Joe Stratmann
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Joe Stratmann
Assistant Professor
My research focuses on Kant and early modern philosophy (particularly eighteenth-century German rationalism). I’m especially interested in the fate of human reason’s demand for explanation—theoretical and practical. Other philosophical interests include metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of hope, post-Kantian philosophy, and Chinese philosophy (along with its reception in early modern philosophy).
Education
I completed my PhD in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego in 2022. I also joined the department in 2022.
Publications
“Rationalism Self-Restrained: Kant, Autonomy, and the Bounds of Sense.” (forthcoming). Ergo.
“Autonomy without Compromise: Wolff, Kant, and the Grounds of Moral Laws.” (forthcoming). Journal of the History of Philosophy.
“Kant’s Rationalist Account of Hope.” (forthcoming). Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
“The Grounds of a Critique of Pure Reason.” (forthcoming). Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
“From Dogmatic Slumber to Rationalist Nightmares: Kant among the Dreamers of Reason.” (forthcoming). European Journal of Philosophy.
“Kant on the Principle of Sufficient Reason.” [with Eric Watkins] (forthcoming). In Amijee and Della Rocca eds., Oxford Philosophical Concepts: The Principle of Sufficient Reason. Oxford University Press.
“The End of Explanation: Kant on the Unconditioned.” (2023). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 105:3. 507–532.
Teaching
Some upcoming or recently taught courses:
- Kant’s Third Critique
- Kant’s Second Critique
- Kant’s First Critique
- 19th and 20th Century Philosophy
- Ethical Theory
- Early Modern Philosophy