Andrew Stephenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 487640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Stephenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephenson |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4590-1307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On the Practical Necessity of the Categories
Kant tells us that we cannot know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of sensibility. Can we know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of understanding? Recent discussion of this issue has focused on whether Kant thinks this can be decided from the theoretical point of view. But sometimes when knowledge gives out, we must have faith. Our concern in this essay is whether Kant thinks we can settle th…
Mind and knowledge of mind in classical Islamic philosophy
Classical Islamic philosophy has in recent years started to receive the sort of attention that this rich period and tradition in the history of philosophy deserves. The number of English translatio
Existence and Modality in Kant
This essay considers Kant’s theory of modality in light of a debate in contemporary modal metaphysics and modal logic concerning the Barcan formulas. The comparison provides a new and fruitful perspective on Kant’s complex and sometimes confusing claims about possibility and necessity. Two central Kantian principles provide the starting point for the comparison: that the possible must be grounded in the actual and that existence is not a real pre…
On the Necessity of the Categories
For Kant, the human cognitive faculty has two subfaculties: sensibility and the understanding. Each has pure forms that are necessary to us as humans: space and time for sensibility; the categories for the understanding. But Kant is careful to leave open the possibility of there being creatures like us, with both sensibility and understanding, who nevertheless have different pure forms of sensibility. They would be finite rational beings and disc…
Substance Use, Family Functionality, and Mental Health among College Students in Spain
Mental health symptoms are overrepresented among college students worldwide. The current research investigates the associations among substance use, family functionality, and mental health (depression, anxiety, and stress) among college students in Spain. A total of 828 (59.2% female and 40.8% male) college students from two public universities completed a self-reported online survey that included items on demographic information, substance use (…
How to solve the knowability paradox with transcendental epistemology
A novel solution to the knowability paradox is proposed based on Kant’s transcendental epistemology. The ‘paradox’ refers to a simple argument from the moderate claim that all truths are knowable to the extreme claim that all truths are known. It is significant because anti-realists have wanted to maintain knowability but reject omniscience. The core of the proposed solution is to concede realism about epistemic statements while maintaining anti-…
Round Table
These three thought-provoking pieces were originally conceived of as a tri-partite round table discussion at the end of our conference ‘Exploring Queer Cultures and Lifestyles in the Creative Arts
Introduction
This introduction 'Queer Historiographies' is for a special issue of Visual Culture in Britain, 2017, 18(1): pp.1-17, co-written and co-edited by Andrew Stephenson and Reina Lewis
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind
The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant’s writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any understanding of Kant’s Critical philosophy and they bear upon contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind. Fourteen specially written essays address such questions as: What role does mental processing play in Kant’s account of intuition? In what sense, and in what ways, are intuitions object-de…
Kant on Judging and the Will
Kant’s Critical philosophy depends on the distinction between theoretical and practical reason, which he borrowed from Aristotle. But unlike Aristotle Kant claims that theoretical reason is subordinate to practical reason. This raises the possibility that theoretical judging could be a voluntary activity. This chapter investigates Kant’s view of the relation between theoretical judgments and the will. Based on Andrew Chignell’s recent work, it is…
‘Our jolly marin wear’
Examining autobiographies, letters, newspaper reports and photographs, this article argues that French sailor wear with its military exoticism and gender-blurring possibilities was adopted by fashionable metropolitan British and French groups in the interwar years as a recognizable signifier of an emerging gay and bisexual identity. The appropriation of the French military uniform by gay and bisexual men and by lesbians was tied, on the one hand,…
Relationalism about Perception vs. Relationalism about Perceptuals
There is a tension at the heart of Lucy Allais’s new account of Kant’s transcendental idealism. The problem arises from her use of two incompatible theories in contemporary philosophy – relationalism about perception, or naïve realism, and relationalism about colour, or more generally relationalism about any such perceptual property. The problem is that the former requires a more robust form of realism about the properties of the objects of perce…
Manifest reality
This eagerly awaited book is an important addition to the literature on Kant’s transcendental idealism and is sure to generate a lot of discussion. Drawing together her influential previous work alongside substantial new material, Allais presents a comprehensive and novel account of Kant’s signature doctrine, its structure, nature, and purpose, as well as Kant’s master argument for the view. Allais’s interpretation is textually well supported and…
Kant on the Object-Dependence of Intuition and Hallucination
