introduces in his Reflections on Poetry is the concept of sensible perfection. It is surprising that Baumgarten does not elaborate upon this concept in his Metaphysics, since it plays such an important role in the new science of aesthetics that he proposes at the end of the Reflections on Poetry and then further develops in the Aesthetics. This article considers the significance of the absence of sensible perfection from the Metaphysics and its implications (...)
     
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    Learnedness, Learned Cognition, and the Science of Logic : From Thomasius and Meier to Kant.J. Colin McQuillan - 2023 - Kant Studien 114 (2):295-328.
    It is well-known that Immanuel Kant used Meier’s Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason as a textbook in his logic lectures for almost forty years. Kant himself, and most later scholars, regard Meier as a follower of Wolff and Baumgarten; however, when we compare Meier’s Excerpt with Thomasius’ Introduction to the Doctrine of Reason, we find that Meier’s conception of “learned cognition” is derived from Thomasius’ conception of “learnedness.” Kant seems to have developed the pre-critical distinction between “the logic of (...)
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    Introduction.María del Rosario Acosta López & J. Colin McQuillan - 2020 - In María Del Del Rosario Acosta López & Colin McQuillan (eds.), Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 1-19.
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  14. Michel Foucault: Introduction to Kant's Anthropology. Translated by Roberto Nigro and Kate Briggs.J. Colin McQuillan - forthcoming - Continental Philosophy Review.
     
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    The Science of Aesthetics, the Critique of Taste, and the Philosophy of Art: Ambiguities and Contradictions.J. Colin McQuillan - 2021 - Aesthetic Investigations 4 (2):144-162.
    Aesthetics is the part of contemporary academic philosophy that is concerned with art, beauty, criticism, and taste. As such, it must address metaphysical issues, epistemic problems, and questions of value. This makes it difficult to present a coherent account of the subject matter of aesthetics. In this article, I argue that this difficulty is the result of ambiguities and contradictions that arose in disputes about the relationship between the science of aesthetics, the critique of taste, and the philosophy of art (...)
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    Not Yet a System, Not Yet a Science.J. Colin McQuillan - 2020 - In María Del Del Rosario Acosta López & Colin McQuillan (eds.), Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 111-131.
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    A Merely Logical Distinction.J. Colin McQuillan - 2016 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (2):387-405.
    Throughout his career, Immanuel Kant objects that Leibniz and Wolff make the distinction between sensible and intellectual cognition into a “merely logical” distinction. Although it is not clear that anyone in the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition actually holds this view, Kant’s objection helps to define the “real” distinction between sensible and intellectual cognition that he defends in his inaugural dissertation in 1770. Kant raises the same objection against Leibniz and Wolff in the Critique of Pure Reason, but replaces the “real” distinction he (...)
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    Dreams of a Spirit-Seer and Kant’s Critical Method: Comments on Stephen R. Palmquist’s Kant and Mysticism.J. Colin McQuillan - 2021 - Kantian Review 26 (1):113-117.
    In his new book, Kant and Mysticism, Stephen Palmquist argues that Kant had already formulated his critical method by the mid-1760s and that it emerged from his reflections on Swedenborg’s mystical visions. In order to evaluate these claims, I consider Kant’s correspondence with Charlotte von Knobloch and Moses Mendelssohn before and after the publication of Dreams of a Spirit-Seer; the context in which Kant published Dreams; and the method he employs when he discusses Swedenborg’s visions in that work. I conclude (...)
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    Immanuel Kant: The very idea of a critique of pure reason.J. Colin McQuillan - 2016 - Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
    Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason is a study of the background, development, exposition, and justification of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Instead of examining Kant's arguments for the transcendental ideality of space and time, his deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding, or his account of the dialectic of human reason, J. Colin McQuillan focuses on Kant's conception of critique. By surveying the different ways the concept of critique was used during the eighteenth (...)
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    Kant and the Science of Logic by Huaping Lu-Adler.J. Colin McQuillan - 2019 - Review of Metaphysics 73 (2):375-378.
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    Kant's Critique of Baumgarten's Aesthetics.J. Colin McQuillan - 2015 - Idealistic Studies 45 (1).
    This article considers three objections Immanuel Kant raises against Alexander Baumgarten’s plan for a science of aesthetics at different points in his career. Although Kant’s objections appear to be contradictory, this article argues that the contradiction is the result of an anachronism in the composition of Kant’s Logic. When the contradiction is resolved, it becomes apparent that Kant’s main reason for rejecting Baumgarten’s aesthetics during the pre-critical period—the lack of a priori principles for a critique of taste—loses its force after (...)
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    Response to Jose Luis Fernandez, “Bridging the Gap of Kant’s Historical Antinomy”.J. Colin McQuillan - 2017 - Southwest Philosophy Review 33 (2):103-106.
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    The Rightful Claims of Reason: A Priori Cognition, Metaphysics, and Kant’s Critique.J. Colin McQuillan - 2021 - In Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress. De Gruyter. pp. 583-590.
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    Review of Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique. [REVIEW]J. Colin McQuillan - 2024 - Kantian Review:1-4.
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    Yirmiyahu Yovel, Kant’s Philosophical Revolution: A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018 Pp. x + 128 ISBN 9780681180526. [REVIEW]J. Colin McQuillan - 2019 - Kantian Review 24 (1):166-168.
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    GUYER, PAUL. A History of Modern Aesthetics, Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2014, vii +478, $355.00 cloth [for 3-volume set]. [REVIEW]J. Colin Mcquillan - 2017 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (2):199-201.
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    Patrick R. Frierson, Kant's Empirical Psychology. Reviewed by. [REVIEW]J. Colin McQuillan - 2015 - Philosophy in Review 35 (6):299-301.
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    The Kantian Aesthetic: From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde, by Paul Crowther.: Book Reviews. [REVIEW]J. Colin Mcquillan - 2013 - Mind 122 (488):1075-1078.