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Alison Laywine

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Alison Laywine
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-398-1671
Email address: 
a.laywine [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
LEA 918
Curriculum vitae: 
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Degree(s): 

Baccalaur茅at en sciences sociales,聽magna cum laude,聽Universit茅 d'Ottawa, 1984
Ma卯trise 猫s Arts, Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 1986
PhD with honours, University of Chicago, 1991

Research areas: 
Kant
Early Modern Philosophy
Areas of interest: 

History of Political Philosophy
History and Philosophy of Science
Jewish Philosophy
Ancient Greek Philosophy

Current research: 

I am currently working on a book-length project on Kant's philosophical development from 1770 to 1787. The aim of the book is to reconstruct the philosophical motivations behind the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason. Portions of this book have appeared or will appear as articles in聽Kantian Review聽and the聽Canadian Journal of Philosophy.聽In addition, I have become interested in philosophical treatments of music theory as a branch of mixed mathematics in antiquity and the early modern period.

Teaching areas: 

History of Early Modern Philosophy
Kant's Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
18th Century Natural Philosophy
Kant's Moral Philosophy and Teleology
Philosophy of Religion

Selected publications: 
  • Kant's Early Metaphysics and the Origins of the Critical Philosophy,聽published as volume three in the North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy, (Ataacadero: Ridgeview, 1995)
  • "Intellectual Appearances" in the聽British Journal for the History of Philosophy,聽vol.3, September, 1995
  • Review of聽Causation and Early Modern Philosophy,聽ed. Steven Nadler, in聽Philosophical Books,聽October 1996
  • "Emanuel Swedenborg" in聽Encyclopedia of Philosophy,聽(Routledge: London, 1998)
  • "Martin Knutzen" in聽Encyclopedia of Philosophy,聽(Routledge: London, 1998)
  • "Problems and Postulates: Kant on Reason and Understanding" in the聽Journal of the History of Philosophy,volume 36, number 2, April 1998
  • "Malebranche, Jansen and the Sixth Meditation" in the聽Archiv f眉r Geschichte der Philosophie,聽Band 81, 1999
  • "Kant in Reply to Lambert on the Disputed Ancestry of General Metaphysical Concepts" in聽Kantian Review,聽vol.5, December 2001
  • Review of Jeffrey Edwards,聽Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kants Philosophy of Nature听颈苍听Philosophical Review,聽July 2002
  • Review of Micha Brumlik,聽Deutscher Geist und Judenha脽,聽forthcoming in聽Jahrbuch f眉r deutschen Idealismus
  • "Kants Unanswered Questions about Aging" forthcoming in聽Pensare la natura,聽ed. Cinzia Ferrini, (Napoli: Bibliopolis, January 2004)
  • "Kant on the Self as Model for Experience" forthcoming in聽Kantian Review
  • "Kant on Sensibility and the Understanding in the 1770s" forthcoming in the聽Canadian Journal for Philosophy
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