Steve Naragon

Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of Religion and Philosophy
Manchester University

Phone: 260.982.5041
ssnaragon@manchester.edu

RESEARCH

Book

(2) Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics, co-translated and co-edited with Karl Ameriks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xlvii, 642 pp. [Re-issued with revisions as a paperback in 2001.]

(1) Reason and Animals: Descartes, Kant, and Mead on the Place of Humans in Nature. Ph.D. diss. University of Notre Dame, 1987. [450 p.] Advisors: Karl Ameriks and Neil Delaney. [Re-formatted, 190 p. draft: pdf]

Website

(1) Kant in the Classroom, consisting of about 5 MB of text, coded as .html documents (of which there are c. 100 web pages). This project focuses on Kant’s lecturing activity and the student lecture notes, and brings together much of the research conducted during my 1998-99 sabbatical.

Articles

(5) Kant-Lexikon, 3 vols., edited by Georg Mohr, Jürgen Stolzenberg, and Marcus Willaschek (New York/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter; forthcoming). Total of 20 articles: Maschine; Herz; Leib; Gehirn; Automat; Gehör; Geräusch; Geruch; Betastung; Sehen; Täuschung der Sinne; Ton; Taubheit; Nerven; Physiologie; Technizismus; Haut; Physiognomik; Kant’s “Anhang zu Sömmering: Über das Organ der Seele”; Samuel Thomas Sömmering.

(4) The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, 3 vols. (London/New York: Continuum, 2010). General editors: Manfred Kuehn (Boston University) and Heiner Klemme (Wuppertal). Total of 46 articles: Alberti, Michael (1682-1757); Ammon, Christian Friedrich (1696-1742); Arnoldt, Daniel Heinrich (1706-1775); Baumgarten, Christoph Friedrich (16??-1746); Beseke, Johann Melchior Gottlieb (1746-1802); Bock, Friedrich Samuel (1716-1785); Bock, Johann Georg (1698-1762); Bohl, Johann Christoph (1703-1785); Buck, Friedrich Johann (1722-1786); Büttner, Christoph Gottlieb (1708-1776); Burckhard, Thomas (1686-1744); Busolt, Gotthilf Christoph Wilhelm (1771-1831); Chmelnitzki, Johann (1742-1794); Christiani, Karl Andreas (1707-1780); Danovius, Ernst Jakob (1741-1782); Friedländer, Michael (1769-1824); Gatterer, Johann Christoph (1727-1799); Gensichen, Johann Friedrich (1759-1807); Hagen, Karl Gottfried (1749-1829); Herrmann, Christian Gotthilf (1764-1823); Hoffmann, Friedrich (1660-1742); Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich (1762-1836); Jachmann, Reinhold Bernhard (1767-1843); Jäsche, Gottlieb Benjamin (1762-1842); Kiesewetter, Joh. Gottfried Karl Christian (1766-1819); Kreutzfeld, Johann Gottlieb (1745-1784); Kypke, Georg David (1724-1779); Kypke, Johann David (1692-1758); Lilienthal, Michael (1686-1750); Michaelis, Christian Friedrich (1770-1834); Pisanski, Georg Christoph (1725-1790); Pölitz, Karl Heinrich Ludwig (1772-1838); Pörschke, Karl Ludwig (1751-1812); Reidenitz, Daniel Christoph (1760-1842); Reil, Johann Christian (1759-1813); Rogall, Georg Friedrich (1701-1733); Salthenius, Daniel Lorenz (1701-1750); Sanden, Christian Bernhard von (1707-1756); Sanden, Heinrich von (1672-1728); Schultz, Johann (1739-1805), Schulz, Joachim Christoph Friedrich (1762-1798); Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas (1755-1830); Starck, Johann August (1741-1816); Teske, Johann Gottfried (1704-1772); Wlochatius, August Wilhelm (1744-1815); Zöllner, Johann Friedrich (1753-1804).

(3) “‘A Good, Honest Watchmaker’: J. C. F. Schulz’s Portrait of Kant from 1791” in Kant-Studien, 101: 217-26 (2010).

(2) “The Metaphysics Lectures in the Academy Edition of Kants Gesammelte Schriften” in Zustand und Zukunft der Akademie-Ausgabe von Kants Gesammelten Schriften, edited by Reinhard Brandt and Werner Stark (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000), pp. 189-215.

(1) “Kant on Descartes and the Brutes” in Kant-Studien, 81: 1-23 (1990).

Book reviews

(4) Review of Immanuel Kant, Notes and Fragments, edited by Paul Guyer, translated by Curtis Bowman, Paul Guyer, and Fred Rauscher, in Notre Dame Philosophical Review (an on-line journal of invited book reviews), posted January 5, 2006.

(3) Review of Mihaela Fistioc, The Beautiful Shape of the Good: Platonic and Pythagorean Themes in Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgement, in Notre Dame Philosophical Review (an on-line journal of invited book reviews), posted December 5, 2002.

(2) Review of Patricia Kitcher, Kant’s Transcendental Psychology in International Studies in Philosophy, 23: 126-127 (1991).

(1) Review of Lewis White Beck, ed., Kant Selections in Teaching Philosophy, 11: 263-264 (1988).