Dr Christian Onof
e-mail: c.onof@philosophy.bbk.ac.uk
Chris Onof’s first degree and PhD are in Mathematics and Engineering, and he obtained an MA and a PhD in Philosophy, at Birkbeck College and UCL respectively. His philosophical interests lie chiefly in Kant’s transcendental idealism, Kantian ethics, the 'hard' problem of consciousness, and existential phenomenology. His interest in the hard problem focuses upon how the inevitability of property dualism points to the limits of naturalism. Another theme of his research is the examination of relations between Kant’s critical philosophy and existential investigations into conditions of intelligibility. He is joint founding editor of Episteme, a new journal of Social Epistemology.
Selected refereed publications
'Property dualism, epistemic normativity and the limits of naturalism', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming 2007).
'Perspectives on Social Cognition', Cognitive Systems Research' (forthcoming 2007), ed. and co-author of paper on Stigmergy
'Kant's grounding of morality in the fact of reason', Cuadernos de Anuario Filosofico, 2005, Vol. 174, 157-168.
'A framework for the derivation and reconstruction of the Categorical Imperative', Kant Studien, 1998, Vol. 89, No. 4, 410-27.
Some other publications
'Kant', The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics, M. Cohen (ed.), Hodder Arnold, 2006, 151-5.
'Hermeneutic conditions and the possibility of objective knowledge', Philosophy, Competition and the Good Life, K. Boudouris & K. Kalimtzis (eds), Ionia Publications, 2006, 225-30.
'Deriving the Formula of Universal Law as principle of permissible/obligatory maxims', Kant zwischen West und Ost. Zum Gedenken an Kants 200. Todestag und 280. Geburtstag, Wladimar Bryushinkin (ed.), Kalingrad University Press, Kaliningrad, 2006, Vol. II, 128-36.
'Hölderlin's Philosophy', The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004,
'Sartre's Existentialism', The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003.
Selected reviews
'There's Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Jackson's Knowledge Argument' by P. Ludlow, Y Nagasawa & D. Stoljat (eds) in Philosophy in Review, 2005, Vol. XXV, No. 6, 423-6.
'Heidegger's Analytic' by Taylor Carman in Philosophy in Review, 2004, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, 17-19.
'Kant trouble' by Diane Morgan in Philosophy Today, 2002, Vol. 15, No. 39.
Selected conference papers
'A game-theoretic view of Kant's Formula of Universal Law, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind, University of Southampton, 2006, July 7-9.
'Understanding the schematism and the nature of schemata', 10th International Kant Congress, University of Sao Paulo, 2005, September 4-9.
'The permissible and the obligatory in Kant's derivation of the categorical imperative', IXth International Meeting of the Kant Tagung, Kalingrad University, 2004, April 22-24.
'Kant's grounding of morality in the fact of reason', 200 Years after: Returns and Re-interpretations of Kant, XLII Reuniones Philosophicas, University of Navarra, 204, March 8-10.
'An Inconsistency in Chalmers's property dualism', Toward a Science of Consciousness 2004, University of Tucson, Arizona, 2004, April 7-11.
'Reconciling Kant's ethics with inclinations and self', Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind, University of York, July 6-8.