Against a view currently popular in the literature, it is argued that Kant was not a naïve realist about perceptual experience. Naive realism entails that perceptual experience is object-dependent in a very strong sense. In the first half of the paper, I explain what this claim amounts to and I undermine the evidence that has been marshalled in support of attributing it to Kant. In the second half of the paper, I explore in some detail Kant's acc…
Introduction
Like many artists, writers and cultural commentators at the time of the death of King Edward VII in 1910, recent revisionist accounts have established contradictory positions on the art and visual
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade ’54–’64 Revisited
Byzantine Narrative
Waiting for Performance
y way of opening his review of Roselee Goldberg's Performance: Live Art Since 1960 [see PAJ 63], critic Jon Erickson recalled that he and a group of friends got together to try and define performance art-a task that they ultimately concluded was impossible. Our instincts told us that performance art did seem like something new and different, and its difference largely consisted of disrupting the very categories we were trying to distinguish over …
From Khaki to ‘Day‐Glo’
Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Garlake, New Art New World. British Art in Postwar Society
Buttressing bohemian mystiques and bandaging masculine anxieties
Sickert, Paintings edited by Wendy Baron and Richard Shone with contributions by Patrick O'Connor, Anna Gruetzner Robins , et al., exh. cat., London: Royal Academy of Arts, and Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992, 320 pp., 135 col. plates, 150 b. & w. illus., £40.00
Part Iiinorwich
Kant on the Object-Dependence of Intuition and Hallucination
Against a view currently popular in the literature, it is argued that Kant was not a naïve realist about perceptual experience. Naive realism entails that perceptual experience is object-dependent in a very strong sense. In the first half of the paper, I explain what this claim amounts to and I undermine the evidence that has been marshalled in support of attributing it to Kant. In the second half of the paper, I explore in some detail Kant's acc…
Manifest reality
This eagerly awaited book is an important addition to the literature on Kant’s transcendental idealism and is sure to generate a lot of discussion. Drawing together her influential previous work alongside substantial new material, Allais presents a comprehensive and novel account of Kant’s signature doctrine, its structure, nature, and purpose, as well as Kant’s master argument for the view. Allais’s interpretation is textually well supported and…
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind
The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant’s writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any understanding of Kant’s Critical philosophy and they bear upon contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind. Fourteen specially written essays address such questions as: What role does mental processing play in Kant’s account of intuition? In what sense, and in what ways, are intuitions object-de…
Kant on Judging and the Will
Kant’s Critical philosophy depends on the distinction between theoretical and practical reason, which he borrowed from Aristotle. But unlike Aristotle Kant claims that theoretical reason is subordinate to practical reason. This raises the possibility that theoretical judging could be a voluntary activity. This chapter investigates Kant’s view of the relation between theoretical judgments and the will. Based on Andrew Chignell’s recent work, it is…
On the Necessity of the Categories
For Kant, the human cognitive faculty has two subfaculties: sensibility and the understanding. Each has pure forms that are necessary to us as humans: space and time for sensibility; the categories for the understanding. But Kant is careful to leave open the possibility of there being creatures like us, with both sensibility and understanding, who nevertheless have different pure forms of sensibility. They would be finite rational beings and disc…
How to solve the knowability paradox with transcendental epistemology
A novel solution to the knowability paradox is proposed based on Kant’s transcendental epistemology. The ‘paradox’ refers to a simple argument from the moderate claim that all truths are knowable to the extreme claim that all truths are known. It is significant because anti-realists have wanted to maintain knowability but reject omniscience. The core of the proposed solution is to concede realism about epistemic statements while maintaining anti-…
Waiting for Performance
y way of opening his review of Roselee Goldberg's Performance: Live Art Since 1960 [see PAJ 63], critic Jon Erickson recalled that he and a group of friends got together to try and define performance art-a task that they ultimately concluded was impossible. Our instincts told us that performance art did seem like something new and different, and its difference largely consisted of disrupting the very categories we were trying to distinguish over …
Part Iiinorwich
Buttressing bohemian mystiques and bandaging masculine anxieties
Sickert, Paintings edited by Wendy Baron and Richard Shone with contributions by Patrick O'Connor, Anna Gruetzner Robins , et al., exh. cat., London: Royal Academy of Arts, and Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992, 320 pp., 135 col. plates, 150 b. & w. illus., £40.00
From Khaki to ‘Day‐Glo’
Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Garlake, New Art New World. British Art in Postwar Society
Waiting for Performance
y way of opening his review of Roselee Goldberg's Performance: Live Art Since 1960 [see PAJ 63], critic Jon Erickson recalled that he and a group of friends got together to try and define performance art-a task that they ultimately concluded was impossible. Our instincts told us that performance art did seem like something new and different, and its difference largely consisted of disrupting the very categories we were trying to distinguish over …
Byzantine Narrative
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade ’54–’64 Revisited
Introduction
Like many artists, writers and cultural commentators at the time of the death of King Edward VII in 1910, recent revisionist accounts have established contradictory positions on the art and visual
