Curriculum Vitae

Andrew Chignell                                                           228 Goldwin Smith Hall

Chignell [at] cornell.edu                                                         Ithaca, NY 14853 Tel: (607) 255-6819

 


Positions

July 1, 2009-present: Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University

            *also appointed in the Religious Studies and Cognitive Science programs

 

Jan. 1, 2004-June 30, 2009: Assistant Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University

 

July 1, 2006-July 1, 2007: Mellon Foundation Member, School of Historical Studies,

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

 

Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2003: Instructor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University

 

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 2004 

Visiting student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, 2002-2003

Visiting student, Harvard University, Philosophy Dept., Spring 1998

M.Phil. Yale University (Philosophy and Religious Studies), May 2000

M.A. Yale University (Philosophy), May 1999

M.A. Yale University (Religious Studies), May 1998

B.A. summa cum laude, Wheaton College (Philosophy, English Literature, Religion), May 1996

 

Areas of Specialization

Kant, modern philosophy

 

Areas of Competence

Epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of religion

 

Research

Articles, Contributions

 

21. “Kant between the wars,” Philosophical Forum, special edition on early 20th century developments in German philosophy, eds. P. Gilgen and P. Hohendahl (forthcoming)

 

20. “Real repugnance and belief about things-in-themselves: Kant’s three solutions,” in Kant’s Moral Metaphysics, eds. B. Lipscomb and J. Krueger. Berlin: deGruyter (forthcoming).

                                                                                                                 

19. “Real repugnance and knowledge of things-in-themselves: A Lockean problem in Kant and Hegel,” in Internationales Jahrbuch des deutschen Idealismus, vol. 7 (forthcoming)

 

18. “The ethics of belief,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming)

 

17. “Causal refutations of idealism,“ Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)

16. “Descartes on sensation: A defense of the semantic-causation model,” Philosophers’ Imprint 9 (5), June 2009: 1-22

 

15. “Kant, modality, and the most real being,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 91 (2), June 2009.

 

14. “Are supersensibles really possible? The evidential role of symbols,” Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants, eds. V. Rhoden, T. Terra, G. Almeida. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2009.

 

13. “’As Kant has shown’: analytic theology and the critical philosophy,” in M. Rea and O. Crisp, eds. Analytic Theology, New York: Oxford UP, 2009.

 

12. “On going back to Kant,” Philosophical Forum 39 (2), June 2008: 109-124 (introduction to special edition on Neo- Kantianism, eds. A Chignell, T. Irwin and T.Teufel).

 

11. “Neo-Kantian philosophy of science: Cassirer, Kuhn, and Friedman,” Philosophical Forum 39 (2), June 2008: 253-262 (part of special edition on Neo-Kantianism, eds. A. Chignell, T. Irwin, T. Teufel).

 

10.”Kant on the normativity of taste: the role of aesthetic ideas” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (3), Sep 2007: 415-433.

 

9. “Belief in Kant,” Philosophical Review 116 (3), July 2007: 323-360.

 

8. “Kant’s concepts of justification,” Nous 41 (1), March 2007: 33-63.

 

7. “Beauty as a symbol of natural systematicity,” British Journal of Aesthetics 46 (4), Oct 2006: 406-415.

 

6. “The ethics of religious belief,” (with Andrew Dole), in God and the Ethics of Belief, A.Chignell and A. Dole, eds.  New York: Cambridge UP, 2005, 1-32.

 

5. “Accidentally true belief and warrant,” Synthese, 137 (3), Dec 2003: 445-458.

 

4. “Infant suffering revisited,” Religious Studies 37 (4), Dec 2001: 475-484.

 

3. “The problem of particularity in Kant’s aesthetics,” in Kevin L. Stoehr, ed. Proceedings of the World Congress of Philosophy. Bowling Green:  Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000.

 

2. “The problem of infant suffering,” Religious Studies 34 (2), May 1998: 205-217.

 

1. “Ockham on mind-world relations:  What sort of nominalism?” Eidos 14 (1), (Jan 1997):11-28.

 

Edited volumes

2. Special edition of Philosophical Forum on Neo-Kantianism, June 2008. (co-edited with Terence Irwin and Thomas Teufel)

Contributors: Paul Guyer, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Peter Gordon, Dina Emundts, Vasilis Politis, Michael Friedman, Peter Gilgen, Frederick Beiser, Michelle Kosch.

 

1. God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion (co-edited with Andrew Dole).  New York: Cambridge UP, 2005 (paperback 2009).

