James Messina
Credentials: Professor (UCSD, Ph.D. 2011)
Position title: Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism
Email: jmessina@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-3700
Address:
5115 Helen C. White
Professor Messina’s current research deals with various issues in Kant’s philosophy (such as his views on space, laws of nature, substance, philosophical methodology, modality, and the role of the understanding in perception). He is currently working on a book on Kant’s theory of the nature of space. Some recently published, or soon-to-be-published, articles include: “Look Ma, No Hands!: A New Direction in Kant’s Metaphysics of Space Before Directions’ Incongruent Counterparts” (Journal of the History of Philosophy); “Kant on Transcendental Illusion and the Argument from Spinozism” (Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie); and “The Content of Kant’s Pure Category of Substance and Its Use on Phenomena and Noumena” (Philosophers’ Imprint).