Rationality as

Pragmatic Worldly Prudence:

Kant’s Anthropology

and the Modern Social Sciences

DFG Project, May 2021 – April 2024

Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Philosophy

Chair of Modern Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Marcus Willaschek)




Prof. Dr. Thomas Sturm

Why did Kant reject physiological explanations within his pragmatic anthropology?, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008), 495–505. URL 

 

 

Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. Paderborn: Mentis, 2009.

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Freedom and the human sciences: Hume’s science of man versus Kant’s pragmatic anthropology”, Kant Yearbook 3 (2011), 23–42. URL

 

 

What did Kant mean by and why did he adopt a cosmopolitan point of view in history?”, in: S. Bacin, A. Ferrarin, C. La Rocca, M. Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht: Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010. Bd. 4. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013, 853–865. URL

 

 

Reines und empirisches Selbstbewusstsein in Kants Anthropologie: Das ‘Ich’ und die rationale Charakterentwicklung”, in: G. Motta, U. Thiel (eds.), Immanuel Kant – Die Einheit des Bewusstseins. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2017, 195–220. URL 

 

 

Kant on the Ends of the Sciences”, Kant-Studien 111 (2020), 1–28. URL 

 

(with Alexey Salikov and Alexey Zhavoronkov): “Kant’s Anthropology and the Beginnings of the Modern Social Sciences,” edited by Alexey Salikov, Thomas Sturm and Alexey Zhavoronkov. Special Issue of Kantian Review, 2027 (in preparation).

 

(with Alexey Salikov and Alexey Zhavoronkov): “Editorial,” in “Kant’s Anthropology and Theoretical Debates in the Social Sciences,” edited by Alexey Salikov, Thomas Sturm and Alexey Zhavoronkov. Special Issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2025.

 

(with Alexey Salikov and Alexey Zhavoronkov): “World-Concepts in Kant’s Anthropology: Their Meaning, Relations, and Roles.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2025. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Dr. Alexey Zhavoronkov

(in cooperation with A. Salikov): “The Concept of Race in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology”, Con-Textos Kantianos 7 (2018), 275–292. URL

Die soziologische Rezeption von Kants Anthropologie im 20. Jahrhundert: Probleme und Beispiele”, Studia z Historii Filozofii / Studies in the History of Philosophy 11, no. 1 (2020), 89–108. URL 

Kant, Rawls and the Problem of Public Use of Pragmatic Reason”, Obshchestvenye nauki i sowremennost 2 (2021), 114–125. (In Russian) URL

Kant’s Anthropology in the Context of the Debates on Racism in the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Yearbook 36 (2021), 339–364. (In Russian) URL 

 

Kant’s Pragmatic Use of Reason from a Sociological Point of View: Third Way or Methodological Impasse?”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 94 (2022), 1–7  URL

(with Alexey Salikov and Thomas Sturm): Kant’s Anthropology and the Beginnings of the Modern Social Sciences,” edited by Alexey Salikov, Thomas Sturm and Alexey Zhavoronkov. Special Issue of Kantian Review, 2027 (in preparation).

 

“Kants Idee der Aufklärung in anthropologischer Hinsicht.” Akten des XIV. Kant-Kongresses 2024. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2026 (accepted).

 

(with Alexey Salikov): Book review: Achim Brosch: Haus, Markt, Staat: Ökonomie in Kants praktischer Philosophie und Anthropologie. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. Kant-Studien 3, 2025 (forthcoming).

 

(with Alexey Salikov): “Anthropological foundations of Kant’s and Sen’s models of social rationality”, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2025.

 

(with Thomas Sturm and Alexey Salikov): “Kant’s anthropology and theoretical debates in the social sciences,” edited by Alexey Salikov, Thomas Sturm and Alexey Zhavoronkov. Special Issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2025.

 

“Kant’s Anthropology in the Debates on Anthropological Deficits of Contemporary Sociology.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2025.

 

(with Alexey Salikov and Thomas Sturm): “Editorial,” in “Kant’s anthropology and theoretical debates in the social sciences,” edited by Alexey Salikov, Thomas Sturm and Alexey Zhavoronkov. Special Issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2025.


(with Alexey Salikov and Thomas Sturm): “World-Concepts in Kant’s Anthropology: Their Meaning, Relations, and Roles.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2025.

Dr. Dr. Alexey Salikov

Political Dimension of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology”, Studies in the History of Philosophy, 2020, 11(2), 109–122. (In German) URL DOI 

 

(in cooperation with A. Zhavoronkov): “The Concept of Race in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology”, Con-Textos Kantianos 7 (2018), 275–292. URL

 

Some political aspects of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology“, Studia Philosophica Kantiana, 1 (2018), 3–17. URL

 

Kant’s perpetual peace project and the project of the European Union“, Kantovsky Sbornik: Kant Studies Journal, Special Anniversary Issue (2015), 70–77. URL 

 

Kants Friedensprojekt und die Ansätze zur Lösung des Sicherheitsdilemmas in der modernen Theorie der internationalen Beziehungen“, in: Alexey Salikov, Andrey Silber (Hgg.), Kants Projekt des ewigen Friedens im Kontext der modernen Politik: Materialien des internationalen Seminars. Kaliningrad 2013, 135–144.  URL

 

Kant und die moderne Theorie der internationalen Beziehungen“, Vestnik IKBFU 6 (2013), 97–103. (In Russian)

 

Die Interpretation der Ideen von Kants Traktat Zum ewigen Frieden“ in der modernen liberalen “Theorie des demokratischen Friedens“, Kantovsky Sbornik 4 (2012), 42–49. (In Russian)

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