Steve Palmquist's Published Articles

The following two lists, each in reverse chronological order, include all of my published articles through the date shown at the bottom of this page. Links to e-text versions are to the draft submitted to the journal; later corrections/editorial changes have not been included in most cases. If you would like to have an offprint of any of these articles (especially those without etexts given here), feel free to contact me by e-mail. Lists of my books and unpublished writings (including some works in progress) are given on a separate page. 

 

I. Refereed Journal Articles (33)

· ‘Kant’s Moral Panentheism’, Philosophia 36:1 (2008), forthcoming.

· ‘Echoes of God’s Presence’ (a poem, see Commentary), Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XIX 1/2 (July 2007), p.180.

· ‘Kantian Redemption: A Critical Challenge to Christian Views of Faith and Works’, Philosophia Christi 9.1 (Spring 2007), pp.29-38.

· ‘Emergence, Evolution, and the Geometry of Logic: Causal Leaps and the Myth of Historical Development’, Foundations of Science 12.1 (March 2007), pp.9-37.

· ‘Silence as the Ultimate Fulfillment of the Philosophical Quest’, Journal Hekmat Va Falsafeh, (Journal of Wisdom and Philosophy), Issue 6 (August 2006), pp.67-76.

· ‘Kant, Buddhism, and the Moral Metaphysics of Medicine’ (co-authored with Adriano Palomo), Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 7 (October 2002), pp.79-97.

· ‘Philosophers’ Views on the Use of Non-Essay Assessment Methods: Discussion of an E-Mail Survey’, Teaching Philosophy 21.4 (1998), pp.373-391.

· ‘Report on “An E-Mail Survey Concerning the Use of Non-Essay Assessment Methods in Introductory Philosophy Classes”’, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 97.2 (Spring 1998), pp.144-145.

· ‘Kant’s Critical Hermeneutic of Prayer’, The Journal of Religion 77:4 (October 1997), pp.584-604. See also revised version.

· ‘How “Chinese” Was Kant?’ (abridged version), The Philosopher 84:1 (Spring 1996), pp.3-9. Translated into Bosnian by Nevad Kahteran as ‘Koliko Je “Kineski” Bio Kant?’, in Dialogue 1-2 (April 2005), pp.190-207.

· ‘“The Kingdom of God is at Hand!” (Did Kant really say that?)’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 11:4 (October 1994), pp.421-437.

· ‘Triangulating God: A Kantian Rejoinder to Perovich’, Faith and Philosophy 11:2 (April 1994), pp.302-310.

· ‘Kant’s Theocentric Metaphysics’, Analele Universitatii Din Timisoara 4 (1992), pp.55-70.

· ‘Does Kant Reduce Religion to Morality?’, Kant-Studien 83:2 (1992), pp.129-148.

· ‘Kant’s “Appropriation” of Lampe’s God’, Harvard Theological Review 85:1 (January 1992), pp.85-108.

· ‘Analysis and Synthesis in the Geometry of Logic’, Indian Philosophical Quarterly 19:1 (January 1992), pp.1-14.

· ‘Four Perspectives on Moral Judgement: The Rational Principles of Jesus and Kant’, The Heythrop Journal 32:2 (April 1991), pp.216-232.

· ‘Kant on Euclid: Geometry in Perspective’, Philosophia Mathematica II 5:1/2 (1990), pp.88-113.

· ‘Personal Knowledge in Perspective: A Reply to R.T. Allen’s Questions’, Tradition and Discovery XVI.2 (Spring 1988-89), pp.22-27.

· ‘The Syntheticity of Time: Comments on Fang’s Critique of Divine Computers’, Philosophia Mathematica II 4:2 (1989), pp.233-235.

· ‘Kant’s Critique of Mysticism: (2) Critical Mysticism’, Philosophy & Theology 4:1 (Fall 1989), pp.67-94. Abstract.

· ‘Kant’s Critique of Mysticism: (1) The Critical Dreams, Philosophy & Theology 3:4 (Summer 1989), pp.355-383.

· ‘Immanuel Kant: A Christian Philosopher?’, Faith and Philosophy 6:1 (January 1989), pp.65-75.

· ‘A Priori Knowledge in Perspective: (II) Naming, Necessity and the Analytic A Posteriori’, The Review of Metaphysics 41:2 (December 1987), pp.255-282.

