U of ADepartment of Philosophy

Houston Smit

Houston Smit (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1994), Associate Professor of Philosophy. He specializes in History of Modern Philosophy and History of Medieval Philosophy.

Publications:

"The Role of Reflection in the Critique of Pure Reason." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (1999): 203-23

"Kant on Marks and the Immediacy of Intuition." Philosophical Review 109 (2000): 235-66

"Aquinas's Abstractionism" forthcoming. Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001): 85-118

Work in Progress (Papers):

"What Can We Know about Things in Themselves?"
"Internalism and the Origin of Rational Motivation"
"Kant on the Spontaneity of Cognition"
"Kant on Apperception and the Spontaneity of Cognition"
"Causal Laws and the Mechanism of Nature"
"Kant on Synthesis and the Immediacy of Intuition"


Contact Professor Smit

Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027

smit AT u DOT arizona DOT edu

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PO Box 210027
Tucson, Arizona
85721-0027


Phone: (520) 621-5045
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