עדו גייגר
תחומי המחקר העיקריים שלי הם אידיאליזם גרמני ואסתטיקה. עבודת הדוקטורט שלי וספרי הראשון עסקו בהגל (וגם בקאנט), ובשאלות מה הם התנאים לכינונה של צורת חיים אתית, חברתית ופוליטית חדשה, ומדוע שינויים יסודיים כאלה הם אלימים. מאז אני עוסק בעיקר בקאנט, בתורת ההכרה שלו, בתורת המוסר שלו, וגם באסתטיקה (ביפה באומנות ובטבע). בתורת ההכרה, אני מנסה להראות שההנחה כי העולם הוא תכליתי עבור הכרתנו היא, עבור קאנט, תנאי הכרחי לכל ניסיון וידיעה. בתורת המוסר, אני עסוק בשאלה מה מקור הידיעה המוסרית שלנו מה אנו מצווים לעשות, והאם הצו הקטגורי מציע לנו דרך לרכוש ידיעה זו. באסתטיקה, הרעיון המרכזי המעסיק אותי הוא בעיות פילוסופיות מסוימות התובעות, כך נראה, התמודדות דרך יצירה ספרותית. בהקשר זה, כתבתי על אנטיגונה של סופוקלס (ושל הגל), קצת על וולנשטיין של שילר (אליו אני עוד מתכנן לחזור), ועל חרפה והחיים של בעלי חיים של קוטזי.


Ido Geiger
My main areas of research are German Idealism and aesthetics. My doctoral dissertation and first book dealt with Hegel (also with Kant) and the question of the conditions of founding a new ethical, social-political form of life and of the violence of such fundamental changes. Since then, I have been working mainly on Kant, on his theoretical philosophy, as well as on his practical philosophy and aesthetics. In Kant's theoretical philosophy, I am interested in the idea that the assumption of the purposiveness of nature for our cognitive capacities is a necessary transcendental condition of any experience and knowledge. In his practical philosophy, I am concerned with the question of how we acquire moral knowledge and whether the categorical imperative offers a way to gain such knowledge. In Kant's aesthetics, I relate his conception of beauty in nature to the search for the transcendental conditions of experience; I am also very interested in his conception of artistic beauty and the relation between the two conceptions. In aesthetics more generally, I attempt to give substance to my strong sense that certain philosophical problems can only be dealt with through works of literature. I have written on Sophocles's (and Hegel's) Antigone, a little on Schiller's Wallenstein (I intend to return to Schiller) and on Coetzee's Disgrace and The Lives of Animals.

Books:
The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World: A Transcendental Reading of the ‘Critique of the Power of Judgment’. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Forthcoming:
“Methodology of the Teleological Power of Judgment.” In: Routledge Philosophy Minds: Kant. Edited by Sorin Baiasu and Mark Timmons (London: Routledge).

Selected Papers:
“Batteux, Kant and Schiller on Fine Art and Moral Education.” Journal of Philosophy of Education 55 (2021): 1142-1158. Co-author: Aviv Reiter.
“Kant on Aesthetic Ideas, Rational Ideas and the Subject-Matter of Art.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (2021): 186-199.
“How Can Works of Art ‘Make Sensible Rational Ideas’?” In: ‘Gerichtshofs der Vernunft’: Akten des XIII. Internationalen Kant Kongresses. Edited by Camilla Serck-Hanssen and Beatrix Himmelmann (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021), 1045-1054.
“Aesthetic Normativity and the Acquisition of Empirical Concepts.” Con-Textos Kantianos 12 (2020): 71-104. https://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista/article/view/528/848
“Humanity and Personality – What, for Kant, is the Source of Moral Normativity?” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1779124
“Natural Beauty, Fine Art and the Relation between Them.” Kant-Studien 109 (2018): 72-100. Co-author: Aviv Reiter.
“Is Humanity an End In Itself?” In: Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant Kongresses. Edited by Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing and David Wagner. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018), 1831-1839.
“Kant on the Analytic-Synthetic or Mechanistic Model of Causal Explanation.” Kant Yearbook 9 (2017): 19-42.
“Purposiveness: Regulative or Realized? Hegel's Response to Kant's Antinomy of Teleological Judgment.” Hegel-Jahrbuch (2016/1): 499-504.
“Kant on Form, Function and Decoration.” Proceedings of the European Society of Aesthetics 7 (2015): 234-245. Co-author: Aviv Reiter.
“How Are the Different Formulas of the Categorical Imperative Related?” Kantian Review 20 (2015): 395-419.
“How Do We Acquire Moral Knowledge? Is Knowing Our Duty Ever Passive? – Two Questions for Martin Sticker” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (2015): 990-997.
“Mendelssohn and Hegel on God, Idols and Signs.” Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 63 (2014): 199-207. [in Hebrew]
“Can Universal History Underwrite Kant's Substantive Conception of Moral Value?” In: Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht: Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant Kongresses. Edited by Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca and Margit Ruffing (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013), 247-257.
“Rational Feelings and Moral Agency.” Kantian Review 16 (2011): 283-308.
“What Is the Use of the Universal Law Formula of the Categorical Imperative?” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (2010): 271-295.
“Kant's Empirical Philosophy: A Review Essay of Immanuel Kant. Anthropology, History, and Education.” APA (American Philosophical Association) Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 9 (2010): 9-20. Co-author: Patrick R. Frierson.
“Transcendental Idealism in the Third Critique.” In: Kant's Idealism. New Interpretations of a Controversial Doctrine. Edited by Dennis Schulting and Jacco Verburgt (Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2010), 71-88.
“Writing the Lives of Animals.” In: J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature. Edited by Anton Leist and Peter Singer (New-York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 145-170.
“Is Teleological Judgment (Still) Necessary? Kant's Arguments in the Analytic and in the Dialectic of Teleological Judgment.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2009): 533-566.
“Is Art a Thing of the Past? The Political Work of Art between Hegel and Schiller.” Idealistic Studies 35 (2005): 173-195.
“Hegel's Critique of Kant's Practical Philosophy: Moral Motivation and the Founding of the State.” International Yearbook of German Idealism 2 (2004): 121-149.
“Is the Assumption of a Systematic Whole of Empirical Concepts a Necessary Condition of Knowledge?” Kant-Studien 94 (2003): 273-298.
“War and the Founding of the State in Hegel's Political Philosophy.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 20 (2003): 297-317.
“Die Tragödie der Gesetzgebung und der Skeptizismus der moralischen Anerkennung: Hegel über Antigone und Krieg.” In: Skepsis und literarische Imagination. Herausgegeben von Bernd Hüppauf und Klaus Vieweg (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003), 77-94.

Yale University, M.A., Ph.D., 2002.
Tel-Aviv University, M.A., 1995.