Dr. Michael Walschots

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Kontakt:

E-mail: mwalscho[at]uni-mainz.de

Philosophicum, Raum 00-922

Tel: +49 (0) 6131 39 27010

 

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Areas of Specialization

Ethics

History of Modern Philosophy

Kant

 

Areas of Competence

Continental Philosophy (especially Critical Theory)

Epistemology

Philosophy of Law

Select Publications

 Books

  1. Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason: Background Source Materials. Cambridge University Press. Edited and Translated by Michael Walschots. (forthcoming early 2024)
  2. Christian Wolff’s ‘German Ethics’. Oxford University Press. Edited by Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Walschots, and John Walsh. (forthcoming March 2024)

Special Issue

  • Guest Editor of Journal of Scottish Philosophy. Vol. 20, Iss. 2, June 2022. ‘New Perspectives on Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy.’

 Journal Articles

 ‘Incentives of the Mind: Kant and Baumgarten on the Impelling Causes of Desire.’ Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. (forthcoming)

  1. ‘The Rationality of Love: Benevolence and Complacence in Kant and Hutcheson.’ Ergo. (forthcoming)
  2. ‘Kant and the Duty to Act from Duty.’ History of Philosophy Quarterly 39 (1), 2022, pg. 59–75.
  3. ‘Hutcheson’s Theory of Obligation’. Journal of Scottish Philosophy 20 (2), 2022, pg. 121–142.
  4. ‘Achtung in Kant and Smith.’ Kant-Studien 133 (2), 2022. pg. 238-268.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

  1. (with Sonja Schierbaum) ‘Necessitation, Constraint, and Reluctant Action: Obligation in Wolff, Baumgarten, and Kant’. Baumgarten and Kant on the Foundations of Practical Philosophy. Edited by C. D. Fugate and J. Hymers. Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
  2. ‘Wolff on the Duty to Cognize Good and Evil.’ Christian Wolff’s ‘German Ethics’. Oxford University Press. Edited by Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Walschots, and John Walsh. (forthcoming)
  3. (with Jens Timmermann) ‘Kant’s Lectures on Ethics’. The Cambridge Kant Lexicon. Edited by Julian Wuerth. Cambridge University Press, 2021, pg. 760-766.
  4. ‘Crusius on Freedom of the Will.’ Christian August Crusius (1715-1775): Philosophy Between Reason and Revelation. Edited by Frank Grunert and Andree Hahmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. pg. 189–208.
  5. ‘Hutcheson and Kant: Moral Sense and Moral Feeling.’ Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment. Edited by E. Robinson and C W. Surprenant. London: Routledge, 2017. pg. 36–54.