Contributors: Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Philip Quinn, Linda Zagzebski, Derk Pereboom, Keith DeRose, Richard Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen, John Hare, Robert Audi.

 

Other

6. Eleven entries in the Kant-Lexikon, eds. Mohr, Stolzenberg, Willaschek. Berlin: Walter de

Gruyter (forthcoming, 2010).

 

5. “Postulate des empirischen Denkens,” with Nicholas Stang.  In Kant-Lexikon, eds.

Mohr, Stolzenberg, Willaschek. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming, 2010).

 

4. Review of Georges Dicker, Kant’s Theory of Knowledge (Oxford, 2004), in Philosophical

Review, April 2007.

 

3. Review of A. W. Moore, Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in

Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (Routledge, 2003), in Philosophical Review, Jan 2006.

 

2. Review of H.J. Glock (ed.), Strawson and Kant (Oxford, 2003), Notre Dame Philosophical

Reviews, July 2004.

 

1. Entries on “Thomas Reid” and “George Santayana” in Religion in Geschichte und

Gegenwart, 4. Auflage, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.

 

 

In preparation: articles

 

7. “The religious sublime,” in The Sublime, ed. T. Costello (under contract with Cambridge Press)

 

6. Long critical notice of E. Watkins, Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality and E. Watkins, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials for Philosophical Review (with D. Pereboom)

 

5. “Can Kant reasonably prefer Milton to Ogilby?”

 

4. “How naturalistic is Humean representation?”

 

3. “Kant, real possibility, and the threat of Spinoza”

 

2. “Skepticism, content, and Kant”

 

1. “Natural theology,” invited for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

 

In preparation: volumes

2. What May I Hope?  Commissioned by Routledge as part of the series: Kant’s Five Questions, general editor Allen Wood (under contract)

 

1. Invited guest editor (with Tim Costello), Journal of Scottish Philosophy (spring 2011).  Topic: Scottish and German aesthetics.

 

Presentations

Upcoming 2009-2010: presentations at University of Illinois--Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, University of Tuebingen, Universities of Qom and Imam Sadeq (Tehran)

 

American Society for Aesthetics, APA Pacific Division meeting, Vancouver (April 2009)

            “Can Kant reasonably prefer Milton to Ogilby?” (Bradley Murray, commentator)

Philosophy of Religion: Eastern and Western Contexts conference, Hong Kong (February 2009)

            “Liturgical philosophy of religion”

University of Notre Dame, Philosophy Dept. Colloquium (December 2008)

            “Kant, real possibility, and the threat of Spinoza”

Yale University, Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale (September 2008)

            “Kant, real possibility, and the threat of Spinoza”

Margaret D. Wilson Conference in Early Modern Philosophy, Cornell University (June 2008)

            “Skepticism, Kant, and content”

New York University, Philosophy Dept. Summer Symposium, La Pietra, Italy (June 2008)

            “Skepticism, Kant, and Content” (Dina Emundts, commentator)

Boston University, Institute for Philosophy and Religion (April 2008)
            “Liturgical philosophy”

Princeton University, graduate seminar on Kant’s third Critique (March 2008)

            “Kant on taste”

Northwestern University, Philosophy Dept. Colloquium  (December 2007)

            “Kant, modality, and moral belief”

University of Toronto, Philosophy Dept. Colloquium (November 2007)

            “Kant, modality, and the most real being”

Syracuse University, Upstate New York Early Modern Philosophy Workshop (April 2007)

            “The real possibility of supersensibles”

Princeton Theological Seminary, Philosophy Colloquium (March 2007)

            “Kant on beauty: the sensible and beyond”

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Historical Studies (March 2007)

            “Just a taste of Kant”

Belief and Metaphysics conference, Instituto de Filosofía de Edith Stein de Granada, Spain

 (September 2006)

            “Belief, metaphysics, and Kant”

The Enlightenment project revisited conference, Houghton College (May 2006)

            “The real possibility of supersensibles”

American Philosophical Association, Central Division NAKS session (April 2006)

            “Kant on the kinds of knowledge” (Anja Jauernig, commentator)

University of Binghamton (December 2005)

            “Belief in Kant”

American Academy of Religion, Religion and German Idealism section (November 2005)

            “Kant on beauty as a religious symbol” (Terry Pinkard, commentator)

10th International Kant Congress, Sao Paulo Brazil (September 2005)

            “Are supersensibles really possible? Kant on the evidential role of symbols”

Max-Planck Institute, Berlin (July 2005) (workshop presentation)

            “Kant’s ethics of assent”

Institute for German Idealism, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (June 2005)

