Emily Carson
Academic title(s):
Associate Professor
Office:
Leacock 936
Research areas:
Kant
Early Modern Philosophy
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Biography:
Emily Carson earned an MA in Philosophy at McGill, and a PhD in Philosophy at Harvard. Her primary area of research is in early modern philosophy and the intersection of philosophy, mathematics and science in that period, with a particular focus on Kant鈥檚 philosophy of mathematics. She is an Executive Editor with the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Teaching areas:
Kant, Early Modern Philosophy
Selected publications:
- 鈥淎rithmetic and the possibility of experience鈥� to appear in a volume on Kant鈥檚 philosophy of mathematics edited by Carl Posy and Ofra Rechter, Cambridge University Press.
- 鈥淧ure intuition and Kant鈥檚 synthetic a priori鈥�, 2012, in聽Debates in modern philosophy, edited by Antonia LoLordo and Stewart Duncan, Routledge.
- 鈥淪ensibility: space and time, transcendental idealism鈥� in聽Kant: Key Concepts, edited by Kristina Engelhardt and Will Dudley, Acumen 2011.
- 鈥淗intikka on Kant鈥檚 mathematical method鈥� in聽Revue Internationale de Philosophie, volume 250, no. 4, 2010.
- 鈥淟eibniz on Locke on mathematical knowledge鈥�,聽Locke Studies聽7 (2007), pp.21-47.
- 鈥淟ocke and Kant on mathematical knowledge鈥�, in Carson and Huber (eds.) [2006]:聽Intuition and the Axiomatic Method, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-21.
- 鈥淟ocke on simple and mixed modes鈥�,聽Locke Studies, volume 5, 2005, pp. 19-39.
- 鈥淢etaphysics, mathematics and the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible in Kant鈥檚 Inaugural Dissertation鈥�,聽Journal of the History of Philosophy聽(37), 2004, pp. 652-79.
- 鈥淟ocke鈥檚 account of certain and demonstrative knowledge鈥�,聽British Journal for the History of Philosophy聽10(3), August 2002, pp.359-78.
- "Kant on the method of mathematics",聽Journal of the History of Philosophy, October 1999, volume XXXVII, no. 4, pp.629-52.
- "Kant on intuition in geometry",聽Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.27, Number 4, December, 1997, pp.489-512.