Affiliated Research Scholars

Angela Breitenbach

Angela Breitenbach is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Her research focuses on the history of modern philosophy, in particular the philosophy of Kant, as well as questions in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and aesthetics.

Angela Breitenbach's webpage at the Faculty of Philosophy

Selected publications

• 'Beauty in Proofs: Kant on Aesthetics in Mathematics', European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
• 'Biological Purposiveness and Analogical Reflection', in I. Goy and E. Watkins (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming)
• 'Kant on Causal Knowledge: Causality, Mechanism and Reflective Judgment', in K. Allen and T. Stoneham (eds.), Causation and Modern Philosophy, London: Routledge, 2011, 201–219
• Die Analogie von Vernunft und Natur, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009 (The Analogy of Reason and Nature)
• 'Teleology in Biology: A Kantian Approach', Kant Yearbook, 1 (2009), 31–56
• 'Umweltethik nach Kant: Ein analogisches Verständnis vom Wert der Natur', Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 57 (2009), 377–395 ('Kantian Environmental Ethics: An Analogical Conception of the Value of Nature')
• 'Two Views on Nature: A Solution to Kant's Antinomy of Mechanism and Teleology', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 16 (2008), 351–369
• 'Mechanical Explanation of Nature and its Limits in Kant's Critique of Judgment', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science, 37 (2006), 694–711
• 'Kant Goes Fishing: Kant and the Right to Property in Environmental Resources', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science, 36 (2005), 488–512