By Associate Professor Melissa Merritt

Books

Merritt M, 2018, The Sublime, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108529709

Merritt M, 2018, Kant on Reflection and Virtue, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108344005

Book Chapters

Merritt M, 2026, 'Kant and Group Agency', in Kant S Legacy for the 21st Century Knowledge Culture Beauty, pp. 204 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003504047-14

Merritt M, 2025, 'Introduction', in Kant and Stoic Ethics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009321365.001

Merritt M, 2025, ''Everyone has a price at which he sells himself': Epictetus and Kant on Self-respect', in Merritt M (ed.), Kant and Stoic Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 187 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009321365.015

Merritt M, 2025, 'The Ancient Background of Kant’s Conception of Virtue', in Aristotelian Kant, Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 207 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009530453.009

Merritt M, 2024, 'Kant on evil', in The Oxford Handbook of Kant, Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 700 - 719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854586.013.34

Merritt M, 2023, 'Mendelssohn and kant on human progress: A neo-stoic debate', in Filieri L (ed.), Kant on Freedom and Human Nature, Taylor & Francis, pp. 190 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003259985-15

Merritt M, 2022, 'Murdoch and Kant', in Hopwood M; Panizza S (ed.), The Murdochian Mind, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 253 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003031222-22

Merritt M, 2021, 'Humor, Common Sense, and the Future of Metaphysics in the Prolegomena', in Thielke P (ed.), Kant's Prolegomena: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, pp. 9 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108677776.002

Merritt M, 2020, 'Mendelssohn and Kant on virtue as a skill', in Fridland E; Pavese C (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill and Expertise, Routledge, London, pp. 88 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315180809-8

Merritt M, 2018, 'Attention, Perception, Experience', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 81 - 110

Merritt M, 2018, 'Cognitive and Moral Virtue', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 124 - 158

Merritt M, 2018, 'Conceptions of Reason and Epistemic Normativity', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 113 - 123

Merritt M, 2018, 'Healthy Human Understanding', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 53 - 80

Merritt M, 2018, 'Introduction Rethinking the Kantian Reflective Ideal', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 1 - +

Merritt M, 2018, 'Kant on the Requirement to Reflect', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 15 - 52

Merritt M, 2018, 'The Cognitive Basis of Moral Virtue', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 184 - 208

Merritt M, 2018, 'Virtue as a Skill', in KANT ON REFLECTION AND VIRTUE, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 159 - 183

Merritt M, 2017, '“Sublimity and Joy: Kant on the Aesthetic Constitution of Virtue”', in Altman MC (ed.), The Palgrave Kant Handbook, Palgrave, London, pp. 447 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54656-2

Merritt MM, 2017, 'Sublimity and Joy: Kant on the Aesthetic Constitution of Virtue', in Altman MC (ed.), The Palgrave Kant Handbook, Springer Nature, pp. 447 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54656-2_20

Merritt M, 2014, '"Kant on the Pleasures of Understanding"', in Cohen A (ed.), Kant on Emotion and Value, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, pp. 126 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137276650.0011

Merritt MM, 2014, 'Kant on the Pleasures of Understanding', in Kant on Emotion and Value, Springer Nature, pp. 126 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137276650_7

Melissa MM, 2012, '"The Moral Source of the Kantian Sublime"', in Costelloe T (ed.), The Sublime: From Antiquity to Present, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 37 - 49

Melissa MM; Valaris M, 2012, 'Kant and Kantian Epistemology', in Stephen Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology: The Key Thinkers, Continuum, London, pp. 131 - 152

Edited Books

Merritt M, (ed.), 2025, Kant and Stoic Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009321365

Journal articles

Merritt M, 2023, 'Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life', The British Journal of Aesthetics, 63, pp. 283 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab075

Merritt MM, 2021, 'Feeling and Orientation in Action: A Reply to Alix Cohen', Kantian Review, 26, pp. 363 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1369415420000515

Merritt M, 2021, 'Kant and Stoic Affections', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 51, pp. 329 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.34

Merritt M, 2021, 'Nature, corruption, and freedom: Stoic ethics in Kant's Religion', European Journal of Philosophy, 29, pp. 3 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12553

Merritt M, 2017, 'Love, Respect, and Individuals: Murdoch as a Guide to Kantian Ethics', European Journal of Philosophy, 25, pp. 1844 - 1863, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12280

Merritt MMB, 2017, 'Motherhood in Ferrante's the lost daughter: A Case study of Irony as extraordinary reflection', Philosophy and Literature, 41, pp. 185 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2017.0012

Merritt MM; Valaris M, 2017, 'Attention and Synthesis in Kant's Conception of Experience', The Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 571 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqw085

Merritt M, 2017, 'Practical Reason and Respect for Persons', Kantian Review, 22, pp. 53 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000376

Merritt M, 2015, 'Varieties of Reflection in Kant's Logic', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23, pp. 478 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1018129

Melissa MM, 2011, '"Kant on Enlightened Moral Pedagogy"', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 49, pp. 227 - 253

Melissa MM, 2011, 'Book Review: Will Dudley and Kristina Engelhard (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/27135-immanuel-kant-key-concepts/

Melissa MM, 2011, 'Kant's Argument for the Apperception Principle', European Journal of Philosophy, 19, pp. 59 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00364.x

Melissa MM, 2010, 'Book Review: Robert R. Clewis, The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 18, pp. 529 - 532

Melissa MM, 2010, 'Kant on the Transcendental Deduction of Space and Time: an essay on the philosophical resources of the Transcendental Aesthetic', Kantian Review, 14, pp. 1 - 37

Merritt MM, 2010, 'The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 18, pp. 528 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608781003779883

Melissa MM, 2009, 'Reflection, Enlightenment, and the Significance of Spontaneity in Kant', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 17, pp. 981 - 1010

Melissa MM, 2007, 'Analysis in the Critique of Pure Reason', Kantian Review, 12, pp. 61 - 89, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/kant/2007/00000012/00000001/art00004

Melissa MM, 2006, 'Analysis in the Critique of Pure Reason', Kantian Review, 12, pp. 60 - 88

Melissa MM, 2006, 'Science and the Synthetic Method of the Critique of Pure Reason', Review of Metaphysics, 59, pp. 517 - 539

Other

, 2017, Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, by Jonathan Lear: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 328, US$39.95 (hardback)., http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1365090

Merritt M, 2017, Review of Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and His Realism, by Lucy Allais, Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1168857

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