CURRICULUM VITAE
(5/1/2007)
NAME: Richard E. Aquila
BIRTH:
EDUCATION:
Northwestern University, M.A. (1967),
Ph.D. (1968), Philosophy.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Northwestern University, Instructor, Spring‑Summer,
1968.
The
The
BOOKS:
(a) SCHOLARLY STUDIES:
(1) Intentionality: A Study of Mental Acts (University Park,
Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1977).
(2) Representational
Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of
Knowledge, Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1983).
(3) Matter in
Mind: A Study of Kant's Transcendental
Deduction, Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1989).
(b) TRANSLATIONS:
(1) Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Presentation (Die Welt als Wille
und Vorstellung), vol. 1, with introduction and
notes (New York: Prentice-Hall/Pearson
Longman, 2007); working as collaborator on vol. 2 (tr. David Carus), forthcoming, 2008.
(2) Arthur Schopenhauer,
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Ground (Über
die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden
Grunde): in progress.
(c) NON-SCHOLARLY:
(1) Rhyme or Reason: A Limerick History of Philosophy
(Washington, D.C.: University Press of
America, 1981); selections ("Stoicism," "
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN
BOOKS:
(1) "The Status of Intentional Objects,"
The New Scholasticism, 45 (1971), 427‑56.
(2) "Intentionality and Possible
Facts," Nous, 5 (1971), 411‑17.
(3) "Predication and Hegel's
Metaphysics," Kant‑Studien, 64
(1973), 231‑45; reprinted in Michael Inwood
(ed.), Hegel (Oxford University Press, 1985), 67‑84.
(4) "Kant's Theory of Concepts," Kant‑Studien, 65 (1974), 1‑19.
(5) "Husserl and Frege
on Meaning," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 12 (1974), 377‑83.
(6) "Brentano, Descartes, and Hume on
Awareness," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , 35 (1974),
223‑39.
(7) "Emotions, Objects and Causal
Relations," Philosophical Studies, 26 (1974), 279‑85.
(8) "Kant's Phenomenalism,"
Idealistic Studies, 5 (1975), 108‑26; reprinted in R. C. S. Walker
(ed.), The Real in the Ideal: Berkeley's
Relation to Kant, (New York: Garland
Publishing, Inc., 1988), 210-228.
(9) "Perceptions
and Perceptual Judgments," Philosophical Studies, 28 (1975), 17‑31.
(10) "Causes and
Constituents of Occurrent Emotion," The
Philosophical Quarterly, 25 (1975), 346‑49.
(11) "Two Kinds of
Transcendental Arguments in Kant," Kant‑Studien,
67 (1976), 1‑19.
(12) "Categories, Schematism and Forms of Judgment," Ratio, 18
(1976), 31‑49.
(13) "Two Problems
of Being and Nonbeing in Sartre's Being and Nothingness," Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, 38 (1977), 167‑86; reprinted in Sartre
and Existentialism, ed. William L. McBride (New York: Garland Publishing, 1997), vol. 4.
(14) "The Relation
Between Pure and Empirical Intuition in Kant," Kant‑Studien, 68 (1977), 275‑89.
(15) "The Identity
of Thought and Object in Spinoza," Journal of the History of Philosophy,
XVI (1978), 271‑8
(16) "Two Lines of
Argument in Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic," International Studies in
Philosophy, 10 (1978), 85‑100.
(17) "A New Look at
Kant's Aesthetic Judgments," Kant‑Studien,
70 (1979), 17‑34; reprinted in Ted Cohen and Paul Guyer
(eds.), Essays in Kant's Aesthetics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 87‑114.
(18) "Personal
Identity and Kant's Refutation of Idealism," Kant‑Studien, 70 (1979), 259‑78; reprinted in Ruth
Chadwick and Clive Cazeaux (eds.), Immanuel
Kant: Critical Assessments
(London: Routledge,
1992), volume 2, 143-67.
(19) "Things in
Themselves and Appearances:
Intentionality and Reality in Kant," Archiv
für Geschichte der Philosophie, 61 (1979), 293‑308.
(20) "Mental
Particulars, Mental Events, and the Bundle Theory," Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, 9 (1979), 109‑20.
(21) "Intentional
Objects and Kantian Appearances," Philosophical Topics, 12/2
(1981), 9‑37; reprinted in Essays on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason,
ed. J. N. Mohanty & Robert W. Shahan
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1982), 9‑37.
(22) "Is Sensation
the Material of Appearances?" in Moltke Gram
(ed.), Interpreting Kant (Iowa City:
University of Iowa Press, 1982), 11‑29.
(23) "On Intensionalizing Husserl's Intentions," Nous, 16 (1982), 209‑26.
(24) "States of
Affairs and Identity of Attributes in Spinoza,"
(25) "Necessity and
Irreversibility in the Second Analogy," History of Philosophy Quarterly,
2 (1985), 203‑15.
