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Books from 2024

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The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work, Jason Read PhD

Books from 2023

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Aristotle on Human Nature The Animal with Logos, Joseph Arel PhD and Gregory Kirk PhD

Publications from 2021

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Foucault’s Kant, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Kant and the “Old formula of the schools”, Robert B. Louden PhD

Lectures on Anthropology, Robert B. Louden PhD

Was ist das Besondere an legalisiertem Sex? (Oder, wie kann doppeltes Unrecht Recht ergeben?), Robert B. Louden PhD

Publications from 2020

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The Role of Marriage in Hegel’s Phenomenology, Joseph Arel PhD

Creating a Multidirectional Memory for Healing in the Former Yugoslavia, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD

Pharmaceutical Memory Modification and Christianity’s ‘Dangerous’ Memory, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD

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A Haunted Church: Ecclesial Sex Abuse and Intergenerational Trauma, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD and Kimberly Humphrey PhD

Books from 2019

Cartography: The ideal and its history, Matthew H. Edney PhD

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‘In the Bone’: Race, Theological Anthropology, and Intergenerational Trauma, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD

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Comment to Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Education and the Overcoming of Evil, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Kant the Naturalist, Robert B. Louden PhD

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The University of the Future: Stiegler after Derrida, Constance Mui and Julien Murphy PhD

Publications from 2018

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An Analysis of Recent Empirical Data on ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Atonement’s Axiological Boundaries, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Deliberating in the Presence of Manipulation, Yishai Cohen PhD

Costs of Corporate Conscience: How Women, Queers, and People of Color Are Paying for Hobby Lobby’s Sincerely-Held Beliefs, Megan Goodwin PhD

Publications from 2017

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Fischer’s Deterministic Frankfurt-Style Argument, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Planned Parenthood? Forsaking American Women for the Mother of All Bombs, Megan Goodwin PhD

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Sarsour’s Struggle for Justice: It Is Our Duty to Think Harder or Sit Down, Megan Goodwin PhD

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Staying After Class: Memory and Materiality beyond Heaven’s Gate, Megan Goodwin PhD

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‘Wretched Subterfuge’? Comments on Frederick Rauscher’s Naturalism and Realism in Kant’s Ethics, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Victims, Power and Intellectuals: Laruelle and Sartre, Constance L. Mui PhD and Julien Murphy PhD

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Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man, Jason Read PhD

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Ideology as Individuation, Individuating Ideology, Jason Read PhD

Publications from 2016

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Conscience and the Oracular Affirmation of Contingency in Action, Joseph Arel PhD

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Counterfactuals of Divine Freedom, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Leeway Compatibilism and Frankfurt-Style Cases, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Actualism Has Control Issues, Yishai Cohen PhD and Travis Timmerman PhD

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‘They Do That to Foreign Women’: Domestic Terrorism and Contraceptive Nationalism in Not Without My Daughter, Megan Goodwin PhD

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#VanillaISIS, White Tears, and the Adventures of Captain Moroni, Megan Goodwin PhD

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When the Vampire Looks: Gender and Surveillance in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Megan Goodwin PhD

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‘Total Transformation’: Why Kant Did Not Give up on Education, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Radicalizing the Root: The Return of Philosophical Anthropology to the Critique of Political Economy, Jason Read PhD

The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari, Jason Read PhD

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The Individuation of the Common, Jason Read PhD

The Politics of Transindividuality, Jason Read Ph.D.

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Actualism and Possibilism, Travis Timmerman PhD and Yishai Cohen PhD

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Moral Obligations: Actualist, Possibilist, or Hybridist?, Travis Timmerman PhD and Yishai Cohen PhD

Publications from 2015

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Agential Settling Requires a Conscious Intention, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Endless Future: A Persistent Thorn in the Kalām Cosmological Argument, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Molinists (Still) Cannot Endorse the Consequence Argument, Yishai Cohen PhD

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The Manipulation Argument, At the Very Least, Undermines Classical Compatibilism, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Don't Be Tooken in by 'Kimmy Schmidt's' Cult, Megan Goodwin PhD

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Everything New Is Old Again: New Religious Movements as American Minority Religions, Megan Goodwin PhD

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#YesAllWomen: Online Feminism, Religion, and Risk, Megan Goodwin PhD

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Defending Minority Religions, Despite Some Bad Practitioners, Megan Goodwin PhD and Andrew Aghapour

Vigilantius: Morality for Humans, Robert B. Louden PhD

Why be Moral?, Robert B. Louden Ph.D. and Beatrix Himmelmann

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’Pierre Loves Horranges’: Sartre and Malabou on the Fantastic in Philosophy, Constance L. Mui PhD and Julien Murphy PhD

