James Kreines
James Kreines | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Thesis | Hegel on Mind, Action and Social Life: The Theory of Geist as a Theory of Explanation (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert B. Pippin, Michael Forster, Candace Vogler |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | German Idealism |
| Institutions | Claremont McKenna College |
| Website | https://www.kreines.net/ |
James Kreines is Edward S. Gould professor of philosophy, at Claremont McKenna College. His research mostly concerns Classical German Philosophy.[1][2]
Life and works
Kreines started studying philosophy in Princeton University in 1986 and received his bachelor in 1990. He received his PhD from University of Chicago in 2001 with the dissertation title "Hegel on Mind, Action and Social Life: The Theory of Geist as a Theory of Explanation", under supervision of Robert B. Pippin.[3][4][5]
His 2016 book Reason in the World has received numerous reviews from Franz Knappik,[6] Robert Stern[7] (followed by a response from Kreines),[8] Paul Redding,[9] Armando Manchisi,[10] Christopher Yeomans,[11] Sebastian Rand,[12] François TOUCHARD,[13] Anton Kabeshkin,[14] Carlos Ortiz de Landázuri,[15] Karen Ng[16][17] and Paul Giladi.[18] The work also featured on a book symposium held by Humboldt University[19] later published by Hegel-Studien, containing reviews from Brady Bowman, Terry Pinkard and Clinton Tolley, accompanied by an introduction and response from Kreines.[20]
Selected publications
Books
- Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and its Philosophical Appeal. 2015. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190204303.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-020430-3.
Some Articles
- "Hegel's Metaphysics: Changing the Debate". Philosophy Compass. 1 (5): 466–480. 2006. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00033.x.
- "Hegel's Critique of Pure Mechanism and the Philosophical Appeal of the Logic Project". European Journal of Philosophy. 12 (1): 38–74. 2004. doi:10.1111/j.0966-8373.2004.00198.x.
- "Kant on the Laws of Nature: Laws, Necessitation, and the Limitation of Our Knowledge". European Journal of Philosophy. 17 (4): 527–558. 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00322.x.
- "The Logic of Life: Hegel's Philosophical Defense of Teleological Explanation of Living Beings". The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth‑Century Philosophy. 1 (1): 110–130. 2008.
- "The Inexplicability of Kant's Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation and Biology". Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 87 (3): 270–311. 2005. doi:10.1515/agph.2005.87.3.270.
References
- ^ "James Kreines | Claremont McKenna College". www.cmc.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ^ "James Kreines". James Kreines. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ^ Kreines, James (2001). Hegel on Mind, Action and Social Life: The Theory of Geist as a Theory of Explanation (PhD Thesis thesis). The University of Chicago.
- ^ ":: Library Catalog". catalog.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ^ James, Kreines. Hegel on mind, action and social life: The theory of Geist as a theory of explanation. U-M Library Search (Thesis). Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ^ Knappik, Franz (May 2018). "And Yet He is a Monist: Comments on James Kreines, Reason in the World". Hegel Bulletin. 39 (1): 121–137. doi:10.1017/hgl.2016.30. ISSN 2051-5367.
- ^ Stern, Robert (May 2018). "Kreines on the Problem of Metaphysics in Kant and Hegel". Hegel Bulletin. 39 (1): 106–120. doi:10.1017/hgl.2016.29. ISSN 2051-5367.
- ^ Kreines, James (May 2018). "Fundamentality without Metaphysical Monism: Response to Critics of Reason in the World". Hegel Bulletin. 39 (1): 138–156. doi:10.1017/hgl.2016.31. ISSN 2051-5367.
- ^ Redding, Paul (2016). "If Reason is 'in the World', Where Exactly is it Located?". European Journal of Philosophy. 24 (3): 712–724. doi:10.1111/ejop.12151. ISSN 1468-0378.
- ^ Manchisi, Armando (2016). "James Kreines, Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal". Universa. Recensioni di Filosofia. 5 (1): 84–89. ISSN 2240-4902.
- ^ Yeomans, Christopher. "Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- ^ Rand, Sebastian (2016). "Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal by James Kreines (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 54 (3): 508–509. doi:10.1353/hph.2016.0051. ISSN 1538-4586.
- ^ "Bulletin de littérature hégélienne XXVI (2016)". Archives de philosophie (in French). 79 (4): 777–816. 2016-11-04. doi:10.3917/aphi.794.0777. ISSN 0003-9632.
- ^ Kabeshkin, Anton (2016-06-22). "James Kreines, "Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal."". Philosophy in Review. 36 (3): 124–126. ISSN 1920-8936.
- ^ "Número 53 - 2016 | THÉMATA. Revista de Filosofía". Editorial Universidad de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ^ Ng, Karen (2018-07-01). "Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal". The Philosophical Review. 127 (3): 403–408. doi:10.1215/00318108-6718822. ISSN 0031-8108.
- ^ Ng, Karen (2018). "Review of Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal". The Philosophical Review. 127 (3): 403–408. doi:10.1215/00318108-6718822. ISSN 0031-8108. JSTOR 27131000.
- ^ Giladi, Paul (August 2019). "James Kreines. Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-19-020430-3. Pp. 290. £47.99". Hegel Bulletin. 40 (2): 326–330. doi:10.1017/hgl.2017.5. ISSN 2051-5367.
- ^ "1. Buchsymposium am Lehrstuhl für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie". Institut für Philosophie (in German). Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ^ Bowman, Brady; Kreines, James; Pinkard, Terry; Tolley, Clinton (2016). "The Metaphysics of Reason and Hegel's Logic". Hegel-Studien. 50: 129–174. ISSN 0073-1587. JSTOR 26595952.