Peter G. Thielke

Robert C. Denison Professor of Philosophy; On leave for the 2024-2025 academic year

peter.thielke@pomona.edu

Office:

Pearsons Hall

201A

(909) 607-9788

With Pomona Since: 2001

Expertise
Expertise

Peter Thielke is a scholar of the history of philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant and German Idealism, as well as the rationalist and empiricist traditions leading up to Kant. He also has a research interest in epistemology and aesthetics.

Research Interests

History of Modern Philosophy
German Idealism
Kant
Epistemology
Aesthetics
Areas of Expertise

PHILOSOPHY
Kant
Philosophy
History of Modern Philosophy
Work

Work

"Getting Maimon's Goad," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 39, January 2001
"Discursivity and Causality: Maimon's Challenge to the Second Analogy," Kant-Studien, 2001
“Intuition and Diversity: Kant and Maimon on Space and Time,” in Gideon Freudenthal, ed., Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic, pp. 89-124 (Kluwer, 2003)
“Hume, Kant, and the Sea of Illusion,” Hume Studies, pp. 63-88 (April 2003)
“Fate and the Fortune of the Categories: Kant on the Schematization and Usurpation of Concepts” Inquiry 49:5 (October 2006), 438-68.
“Apostate Rationalism and Maimon’s Hume” Journal of the History of Philosophy 46:4 (October 2008). 591-618.
“Who’s Who from Kant to Hegel" I &II Philosophy Compass (Spring 2010).
Education
Education

Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Master of Arts
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Arts
Stanford University
Recent Courses Taught

History of Aesthetics
History of Modern Philosophy
Kant
Problems of Philosophy
Topics in History of Modern Philosophy
Critical Inquiry Seminar

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