Lawrence Pasternack, Professor & Director of Religious Studies
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Office: 267 Murray Hall Fall 2019 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-2:00 pm. |
EDUCATION
- BA York University
- MA Yale University
- Ph.D. Boston University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Kant
- Ethical Theory
- Philosophy of Religion
BOOKS (MONOGRAPHS AND COLLECTIONS)
- Immanuel Kant’s Sources in Translation. Volume IV: Gottfried Achenwall’s Jus Naturae, Lawrence Pasternack and Pablo Muchnik, eds., London: Bloomsbury Press (forthcoming).
- Immanuel Kant’s Sources in Translation. Volume III: Alexander Baumgarten’s Initia Philosophiae Practicae, Lawrence Pasternack and Pablo Muchnik, eds., London: Bloomsbury Press (forthcoming).
- Pascal's Wager (Classic Philosophical Arguments Series). Lawrence Pasternack and Paul Bartha, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Immanuel Kant’s Sources in Translation. Volume II: Johann August Eberhard’s Vorbereitung zur natürlichen Theologie zum Gebrauch akademischer Vorlesungen, Lawrence Pasternack and Pablo Muchnik, eds. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
- Immanuel Kant’s Sources in Translation. Volume I: Georg Friedrich Meier's Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre, Lawrence Pasternack and Pablo Muchnik, eds., London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
- Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: an Interpretation and Defense (Routledge Philosophy Guidebook Series) London: Routledge, 2014 (272p).
- Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: In Focus, London: Routledge, 2002. (280p).
RECENT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- "On the Alleged Augustinianism in Kant's Religion," Kantian Review 25:1 (2020), forthcoming.
- "Kant's Religion and Perpetual Peace: Radical Evil, Divine Aid and the Antinomy Between Politics and Morals," In Christianity and Global Law: An Introduction, Rafael Domingo and John Witte, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) (invited)
- "Pascal's Wager: An Argument with Many Audiences" (co-authored with Paul Bartha) in Pascal's Wager (Classic Philosophical Arguments Series) Lawrence Pasternack and Paul Bartha, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 1-24.
- "Predication and Modality in Kant's Critique of the Ontological Argument" The Kant Yearbook 10: Kant's Philosophy of Religion (2018), 149-170.
- “Baumgarten and Kant on Rational Theology: Deism, Theism and the role of Analogy” in Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics: Critical Essays, Courtney Fugate, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 214-232 (invited).
- “The Wager as Decision under Ignorance: Decision-Theoretic Responses to the Many Gods Objection” in Pascal's Wager (Classic Philosophical Arguments Series) Lawrence Pasternack and Paul Bartha, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 168-186.
- “Kant’s Fourfold Critique of the Ontological Argument: Containment, Predication, and the Wisdom of Free Logic” in Ontological Arguments (Classic Philosophical Arguments Series) Graham Oppy, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 99-120 (invited).
- “Rational Faith and the Pantheism Controversy: Kant's "Orientation" Essay and the Evolution of his Moral Argument” (co-authored with Brian Chance) in Essays on Kant and his German Contemporaries, Daniel Dahlstrom, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 195-214 (invited).
- “Kant on Faith: Religious Assent and the Limits to Knowledge” in The Palgrave Kant Handbook, Matthew Altman, ed. (London: Palgrave, 2017), 962-986.
- Hume's Principle and Kant's Pure Rational System of Religion: Divine Aid, Moral Hope, and the Highest Good” in Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment, Chris Surprenant, ed. (London: Routledge, 2017), 159-180.
- “Religious Assent and the Question of Theology: Making Room for Historical Faith” in Kant and the Question of Theology, Chris Firestone and Nathan Jacobs, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017), 99-118.
- “Restoring Kant's Conception of the Highest Good” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 55:3 (2017), 435-468.
- “The ‘Two Experiments’ of Kant’s Religion: Dismantling the Conundrum” Kantian Review, 22:1 (2017), 107-131.
- “Kant’s ‘Appraisal’ of Christianity: Biblical Interpretation and the Pure Rational System of Religion” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 53:3 (2015), 485-506.
RECENT AND UPCOMING TALKS
- Author-Meets-Critics session on Steven Palmquist’s Baring all in Reason’s Light: Kant’s Critique of Mysticism, Pacific APA, April 2017.
- “On the Two Experiments of Kant’s Religion: Dismantling the Conundrum” Kant-Gesellschaft, University of Mainz, December 2016 (invited).
- “Religious Assent and the Question of Theology: Making Room for Historical Faith,” Concordia University, Philosophy of Religion Speaker Series, October 2015 (invited).
- “Re-Examining the Theological Interpretation of Kant's Highest Good” University of Alberta Philosophy Colloquium, October 2015 (invited).
- “The Highest Good in Kant’s Religion: Our Duty to Promote the Highest Good and the Problem of Ought implies Can” North American Kant Society, November 2014 (invited).
- Book Symposium presentation on Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: an Interpretation and Defense, Pacific APA, April 2014 (invited).
- Book Symposium presentation on Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: an Interpretation and Defense, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, April 2014 (invited).
Fall 2019 Class Schedule
- PHIL 1313.64965 Logic & Critical Thinking Web Internet Course
- PHIL 3413.63675 Ethical Theory TR 2:00-3:15 pm CLB 219
Spring 2020 Class Schedule
- PHIL 1313.23426 Logic & Critical Thinking WEB
- PHIL 3213.23526 17th & 18th Century Philosophy TR 2:00-3:15 pm CLBN 212
- PHIL 5303.29671 Topics in Philosophy of Religion: Kant on Philosophy of Religion TR 3:30-4:45 pm CLB 317