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Larry Krasnoff

Professor

Education

  • 1992 - Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
  • 1985 - B.A., Williams College

Research Interests

  • Moral and political philosophy
  • Kant, Hegel

Publications

  • “More than Consent: Kant on the Function of the Social Contract,” Las Torres de Lucca: International Journal of Political Philosophy 7.13 (2018), 45-62.
  • “On the (Supposed) Distinction Between Classical and Welfare Liberalism: Lessons from the Doctrine of Right,” in L. Krasnoff, N. Sánchez Madrid and P. Satne (eds.), Kant’s Doctrine of Right in the 21st Century (University of Wales Press, 2018), 103-123.
  • “Kantian Constructivism,” in J. Mandle and D. A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls (Blackwell, 2014), 73-87.
  • “Constructing Practical Justification: How Can the Categorical Imperative Justify Desire-Based Actions?,” in M. Timmons and S. Baiasu (eds.), Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays (Oxford University Press, 2013), 87-109.
  • “Voluntarism and Conventionalism in Hobbes and Kant,” Hobbes Studies 25.1 (2012), 43-65.
  • "Autonomy and Plurality," Philosophical Quarterly 60 (2010), 673-691.
  • Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
  • "Pythagoras Enlightened: Kant on the Effect of Moral Philosophy," in N. Brender and L. Krasnoff (eds.) New Essays on the History of Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 133-153.
  • "How Kantian is Constructivism?" Kant-Studien 90.4 (1999), 385-409. Reprinted in K. Brinkmann (ed.), German Idealism (Routledge, 2007), 257-283.
  • "Consensus, Stability and Normativity in Rawls' Political Liberalism," Journal of Philosophy 95.6 (1998), 269-293.
  • "The Fact of Politics: History and Teleology in Kant," European Journal of Philosophy 2.1 (1994), 22-40.