(26) "Matter, Form,
and Imaginative Association in Sensory Intuition," in Bernard den Ouden and Marcia Moen (eds.), New Essays on Kant
(New York: Peter Lang, 1987), 73‑109.
(27) "Self‑Consciousness,
Self‑Determination, and Imagination in Kant," Topoi,
7 (1988), 65‑79; to be reprinted in Kant, vol. I, ed. Heiner Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (The
History of Philosophy, general editor Tom D. Cambell),
forthcoming August 1998, Ashgate Publishing Company.
(28) "The Cartesian
and a Certain 'Poetic' Notion of Consciousness," Journal of the History
of Ideas, 49 (1988), 543‑62.
(29)
"Intentionality, Content, and Primitive Mental Directedness," Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, 49 (1989), 583‑604.
(30) "Imagination
as a 'Medium'in the Critique of Pure Reason," The Monist, 72 (1989), 209‑21.
(31) (Intellectual
autobiography) "Self‑Presentation," in Eugene Kaelin and Calvin Schrag (eds.), American
Phenomenology: Origins and Developments (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1989), 305‑10.
(32) "Consciousness
as Higher‑Order Thought: Two
Objections," American Philosophical Quarterly, 27 (Jan., 1990), 81‑88.
(33) "On Plotinus
and the 'Togetherness' of Consciousness," Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 30 (1992), 7-32.
(34) "The Subject
as Appearance and as Thing in Itself in the Critique of Pure Reason:
Reflections in the Light of the Role of Imagination in Apprehension," in Minds,
Ideas and Objects: Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern Philosophy,
ed. Phillip D. Cummins and Guenter Zoeller; North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy,
vol. 2. (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1992), 317-27.
(35) "On the
Subjects of Knowing and Willing and the 'I' in Schopenhauer," History
of Philosophy Quarterly, 10 (July, 1993), 241-60.
(36) "The Holistic
Character of Kantian Intuition," in Kant and Contemporary Epistemology,
ed. Paolo Parrini (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1994), 309-29.
(37) (Entry in Reference
Work) "Intentionality," A Companion to Metaphysics
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995), 244-5.
(38) "The Content
of Cartesian Sensation and the Intermingling of Mind and Body," History
of Philosophy Quarterly, 12 (1995), 209-26.
(39) "Self as
Matter and Form: Some Reflections on
Kant's View of the Soul," in D. Klemm and G. Zoeller (eds.), Figuring the Self: Subject, Absolute, and Others in Classical
German Philosophy (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997), 31-54..
(40) "Unity of
Apperception and the Division of Labor in the Transcendental Analytic," Kantian
Review, 1(1998), 17-52.
(41) ASartre=s Other and the Field of
Consciousness: A Husserlian Reading,@ European Journal of
Philosophy, 6 (1998), 253-76.
(42) "Hans Vaihinger and Some Recent Intentionalist
(43) "The
Singularity and the Unity of Transcendental Consciousness in Kant," History of European Ideas (30), 2004,
349-376
PAPERS IN CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS
(1) "Concepts, Objects
and the Analytic in Kant," Proceedings of the Third International Kant
Congress (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1972), 212‑18; reprinted in L. W. Beck (ed.),
Kant's Theory of Knowledge (Dordrecht:
D. Reidel, 1974), 55‑61.
(2) "Categories, Schematism and Forms of Judgment," Proceedings of
the
(3) "A priori
Form and a priori Knowledge in the Transcendental Aesthetic," 5.
Internationaler Kant Congress: Akten, I.1
(Bonn: Bouvier
Verlag Herbert Grundmann,
1981), 83‑90.
(4) "Comments on
Manfred Baum's 'The B‑Deduction and the Refutation of Idealism'," in
Spindel Conference 1986: The B‑Deduction (The Southern
Journal of Philosophy, Supplement 25 [1987]), 109‑14.
(5) "Predication and
the Unity of the Critique of Judgment," Akten
des Siebenten Internationalen
Kant-Kongresses (Bonn: Bouvier, 1991),
81-92.
(6) "Unity of
Organism, Unity of Thought, and the Unity of the Critique of Judgment,"
in Spindel Conference 1991: System and Teleology in Kant's Critique of Judgment, The
Southern Journal of Philosophy, 30, Supplement (1992), 139-55.
(7) "Transcendental
Unity as a Quasi-Object in the first Critique," Proceedings of
the Eighth International Kant Congress, ed. Hoke
Robinson (Milwaukee: Marquette
University Press, 1995), 483-501.
(8) “Infinitude,
Whole-Part Priority, and the Ambiguity of Kantian ‘Space' and ‘Time'," Kant und die
Berliner Aufklärung: Akten
des IX. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses (
REVIEWS
(1) J. N. Mohanty, Husserl and Frege
(Indiana), Husserl Studies, 1 (1984), 320‑30.
