Publications

 

BOOKS:

Single-Authored:

Watkins, Eric, Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005) xiv + 451 p.

Reviewed in: Kant-Studien, Kantian Review, Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Review of Metaphysics, European Journal of Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Philosophie und Theologie, Times Literary Supplement, Philosophical Books, German Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, History of Philosophy of Science Newsletter, Philosophy in Review

Review Essays in: Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2006), The Philosophical Review (Oct. 2010)

Edited:

Watkins, Eric, Kant and the Sciences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) xii + 291 p.

Watkins, Eric, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) xi + 410 p.

Immanuel Kant, Natural Science, ed. E. Watkins, tr. L.W. Beck, O. Reinhardt, J. Edwards, M. Schönfeld and E. Watkins (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) xviii + 822 p.

Watkins, Eric, The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature: Historical Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) xvi + 240 p.

Watkins, Eric, & Goy, Ina, (eds.) Kant’s Theory of Biology (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014, in press)

Kant Lexikon, eds. G. Mohr, J. Stolzenberg, M. Willaschek, with E. Förster, H. Klemme, B. Ludwig, P. McLaughlin, E. Watkins, 3 volumes (Berlin: De Gruyter, tentatively 2014).

Anthologies:

Watkins, Eric and Ariew, Roger, Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Texts (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998) vi + 749 p.

Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, translated by Werner Pluhar, abridged and with an introduction by Eric Watkins (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1999) xx + 229 p.

Watkins, Eric and Ariew, Roger, Readings in Modern Philosophy Vol. I: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Associated Texts (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000) 322 p.

Watkins, Eric and Ariew, Roger, Readings in Modern Philosophy Vol. II: Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Associated Texts (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000) 464 p.


ARTICLES:

“The Development of Physical Influx in Early Eighteenth Century Germany: Gottsched, Knutzen, and Crusius,” Review of Metaphysics 49 (1995): 295-339.

“Kant’s Theory of Physical Influx,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 77 (1995): 285-324.

“Recent Developments in Kant Scholarship: Kant’s Philosophy of Mind,” Eidos 12 (1995): 83-107.

“Is a Transcendental Deduction Necessary for the Metaphysical Foundations?” in Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995) Vol. II, pp. 381-389.

“Kant’s Third Analogy of Experience,” Kant-Studien 88 (1997): 406-441.

“The Laws of Motion from Newton to Kant,” Perspectives on Science 5 (1997): 311-348.

“Kant’s Antinomies: Sections 3-8,” in Kooperativer Kommentar zu Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft, ed. G. Mohr & M. Willaschek (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998) pp. 445-462.

“The Argumentative Structure of Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1998): 567-593.

“Kant’s Justification of the Laws of Mechanics,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29 (1998): 539-560.

Reprinted in Kant and the Sciences, ed. E. Watkins (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp. 136-159.

“Kant on the Material Ground of Possibility: From The Only Possible Argument to The Critique of Pure Reason,” with Mark Fisher, Review of Metaphysics 52 (1998): 369-395.

“From Pre-established Harmony to Physical Influx: Leibniz’s Reception in Early 18th Century Germany,” Perspectives on Science 6 (1998): 136-203 (Special Issue “Leibniz and the Sciences” ed. D. Garber).

“Kant’s Categorical Imperative,” in Metaethics, Normative Ethics & Applied Ethics, ed. J. Fieser, (New York: Wadsworth, 2000) pp. 268-276.

“Kant on Rational Cosmology,” in Kant and the Sciences, ed. E. Watkins (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp. 70-89.

“Kant on Force and Extension: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton” in Between Leibniz, Newton and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the 18th Century, ed. W. Lefevre, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001) pp. 111-127.

O’Neill and Korsgaard on the Construction of Normativity” with Bill FitzPatrick, Journal of Value Enquiry (2002): 1-19.

“The ‘Critical Turn’: Kant and Herz from 1770 to 1772” in Kant und die Berliner Aufkärung, ed. V. Gerhardt, R. Horstmann, and R. Schumacher, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2001, Vol. 2, pp. 69-77.

“Transcendental Idealism and the Categories,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 19 (2002): 191-215.

Forces and Causes in Kant’s Early Pre-Critical Writings,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34 (2003): 5-27.

“Kant’s Philosophy of Science,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2003 Edition), ed. E. Zalta , URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-science).

Autonomy in and after Kant,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2004): 727-740.

Kant’s Model of Causality: Causal Powers, Laws, and Kant’s Reply to Hume,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (2004): 449-488.

On the Necessity and Nature of Simples: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, and the pre-Critical Kant,” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 3 (2006): 261-314.

“Kant on Transcendental Laws,” in Thinking about Causes: Past and Present, ed. J. Machamer & G. Wolters (Pittsburgh: Pittsburg University Press, 2007), pp. 100-122.

“Leibniz und Wolff im Vergleich: Sine entibus simplicibus composita existere nequent,” in Christian Wolff und die Eureopäische Aufklärung, ed. J. Stolzenberg & O.Rudolph (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007), Vol. 3, pp. 13-28.

“Die Antinomie der teleologischen Urteilskraft und Kants Ablehnung alternativer Teleologien §§69-71 & 72-73,“ in Kooperativer Kommentar zu Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft, ed. O. Höffe & I. Goy (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008), pp. 241-258.

Kant and the Myth of the Given,” Inquiry 51 (2008): 512-531.

“Kant on the Hiddenness of God,” Kantian Review 14, 1 (2009): 81-122.

“The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment,” Kantian Yearbook 1 (2009): 197-221.

“The Antinomy of Practical Reason: Reason, the Unconditioned, and the Highest Good,” in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason: A Critical Guide, eds. A. Reath & J. Timmerman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 145-167.