            “Rechtfertigung bei Kant”

North American Kant Society, Pacific Study Group, Pomona College (November 2004)

            “Kant’s ethics of assent”

North American Kant Society, Eastern Study Group, Fordham University (April 2004)

            “Belief in Kant”

North American Kant Society, Midwest Study Group, Notre Dame (October 2003)

            “Kant’s concepts of justification”

Kant und Hegel Kolloquium, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (July 2003)

            “Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund und das ens realissimum als Geist”

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto (November 2002)

“Two religious ethics of belief: Immanuel Kant and Thomas Reid”

American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, New York City (December 2000)

“Descartes on perception: the role of natural signs” (Marleen Rozemond, commentator)

University of Aberdeen, International Thomas Reid Symposium, (July 2000)

“Reid on other minds”

Brown University, grad philosophy conference (February 2000)

“Do we perceive other minds?”

World Congress of Philosophy, Boston (August 1998)

“The problem of particularity in Kant’s aesthetics”

Arizona State University, Society of Christian Philosophers (March 1998)

“Worries about divine impassibility”

University of Colorado at Boulder, Society of Christian Philosophers (April 1997)

“The problem of infant suffering”

Rutgers University, graduate philosophy conference (April 1997)

            “Must our values be objective?”

 

Commentaries

NYU Early Modern Philosophy Conference (November 2008)

            “Jonathan Vogel’s Refutation of Idealism”

Legacy of Kant II: Kant between the World Wars conference, Cornell (October 2008)

            “Peter Hohendahl on the crisis of Neo-Kantianism between the wars”

Cornell Philosophy Discussion Club (October 2007)

            “Georges Dicker’s Refutation of Idealism”

Legacy of Kant I: Classical Neo-Kantianism conference, Cornell (September 2007)

            “Michael Friedman on Kuhn and Cassirer”

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. (November 2006)

            “Kelly Clark’s tolerance”

Cornell discussion club (November 2005)

            “Don Garrett on Hume’s naturalism”

American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, San Francisco (April 2005)

            “Alex Rueger and Sahan Evren on Kantian symbolization”

Free will conference, Wheaton College (October 2004)

            “Derk Pereboom’s argument against moral responsibility”

Cornell Philosophy Discussion Club (April 2004)

            “John McDowell on transcendental arguments”

American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, Seattle (March 2002)

“Martin Schönfeld on Kant’s possibility proof”

 

Teaching

Cornell: courses

Phil 681/481: Graduate seminar: Recent analytic Hegelianism (co-taught with Richard Boyd, Spring 2010)

Phil 651: Graduate seminar: The problem of evil (co-taught with Scott MacDonald, Fall 2005)

Phil 642: Graduate seminar: Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (Spring 2009)

Phil 609/409: Translation seminar: German philosophical texts

            2005-6:

                        Fall: First four ‘moments’ of Kant’s Kritik der Urteilskraft

                        Spring: Vorrede to Hegel’s Phaenomenologie des Geistes

            2007-8:

                        Fall: Introduction to Schelling’s System des transzendentalen Idealismus

                        Spring: Wittgenstein’s Ueber Gewissheit

            2008-9:

                        Fall: B-Preface to Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft

                        Spring: Selections from Kant’s Kritik der Urteilskraft and Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit

 

Phil 416: Topics in German philosophy: Kant’s philosophy of religion (Spring 2004)

Phil 311: The rationalists (Fall 2004, Spring 2008, Spring 2010)

Phil 316: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2008)

Phil 212: Modern philosophy (Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2008)

Phil 100: The ethics of belief (Fall 2007)

Phil 100: The examined life (Fall 2003)

Cornell Telluride Winter Program: Kierkegaard’s Either-Or (Intensive course, Jan 2004)

 

Cornell: advising

Dissertation committees

            1. Lawrence Bruce-Robertson, Topic: Hegel (2004-present)

            2. Mark Fedyk, Topic: The Epistemology and Psychology of Intuitions (2006-present)

            3. Rachel Lu, Topic: The Virtue of Hope in Bonaventure (2006-present)

            4. Sydney Penner, Topic: Suarez (2007-present)

 

Senior Theses

            1. Chloe Layman, Topic: Leibniz and Chinese Philosophy (2005-6)

            2. Wesley Mattingly, Topic: Transcendental Arguments Past and Present (2005-6)

 

Other Independent Studies

            1. Michael Barton-Sweeney, Topic: Skepticism

            2. Ben Carter and Ian Wells, Topic: Spinoza’s Ethics, books I and II

            3. Marc Franzoni, Topic: Wittgenstein’s Blue Book

            4. Devin Conathan, Topic: Kant’s theory of experience

 

