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Andrews Reath

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1984
Professor of Philosophy
HMNSS 3218
951-827-4795
andrews.reath@ucr.edu

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Professor Reath works in the area of moral philosophy, in particular Kant’s practical philosophy, with additional interests in the history of moral philosophy. His work on Kant has focused on his moral psychology, his conception of autonomy, and the foundational arguments in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason. In 2006 he published a collection of essays on these topics, Agency and Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Theory (Oxford). Current projects include a Kantian account of what it is to set ends through reason, Kant’s account of free agency, an edited collection of new essays on the Critique of Practical Reason, and a short book on the argument of the Groundwork. His seminars and lecture courses in recent years have covered various aspects of Kant’s moral philosophy, contemporary moral theory, practical reason, the history of ethics, and Rawls’s political philosophy.

Sample Publications

Books and Collections:

• A. Reath, B. Herman & C. M. Korsgaard, eds., Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls, Cambridge University Press, 1997

Recent Articles:

• "Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Duty and Autonomy," in J. Gracia, G. Reichberg, and B. Schumacher, eds., The Classics of Western Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming
  
• "Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives," in L.C. Becker and C.B. Becker, eds., The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Press, forthcoming
  
• "Constructivism," in L.C. Becker and C.B. Becker, eds., The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Press, forthcoming
  
• "Ethical Autonomy," in E. Craig, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 1, Routledge, 1998
  
• "Duties to Oneself and Self-Legislation," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 36, Supplement, 1997
  
• "Introduction to the Critique of Practical Reason," in Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, tr. M. J. Gregor, Cambridge University Press, 1997
  
• "Legislating for a Realm of Ends: the Social Dimensions of Autonomy," in A. Reath, B. Herman & C.M. Korsgaard, Reclaiming the History of Ethics, 1997
  
• "Autonomy and Practical Reason: Thomas Hill's Kantianism," Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik, Vol. 3, 1995
  
• "Legislating the Moral Law," Nous, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1994
  
• "Agency and the Imputation of Consequences in Kant's Ethics," Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik, Vol. 2, 1994
  
• "Intelligible Character and the Reciprocity Thesis," Inquriy, Vol. 36, 1993
  
• "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" in The Encyclopedia of Ethics, L. C. Becker, ed., Garland Press, 1992
  
• "The Categorical Imperative and Kant's Conception of Practical Rationality," The Monist, Vol. 72, No. 3, 1989
  
• "Hedonism, Heteronomy and Kant's Principle of Happiness," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1, 1989
  
• "Kant's Theory of Moral Sensibility," Kant-Studien, Vol. 80, No. 3, 1989
  
• "Two Conceptions of the Highest Good in Kant," Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 26, 1988