Melissa Zinkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Zinkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Zinkin |
| SIGNATURE | ZINKIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beautiful or Agreeable? Humour and Wit in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics
In this paper, I explore what Robert Clewis, in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics , suggests is an ‘analogy’ between humour and beauty. I do this by focusing on Kant’s concept of wit ( Witz ), which is central to both reflective judgement and humour. By exploring the concept of Witz as a distinctive kind of cognitive activity, I believe a case can be made that the origin of Kant’s mature aesthetic theory in the Critique of the Power of Judgement a…
Kant on wonder as the motive to learn
Kant writes, ‘to have trained one's children is not enough ... what really matters is that they learn to think’. By ‘thinking’, Kant means thinking for oneself. But how can one learn to think for oneself? I focus on how we can be motivated to think for ourselves and argue that for Kant it is through the feeling of wonder. I make my case by drawing an analogy between Kant's discussion of wonder and his discussion of respect. For Kant, we can learn…
Kantian Constructivism, Respect, and Moral Depth
This paper defends a version of Kantian constructivism that focuses on the role of the feeling of respect for the moral law. For Kant, the moral worth of an action is constructed by the subject in a way analogous to the way the subject constructs objects of experience in the first Critique. Just as the formulations of the categorical imperative can be seen to be analogous to the categories of the understanding, so also can the feeling of respect …
Making the Ideal Real
This article discusses the concept of publicity in Kant’s moral philosophy. Insofar as the concepts of ‘public’ and ‘private’ can describe our relations with others, they can be considered to be moral concepts. I argue that we can find in Kant a moral duty not to keep our maxims of action private, or secret. Whereas Korsgaard argues that sometimes in the face of evil it is permissible to sidestep the moral law, I argue that it is rather through p…
Kant on wonder as the motive to learn
Kant writes, ‘to have trained one's children is not enough ... what really matters is that they learn to think’. By ‘thinking’, Kant means thinking for oneself. But how can one learn to think for oneself? I focus on how we can be motivated to think for ourselves and argue that for Kant it is through the feeling of wonder. I make my case by drawing an analogy between Kant's discussion of wonder and his discussion of respect. For Kant, we can learn…
Making the Ideal Real
This article discusses the concept of publicity in Kant’s moral philosophy. Insofar as the concepts of ‘public’ and ‘private’ can describe our relations with others, they can be considered to be moral concepts. I argue that we can find in Kant a moral duty not to keep our maxims of action private, or secret. Whereas Korsgaard argues that sometimes in the face of evil it is permissible to sidestep the moral law, I argue that it is rather through p…
Kantian Constructivism, Respect, and Moral Depth
This paper defends a version of Kantian constructivism that focuses on the role of the feeling of respect for the moral law. For Kant, the moral worth of an action is constructed by the subject in a way analogous to the way the subject constructs objects of experience in the first Critique. Just as the formulations of the categorical imperative can be seen to be analogous to the categories of the understanding, so also can the feeling of respect …
Kant on wonder as the motive to learn
Kant writes, ‘to have trained one's children is not enough ... what really matters is that they learn to think’. By ‘thinking’, Kant means thinking for oneself. But how can one learn to think for oneself? I focus on how we can be motivated to think for ourselves and argue that for Kant it is through the feeling of wonder. I make my case by drawing an analogy between Kant's discussion of wonder and his discussion of respect. For Kant, we can learn…
Beautiful or Agreeable? Humour and Wit in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics
In this paper, I explore what Robert Clewis, in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics , suggests is an ‘analogy’ between humour and beauty. I do this by focusing on Kant’s concept of wit ( Witz ), which is central to both reflective judgement and humour. By exploring the concept of Witz as a distinctive kind of cognitive activity, I believe a case can be made that the origin of Kant’s mature aesthetic theory in the Critique of the Power of Judgement a…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Analogy (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Morality (2 works) · Political science (2 works)