Michelle Kosch Home

Fall 2023:

Phil 2240 / Govt 3745 : Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Thought
Phil 4003/6030 : German Philosophical Texts (text: Vom Wesen des Grundes)

Spring 2024:

Phil 4261/6260 / ROMS 4261/6260 / FGSS 4261 : Simone de Beauvoir

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Research

I work on Kant and post-Kantian European philosophy, especially German idealists, Kierkegaard, Foucault, and Beauvoir.
My first book, Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling and Kierkegaard (OUP 2006), is available for purchase here.
My second book, Fichte's Ethics (OUP 2018), is available for purchase here.
My published papers, and papers accepted but not yet in print, can be found here.
I am currently working on two monographs (and presenting/publishing papers drawn from these projects): one on Simone de Beauvoir's ethical thought in the works of the 1940s, and one on Fichte's political philosophy of the Jena period.

I serve on the editorial boards of Ergo, The Philosophical Review, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophisches Jahrbuch and philpapers.org .