Prof. Dr. Andrew Stephenson

Personal information

Prof Stephenson teaches and researches on the history of philosophy from modernity to the present. His published work focuses on the philosophy of Kant and related topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Kant (with Anil Gomes), external examiner for the Oxford B.Phil., and Associate Editor at the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. He was previously Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, U.K, and he has held visiting positions at the Human Abilities KFG at FU and HU, Berlin, and the Research Center for Analytic German Idealism in Leipzig.

Prof Stephenson is currently writing a monograph in which he defends Kant's view of the connection between a priori knowledge and metaphysical necessity. He argues that Kripke and others misunderstand Kant, with the result that arguments for e.g. a posteriori necessity miss their mark - we must completely reassess the history of modal epistemology from Kant through German idealism to analytic philosophy.

Curriculum vitae

Selected publications

1. Kant's Modal Epistemology: an interpretation and defence, under contract with Oxford University Press

2. 'On the Practical Necessity of the Categories', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming, with Anil Gomes

3. The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited with Anil Gomes, Oxford University Press, 2024

4. 'Existence and Modality in Kant: Lessons from Barcan', The Philosophical Review, 132(1), 1–41, 2023

5. 'On the Necessity of the Categories', The Philosophical Review, 131(2), 129–168, 2022, with Anil Gomes & A. W. Moore

6. 'How to Solve the Paradox of Knowability with Transcendental Epistemology', Synthese, 198(13), 3253–3278, 2021

7. 'Transcendental Knowability and A Priori Luminosity', History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis, 25, 134–162, 2021

8. 'Formalizing Kant's Rules: a Logic of Conditional Imperatives and Permissives', Journal of Philosophical Logic, with Richard Evans & Marek Sergot (Erdos n.3), 49:613–680, 2020

9. 'Kant, the Paradox of Knowability, and the Meaning of 'Experience'', Philosophers' Imprint 15(27), 1-19, 2015

10. 'Kant on the Object-Dependence of Intuition and Hallucination', The Philosophical Quarterly, 65(260), 486-508, 2015