(2) J. R. Searle, Intentionality
(
(3) C. Peacocke, Thoughts:
An Essay on Content (Basil Blackwell), Inquiry, 30 (1987),
195‑205.
(4) H. Allison, Kant's
Transcendental Idealism (Yale), International Studies in Philosophy,
19 (1987), 61‑62.
(5) K. Bach, Thought
and Reference (
(6) A. Kenny, The
Legacy of Wittgenstein (Basil Blackwell), Nous,
23 (1989), 270‑72.
(7) J. Benardete, Metaphysics:
The Logical Approach (
(8) P. Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (
(9) W. deVries, Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity
(Cornell), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 51 (1991), 663-75.
(10) J. N. Mohanty, Transcendental Phenomenology (Basil
Blackwell), Review of Metaphysics, 45 (1991), 856-7.
(11) M. Tye, The Metaphysics of Mind (
(12) A. Melnick, Space,
Time, and Thought in Kant (Kluwer), International
Studies in Philosophy, 24 (1992), 119-20.
(13) D. W. Smith, The
Circle of Acquaintance: Perception,
Consciousness, and Empathy (Kluwer), Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, 52 (1992), 994-7.
(14) W. Waxman, Kant's
Model of the Mind (
(15) P. Guyer, Kant and the Experience of Freedom: Essays on Aesthetics and Morality (
(16) Sarah L. Gibbons, Kant's
Theory of Imagination (
(17) Andrew Brook, Kant
and the Mind (
(18) Charles Bigger, Kant's
Methodology (
(19) Lorne Falkenstein, Kant's Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic
(
(20) Richard Popkin (ed.), The Columbia History of Philosophy
(Columbia U. Press), forthcoming, Journal of the History of Philosophy.
(21) Arthur Collins, Possible
Experience: Understanding Kant=s Critique of Pure Reason (
(22) Mark Sacks, Objectivity and Insight (
(23) Robert Greenberg, Kant's Theory of A Priori Knowledge (
(24) Paul Abela, Kant's Empirical
Realism (Oxford University Press), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
[on-line journal http://ndpr.icaap.org/]
(September, 2002); International
Philosophical Quarterly, 43 (2003), 389-90
(25) Patricia Matthews, The Significance of Beauty: Kant on Feeling
and the System of the Mind (Kluwer), International Studies in Philosophy, 35
(2003), 359
(26) Karl Ameriks, Interpreting
Kant's Critiques (
PROFESSIONAL
PRESENTATIONS:
(1) "Concepts, Objects, and the Analytic in
Kant," Third International Kant Congress, The
(2) "The Unity of
Practical and Intellectual Consciousness in Kant," invited paper, Department
of Philosophy, The University of Rochester, April, 1974.
(3) "Categories, Schematism
and Forms of Judgment,"
(4) Comments on Allison's "The Non‑Spatiality of
Things in Themselves for Kant," American Philosophical Association,
(5) "A New Look at Kant's Pure Aesthetic
Pleasures,"
(6) "Seeing Sounds,"
(7) "Things in Themselves and
Appearances: Two Things or One?,"
(8) "Things in Themselves and
Appearances: Two Things or One?,"
(9) "Spinoza and Sartre: The Identity of Thought and Object,"
(10) "Subjectivism
and the Identity of the Attributes in Spinoza," invited paper, Department
of Philosophy,
(11) "Two Lines of
Argument in Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic," invited paper, Department of
Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, February, 1978.
(12) "Spinoza and
Sartre: The Identity of Thought and
Object," American Philosophical Association,
(13) Comments on Mohanty's "Intentionality: Husserl and Hintikka,"
American Philosophical Association,
(14) "Necessity and
Irreversibility of Perceptions in the Second Analogy," A Colloquium on
"Kant's Answer to Hume,"
invited paper, The University of Western Ontario, April, 1979.
(15) Comments on Walsh's
"Kant's Transcendental Idealism," Kant Conference in Honor of
Professor Lewis White Beck, The
(16a&b) (a) "Kant
and Some Problems of Intentionality," (b) "On Intensionalizing
Husserl's Intentions," invited papers, Department of Philosophy,
(17) "Is Sensation
the Material of Appearances?", invited paper, meeting co‑sponsored
by the Society for Contemporary German Philosophy and the APA Committee on
International Cooperation, Boston, December, 1980.
(18) "A Priori
Form and A Priori Knowledge in the Transcendental Aesthetic," Fifth
International Kant Congress,
(19) Comments on the
papers of Mohanty and Searle, American Philosophical
Association,
(20) "Kant on Inner
Sense," invited paper, Department of Philosophy,
(21) "Intentionality,"
Department of Philosophy, invited lecture, University of Alabama/Birmingham,
February, 1982.
