Curriculum Vitae
Claremont
McKenna College. 2007-present. Currently Associate Professor.
Yale
University. 2001- 2007.
Assistant Professor.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Post-Kantian European Philosophy and Kant
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Metaphysics, Early Modern and Ancient Philosophy
EDUCATION
University
of Chicago. PhD. 2001.
Princeton
University. B.A. 1986-1990.
RESEARCH
Book Manuscript:
Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and its Philosophical Appeal
Nine chapters. For more information click
here.
Articles
"Kant and Hegel on
Teleology and Life from the Perspective of Debates about Free Will"
Forthcoming 2012 in The Freedom of Life, Freiheit und
Gesetz III, ed. Thomas Khurana.
"Learning From Hegel What Philosophy is All About: For the Metaphysics
of Reason; Against the Priority of Meaning." Forthcoming 2012 in
Verifiche - Rivista di Scienze Umane
“Kant on the Laws of
Nature and the Limitation of our Knowledge.” European Journal of
Philosophy. (2009)
“Hegel: Metaphysics
without Pre-Critical Monism.” Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great
Britain. (2008): 48-70.
“The Logic of Life:
Hegel’s Philosophical Defense of Teleological Explanation in Biology.”
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, second edition, edited by F. Beiser.
(2008): 344-377.
“Between The Bounds
of Experience and Divine Intuition: Kant’s Epistemic Limits and Hegel’s
Ambitions.” Inquiry 50:3 (2007): 306-334.
"Hegel’s Metaphysics:
Changing the Debate.” Philosophy Compass. 1:5 (2006): 466-480.
“The Inexplicability
of Kant's Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation and Biology.”
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 87:3 (2005): 270-311.
“Hegel’s Critique of
Pure Mechanism and the Philosophical Appeal of the Logic Project.”
European Journal of Philosophy 12:1 (2004): 38-74.
Articles in Progress
“Unquenchable Desire and the Unknowability of Things in
Themselves: A Path Through the Minefield.”
“Reason in the World: Kant, Jacobi, and the Justification for
Hegel’s Project” In progress.
Book Reviews
Ludwig Siep.
Der Weg der Phänomenologie des Geistes.
Internationales Jahrbuch des
Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism.
Volume 2, 2004, pp. 366–373, 8 pages.
Dieter Henrich. Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German
Idealism. The Philosophical Review
115:1 2005, 112-115, 4 pages.
PRESENTATIONS
Hegel on the Laws of Nature
and the Metaphysics of Reason in the World.
Università degli Studi di Padova Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in
Filosofia. Lunedì 16 maggio 2011, h. 15. 30 – il Prof. James Kreines.
Analytic
Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought. Author (Redding) meets critics (Brandom and Kreines)
at the 2009 Pacific APA.
“Kant on the Laws of Nature and the Limitations of our
Knowledge.” Presented at the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant
Society, UCLA, 2007.
“Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism.” Hegel
Society of Great Britain conference on the
Phenomenology, commemorating 200
years since first publication. St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 2007.
“Between Human Experience and Divine Intuition: Hegel’s
Response to Kant’s Limitation of Our Knowledge”
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Cornell
University, 2006
·
Central APA
2006.
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Claremont
McKenna
College, 2007
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University
of California, Irvine 2007
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University
of Kansas, 2007
“The Philosophical Appeal of Hegel’s
Metaphysical Idealism” Pacific APA
2005.
“Hegel’s Metaphysics and His Response to Kant” Central APA 2005.
“The Problem of Action in Hegel’s Logic: Hegel’s Argument
Against Deflationary Anti-Dualism in
Philosophy of Mind and Action.”
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University
of
Toronto,
February 2003
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Symposium paper at
Pacific APA 2004. Commentators: Allen Wood and Willem
deVries.
“Accounting for the Inexplicability
of the Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology,
Biology and Explanation.” North American Kant Society Group Meeting. Pacific APA 2003.
“Hegel’s Critique of Pure Mechanism.” German Idealism Society
Group Meeting, Pacific APA 2003.
Comment on “Hegel’s Account of Conscience.” American Catholic
Philosophical Association, November 2002.
“Know Thyself: Hegel’s Theory of Spirit” University of Chicago,
April 2002.
“Hegel's Approach to Mind and Action.”
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Yale
University, February 2001
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University
of California at Riverside, January 2001.
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Rice
University, January 2001
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California
State
University,
Los Angeles,
February 2001.
“Heidegger and Hegel on Historicity and Truth: Does History
Matter to Philosophy, and If So, Why?” (Why Neither Hegel nor Heidegger Accept
Relativist Historicism). Comment paper at invited session, Pacific
APA
1995.
HONORS, AWARDS,
AND
FELLOWSHIPS
2009-10: American
Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship
2004-5: Morse Fellowship
in the Humanities, Yale
University
2000-01:
Ames
Fund, Department of Philosophy Fellowship, University of Chicago
1996: Fundamentals Exam
passed “with distinction,” Committee on Social Thought
1996-98: Bradely
Foundation Fellowship, University
of Chicago
1992-96: Earheart
Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Studies, University of Chicago