Kant on the Object-Dependence of Intuition and Hallucination
Against a view currently popular in the literature, it is argued that Kant was not a naïve realist about perceptual experience. Naive realism entails that perceptual experience is object-dependent in a very strong sense. In the first half of the paper, I explain what this claim amounts to and I undermine the evidence that has been marshalled in support of attributing it to Kant. In the second half of the paper, I explore in some detail Kant's acc…
‘Our jolly marin wear’
Examining autobiographies, letters, newspaper reports and photographs, this article argues that French sailor wear with its military exoticism and gender-blurring possibilities was adopted by fashionable metropolitan British and French groups in the interwar years as a recognizable signifier of an emerging gay and bisexual identity. The appropriation of the French military uniform by gay and bisexual men and by lesbians was tied, on the one hand,…
Relationalism about Perception vs. Relationalism about Perceptuals
There is a tension at the heart of Lucy Allais’s new account of Kant’s transcendental idealism. The problem arises from her use of two incompatible theories in contemporary philosophy – relationalism about perception, or naïve realism, and relationalism about colour, or more generally relationalism about any such perceptual property. The problem is that the former requires a more robust form of realism about the properties of the objects of perce…
Manifest reality
This eagerly awaited book is an important addition to the literature on Kant’s transcendental idealism and is sure to generate a lot of discussion. Drawing together her influential previous work alongside substantial new material, Allais presents a comprehensive and novel account of Kant’s signature doctrine, its structure, nature, and purpose, as well as Kant’s master argument for the view. Allais’s interpretation is textually well supported and…
Round Table
These three thought-provoking pieces were originally conceived of as a tri-partite round table discussion at the end of our conference ‘Exploring Queer Cultures and Lifestyles in the Creative Arts
Introduction
This introduction 'Queer Historiographies' is for a special issue of Visual Culture in Britain, 2017, 18(1): pp.1-17, co-written and co-edited by Andrew Stephenson and Reina Lewis
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind
The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant’s writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any understanding of Kant’s Critical philosophy and they bear upon contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind. Fourteen specially written essays address such questions as: What role does mental processing play in Kant’s account of intuition? In what sense, and in what ways, are intuitions object-de…
Kant on Judging and the Will
Kant’s Critical philosophy depends on the distinction between theoretical and practical reason, which he borrowed from Aristotle. But unlike Aristotle Kant claims that theoretical reason is subordinate to practical reason. This raises the possibility that theoretical judging could be a voluntary activity. This chapter investigates Kant’s view of the relation between theoretical judgments and the will. Based on Andrew Chignell’s recent work, it is…
Substance Use, Family Functionality, and Mental Health among College Students in Spain
Mental health symptoms are overrepresented among college students worldwide. The current research investigates the associations among substance use, family functionality, and mental health (depression, anxiety, and stress) among college students in Spain. A total of 828 (59.2% female and 40.8% male) college students from two public universities completed a self-reported online survey that included items on demographic information, substance use (…
How to solve the knowability paradox with transcendental epistemology
A novel solution to the knowability paradox is proposed based on Kant’s transcendental epistemology. The ‘paradox’ refers to a simple argument from the moderate claim that all truths are knowable to the extreme claim that all truths are known. It is significant because anti-realists have wanted to maintain knowability but reject omniscience. The core of the proposed solution is to concede realism about epistemic statements while maintaining anti-…
On the Necessity of the Categories
For Kant, the human cognitive faculty has two subfaculties: sensibility and the understanding. Each has pure forms that are necessary to us as humans: space and time for sensibility; the categories for the understanding. But Kant is careful to leave open the possibility of there being creatures like us, with both sensibility and understanding, who nevertheless have different pure forms of sensibility. They would be finite rational beings and disc…
Existence and Modality in Kant
This essay considers Kant’s theory of modality in light of a debate in contemporary modal metaphysics and modal logic concerning the Barcan formulas. The comparison provides a new and fruitful perspective on Kant’s complex and sometimes confusing claims about possibility and necessity. Two central Kantian principles provide the starting point for the comparison: that the possible must be grounded in the actual and that existence is not a real pre…
Mind and knowledge of mind in classical Islamic philosophy
Classical Islamic philosophy has in recent years started to receive the sort of attention that this rich period and tradition in the history of philosophy deserves. The number of English translatio
On the Practical Necessity of the Categories
Kant tells us that we cannot know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of sensibility. Can we know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of understanding? Recent discussion of this issue has focused on whether Kant thinks this can be decided from the theoretical point of view. But sometimes when knowledge gives out, we must have faith. Our concern in this essay is whether Kant thinks we can settle th…
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