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Experiences with Establishment of a Multi-University Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense, Julien Murphy PhD, R.T. Albert, C. Bennett, David Briggs PhD, Maureen Ebben PhD, H. Felch, D. Kokoska, L. Lovewell, C. MacDonald, G. Markowsky, L. Markowsky, Edward Sihler, and G. Wilson

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The Order and Connection of Ideology is the same as the Order and Connection of Exploitation: Or, Towards a Bestiary of the Capitalist Imagination, Jason Read PhD

Publications from 2014

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Don’t Count on Taurek: Vindicating the Case for the Numbers Counting, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Reasons-Responsiveness and Time Travel, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Review of Robert C. Roberts, Emotions in the Moral Life, Yishai Cohen PhD

Cosmopolitical Unity: The Final Destiny of the Human Species, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Kantian Anthropology: A Science Like No Other, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Nietzsche as Kant’s True Heir?, Robert B. Louden PhD

The Last Frontier: Exploring Kant’s Geography, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Unpacking MOOC Scholarly Discourse: A Review of he Nascent MOOC Scholarship, Julien Murphy PhD and Maureen Ebben PhD

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Building a Virtual Cybersecurity Collaborative Learning Laboratory (VCCLL), Julien Murphy PhD, Edward Sihler, Maureen Ebben PhD, and Glenn Wilson

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The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari [Blog Post], Jason Read PhD

Publications from 2013

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Skeptical Theism and the Threshold Problem, Yishai Cohen PhD

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Don’t Stand So Close to Me: On Not Hearing Elizabeth Smart, Megan Goodwin PhD

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El Kant de Foucault, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Reply to Pablo Muchnik, Robert B. Louden PhD

Books from 2012

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National Character via the Beautiful and Sublime?, Robert B. Louden PhD

Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Anthropology, Robert B. Louden PhD, Allen W. Wood, Robert R. Clewis, and G Felicitas Munzel

Publications from 2011

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Thinking Sex and American Religions, Megan Goodwin PhD

‘The Play of Nature’: Human Beings in Kant’s Geography, Robert B. Louden PhD

Books from 2010

Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles, Megan Goodwin PhD

A New Enlightenment?, Robert B. Louden PhD

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The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to the Commons, Jason Read PhD

Publications from 2009

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Queer, Not Gay: Limits of Acceptable Sexual Transgressions in NRM Discourse, Megan Goodwin PhD

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Language: Who/What Has It? (And Were Aristotle and Descartes Right?), Robert B. Louden PhD

The Critique of the Morality System, Robert B. Louden PhD

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A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Subjectivity, Jason Read PhD

Publications from 2008

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Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View: Toward a Cosmopolitan Conception of Human Nature, Robert B. Louden PhD

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Evil Everywhere: The Ordinariness of Kantian Radical Evil, Robert B. Louden PhD

Publications from 2007

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‘Firm as a Rock in Her Own Principles’ (But Not Necessarily a Kantian), Robert B. Louden PhD

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Kantian Moral Humility: Between Aristotle and Paul, Robert B. Louden PhD

Immanuel Kant, Anthropology, History, and Education, Robert B. Louden PhD and Günter Zöller

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Politics as Subjectification: Rethinking the Figure of the Worker in the Thought of Badiou and Rancière, Jason Read PhD

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The Order and Connection of Ideas: Theoretical Practice in Macherey’s Turn to Spinoza, Jason Read PhD

Publications from 2005

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Informed Consent: Ethical Issues for Pathologists when Banking Human Tissue for Clinical Research, Julien Murphy PhD and Karen Rasmussen

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The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History, and Temporality, Jason Read PhD

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The Present as Pre-History: Adorno and Balibar on the Transformation of Labor, Jason Read PhD

Books from 2004

John Dewey, Confucius, and Global Philosophy, Joseph Grange and Roger T. Ames

Books from 2003

In Dewey's Wake : Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction, W J. Gavin

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Enduring Freedom: Globalizing Children’s Rights, Constance L. Mui PhD and Julien Murphy PhD

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A Universal History of Contingency: Deleuze and Guattari on the History of Capitalism, Jason Read PhD

Publications from 2002

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’A Seguna Parte da Moral’: A Antropolgia de Kant e sua relação com a Metafisica dos Costumes, Robert B. Louden PhD

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‘The Second Part of Morals’: Kant’s Moral Anthropology and its Relationship to his Metaphysics of Morals, Robert B. Louden PhD

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A Fugitive Thread: The Production of Subjectivity in Marx, Jason Read PhD

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Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism, Jason Read PhD

Books from 2001

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The Spirit of Teaching, Michael Brady and Desi Larson

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The Hidden Abode of Biopolitical Production: Empire and the Ontology of Production, Jason Read PhD