Dunn, Nicholas
Assistant Professor
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- (403) 332-4287
- nicholas.dunn@uleth.ca
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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 Other. Philosophy and Rhetoric 58(1): 69-80.
(2025). Toward a 'Halfway Plausible Theory of Ethics': Judgment in Arendt's Critique of Kant's Moral Philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
(2025) Preparing the Particular: Kant on the Imagination's Role in Judgment. Southern Journal of Philosophy. 63(1): 47-65.
(2024) Kant on Judgment and Feeling. Kant-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 Judgment. Kantian Review. 28(4): 575-596.
(2021) Subsuming 'Determining' under 'Reflecting': Kant's Power of Judgment, Reconsidered. Inquiry.
(2020) Kant and the Demands of Normativity: Response to Harbin. Dialogue.
(2020) Plurality and the Potential for Agreement: Arendt, Kant, and the 'Way of Thinking' of the World Citizen. Constellations. 27(2): 244-257.
(2015) A Lawful Freedom: Kant's Practical Refutation of Noumenal Chance. Kant 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