· ‘A Priori Knowledge in Perspective: (I) Mathematics, Method and Pure Intuition’, The Review of Metaphysics 41:1 (September 1987), pp.3-22.

· ‘Kant’s Cosmogony Re-Evaluated’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 18:3 (September 1987), pp.255-269.

· ‘Knowledge and Experience—An Examination of the Four Reflective “Perspectives” in Kant’s Critical Philosophy’, Kant-Studien 78:2 (1987), pp.170-200.

· ‘A Kantian Critique of Polanyi’s “Post-Critical Philosophy”’, Convivium 24 (March 1987), pp.1-11. Reply (unpublished).

· ‘Is Duty Kant’s “Motive” for Moral Action?’, Ratio 28:2 (December 1986), pp.168-174. Also translated into German by Joachim Schulte as ‘Ist die Pflicht Kants “Triebfeder” des sittlichen Handelns?’, Ratio 28:2 (December 1986), pp.152-158.

· ‘The Architectonic Form of Kant’s Copernican Logic’, Metaphilosophy 17:4 (October 1986), pp.266-288. See revised version.

· ‘Six Perspectives on the Object in Kant’s Theory of Knowledge’, Dialectica 40:2 (1986), pp.121-151. See revised version.

· ‘The Radical Unknowability of Kant’s “Thing in Itself”’, Cogito 3:2 (March 1985), pp.101-115. See revised version.

· ‘Faith as Kant’s Key to the Justification of Transcendental Reflection’, The Heythrop Journal 25:4 (October 1984), pp.442-455. See revised version.

 

II. Refereed/Invited Book Chapters/Conference Proceedings (14)

· ‘Kant, Sexism and the Ethics of Polygamy’, in Immanuel Kant: Perspectivas Internacionais (Immanuel Kant: International Perspectives), edited and translated into Portuguese by Amós Nascimento (Piracicaba, Brazil: UNIMEP University Press, forthcoming 2008).

· ‘Seagull’s Song’ (a poem), in Howard Ely (ed.), Timeless Voices (Owings Mills, MD: The International Library of Poetry, 2006), p.1.

· ‘The Philosopher as a “Secret Agent” for Peace: Taking Seriously Kant’s Revival of the “Old Question”’, in Valerio Rohden, Ricardo R. Terra and Guido A. de Almeida (eds.), Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants, vol. 4 of Akten des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006), forthcoming.

· ‘Kant y hermenéutica crítica de la oración’, in Oswaldo Plata Pineda (tr. and ed.), Cultura y Politica (Popayán, Columbia: Universidad del Cauca, 2006), forthcoming. Spanish translation of ‘Kant’s Critical Hermeneutic of Prayer’.

· ‘Philosophers in the Public Square: A Religious Resolution of Kant’s Conflict of the Faculties, in Stephen R. Palmquist and Chris L. Firestone (eds.), Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, January 2006), pp.230-254.

· ‘Editors’ Introduction’ (second half), in Stephen R. Palmquist and Chris L. Firestone (eds.), Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, January 2006), pp.15-30,35-39.

· ‘Kant’s Ideal of the University as a Model for World Peace’, in Papers of International Conference on Two Hundred Years after Kant (Tehran, Iran: Allame Tabataba’i University Press, April 2005), pp.207-222.

· ‘Kant’s Criticism of Swedenborg: Parapsychology and the Origin of the Copernican Hypothesis’, in Fiona Steinkamp (ed.), Parapsychology, Philosophy and the Mind: Essays Honoring John Beloff (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., September 2002), pp.146-178.

· ‘Philosophy of Religion after Kant and Kierkegaard’, in D.Z. Phillips and Timothy Tessin (eds.), Kant and Kierkegaard on Religion (London: Macmillan, 2000), pp.245-262.

· ‘What is “Tantalizing” about the “Gap” in Kant’s Philosophical System?’, in Stanley Tweyman and David A. Freeman (eds.), Studies in Early Modern Philosophy IV (Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1997), pp.171-195.

· ‘The Syntheticity of Time: Comments on Fang’s Critique of Divine Computers’, in J. Fang, Kant and Mathematics Today: Between epistemology and exact sciences (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997), pp.333-336. (Reprint from Philosophia Mathematica II 4:2 [1989].)

