Affiliated Research Scholars
Angela Breitenbach
Angela Breitenbach is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Before moving to Norwich, she spent three years as a Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, she taught for the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Philosophy Faculty, and was Director of Studies in Philosophy at Sidney Sussex College.
Angela received her doctorate from the Humboldt-University of Berlin for a dissertation on Kant's philosophy of nature, after having studied for the MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine and the BA in Philosophy at Cambridge.
In the Department, she continues to teach Kant as part of Part II, Paper 9.
Research interests: Kant, philosophy of nature and the environment, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology
Publications
Monograph
- 2009: Die Analogie von Vernunft und Natur: Eine Umweltphilosophie nach Kant, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (The Analogy of Reason and Nature: Kantian Environmental Philosophy)
Journal articles
- 2009: 'Teleology in Biology: A Kantian Approach', Kant Yearbook, 1, 31–56
- 2009: 'Umweltethik nach Kant: Ein analogisches Verständnis vom Wert der Natur', Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 57, 377–395 ('Kantian Environmental Ethics: An Analogical Conception of the Value of Nature')
- 2008: 'Two Views on Nature: A Solution to Kant's Antinomy of Mechanism and Teleology', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 16, 351–369
- 2008: 'Nonsense and Mysticism in Wittgenstein's Tractatus', Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 19, 55–77
- 2006: 'Mechanical Explanation of Nature and its Limits in Kant's Critique of Judgment', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 37, 694–711
- 2005: 'Kant Goes Fishing: Kant and the Right to Property in Environmental Resources', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 36, 488–512
- 2004: 'Langton on Things in Themselves: A Critique of Kantian Humility', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 35 , 137–148
Articles in edited collections
- Forthcoming: 'Biological Purposiveness and Analogical Reflection', in: I. Goy (ed.), 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, Oxford: Routledge
- Forthcoming: 'Kant on Biology and the Experience of Life', in: C. de la Rocca (ed.), Proceedings of the XIth International Kant Congress, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter
- 2009: 'Die Frage nach dem Lebendigen in Zeiten biowissenschaftlichen Fortschritts', in: A. Trautsch and S. Springmann (eds.), Was ist Leben? Festgabe für Volker Gerhardt zum 65. Geburtstag von seinen Schülern und Kollegen, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 29–34
- 2008: 'Vernunft in der Natur: Umweltphilosophie bei Kant', in: V. Rohden, R. R. Terra, G. A. de Almeida and M. Ruffing (ed.), Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants, Proceedings of the Xth International Kant Congress, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, Vol. 3, 485–496
- 2005: 'Kreativität in der Natur: Eine Kantische Betrachtung der Teleologie in der Biologie', in: G. Abel (ed.), Kreativität, XX. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Berlin: Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin (2005), Vol. 2, 323–334
Dictionary and encyclopedia entries
- Forthcoming: 'Fakultät'; 'Organon'; 'Organon der reinen Vernunft'; 'Skandal der Philosophie', in: G. Mohr, J. Stolzenberg and M. Willaschek (eds.), Kant-Lexikon, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter
- 2007: 'Onora O'Neill', in: J. Nida-Rümelin and E. Özmen (eds.), Philosophie der Gegenwart in Einzeldarstellungen, 3. Auflage, Stuttgart: Kröner, 479–483