Owen Ware
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Biography:
- PhD, University of Toronto
After receiving his PhD in Philosophy at U of T, Owen Ware returned to the department in 2017. His areas of specialization include Kant and 19th Century Philosophy, with a focus on German Idealism. He is the author of two books, Kant’s Justification of Ethics, and Fichte’s Moral Philosophy, both forthcoming with Oxford University Press, and is a co-editor of Fichte’s System of Ethics: A Critical Guide, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Prof. Ware also has research interests in contemporary ethics, social and political philosophy, continental philosophy, and South Asian philosophy.
For more information, visit Prof. Ware’s Philpapers profile page.
Selected Fellowships & Grants:
SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-2022)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Grant (2016-2016)
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2010-2011)
Selected Awards:
Philosophers’ Annual (2014)
North American Kant Society – Wilfred Sellars Essay Prize (2013)
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Prize (2010)
Research Interests:
19th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, German Idealism, Kant
Publications:
Books:
- Forthcoming: Kant’s Justification of Ethics. OUP.
- Forthcoming: Fichte’s Moral Philosophy. OUP.
- Forthcoming: Fichte’s System of Ethics: A Critical Guide, co-edited with Stefano Bacin. CUP.
Articles:
- Forthcoming: ‘Freedom Immediately After Kant.’ European Journal of Philosophy.
- Forthcoming: ‘Fichte’s Method of Moral Justification.’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
- Forthcoming: ‘The Second Person in Fichte and Levinas,’ (with Michael Morgan). Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.
- Forthcoming: ‘Nature, Drive, and the Lower Capacity of Desire.’ In Fichte’s System of Ethics: A Critical Guide, edited by Stefano Bacin and Owen Ware. CUP.
- Forthcoming: ‘Fichte’s Ethical Holism.’ In Gabriel Gottlieb and David James (eds.), Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right and Revolution, CUP.
- Forthcoming: ‘Fichte’s Deduction of the Moral Law.’ In Steven Hoeltzel (ed.), Palgrave Fichte Handbook, Palgrave.
- 2019: ‘The Concept of Persons in Kant and Fichte.’ In Antonia LoLordo (ed.), Persons: A History, OUP.
- 2018: ‘Schiller on Evil and the Emergence of Reason.’ History of Philosophy Quarterly.
- 2018: ‘Fichte’s Normative Ethics: Deontological or Teleological?’ Mind.
- 2017: ‘Kant’s Deductions of Morality and Freedom.’ Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
- 2017: ‘Fichte on Conscience.’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
- 2016: ‘Skepticism in Kant’s Groundwork.’ European Journal of Philosophy.
- 2015: ‘Agency and Evil in Fichte’s Ethics.’ Philosophers’ Imprint.
- 2015: ‘Accessing the Moral Law through Feeling.’ Kantian Review.
- 2014: ‘Kant on Moral Sensibility and Moral Motivation.’ Journal of the History of Philosophy (Selected for the 2014 Philosopher’s Annual).
- 2014: ‘Consciousness and Personal Identity’ (with Donald C. Ainslie). In Aaron Garrett (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy, Routledge.
- 2014: ‘Forgiveness and Respect for Persons.’ American Philosophical Quarterly.
- 2014: ‘Rethinking Kant’s Fact of Reason.’ Philosophers’ Imprint.
- 2010: ‘Fichte’s Voluntarism.’ European Journal of Philosophy.
- 2009: ‘The Duty of Self-Knowledge.’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
- 2008: ‘Love Speech.’ Critical Inquiry.
- 2006: ‘Universality and Historicity: On the Sources of Religion.’ Research in Phenomenology
Reviews:
- Review of Sittliches Bewusstsein und kategorischer Imperativ in Kants ‘Grundlegung’: Ein Kommentar zum dritten Abschnitt, by H. Puls – Journal of the History of Philosophy (2017).
- Review of Virtue, Rules, and Justice: Kantian Aspirations, by T. Hill – British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2013).
- Review of Kant and Education: Interpretations and Commentary, by K. Roth and C. W. Surprenant (eds) – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012).