Dunn, Nicholas

Assistant Professor

Philosophy Department

Phone
(403) 332-4287
Email
nicholas.dunn@uleth.ca

Office Hours

Mondays, 11 AM - 1 PM

About Me

Academic appointments

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge (Department of Philosophy, 2025 – present)

Visiting Faculty, Simon Fraser University (Department of Philosophy, 2025)

College Professor, Okanagan College (Department of Philosophy, 2024-2025)

Klemens von Klemperer Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bard College (Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, 2022-2024)

 

Education

PhD, McGill University (2020)

MA, Simon Fraser University (2015)

Publications

Edited volumes

(Forthcoming) Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy. De Gruyter.

 

Special Issues

(2025). Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others. (co-edited with Nirvana Tanoukhi). Philosophy & Rhetoric.

 

Journal Articles

(2025). Normative Pluralism and the Othernd the OtherPhilosophy and Rhetoric 58(1): 69-80.

(2025). Toward a 'Halfway Plausible Theory of Ethics': Judgment in Arendt's Critique of Kant's Moral PhilosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy.

(2025) Preparing the Particular: Kant on the Imagination's Role in JudgmentSouthern Journal of Philosophy. 63(1): 47-65.

(2024) Kant on Judgment and FeelingKant-Studien. 115(1): 46-70.

(2024) Kant on Moral Feeling and Practical Judgment. In Edgar Valdez (Ed.) Rethinking Kant: Volume 7. (pp. 72-96) Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

(2023) Reflections of Reason: Kant on Practical JudgmentKantian Review. 28(4): 575-596.

(2021) Subsuming 'Determining' under 'Reflecting': Kant's Power of Judgment, ReconsideredInquiry.

(2020) Kant and the Demands of Normativity: Response to HarbinDialogue.

(2020) Plurality and the Potential for Agreement: Arendt, Kant, and the 'Way of Thinking' of the World CitizenConstellations. 27(2): 244-257.

(2015) A Lawful Freedom: Kant's Practical Refutation of Noumenal ChanceKant Studies Online. (1):149-177


Public Philosophy

“When Compassion Becomes Discrimination: The Ethics of MAID for Mental Illness,” Calgary Herald (December 15)


Research Interests

Kant

Biomedical Ethics

Social and Political Philosophy

Hannah Arendt

Philosophy of Love

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

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