Kant

Faculty working in Kant

Professor Helga Varden's Book, Sex, Love & Gender: A Kantian Theory, Released in Paperback
Professor Helga Varden's recent book, Sex, Love & Gender: A Kantian Theory (Oxford University Press 2020), was released today in paperback form. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive...
Christine Korsgaard, Harvard Philosophy Professor, Discusses Support She Received as Illinois Philosophy Undergrad
Christine Korsgaard, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and world renowned moral philosopher, studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Illinois Philosophy Welcomes Four New Lecturers
Illinois Philosophy is proud to announce that four new lecturers - Zachary Biondi, Seungil Lee, Patrick Leland, and Ioan Muntean - have joined the faculty this Fall.

Zachary Biondi
Zach Biondi is a Lecturer in Philosophy, who is interested in the history of philosophy, ethics, and technology. He has special interests in connections between Kant's moral and practical philosophy...
Jochen Bojanowski
Jochen Bojanowski is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who does research in moral and political philosophy, with a particular interest in Kant’s practical philosophy. His first book, Kant’s...
Helga Varden
Helga Varden is a Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Gender and Women Studies, whose main research interests are in Kant’s practical philosophy, legal-political philosophy, feminist...
Patrick R. Leland
Patrick R. Leland is a lecturer in philosophy, who specializes in early and late modern European philosophy, with a particular research focus on Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Much of his recent work...
Sex, Love, & Gender (by Helga Varden)
This 2020 book rethinks Kant's views on human nature by making space for sex, love, and gender within his accounts of moral freedom. It is the first to develop a Kantian account of how to be a sexual...