“Kant,” in Oxford Handbook on Causation, ed. C. Hitchcock, H. Beebee, & P. Menzies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 92-107.

“S.J. Apin”, “J.U. von Cramer”, “J.Fr. Hähn”, “G. Fr. Richter”, and “D. Weymann”, in Dictionary of 18th Century German Philosophy ed. H. Klemme & M. Kuehn (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2010), pp. 31-2, 216-8, 441-442, 949-50, 1260.

“Kant’s Theory of Action,” Blackwell’s Companion to the Philosophy of Action, eds. T. O’Connor & C. Sandis, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 521-527.

“The System of Principles,” in The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, ed. P. Guyer, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 151-167.

“The Reception of Newton’s Principles of Mechanics and Concept of Force,” in The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe, ed. S. Mandelbrote & H. Pulte (London: Continuum, 2011) (in press)

“Making Sense of Mutual Interaction: Simultaneity and the Equality of Action and Reaction,” in Kant and the Concept of Community, eds. C. Payne & L. Thorpe (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2011), pp. 41-62.

“Kraft und Gesetz: Hegels Kant-Kritik im Kapitel ‘Kraft und Verstand’ der Phänomenologie des Geistes“ in International Yearbook for German Idealism / Internationales Jahrbuch für Deutschen Idealismus (2012): 228-250.

“Kant, Sellars and the Myth of the Given,” Philosophical Forum 43 (3) (2012): 311-326.

“A Difficulty Still Awaits: Kant, Spinoza, and the Threat of Theological Determinism,” with Kimberly Brewer, in Kant-Studien 103 (2012): 163-187.

“The Early Kant’s (Anti-) Newtonianism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2013) (in press)

“Kant on the Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature” in The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature: Historical Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 219-236.

“The Reception of Newton’s Principles of Mechanics and Concept of Force,” in The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe, ed. S. Mandelbrote & H. Pulte (London: Continuum, 2013) (in press).

“Kant on Infima Species,” in Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht, ed. C. La Rocca (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013) (in press).

“Nature in General as a System of Purposes” in Kant’s Theory of Biology, ed. I. Goy & E. Watkins (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014) (in press).

Translations:

Books:

Haeffner, Gerd, The Human Situation, translated by Eric Watkins (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989) vii + 207 p.

Ricken, Friedo, Philosophy of the Ancients, translated by Eric Watkins (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991) x + 280 p.

Brandt, Reinhard, The Table of Judgments, Critique of Pure Reason A 67-76; B92-101, translated and edited by Eric Watkins (North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy, Atascadero: Ridgeview Press, 1995) vii + 147 p.

Articles:

Theunissen, Michael, “The Repressed Intersubjectivity in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” (pp. 3-63)

translated by Eric Watkins, in Hegel and Legal Theory, edited by Drucilla Cornell et al. (New York: Routledge, 1991).

Sturma, Dieter, “Self and Reason,” (pp. 199-215) translated by Eric Watkins, in The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy, edited by Karl Ameriks and Dieter Sturma (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).

Løgstrup, Knud, “Ethics and Ontology,” (pp. 265-293) translated by E. Watkins, in The Ethical Demand, Introduction by H. Fink & A. MacIntyre (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).

Krüger, Lorenz, “Did Kant Aim to Prove the Completeness of His Table of Judgments?,” tr. E. Watkins, in Why Does History Matter to Philosophy and the Sciences?, Ed. T. Sturm, W. Carl, & L. Daston (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005), pp. 21-44.


Reviews:

R. Brandt, Die Urteilstafel, Kritik der reinen Vernunft A67-76; B92-101 (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1989) in Review of Metaphysics (1992) pp. 602-604.

K. Köhnke, Die Entstehung und Aufstieg des Neukantianismus (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986) in Owl of Minerva 24 (1993), pp. 215-226.

A. Brook, Kant and the Mind, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) in Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (1995), pp. 524-525.

R. Hahn, Kant’s Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986) in Kant-Studien 86 (1995), pp. 231-234.

Bericht über die Tagung “Idealistische Konzeptionen des Selbst in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie,” in Information Philosophie (March, 1995), pp. 124-126.

H. Klemme, Kants Philosophie des Subjekts, (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1996) in Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1998) pp. 471-473.

I. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, edited and translated by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) in International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1999), pp. 235-237.

H. Hudson, Kant’s Compatibilism, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994) in International Studies in Philosophy (1999), pp. 147-149.

J. van der Zande & R. Popkin (eds.), The Skeptical Tradition around 1800 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998) in Isis 90(1999), pp. 810-811.

I. Kant, Practical Philosophy, edited and translated by Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) in Kant-Studien (2001), pp. 118-121.

I. Kant, Correspondence, edited and translated by Arnulf Zweig (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) in Ethics 111 (2001) p. 453.

B. Longuenesse, Kant and the Capacity to Judge (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998) in The Kantian Review 5 (2001) pp. 128-132.


M. Schönfeld, The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) in International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (2001), pp. 498-499.

M. Kuehn, Kant: A Biography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) in Journal of the History of Philosophy (2002), pp. 127-128.

M. Oberhausen and R. Pozzo  (eds.) Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der Universität Königsberg (1720-1804): Mit einer Einleitung und Registern, (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1999) in History of Universities 17 (2002), pp. 209-211.

D. Warren.  Reality and Impenetrability in Kant’s Philosophy of Nature, (New York: Routledge, 2001) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2002), http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/2/watkin-warren.html.

F. Wunderlich. Kant und die Bewußtseinsheorien des 18.ten Jahrhunderts (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2004) in Review of Metaphysics (2007): 452-454.