· ‘Kant-Studies in the Hong Kong Philosophical Context’, in Hoke Robinson (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, vol. I.3 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995), pp.1257-1271.

· ‘Knowledge and Experience: An Examination of the Four Reflective “Perspectives” in Kant’s Critical Philosophy’, in R.F. Chadwick and C. Cazeaux (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Criti­cal Assessments (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), vol. II (‘Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason’), pp.45-78. (Reprint from Kant-Studien 78:2 [1987].) See revised version.

· ‘Kant’s Theistic Solution to the Problem of Transcendental Theology’, in Rodica Croitoru (ed.), Kant and the Transcendental Problem (Bucharest: University of Bucharest Faculty of Philoso­phy, 1991), pp.148-178.

 

III. Non-Refereed Articles (17)

· ‘Articles of Interest’, co-authored with Richard Conn Henry, Journal of Scientific Exploration 21.3 (Fall 2007), pp.649-650.

· ‘Glossary of Kant’s Technical Terms’ (and two other, related glossaries), www.TranslationDirectory.com (Sept. 2006).

· ‘A Quaker Study on Spiritual Gifts’, FWCC Newsletter, No. 65 (Dec. 2004), pp.7-11.

· ‘Silence as the Fulfilment of the Philosophical Quest’, Philosophy Journal XXIII (2003-04), pp.67-80.

· ‘If bigamy is a symptom, legal polygamy may be a cure’, South China Morning Post (25 June 2002), p.14.

· ‘Sport and religion play as team pursuits in game of life’, South China Morning Post (13 June 2002), p.14.

· ‘The way to end violence is to stop playing the game’, South China Morning Post (28 May 2002), p.14.

· ‘Time we quenched that thirst to find what makes us tick’, South China Morning Post (30 April 2002), p.14.

· ‘Touch: Sexual Harassment or Sacred Healing?’, HKBU Religion and Philosophy Society Academic Week (October 1998), pp.14-23.

· ‘Freud’s Legacy: Psychoanalysis and Sex’ (extract from Chapter 3 of Dreams of Wholeness), The Philosophers’ Magazine, Issue 3 (July-Sept. 1998), pp.58-59.

· ‘Paul Tillich’s Political Theology’ (Chinese translation of Biblical Theocracy, pp.59-65), Excellence, Issue 9 (December 1996), pp.8-9.

· ‘The Creation of Meaning: Epistemological Reflections on Acts of Initiation’, HKBU Religion and Philosophy Society Academic Week (November 1995), pp.12-15.

· ‘The New Age Vision: A Fresh Perspective on Thought and Action?’, HKBC Religion and Philosophy Society Academic Week (November 1994), pp.14-16.

· ‘The Myth of the Kingdom and the Kingdom of Myth’, HKBC Religion and Philosophy Society Academic Week (December 1993), pp.5-11.

· ‘Studying Religion—Kantian Style’, Opening (Journal of the HKBC Religion and Philosophy Society), 2 (March 1993), pp.9-12.

· ‘What is Philosophy?’, Chapter 1 of The Tree of Philosophy, reprinted in Opening (Journal of the HKBC Religion and Philosophy Society), 1 (September 1992), pp.6-10.

· ‘Reversals: Meeting the Challenges of Christian Higher Education’, Tien Leung (Hong Kong Baptist College Christian Student Union publication), Number 2 (April 1992), pp.5-7.

 

IV. Book Reviews (22)

·         Kant-Studien (forthcoming): George di Giovanni’s Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

·         Kant-Studien (forthcoming): Philip J. Rossi’s The Social Authority of Reason: Kant’s Critique, Radical Evil, and the Destiny of Humankind (New York: SUNY Press, 2005).

·         Kant-Studien 96.2 (2005), pp.258-260: Edward Eugene Kleist’s Judging Appearances: A Phenomenological Study of the Kantian sensus communis (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academci Publishers, 2000).

·         Kant-Studien 96.2 (2005), pp.255-257: Douglas Burnham’s An Introduction to Kant’s Critique of Judgement (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).

·         Journal of Scientific Exploration 18.3 (Fall 2004), pp.500-509: Paul Bishop’s Synchronicity and Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg, and Jung (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).

