Hi. I’m the Edward S. Gould Professor of Philosophy, at Claremont McKenna College. My research concerns the History of European Philosophy, and mostly Classical German Philosophy. I teach more broadly about philosophy that is distant, historically and/or culturally.

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I usually spend roughly May/June of each year based in Berlin, to travel for conferences and talks. Email questions to jkreines@cmc.edu.
 

Selected Research (see the Writing page for more). Books:

• Reason in the World: The Philosophical Appeal of Hegel's Metaphysics. Monograph. 2015. Oxford University Press.

• Hegel and Spinoza, in progress, draft available.

• Nothing Halfway: Post-Kantian Philosophy from System-Critique to System, and Back (in progress)

Recent:

• “The Poison Chalice of Metaphysical Grounding: Jacobi and Hegel as Reversing Contemporary Expectations” forthcoming in Hegel Bulletin.

• “A Theory of German Idealism: Where the PSR Turns Upside Down”. Forthcoming in Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Principle of Sufficient Reason.

• “Reasons for the Importance of the Post-Kantian Idea of a System: Nothing Halfway, Jacobi and Schelling”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 2025.

• “Schelling's Critique of Hegel: Options and Responses, in the Spirit of Highlighting Shared Insights” Society for German Idealism and Romanticism Review. 2024.

Some others:

• Kant on the Laws of Nature: Restrictive Inflationism and Its Philosophical Advantages. The Monist 100(3) 2017. 

• Metaphysical Grounding and Kant's Things in Themselves: on Allais' Manifest Reality. European Journal of Philosophy, 24:1 2016: 253–266. [html draft]

• Kant on the Laws of Nature and the Limitations of our Knowledge. European Journal of Philosophy 2009 17 (4):527-558. Free final Draft.

• The Inexplicability of Kant's Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation and Biology. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 87:3 (2005): 270-311. Free final draft.

  See the Writing page for other essays and chapters…