Alison Laywine
Position:
Associate Professor, CLTA
Campus:
St. George,Email Address:
Biography:
- University of Chicago, Ph.D. with honours, June 1991
- Université de Montréal, Maîtrise ès arts, January 1986
- Université d’Ottawa, Baccalauréat ès sciences sociales, magna cum laude, May 1984
Alison Laywine’s research interests include Kant’s Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy, History of Early Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophical Reflection on Music Theory (from antiquity to the early modern period, including Arabic medieval music theory).
Research Interests:
Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of MusicPublications:
- “Fārābī had an Arabic Translation of Ptolemy’s Harmonics, and He Read It Very Carefully,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Volume 35, Issue 2, September 2025.
- “The Transcendental Deduction in the Critique of Pure Reason,” in Oxford Handbook of Kant, eds. Gomes and Stephenson, Oxford University Press, 2024.
- “Al-Fārābī’s Conception of Music Theory as the Universal Science of Melody” Oriens, date of online publication, April 2023.
- Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: A Cosmology of Experience, Oxford University Press, 2020.
- “Leibniz and the Transcendental Deduction,” Philosophy of Kant and Leibniz, ed. Brandon Look, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Visit Alison Laywine’s publications on the Philosophy Faculty Bookshelf.