Affiliated Research Scholars
Alix Cohen
Alix is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds.
Before going to Leeds, she was based in Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy. Before coming to Cambridge to do her MPhil and her PhD, she studied at the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, where she worked on Rousseau's theory of evil, and the University of Edinburgh, where she worked on Hume's moral philosophy.
Research interests: Kant; history of modern philosophy (in particular Rousseau and Hume); philosophy of the social sciences; philosophy of history; philosophy of biology.
Publications
Book
- Guest-edited special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science on Kantian Philosophy and the Human Sciences (vol. 39, issue 4, December 2008).
Articles
- 'Kant's Answer to the Question "What is Man?" and its Implications for the Human Sciences', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, special issue on Kantian Philosophy and the Human Sciences, vol. 39, 2008, pp. 506-514.
- 'A Kantian Stance on Teleology in Biology', South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, 2007, pp. 109-121.
- 'Physiological vs. Pragmatic Anthropology: A Response to Schleiermacher's Objection to Kant's Anthropology', Proceedings of the 10th International Kant Congress (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter), 2008.
- 'The Making of a Classic: The Reception of David Hume in Europe', Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, forthcoming in 2007.
- 'Kant on Epigenesis, Monogenesis and Human Nature: The Biological Premises of Anthropology', Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 37(4), 2006.
- 'In Defence of Hume's Historical Method', British Journal of History of Philosophy, vol. 13, 2005, pp. 489-502.
- 'Kant's Antinomy of Reflective Judgment: A Re-evaluation', Teorema, vol. 23, n. 1-3, 2004, pp. 183-197, winner of the 2004 Teorema Essay Prize.
- 'The notion of moral progress in Hume's moral philosophy', Hume Studies, vol. XXV, n.1, 2000, pp. 109-128.
- 'La rêverie comme tentative de s'évader du monde des ob-jets', Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, vol. XII, 2000, pp. 59-70.
- 'Le mal, funeste hasard ou tragique nécessité?', Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, vol. XI, 1999.
- Numerous book reviews for Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Le Dix-Huitième Siècle
Alix is also editor of Rousseau Studies, a website dedicated to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in association with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.