Melissa Merritt
Melissa Merritt | |
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| Awards | NAKS Book Prize |
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| Thesis | Drawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Engstrom |
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| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of New South Wales |
| Main interests | Kantian philosophy |
Melissa McBay Merritt is an American philosopher and academic who works in Australia as an associate professor at the University of New South Wales.[1] She is known for her works on Kantian philosophy.[2][3]
Merritt has a 1994 bachelor's degree from Yale University, and completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation, Drawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique, was directed by Stephen Engstrom.[4] She is a winner of the North American Kant Society Book Prize[5] and the Annette Baier Essay Prize of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.[6]
Books
[edit]- Kant on Reflection and Virtue, Cambridge University Press 2018[2]
- The Sublime, Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant , Cambridge University Press 2018[3]
- Kant and Stoic Ethics, Cambridge University Press 2025 (forthcoming)
References
[edit]- ^ "Associate Professor Melissa Merritt". Staff. University of New South Wales. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ a b Reviews of Kant on Reflection and Virtue:
- Anastasia Berg, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, doi:10.1080/09608788.2018.1563877
- John J. Callanan, Kantian Review, doi:10.1017/S1369415419000505
- Markus Kohl, Ethics, doi:10.1086/702981, JSTOR 26855503
- Lars Lodberg, Studi Kantiani, JSTOR 26870893
- Colin Marshall, Mind, doi:10.1093/mind/fzy075, JSTOR 48596002
- Colin McLear, "Kant and the Demands of Reflection", SGIR Review
- Samantha Matherne, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, doi:10.1080/00048402.2019.1617756
- Sasha Mudd, The Philosophical Review, doi:10.1215/00318108-8809958
- Laurentzi De Sasia, "El problema de la reflexión-c como apercepción pura en Kant on Reflection and Virtue de Melissa Merritt", Philosophia
- Martin Sticker, European Journal of Philosophy, doi:10.1111/ejop.12461
- Kristi Sweet, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, [1]
- Jessica Tizzard, "Moral Agency as Cognitive Agency: Recovering Kant’s Conception of Virtue", Con-Textos Kantianos
- ^ a b Forum on The Sublime, discussed by Donald Ainslie, Rachel Zuckert, Paul Guyer, Luigi Filieri, and Samantha Matherne; edited by Giulia Milli. Lebenswelt 20 (2022), pp. 139–188.
- ^ Merritt, Melissa McBay (2004). Drawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique (PhD thesis). University of Pittsburgh. ProQuest 305146139.
- ^ "The Henry Allison Senior Scholar Prize". North American Kant Society.
- ^ "Annette Baier Prize". AAP.
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