Kristi Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 5118634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristi Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University College Station, TX USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5887-3830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imagination and Belonging in the Thought of John Sallis
This essay highlights the relevance of the centrality of imagination in the work of John Sallis. It argues that the imaginative phenomenological engagement with things we find in Sallis’ work offers an account of being in the world that is both one of belonging and of excessiveness. The essay draws attention to the innovative character of Sallis’ account of belonging by way of contrast with Immanuel Kant, for whom self-originating desire preclude…
Interpretation and Truth in Kant’s Theory of Beauty
This essay argues that the interpretations we develop through the activity of reflection have a share of the truth. I argue this, first, by outlining the relationship of concepts to intuitions in Kant’s theory of cognition, which presents the measure for truth in his philosophy. I turn, second, to explicate in detail the relation of the faculties in Kant’s descriptions of the free play between the imagination and the understanding in judgments of…
Kant on Free Speech
In this article, I offer a novel and in-depth account of how, for Kant, free speech is the mechanism that moves a society closer to justice. I argue that the criticism of the legislator preserved by free speech must also be the result of collective agreement. I further argue that structural features of judgements of taste and the sensus communis give guidance for how we should communicate publicly to succeed at the aims Kant has laid out, as judg…
Reflection
When Kant announces in a letter to Reinhold that he has discovered a new domain of a priori principles, he situates these principles in a ‘faculty of feeling pleasure and displeasure’ (Zammito 1992: 47). And it is indeed in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, named in this letter the Critique of Taste, that we find his elucidation of the relation of the principle of purposiveness to the feeling of pleasure. The kinds of judgements in which our f…
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Reflection
When Kant announces in a letter to Reinhold that he has discovered a new domain of a priori principles, he situates these principles in a ‘faculty of feeling pleasure and displeasure’ (Zammito 1992: 47). And it is indeed in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, named in this letter the Critique of Taste, that we find his elucidation of the relation of the principle of purposiveness to the feeling of pleasure. The kinds of judgements in which our f…
Interpretation and Truth in Kant’s Theory of Beauty
This essay argues that the interpretations we develop through the activity of reflection have a share of the truth. I argue this, first, by outlining the relationship of concepts to intuitions in Kant’s theory of cognition, which presents the measure for truth in his philosophy. I turn, second, to explicate in detail the relation of the faculties in Kant’s descriptions of the free play between the imagination and the understanding in judgments of…
Kant on Free Speech
In this article, I offer a novel and in-depth account of how, for Kant, free speech is the mechanism that moves a society closer to justice. I argue that the criticism of the legislator preserved by free speech must also be the result of collective agreement. I further argue that structural features of judgements of taste and the sensus communis give guidance for how we should communicate publicly to succeed at the aims Kant has laid out, as judg…
Imagination and Belonging in the Thought of John Sallis
This essay highlights the relevance of the centrality of imagination in the work of John Sallis. It argues that the imaginative phenomenological engagement with things we find in Sallis’ work offers an account of being in the world that is both one of belonging and of excessiveness. The essay draws attention to the innovative character of Sallis’ account of belonging by way of contrast with Immanuel Kant, for whom self-originating desire preclude…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Judgement (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Taste (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Beauty (1 works) · Centrality (1 works) · Character (mathematics) (1 works)