Katerina Deligiorgi

I have written a couple of books on Kant. In The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom (2012), I defend a Kantian account of autonomy from some of its critics and its most eloquent supporters. In Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment (2005), I offer a qualified defence of a Kantian conception of public reasoning.

I've also written a good deal on Hegelian matters. I have been very lucky to have had the chance to publish various exploratory papers in edited collections led by brilliant (and very patient!) colleagues.

After spending quite a few years trying to learn how to think historically, I am now engaging with contemporary debates in metaphysics and meta-ethics for a book on freedom. The book is called, Good, Ought, and Can: An Idealist Argument for Freedom. The book exists currently in draft form, with Part I: Good being under review.

In a way this book is a departure from the more historical work I have done previously: the focus is squarely on contemporary debates in the broader Anglo-American philosophical tradition. However,, formative for the argument is my previous work, especially the more exploratory and wayward papers I was lucky to be able to discuss work with colleagues specialising in German idealism. In owe a lot to those discussions and to colleagues from whom I learnt a great  deal over the last few years in conferences and workshops in the U.S., Finland, Japan, Italy, Germany, France as well as at home, in the U.K. I appreciate and remain grateful for the openness with which they greeted my hunches- as a philosopher I would be nowhere without such spirited and generous encounters.
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