J Colin Mcquillan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1152661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Colin Mcquillan |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcquillan |
| SIGNATURE | MCQUILLAN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Mary's University, Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robert Clewis and the Origins of Kant’s Conception of Aesthetics
Robert Clewis focuses on a number of different themes in Kant’s precritical and critical aesthetics in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics. Clewis carefully documents where Kant’s views on these themes are the same, where they are different, and why; yet his approach might give readers the impression that Kant lacks a unified conception of aesthetics. I show, on the contrary, that the method and sources Clewis employs also reveal the frameworks with…
Kant’s warning about self-observation in Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Learnedness, Learned Cognition, and the Science of Logic
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 …
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer and Kant’s Critical Method
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 …
Kant, Heidegger, and the In/Finitude of Human Reason
Research Article| November 01 2017 Kant, Heidegger, and the In/Finitude of Human Reason J. Colin McQuillan J. Colin McQuillan St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas J. Colin McQuillan is associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the coeditor, with Joseph Tanke, of The Bloomsbury Anthology of Esthetics (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) and the author of Early Modern Esthetics (Rowman and Littlefield, 20…
Immanuel Kant
Beyond the Analytic of Finitude
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…
Immanuel Kant
"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 …
Oaths, Promises, and Compulsory Duties
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 …
Beyond the Analytic of Finitude
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…
Oaths, Promises, and Compulsory Duties
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 …
Immanuel Kant
Beyond the Analytic of Finitude
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…
Immanuel Kant
"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 …
Kant, Heidegger, and the In/Finitude of Human Reason
Research Article| November 01 2017 Kant, Heidegger, and the In/Finitude of Human Reason J. Colin McQuillan J. Colin McQuillan St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas J. Colin McQuillan is associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the coeditor, with Joseph Tanke, of The Bloomsbury Anthology of Esthetics (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) and the author of Early Modern Esthetics (Rowman and Littlefield, 20…
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer and Kant’s Critical Method
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 …
Learnedness, Learned Cognition, and the Science of Logic
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 …
Robert Clewis and the Origins of Kant’s Conception of Aesthetics
Robert Clewis focuses on a number of different themes in Kant’s precritical and critical aesthetics in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics. Clewis carefully documents where Kant’s views on these themes are the same, where they are different, and why; yet his approach might give readers the impression that Kant lacks a unified conception of aesthetics. I show, on the contrary, that the method and sources Clewis employs also reveal the frameworks with…
Kant’s warning about self-observation in Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (5 works) · Theology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Enlightenment (2 works) · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (2 works)