(22) Guest lectures (2,
in Italian), invited by Professor Lucio Colletti for his course,
(23) Response to
critical discussion of Representational Mind (one of three books
selected for discussion at annual meeting of Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy), October, 1984.
(24) "Consciousness
and Modern Philosophy," presented as part of "Centripetals"
(a series of faculty luncheon discussions),
(25) "Imagination,
Intuition, and the Affinity of Appearances," American Philosophical
Association,
(26) Comments on
Robinson's "Making the Subject Matter Fit the Theory," American
Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C., December, 1985.
(27) "Imagination
as Matter and Form in Experience," invited paper, Department of
Philosophy, University of Colorado/Boulder, February, 1986.
(28) Comments on Baum's
"The B‑Deduction and the Refutation of Idealism," Spindel Conference,
(29) Comments on Tlumak's "Accidental Predication in Leibniz,"
(30) "Unblinded Intuition," invited paper,
(31)
"Intentionality, Content, and Primitive Mental Directedness,"
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
(32) Comments on Meerbote and Robinson, University of Iowa, Conference on
Ideas and Objects in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy, April, 1989.
(33)
"Consciousness, Content, and Mind‑Body Dualism," Cognitive
Science Lab group,
(34) "Predication
and the Unity of the Critique of Judgment," Seventh International
Kant Congress,
(35) "Reflections
on Plotinus and Sartre," Conference on Consciousness and the History of
Philosophy,
(36) "Unity of
Organism, Unity of Thought, and the Unity of the Critique of Judgment,"
invited paper, Spindel Conference,
(37) "Some Problems
Regarding the 'Modern' Concept of Consciousness," invited paper, presented
as part of Ida Beam Visiting Professorship, The University of Iowa, April 7-8,
1992.
(38) "On the
'Subjects' of Knowing and Willing: Some
Reflections on Schopenhauer," invited paper, presented as part of Ida Beam
Visiting Professorship, The University of Iowa, April 7-8, 1992.
(39) "Self as
Matter and Form: Some Reflections on
Kant," The 26th Annual Everett W. Hall Lecture, The
(40) "The Holistic
Character of Kantian Intuition," invited paper, Workshop on Kant and
Contemporary Epistemology, The Florentine Center for the History and Philosophy
of Science, May 30, 1992.
(41) "Kant on
Consciousness and Levels of Consciousness," invited paper, Philosophy
Club,
(42) "Unity of
Apperception as a Quasi-Object in the first Critique," invited
paper, Eighth International Kant Congress,
(43) "Identity and
Reflection: Comments on Brook's and McRobert's 'Hidden Riches in Kant's Attack on the
Amphiboly'," commentary in Invited Session, American Philosophical
Association, Central Division,
(44) ASartre=s Look and the
Phenomenology of the Field of Consciousness,@ Keynote Address, Conference in annual series,
Philosophical Collaborations, Southern Illinois University, March 20, 1998.
(45) ASartre=s Look and the
Phenomenology of the Field of Consciousness,@ American Philosophical Association, Eastern
Division, Washington, DC, December 29, 1998.
(46) ACritical Remarks on Béatrice Longuenesse=s Kant and the
Capacity to Judge@ (tr. Charles T. Wolfe
[Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998]), invited presentation in AAuthor Meets Critics@ session, scheduled for
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Berkeley, April 2, 1999.
(47) AInfinitude, Whole-Part
Priority, and the Ambiguity of Kantian >Space= and >Time,@ scheduled for presentation at the Ninth
International Kant Congress,
(48) “Paul Abela's Kant's Empirical Realism,” Author Meets Critics," North
American Kant Society (meeting with APA),
(49)
“Projecting and Rejecting the World: The Transcendental Philosophy of Arthur
Schopenhauer,”
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY:
Director of
Undergraduate Studies, Department of Philosophy,
Director of Graduate
Studies, Department of Philosophy,
Member, Research
Council,
Member, Graduate
Council, University of Tennessee, 1992-5; proxy member, 1995-8.
Chair of sessions on
various occasions: APA Eastern and Central
Divisions; Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, North American Kant
Society.
Member, Advisory
Committee to Program Committee, Eastern Division of American Philosophical
Association, 1986‑1987.
Member, Review Committee
(selection of candidates for Fulbright awards for study in
Member, Selection Panel
for ACLS Fellowships, January, 1999.
President, North
American Kant Society, 1994-7; Member, Advisory Board, 1997- .
Member, Board of
Editorial Consultants, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 1985‑91,
1994-7.
Member, Board of
Advisors, Philosophical Explorations, 1997-2005.
Associate Editor, Kantian
Review, 1997-2007. Co-editor (with Graham Bird and Howard Williams), 2007-
Referee for various
other journals and publishers.
Consultant in various
promotion and tenure cases, various universities.