Curriculum Vitae
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, McGill University. An abbreviated CV is available as a download.
Education
- Ph.D. (1970), University of Toronto
Dissertation: The Category of Contingency in Hegel’s Logic, directed by Emil Fackenheim - Graduate study in Germany (1965, 1966–67)
- S.T.B. (1964), University of St. Michael’s College
- M.A. (1960), University of Toronto
- B.A. Honours (1959), University of Toronto
Monographs, translations and edited volumes
- Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831. Monograph (Cambridge University Press, 2021) xii–248 pp.
- The Science of Logic: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Translation, with notes and introductory study (Cambridge University Press, 2010) lxxiv–790 pp.
- Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800. Monograph (Cambridge University Press, 2005) xvi–376 pp.
- Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism. Translation with critical notes and introductory studies, with H. S. Harris; new revised edition edited by George di Giovanni (Hackett, 2000) xvi–404 pp.
- Reinhold and the Enlightenment. Editor (Springer, 2009) xiii–337 pp.
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel ‘Allwill’. Translation with critical notes and bibliography (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994) 683 pp.
- Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and Other Writings: Immanuel Kant. Translation, with an introduction by Robert M. Adams (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- Religion and Rational Theology: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, vol. VI. Translated and edited with Allen W. Wood (Cambridge University Press, 1996) xxiv–518 pp.
- Essays on Hegel’s Logic. Editor (SUNY Press, 1990) 218 pp.
- Hegel’s Jena Logic and Metaphysics (1804–05). Translation edited with J. Burbidge, introduction by H. S. Harris (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986) 200 pp.
- Revue internationale de philosophie, XL.1. Invited guest editor (1995)
Essays and critical studies — a selection
- Review article of Matthew Nini, Fichte in Berlin: The 1804 Wissenschaftslehre (Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2024) 284. In Fichte-Studien, vol. 54.1 (2025) 267-285.
- ‘Foreword’ to Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism, edited by Katherina Mihaylova and Anna Ezekiel, foreword by George di Giovanni (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) x-xiii.
- “Jacobi as Literary Author,” in Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the end of the Enlightenment: Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity, ed. Alexander J.B. Hampton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) 286-301. This book is dedicated to me.
- “Wie die Triebe, so der Sinn; und wie der Sinn, so die Triebe: Jacobi on Reason as a Form of Life.” In The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy, eds. M. Kisner, Jörg Noller (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2020) 107-126.
- Co-authored with Garth Green “Hegel: article for The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Religion,” Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro eds. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), sub voce 2990 words.
- “Determination,” entry in the Cambridge Kant-Lexicon, ed. Julian Wuerth, 2021, pp. 145-146.
- “The Conflict of the Faculties,” entry in the Cambridge Kant-Lexicon, ed. Julian Wuerth, 2021, pp. 695-699.
- “The Transcendental Spinozism of Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre,” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Fichte, ed. Marina Bykova (New York: The Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) 197-215.
- Review article: On Robert R. Williams, Hegel on the Proofs and the Personhood of God: Studies in Hegel’s Logic and Philosophy of Religion (Oxford UP 2017) ISBN 978-0-19-879522-3. In SGIR Review, published by the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism, I, 1 (2018) 8-19.
- “Hegelian Logic and Hegelian Myth,” Hegel-Jahrbuch (2017), 105-111. (Actual publication 2018). DOI: ↗
- “Hegel’s Linguistic Turn and its Ontological Significance,” La science de la logique au miroir de l’identité, eds. Gilbert Gérard, Bernard Mabile†, edition de l’institute superieur de philosophie Louvain-la-neuve (Louvain: Peeters 2017) 321-340.
- “Jewish and post-Christian Interpretations of Hegel: Emil Fackenheim and Henry S. Harris, in Hegel and Canada: Unity of Opposites? Ed. Susan M. Dodds & Neil G. Robertson (Toronto: UTP, 2017) 58-75. Originally published in The Owl of Minerva (2009).
- “The Spinozism of Fichte’s Transcendental Argument in the Lecture Notes of 1804.” Fichte und seine Zeit: Streitfragen, eds Matteo d’Alfonso, Carla De Pascale, Erich Fuchs, Marco Ivaldo. Fichte-Studien, 44(2016)49-63.
- “Kant’s Critical Legacy: Fichte’s Constructionism and Hegel’s Discursive Logic.” The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism, ed. Matthew C. Altman (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) 665-686.
- “The Kantian Legacy: Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre and Hegel’s Logic,” Kenkyu, (Journal of the Japan Fichte Association), 22(2014) 22-45 [in Japanese translation]
- “The Moses/Mendelssohn/Thomas Abbt’s Dispute of 1784: An Episode in the Late Enlightenment Debate on the Vocation of Humankind” (submitted by invitation and accepted for publication in Japanese translation in the Records of the University of Niigata, Japan, December 23, 2013).
- “The Devil and the Beautiful Soul: Hegel’s Critique of Romanticism,” JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics), Vol 38 (2013) 1-15. [2014. Actual publication]
- “Popular Philosophy: The Case of Karl Leonhard Reinhold and Jacob Friedrich Fries,” in Reinholds Freiheitkonception im Kontext des 18. Jahrhunderts, ed. V. Stolz, M. Heinz, M. Bondeli. Reinholdiana 2 (De Gruyter 2012), pp. 383-408.
