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Reed Winegar

Harvard, B.A. in Philosophy 2005

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Philosophy 2012

Reed Winegar has accepted a tenure-track appointment at Fordham University in New York City starting Fall 2012.

Dissertation Title: 

 The Fate of Kant's Antinomies

Awards: 

Andrew W. Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-13 (declined)

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-13 (declined)

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Grant, 2012-13 (declined)

Josephine de Karman Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-13 (declined)

President Gutmann Leadership Award, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2011

Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-12

Dean's Scholar, Graduate Division, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2010

School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2010

Graduate Student Essay Prize, Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: International Tercentenary Conference, April 2010

Dean's Summer Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2009

Bacon Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2009

Graduate Student Essay Prize, Canadian Society for Aesthetics, May 2009

Advisors: 

Paul Guyer (supervisor), Karen Detlefsen, Gary Hatfield, Rolf-Peter Horstmann

Research Interests

  • Kant
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Hegel and German Idealism

Selected Publications

"Good Sense, Art, and Morality in Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste.'" Journal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (2011): 17-35.

"An Unfamiliar and Positive Law: On Kant and Schiller." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (forthcoming)

Presentations: 

"The Categories and the Unconditioned." Pure Forms of Thought: Categories in Kant and German Idealism, An International Conference, University of Pennsylvania, April 2012

"Hume's 'Dangerous Arguments': The Impact of Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion on Kant's Antinomy of the Teleological Power of Judgment." III. Multilaterales Kant-Kolloquium: Kant und das antinomische Denken, Mainz, Germany, October 2011

"An Unfamiliar and Positive Law: on Kant, Schiller, and Hegel." North American Kant Society, Eastern Study Group, Boston College, April 2011 and Kant and Hegel: A Joint Conference of the UK Kant Society and Hegel Society of Great Britain, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 2010

"Berkeley's Escape from the Labyrinth: Reevaluating Berkeley's Attitude Towards Infinite Divisibility." Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: International Tercentenary Conference, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, April 2010 and Pacific Northwest/Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Canada, October 2008

"Good Sense, Art, and Morality in Hume's 'Of the Standard of the Taste.'" Southwestern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of New Mexico, February 2010

"Do Trompe L'oeil Paintings Represent?" Canadian Society for Aesthetics, Carleton College, Canada, May 2009

winegar@sas.upenn.edu