Ph.D. Pennsylvania State
University, 1978
Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor
of Philosophy
Email:
rvelkley@tulane.edu
Office:
111 Newcomb Hall
Phone:
(504) 862-3391
Academic Interests:
- European philosophy since Kant
- Political philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of art and culture
Books:
- Freedom and the End
of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
(University of Chicago Press, 1989).
- Being after
Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question
(University
of Chicago Press, 2002).
Books edited:
- The Unity of
Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy by Dieter Henrich
(Harvard University Press, 1994).
- Freedom and the
Human Person. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol.
48
(Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
Selected Articles:
- "Freedom from the Good: Heidegger's Idealist
Grounding of Politics," Logos and
Eros: Essays Honoring Stanley Rosen, ed. N. Ranasingh (St.
Augustine's Press, 2006), 243-59.
- "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract
(1762): Transforming Natural Man into Citizen,"
The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, eds. Gracia, Reichberg and Schumacher
(Blackwell, 2003), 316-25.
- "On Possessed Individualism: Hegel, Socrates' Daimon
and the Modern State," Review of
Metaphysics, vol. 59, 3 (2006), 577-99.
- "On Possibility in Concepts: A Note on the
Metaphysical Problem in Kant," Kant
und die Berliner Aufklaerung. Akten des IX.
Internationalen
Kant-Kongresses (W. de Gruyter, 2001), 506-11.
