Konstantin Pollok

Konstantin Pollok (* 1969) is a German philosopher . He has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina since 2017 . His research areas include the philosophy of Immanuel Kant , in particular Kant's natural theory from the metaphysical foundations of natural science , normative aspects of Kant's theoretical philosophy and the history of science , as well as the philosophy of the Enlightenment and the early modern period in general.

Career

After completing his MA in philosophy at the University of Bamberg in 1995, Pollok went to the Philipps University of Marburg as a research assistant to the Kant archive under Reinhard Brandt , where he received his doctorate in 2001. In 2001 his dissertation was published by Kant's “Metaphysical Beginnings of Natural Science”. A critical comment by Felix Meiner, in 2002 he received the PhD award from Phillips University for this. He produced critical editions of the Metaphysical Beginnings and the Prolegomena . In 2004 he received the International Kant Award of the ZEIT Foundation, 2006–2007 he was a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, and in 2007 he completed his habilitation, again in Marburg.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

•  Kant's Theory of Normativity: Exploring the Space of Reason , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017.
•  Justification and justification: An investigation into the relationship between rational requirements and prevalent reasons for action , Berlin / New York: De Gruyter 2009.
• Kant's  Metaphysical Beginnings of Science : A Critical Commentary,  Hamburg: Meiner 2001.

Essays

• “'The understanding prescribes laws to nature': Spontaneity, legislation, and Kant's transcendental hylomorphism”, in Kant-Studien  105/4, 2014, 509-30.
• "From the Clarity of Ideas to the Validity of Judgments: Kant's Farewell to Epistemic Perfectionism", in Canadian Journal of Philosophy  44/1, 2014, 48–65.
• “Cassirer's Kant: From the 'Animal Morale' to the 'Animal Symbolicum'” (with Anne Pollok),  International Yearbook of German Idealism , ed. J. Stolzenberg, F. Rush, vol. 8, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012, 282-315.
• "The 'Transcendental Method': On the Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in Neo-Kantianism," in  Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason , ed. Paul Guyer, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010, 346-379.
• “An Almost Single Inference - Kant's Deduction of the Categories Reconsidered”, in  Archive for the History of Philosophy  90/3, 2008, 323-45.
• “'If reason had full power over the ability to desire' - About the common root of the Kantian imperatives”, in  Kant-Studien  98/1, 2007, 57-80.
• "Kant's Critical Concepts of Motion", in  Journal of the History of Philosophy  44/4, 2006, 559-75.
• “The normativity of the expressive - reflections on the concept of truthfulness”, in  Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 59/3, 2005, 416-32.
• “'Fabricating a World in Accordance with Mere Fantasy ...?' The Origins of Kant's Critical Theory of Matter ", in  The Review of Metaphysics  56/1, 2002, 61-97.

Web links

• Employee site at the University of South Carolina