 

Yale: as instructor

Metaphysical idealism in Indian and European Philosophy (Spring 2001)

Ethics (Summer 2000)

 

Yale: as teaching fellow

Philosophy of religion (Fall 2000)

Medieval philosophy (Spring 2000)

Kant (Fall 1999)

 

Service

 

To the Department

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Philosophy dept. (2008-9)

Coordinator, Philosophy Discussion Club (2005-6, Spring 2008, 2008-9)

Member, Standing Committee on Faculty Appointments, Philosophy Dept. (2005-present)

Member, Philosophy search committees (2004-5, 2005-6)

Book review committee, Philosophical Review (2004-5, chair 2005-6)

Faculty adviser, Logos: The Cornell Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy (2004-present)

Member, Graduate admissions committee (2003-4, 2007-8)

Coordinator, Department Workshop, Philosophy Dept. (Fall 2007, 2009-2010)

 

To the University

Faculty fellow, Jameson Hall (2007-present)

Member, Undergraduate admissions committee, College of Arts and Sciences (Spring 2009)

Speaker, Cornell Sage Chapel Interfaith service (Sept 2007)

Member, Steering committee, Institute for German Cultural Studies (2005-9)

Resident faculty, Telluride House at Cornell (2003-2005)

Resident graduate fellow, Berkeley College at Yale (1999-2002)

 

To the Profession

Co-coordinator, Upstate New York Early Modern Workshop (2008-present)

Co-organizer with Peter Gilgen, “The Labor of the Concept”: A Workshop on the Preface to

Hegel’s Phenomenology (March 2008)

Co-organizer with Terence Irwin, Conference on “The Legacy of Kant: Classical Neo-

            Kantianism” (Sept 2007)

Member, Editorial board, Philosophical Review (Fall 2003-present)

Referee, in some cases multiple times, for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Religion,

 Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of the History of

 Philosophy, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Faith and Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,

 Routledge UP, Cambridge UP, Princeton UP, Oxford UP, Ashgate Press.

 

 

Fellowships, Awards

Summer Seminar, “Philosophical reflections on liturgy,” Calvin College.

            Directors: Nicholas Wolterstorff, Terence Cuneo (June-July 2009)

NEH Summer Seminar, “Scottish and German Aesthetics,” University of St. Andrews.

 Directors: Paul Guyer, Rachel Zuckert. (July-August 2007)

Junior Faculty Research Grant, Institute for European Studies, Cornell (summer 2007)

Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2006-7)

Cornell faculty exchange program to Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (summer 2006)

Participant, year-long Faculty Mellon Seminar, Society for Humanities (2005-6)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend (2005)

Society for Humanities at Cornell, faculty traveling research grant (to Germany) (2005)

NEH Summer Institute, “17th Century Philosophy, Science, Theology,” University of Wisconsin

-Madison. Directors: Donald Rutherford, Steven Nadler (July 2004).  

Society of Fellows, Princeton University, 3-year post-doctoral fellowship (2003-2006) (declined)

Fulbright full fellowship, Germany (2002-2003)

Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale (2001-2002)

APA Eastern division, Graduate student travel award (2000)

Eileen Harvey Graduate Fellowship (1998-2001)

Pew Charitable Trusts Younger Scholar (1997-2001)

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (1996-1997)

 

References

Robert M. Adams, Oxford (robert.adams@mansfield.ox.ac.uk)

Michael Della Rocca, Yale (michael.della@yale.edu)

Gail Fine, Cornell (gjf1@cornell.edu)

Hannah Ginsborg (ginsborg@berkeley.edu)

Michelle Kosch, Cornell (mak229@cornell.edu)

Derk Pereboom, Cornell (dp346@cornell.edu)

Eric Watkins, UC-San Diego (ewatkins@ucsd.edu)

Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale (nicholas.wolterstorff@yale.edu)

Allen Wood, Stanford (allen.wood@stanford.edu)

 

Teaching References

Graduate students:

            Saul Rosenthal (sgr7@cornell.edu)

            Kathryn Waidler (kdw22@cornell.edu)

            Lawrence Bruce-Robertson (lb94@cornell.edu)

Undergraduate students:

Chloe Layman (cl2487@columbia.edu)

Wesley Mattingly (wesley.mattingly@gmail.com)

Reza Mahmoodshahi (reza.mahmoodshahi@gmail.com)

Daniel Ranweiler (djr236@cornell.edu)