·         Kant-Studien 94.3 (2003), pp.380-383: Alexander Kaufman’s Welfare in the Kantian State (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999). Kaufman's reply.

·         Kant-Studien 94.2 (2003), pp.258-260: James Van Cleve’s Problems from Kant (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

·         Metapsychology 5, Issue 41 (October 2001): Manfred Kuehn’s Kant: A Biography (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Online version at: metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/ view_doc.php?type=de&id=722/.

·         The Philosophers' Web Magazine 14 (Summer 2001): Diane Morgan’s Kant Trouble: The obscurities of the enlightened (London and New York: Routledge, 2000); and Nicholas Rescher’s Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant's theory of rational systemization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Online version at: www.philosophers.co.uk/current/review_kant_hodgepodge.htm, entitled ‘A Hodgepodge of Kant’.

·         Philosophy in Review XXI.1 (February, 2001), pp.45-47: Ronald L. Hall’s The Human Embrace: The love of philosophy and the philosophy of love (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).

·         Kant-Studien 91.3 (2000), pp.366-370: Immanuel Kant: Religion and Rational Theology, translated and edited by Allen W. Wood and George Di Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

·         South China Morning Post (28 October 2000), ‘Wagnerian view has ring of the metaphysical’, in ‘Review’ Section, p.4: Bryan Magee’s Wagner and Philosophy (London: The Penguin Press, 2000).

·         DIALOGUES (October 2000): Eugene Taylor’s A Psychology of Spiritual Healing (West Chester, Penn.: Chrysalis Books, 1997).

·         Kant-Studien 91 (2000), pp.498-502: John Hare’s The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God’s Assistance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).

·         Kant-Studien 90 (1999), pp.239-243: Roy D. Morrison’s Science, Theology, and the Transcendental Horizon: Einstein, Kant and Tillich (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994).

·         Kant-Studien 89 (1998), pp.109-113: Regina Dell’Oro’s From Existence to the Ideal: Continuity and Develop­ment in Kant’s Theology (New York: Peter Lang, 1994).

·         Kant-Studien 89 (1998), pp.219-223: Kant: Theoretical Philosophy 1755-1770, translated and edited by David Walford and Ralf Meerbote (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

·         Kant-Studien 88 (1997), pp.365-370: Peter Fenves’ Raising the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Immanuel Kant, Transformative Critique by Jacques Derrida (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).

·         Kant-Studien 87 (1996), pp.118-122: Ned Wisnefski’s Our Natural Knowledge of God: A Prospect for Natural Theology after Kant and Barth (New York: Peter Lang, 1990).

·         Kant-Studien 87 (1996), pp.369-374: Paul Guyer’s The Cambridge Companion to Kant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

·         Kant-Studien 86 (1995), pp.236-240: Hubert C. Schwyzer’s The Unity of Understanding: A Study in Kantian Problems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).

·         Kant-Studien 86 (1995), pp.240-244: Mary Gregor’s translation of Kant’s The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

·         Kant-Studien 86 (1995), pp.365-369: Terry Godlove’s Religion, Interpretation, and Diversity of Belief: The Framework Model from Kant to Durkheim to Davidson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

·         La Paz (August 1988), ‘Platitudes, not Answers’, p.4: Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987).

 

V. Articles Under Review/Revision (8)

·         ‘Kant and Einstein on the Tao of Physics’, under consideration for publication in History of Science.

·         ‘Perspectives in Counseling: Kant’s Categories and Jung’s Types as Models for Philopsychic Insight’, under consideration for publication in Journal of Philosophical Practice.

·         ‘A Theological Application and Extension of Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Work’, under consideration for publication in {pending resubmission}.

·         Three Perspectives on Abraham’s Defense Against Kant’s Charge of Immoral Conduct’, co-authored with Dr. Philip Rudisill, under consideration for publication in Journal of Religious Ethics.

·         ‘Quantum Causality and Kantian Quarks’, under consideration for publication in Journal of Philosophical Research.

·         ‘Kant, Sexism and the Ethics of Polygamy’, pending resubmission after revision.

·         ‘The Transcendental Priority of Touch’, pending resubmission after revision.

·         ‘How is Christian Tradition Logically Possible?’, pending resubmission after revision.

 

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