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)

• 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)

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

• “Schelling’s Critique of Hegel…” Society for German Idealism and Romanticism Review. Forthcoming.

• “For a Dialectic-First Approach to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason”. Open Philosophy. 2022.

• "The Reality and Priority of Immanent Teleology: Hegel”. Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Teleology 2020.

• Aristotelian Priority, Metaphysical Definitions of God, and Hegel on Pure Thought as Absolute. Hegel Bulletin 41 (1):19-39 (2020)

• 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]

• The Idea and the Absolute Idea in Hegel's Science of Logic. in The Oxford Handbook of Hegel.

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

• Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57/58 2008 pp. 48-70.  HTML or PDF

• Between The Bounds of Experience and Divine Intuition: Kant’s Epistemic Limits and Hegel’s Ambitions.  Inquiry 50:3 2007 306 - 334. Free final draft.

• Hegel’s Metaphysics: Changing the Debate. Philosophy Compass. 1:5 (2006): 466-480. 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.

• Hegel’s Critique of Pure Mechanism and the Philosophical Appeal of the Logic Project. European Journal of Philosophy 12:1 (2004): 38-74. Free final draft.

See the Research page for more