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Dr Andrew Stephenson CV (short) DR ANDREW STEPHENSON Trinity College Email: [email protected] Oxford OX BH Website: www.acstephenson.com AOS: KANT AOC: Mind, Epistemology, Religion, Post- Kantian Philosophy, Wittgenstein EMPLOYMENT Apr - Apr Leverhulme Research Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin Oct - Mar Career Development Lecturer, Trinity College, Oxford EDUCATION - D.Phil. in Philosophy (cont.), University of Oxford - Leave of Absence due to serious spinal injury – fully recovered - Language Student, Stiftung Maximilianeum and LMU, Munich - D.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford - B.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford - B.A. in Philosophy, Cardiff University RESEARCH Articles • Kant, the Paradox of Knowability, and the Meaning of ‘Experience’, Philosophers’ Imprint (forthcoming) • Imagination and Phenomenal Character, in Kant and the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) • Kant on the Object-Dependence of Intuition and Hallucination, The Philosophical Quarterly () • Kant’s Deduction from Apperception?, Studi Kantiani (), - • Kant on Non-Veridical Experience, Kant Yearbook (), - Book (editor) • Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on Consciousness, Judgement, and the Self, co-edited with Anil Gomes, Oxford University Press (forthcoming) Under Review (available from website or on request) • Kant, A Priori Knowability, and Tacit Knowledge Some Recent/Upcoming Presentations • Kant and the Logic of Knowability, Sept , International Kant Congress, Vienna • Kant’s Manifest Realism?, Sept , Colloquium on Lucy Allais’s new OUP book, Johannesburg • Imagination and Hallucination, April , Pacific APA, Vancouver • A Priori Knowability and Tacit Knowledge, Jan , Kant Workshop, Oxford • Kant and the Paradox of Knowability, , Joint Session, Cambridge • Kant on the Object-Dependence of Intuition and Hallucination, , Luxembourg • Naïve Realism and Hallucination, , UK Kant Society, London CV (short) TEACHING Lecturing • Foundations of German Idealism Oxford Brookes University, hrs, spring • History of Philosophy Pathway: Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Hegel University of York, hrs lectures, hrs associated seminars, spring , • Kant’s Dialectic and the Rationalists University of Oxford, hrs, summer Graduate Seminars, Oxford, hrs each • Kant and the Philosophy of Mind, spring • Newton, Leibniz, Kant, winter , summer • Neglected Passages from the First Critique, winter , summer • Kant’s Prolegomena, summer Tutorial and Class teaching • Early Modern Philosophy, Post-Kantian Philosophy, Logic, General Philosophy (Epistemology & Metaphysics), Kant, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion Various Oxford Colleges, -present Undergraduate Supervision • Modal Logic in the Ontological Argument, maths and philosophy finalist, - PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Refereeing Mind, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Kant Studies Online, Cambridge University Press, Topoi, Philosophia, Kantian Review Societies British Society of the History of Philosophy, UK Kant Society, North American Kant Society, Aristotelian Society, Founding member of the British Undergraduate Philosophy Society Conferences UK Kant Society, Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conferences Book Reviews M. Friedman, ‘Kant’s Construction of Nature’, Philosophical Quarterly B. Leftow, ‘God and Necessity’, Religious Studies Review A. Melnick, ‘Kant’s Theory of the Self’, European Journal of Philosophy H. Allison, ‘Custom and Reason in Hume: a Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise’, Kantian Review LANGUAGES English (native), German (fluent, C2) SELECTED PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS - Laming Junior Fellowship, The Queen’s College - Stiftung Maximilianeum, Bavarian state parliament building - Scatcherd European Scholarship, University award for study in Europe - Philosophical Fellowship Fund, Faculty award for study in Europe - Language Study Grant, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. - Domus Scholarship, full maintenance and fees for years, Merton College award .
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