Alix Cohen
Lecturer

Profile

Career

2011 - Lecturer University of York
2008 - 2011 Lecturer University of Leeds
2005 - 2008 Junior Research Fellow Newnham College, Cambridge
2004 - 2005 Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge

PhD University of Cambridge

MPhIL University of Cambridge

DEA Université de la Sorbonne, Paris

MSc University of Edinburgh

MA Université de la Sorbonne,Paris

Publications

Selected publications

Book

Edited volumes

  • Kant on Emotions and Value (Palgrave, under preparation)
  • Critical Guide to Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (CUP, under contract)
  • Editor, ‘Kantian Philosophy and the Human Sciences’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 39(4), 2008.

Selected papers

  • "Philosophy and History", Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, forthcoming
  • "Kant's 'curious catalogue of human frailties': The Great Portrait of Nature", volume edited by S. Shell and R. Velkley on Kant's Observations, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press
  • "Kant's Concept of Freedom and the Human Sciences", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 39 (1), 2009, pp.113-136
  • "Physiological vs. Pragmatic Anthropology: A Response to Schleiermacher's Objection to Kant's Anthropology", Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants Akten des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, vol. 5, 2008, pp. 3-14 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter)
  • "Kant on Anthropology, Alienology and Physiognomy: The Opacity of Human Motivation and its Anthropological Implications", Kantian Review, 13:2, 2008, pp. 84-104
  • "Kant's Answer to the Question 'What is Man?' and its Implications for Anthropology", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 39:4, 2008
  • "The Ultimate Kantian Experience: Kant on Dinner Parties", History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 25:4, 2008, pp. 315-336
  • "Kant's Biological Conception of History", Journal for the Philosophy of History, vol. 2, 2008, pp. 1-28
  • "A Kantian Stance on Teleology in Biology", South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26(2), 2007, pp. 109-121
  • "The Making of a Classic: The Reception of David Hume in Europe", New Essays on David Hume, ed. by E. Mazza and E. Ronchetti (Milan: Franco Angeli), 2007, pp. 457-468
  • "Kant on Epigenesis, Monogenesis and Human Nature: The Biological Premises of Anthropology", Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 37(4), 2006, pp. 675-693
  • "In Defence of Hume's Historical Method", British Journal of History of Philosophy, vol. 13, 2005, pp. 489-502
  • "Kant's Antinomy of Reflective Judgment: A Re-evaluation", Teorema, vol. 23(1-3), 2004, pp. 183-197, winner of the 2004 Teorema Essay Prize
  • "The notion of moral progress in Hume's moral philosophy", Hume Studies, vol. 25(1), 2000, pp. 109-128
  • "La rêverie comme tentative de s'évader du monde des ob-jets", Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, vol. 12, 2000, pp. 59-70
  • "Le mal, funeste hasard ou tragique nécessité?", Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, vol. 11, 1999, pp. 257-268
 

Alix Cohen

Contact details

Alix Cohen
Lecturer
Department of Philosophy
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: 01904 32tbc

Research

Overview

Research interests

Kant, History of Modern Philosophy (in particular Rousseau and Hume), Emotion, Philosophy of social science

Current projects

Until December 2013, I will be based at the University of Neuchâtel as a Research Fellow of the Swiss National Foundation, working on a joint project entitled ‘Imagination, Emotion and Value’.

External activities

Editorial duties

Societies and center responsibilities