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Emily Carson

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Emily Carson
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-398-6620
Email address: 
emily.carson [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Leacock 936
Research areas: 
Kant
Early Modern Philosophy
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Biography: 

Emily Carson earned an MA in Philosophy at 捆绑SM社区, and a PhD in Philosophy at Harvard. Her primary area of research is in early modern philosophy and the intersection of philosophy, mathematics and science in that period, with a particular focus on Kant鈥檚 philosophy of mathematics. She is an Executive Editor with the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Teaching areas: 

Kant, Early Modern Philosophy

Selected publications: 
  • 鈥淎rithmetic and the possibility of experience鈥 to appear in a volume on Kant鈥檚 philosophy of mathematics edited by Carl Posy and Ofra Rechter, Cambridge University Press.
  • 鈥淧ure intuition and Kant鈥檚 synthetic a priori鈥, 2012, in聽Debates in modern philosophy, edited by Antonia LoLordo and Stewart Duncan, Routledge.
  • 鈥淪ensibility: space and time, transcendental idealism鈥 in聽Kant: Key Concepts, edited by Kristina Engelhardt and Will Dudley, Acumen 2011.
  • 鈥淗intikka on Kant鈥檚 mathematical method鈥 in聽Revue Internationale de Philosophie, volume 250, no. 4, 2010.
  • 鈥淟eibniz on Locke on mathematical knowledge鈥,聽Locke Studies聽7 (2007), pp.21-47.
  • 鈥淟ocke and Kant on mathematical knowledge鈥, in Carson and Huber (eds.) [2006]:聽Intuition and the Axiomatic Method, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-21.
  • 鈥淟ocke on simple and mixed modes鈥,聽Locke Studies, volume 5, 2005, pp. 19-39.
  • 鈥淢etaphysics, mathematics and the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible in Kant鈥檚 Inaugural Dissertation鈥,聽Journal of the History of Philosophy聽(37), 2004, pp. 652-79.
  • 鈥淟ocke鈥檚 account of certain and demonstrative knowledge鈥,聽British Journal for the History of Philosophy聽10(3), August 2002, pp.359-78.
  • "Kant on the method of mathematics",聽Journal of the History of Philosophy, October 1999, volume XXXVII, no. 4, pp.629-52.
  • "Kant on intuition in geometry",聽Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.27, Number 4, December, 1997, pp.489-512.
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