Karl Ameriks

Karl Ameriks is McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has written widely in continental and modern philosophy. His books include Interpreting Kant's Critiques, Kant and the Fate of Autonomy, and Kant's Theory of Mind. His presentation will consider similarities between Kant's system and Thomas Reid's notion of common sense.

Web site: http://www.nd.edu/~ndphilo/faculty/kam.htm

Interpreting Kant's Critiques
	Description from Oxford University Press: Karl Ameriks here collects his most important essays to provide a uniquely detailed and up-to-date analysis of Kant's main arguments in all three major areas of his work: theoretical philosophy (Critique of Pure Reason), practical philosophy (Critique of Practical Reason), and aesthetics (Critique of Judgment). Guiding the volume is Ameriks's belief that one cannot properly understand any one of these Critiques except in the context of the other two. The essays can be read individually, but read together they offer a comprehensive guide to the main themes of the most influential of all modern philosophical systems.
Kant and the Fate of Autonomy
	Description from Cambridge University Press: It has been argued that Kant's all-consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy has had, in the long-run, the unintended effect of leading to the widespread discrediting of philosophy and of undermining the notion of autonomy itself. The result of this "Copernican revolution" has seemed to many commentators the de-centering, if not the self-destruction, of the autonomous self. Ameriks challenges the presumptions that dominate popular approaches to the concept of freedom, and to the interpretation of the relation among the Enlightenment, Kant and post-Kantian thought.
Kant's Theory of Mind
	Description from Oxford University Press: This seminal contribution to Kant studies, originally published in 1982, was the first to present a thorough survey and evaluation of Kant's theory of mind. Ameriks focuses on Kant's discussion of the Paralogisms in the Critique of Pure Reason, and examines how the themes raised there are treated in the rest of Kant's writings. Ameriks demonstrates that Kant developed a theory of mind that is much more rationalistic and defensible than most interpreters have allowed.