- “The Year 1786 and Die Bestimmung des Menschen, or Popularphilosophie in Crisis”; in Moses Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics, ed. Renier Munk, Studies in German Idealism (Springer Verlag, 2011) 217-234.
- “The New Spinozism,” The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy: The Nineteenth Century, ed. Alison Stone (Edinburgh: University Press: 2011).
- ‘How Intimate an “Intimate of Lessing” was Hegel? ‘in International Yearbook of German Philosophy, eds Jürgen Stolzenberg, Karl Ameriks, Fred Rush (Berlin/NewYork: de Gruyter, 2010) 178-197.
- “Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment,” in Reinhold and the Enlightenment, ed. George di Giovanni, Studies in German Idealism (Springer Verlag, 2009).
- “Religion, History, and Spirit in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, in The Blackwell Guide to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, ed. Kenneth R. Westphal (Malden, MA: Wiley-Black, 2009) 226-245. Reviewed by Claudia Melica, Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, VI.3.2011, pp. 703-706 (see p. 705).
- “Jewish and Post-Christian Interpretations of Hegel: Emil Fackenheim and Henry S. Harris,” in The Owl of Minerva, 40:2(Spring/Summer, 2009) 223-239.
- “Sacramentalizing the World: On Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre of 1810,” in Grund- und Methodenfragen in Fichtes Spätwerk, Fichte-Studien 31, eds Günter Zöller, Hans Georg von Mainz (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007) 219-233.
- ‘“Das Logische’ of Hegel’s Logic, in the Context of Reinhold’s Late Theories of Knowledge,” in Von der Logik zur Sprache, eds Rüdiger Bubner and Gunnar Hindrichs (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2007), pp. 71-87.
- Review Article: ‘The Persistence of the Enlightenment: On Katerina Deligiorgi’s Kant and the Culture of the Enlightenment’ (Albany: SUNY, 2005), in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 53/54(2006) 133-140.
- “Reinhold’s Criticism of Fichte and Schelling: The Commonality at a Distance between Reinhold’s Late Thought and Hegel’s Logic,” in K. L. Reinhold: Alle soglie dell’idealismo, Archivio di filosofia 1-3.LXXIII(2006); (Pisa/Roma: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali), pp. 271-284.
- “Hegel’s Anti-Spinozism: The Transition to Subjective Logic and the End of Classical Metaphysics,” Hegel’s Theory of the Subject, ed. David Gray Carlson (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 30– 43.
- “Hegel’s Anti-Spinozism: The Transition to Subjective Logic and the End of Classical Metaphysics,” The Cardozo Public Law, Policy, & Ethics Journal, 3(2004) 44-60.
- “Hen kai pan. Spinozafigurationen im Frühidealismus,” in Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi – Ein Wendepunkt der geistigen Bildung der Zeit, eds W. Jaeschke and B. Sandkaulen (Hamburg: Meiner, 2004) 88-106.
- “1799: The Year of Reinhold’s Conversion to Jacobi,” Die Philosophie Karl Leonhard Reinholds, eds. Martin Bondeli and Wolfang Schrader. Fichte-Studien, Supplementa (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2003), pp. 259-282.
- “Faith without Religion, and Religion without Faith: Kant and Hegel on Religion,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 41, no.3 (2003) 365-83.
- “Factual Necessity: On H.S. Harris and Weltgeist,” The Owl of Minerva, XXXI.2(Spring 2000) 131-153.
- “Hume, Jacobi, and Common Sense: An Episode in the Reception of Hume in Germany at the Time of Kant,” Kant-Studien, LXXXVIII(1997) 44-58.
- “...Wie aus der Pistole...: Fries and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge,” Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997) pp. 212-241.
- “The Early Fichte as Disciple of Jacobi,” Fichte-Studien, IX (1997) 257-273.
- “Hegel, Jacobi, and Crypto-Catholicism, or, Hegel in Dialogue with the Enlightenment,” Hegel on the Modern World, ed. Ardis Collins (Albany: SUNY, 1995) pp. 53-72.
- “Reflection and Contradiction: A Commentary on Some Passages of Hegel's Science of Logic,” 1973; republished in G.W.F. Hegel: Critical Assessments, IV vols., ed. Robert Stern (London: Routledge, 1993), Vol. III, No. 68.
- “The Category of Contingency in the Hegelian Logic” (1980); republished in Selected Essays on G.W.F. Hegel, ed. L. Stepelevich (Humanities Press, 1992) pp. 41-59.
- “The First Twenty Years of Critique: The Spinoza Connection,” The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Paul Guyer (Cambridge: University Press, 1992) pp. 417-448.
- “The Spinozism of Kant: Paragraph 76 of the Critique of Judgment,” Akten des Siebenten Internationalen Kant-Kongress, Kurfürstliches Schloß zu Mainz, 1990, ed. G. Funke (Bonn: Bouvier, 1991) pp. 21-31.
- “The Category of Contingency in the Hegelian Logic,” Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, eds. W.E. Steinkraus and K.L. Schmitz (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1980) 179-200.
- “Reflection and Contradiction: A Commentary on Some Passages of Hegel's Logic,” in Hegel-Studien (1973) 131-161.