Huaping Lu-Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 486816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huaping Lu-Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huaping |
| FAMILY NAME | Lu-Adler |
| SIGNATURE | LU-ADLER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kant, Racism, and the Demands of Antiracism: A Critical Response to Pauline Kleingeld’s “Critical Notice”
This critical response clarifies the critique of the commonly held assumption that racism contradicts Kant’s pure moral philosophy. This piece explains why Kant’s belated criticisms of some practices of slavery should not be interpreted as a rejection of colonial slavery as an institution. It ends with a reflection on the relation between Kant’s philosophy and antiracism
Kantian Geschichte and the Trap of a Single “History of Philosophy”: Or a Reflection on Power and Structural Change
“The history of philosophy” in the academe typically refers only to a history of Western philosophy with a Western-centric periodization. Kant laid the theoretical foundation for this practice by introducing a concept of history that imposed strict a priori constraints on constructing a historiography of philosophy and by articulating a racist-cum-orientalist worldview that disqualified non-whites and non-Westerners from the claim to true philoso…
Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant’s “World-Citizen”
Anthropology and physical geography were among Kant’s most popular and longest running courses. He intended them to give his students the world-knowledge (Weltkenntniß) that they needed in order to be effective world-citizens (Weltbürgern). Much of this indoctrination amounted to teaching Occidental white men, Kant’s default audience, to perceive themselves as uniquely entitled and obliged to work as agents of human progress on the assumption tha…
Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere
Kant on Lazy Savagery, Racialized
Kant develops a concept of savagery, partly characterized by laziness, to envision a program for human progress. He also racializes savagery, treating native Americans, in particular, as literal savages. He ascribes to this "race" a peculiar physiological laziness, a supposedly hereditary trait of blunted life power. Accordingly, while he grants them the same "germs" for perfections as he does the civilized Europeans, he allows them no prospect o…
Kant and Slavery—Or Why He Never Became a Racial Egalitarian
According to an oft-repeated narrative, while Kant maintained racist views through the 1780s, he changed his mind in the 1790s. Pauline Kleingeld introduced this narrative based on passages from Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795). On her reading, Kant categorically condemned chattel slavery (and colonialism) in those texts, which meant that he became more racially egalitarian. But the passages involving slaver…
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy
Kant and the Science of Logic: A Historical and Philosophical Reconstruction
This book is both a history of philosophy of logic told from the Kantian viewpoint and a reconstruction of Kant’s theory of logic from a historical perspective. Kant’s theory represents a turning point in a history of philosophical debates over the following questions: (1) Is logic a science, instrument, standard of assessment, or mixture of these? (2) If logic is a science, what is the subject matter that differentiates it from other sciences, p…
Kant on Proving Aristotle’s Logic as Complete
Kant claims that Aristotle’s logic is complete. He defends this claim from the nature of a strictly scientific logic, and rejects as futile the attempts by some modern philosophers at extending it. I analyse what it means for Kant to regard Aristotle’s (formal) logic as complete, explain the historical and philosophical considerations that commit him to proving the completeness claim and sketch the proof based on materials from his logic corpus. …
Chapter 5. Constructing a Demonstration of Logical Rules, or How to Use Kant’s Logic Corpus
Kant on the Logical Form of Singular Judgements
At A71/B96–7 Kant explains that singular judgements are ‘special’ because they stand to the general ones as Einheit to Unendlichkeit . The reference to Einheit brings to mind the category of unity and hence raises a spectre of circularity in Kant’s explanation. I aim to remove this spectre by interpreting the Einheit-Unendlichkeit contrast in light of the logical distinctions among universal, particular and singular judgments shared by Kant and h…
Kant and the Science of Logic: A Historical and Philosophical Reconstruction
This book is both a history of philosophy of logic told from the Kantian viewpoint and a reconstruction of Kant’s theory of logic from a historical perspective. Kant’s theory represents a turning point in a history of philosophical debates over the following questions: (1) Is logic a science, instrument, standard of assessment, or mixture of these? (2) If logic is a science, what is the subject matter that differentiates it from other sciences, p…
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy
Kant on the Logical Form of Singular Judgements
At A71/B96–7 Kant explains that singular judgements are ‘special’ because they stand to the general ones as Einheit to Unendlichkeit . The reference to Einheit brings to mind the category of unity and hence raises a spectre of circularity in Kant’s explanation. I aim to remove this spectre by interpreting the Einheit-Unendlichkeit contrast in light of the logical distinctions among universal, particular and singular judgments shared by Kant and h…
Chapter 5. Constructing a Demonstration of Logical Rules, or How to Use Kant’s Logic Corpus
Kant on Proving Aristotle’s Logic as Complete
Kant claims that Aristotle’s logic is complete. He defends this claim from the nature of a strictly scientific logic, and rejects as futile the attempts by some modern philosophers at extending it. I analyse what it means for Kant to regard Aristotle’s (formal) logic as complete, explain the historical and philosophical considerations that commit him to proving the completeness claim and sketch the proof based on materials from his logic corpus. …
Kant and the Science of Logic: A Historical and Philosophical Reconstruction
This book is both a history of philosophy of logic told from the Kantian viewpoint and a reconstruction of Kant’s theory of logic from a historical perspective. Kant’s theory represents a turning point in a history of philosophical debates over the following questions: (1) Is logic a science, instrument, standard of assessment, or mixture of these? (2) If logic is a science, what is the subject matter that differentiates it from other sciences, p…
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy
Kant on Lazy Savagery, Racialized
Kant develops a concept of savagery, partly characterized by laziness, to envision a program for human progress. He also racializes savagery, treating native Americans, in particular, as literal savages. He ascribes to this "race" a peculiar physiological laziness, a supposedly hereditary trait of blunted life power. Accordingly, while he grants them the same "germs" for perfections as he does the civilized Europeans, he allows them no prospect o…
Kant and Slavery—Or Why He Never Became a Racial Egalitarian
According to an oft-repeated narrative, while Kant maintained racist views through the 1780s, he changed his mind in the 1790s. Pauline Kleingeld introduced this narrative based on passages from Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795). On her reading, Kant categorically condemned chattel slavery (and colonialism) in those texts, which meant that he became more racially egalitarian. But the passages involving slaver…
Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant’s “World-Citizen”
Anthropology and physical geography were among Kant’s most popular and longest running courses. He intended them to give his students the world-knowledge (Weltkenntniß) that they needed in order to be effective world-citizens (Weltbürgern). Much of this indoctrination amounted to teaching Occidental white men, Kant’s default audience, to perceive themselves as uniquely entitled and obliged to work as agents of human progress on the assumption tha…
Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere
Kantian Geschichte and the Trap of a Single “History of Philosophy”: Or a Reflection on Power and Structural Change
“The history of philosophy” in the academe typically refers only to a history of Western philosophy with a Western-centric periodization. Kant laid the theoretical foundation for this practice by introducing a concept of history that imposed strict a priori constraints on constructing a historiography of philosophy and by articulating a racist-cum-orientalist worldview that disqualified non-whites and non-Westerners from the claim to true philoso…
Kant, Racism, and the Demands of Antiracism: A Critical Response to Pauline Kleingeld’s “Critical Notice”
This critical response clarifies the critique of the commonly held assumption that racism contradicts Kant’s pure moral philosophy. This piece explains why Kant’s belated criticisms of some practices of slavery should not be interpreted as a rejection of colonial slavery as an institution. It ends with a reflection on the relation between Kant’s philosophy and antiracism
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