Faculty Profile

		James Kreines, Ph.D. Associate Professor E-mail: jkreines@cmc.edu Phone: (909) 607-6845 Campus Address: Roberts North 211 Departments: Philosophy Web Site Curriculum Vitae
		Leave/Sabbatical Academic Year (on leave or sabbatical for the entire academic year)

Educational Background

University of Chicago. PhD 2001.
Princeton University. B.A. 1986-1990.

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Teaching Interests

• Modern Philosophy; Kant and Post-Kantian European Philosophy
• Kant and Post-Kantian European Philosophy

Research Interests

• Kant
• Hegel
• German Idealism

Selected Professional Activities

• Presenting "Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism" and the Hegel Society of Great Britain conference at St Edmund's Hall, Oxford: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit. Sept 2007.
• Presenting "Kant on the Laws of Nature and the Limitations of our Knowledge" at the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society, UCLA. Oct 2007.

Selected Research and Publications

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• “Between The Bounds of Experience and Divine Intuition: Kant’s Epistemic Limits and Hegel’s Ambitions.” Inquiry 50:3 2007 306 - 334
• “The Logic of Life: Hegel’s Philosophical Defense of Teleological Explanation in Biology.” Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, second edition, edited by F. Beiser. Forthcoming.
• “Hegel’s Metaphysics: Changing the Debate.” Philosophy Compass. 1:5 (2006): 466-480.
• “The Inexplicability of Kant's Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation and Biology.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 87:3 (2005): 270-311.
• “Hegel’s Critique of Pure Mechanism and the Philosophical Appeal of the Logic Project.” European Journal of Philosophy 12:1 (2004): 38-74.