Thomas Teufel
Assc Professor
Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
- Biography
- Teaching
- Research and Creative Activity
- Grants
- Honors and Awards
- Service
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard University
M.A., Philosophy, The Univ. of Western Ontario
Zwischenprüfung, Philosophy, Political Science, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Germany
| Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Fall 2023 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Fall 2023 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2023 | PHIL | 79100 | MA Capstone |
| Fall 2022 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2022 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Fall 2021 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Fall 2021 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2021 | PHIL | 76000 | ST: the History of Philosophy |
| Spring 2021 | PHI | 4900 | Special Topics in Philosophy |
| Fall 2020 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Spring 2018 | PHI | 6002H | Honors - Philosophy Honors II |
| Fall 2017 | PHI | 6001H | Honors - Philosophy I |
| Spring 2016 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2016 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2016 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Fall 2015 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Fall 2015 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2015 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2015 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2015 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Spring 2015 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Fall 2014 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Fall 2014 | PHIL | 76100 | Kant's Critique Power of Judgm |
| Fall 2014 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2014 | PHI | 6002H | Honors - Philosophy Honors II |
| Spring 2014 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Spring 2014 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2013 | PHI | 6001H | Honors - Philosophy I |
| Fall 2013 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Fall 2013 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2013 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Fall 2012 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2012 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Spring 2012 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2012 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Spring 2011 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2011 | PHI | 3145 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
| Fall 2010 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2010 | PHI | 1700H | Honors - Global Ethics |
| Spring 2010 | PHI | 1500H | Hon Maj Issues PHI |
| Spring 2010 | PHI | 3240 | Philosophy of Art |
| Spring 2010 | PHI | 5000 | Independent Study PHI I |
| Fall 2009 | PHI | 3140 | Modern European Philosophy |
| Fall 2009 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2008 | PHI | 1700H | Honors - Global Ethics |
| Spring 2008 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2008 | PHI | 4905 | Capstone:Metaphy/Epistemology |
| Fall 2007 | PHI | 3240 | Philosophy of Art |
| Fall 2007 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2007 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Spring 2007 | PHI | 1500H | Hon Maj Issues PHI |
| Spring 2007 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2006 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2006 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
| Fall 2006 | PHI | 1500 | Major Issues in Philosophy |
Books
Teufel, T. (2024). Kant and Teleology. Cambridge University Press.
Teufel, T. (2019). "Kant's Teleology". (p. 120 pp.). Cambridge University Press. In Progress.
Journal Articles
Teufel, T. (2012). "What does Kant mean by Power of Judgment in his 'Critique of the Power of Judgment'?". Kantian Review, 17(2). 297-326.
Teufel, T. (2012). "Regulativity in Kant". Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie,
Teufel, T. (2011). "Wholes that Cause their Parts: Self-Reproduction and the Reality of Teleological Properties". Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences , 42(2). 252-260.
Teufel, T. (2011). "What is the Problem of Teleology in Kant's 'Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment'?". SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy, 12(2). 198-236.
Teufel, T. (2011). "Kant's Non-Teleological Conception of Purposiveness" . Kant Studien, 102(2). 232-252.
Teufel, T. (2011). "Kant's Sensationist Conception of Particularity in the 'Critique of the (Reflecting) Power of Judgment'". Kant Studies Online , (KSO '11). 54-104.
Book Chapters
Teufel, T. (2020). Stanley Cavell and the Critique of the Linguistic Power of Judgment. In Marino, S., & Terzi, P. (Eds.), Kant’s 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgment' in the 20th Century: A Companion to its Main Interpretations (pp. 301-314). De Gruyter.
Teufel, T. (2019). "Teleological Power of Judgment: Dialectic". In Baiasu, S., & Timmons, M. (Eds.), The Kantian Mind (pp. 47-61). Routledge.
Teufel, T. (2017). "Kant's Transcendental Principle of Purposiveness and the 'Maxim of the Lawfulness of Empirical Laws'". In Massimi, M., & Breitenbach, A. (Eds.), Kant and the Laws of Nature (pp. 108-127). Cambridge University Press.
Teufel, T. (2014). "The Impossibility of a Newton of the Blade of Grass in Kant’s Teleology". In Smith, J., & Nachtomy, O. (Eds.), The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (pp. 47-61). Oxford University Press.
Teufel, T. (2008). "Pruderie Prussienne et Romantisme Autrichienne, Pensées Kantienne sur l’Esthétique selon Wittgenstein". In Bouton, C., Brugere, F., & Lavaud, C. (Eds.), L’Année 1790. Kant, Critique de la faculté de juger. Beauté, vie , liberté (pp. 271-281). Paris. Vrin.
Presentations
Teufel, T. The Antinomy of the Power of Judgment. Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy. Loyola University
Teufel, T. 'Critical Dogmatism' Or: Why we need a Critique of the Power of Judgment . University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Philosophy, Speaker Series. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Department of Philosophy.
Teufel, T. (2018, December 31). Comments on Sasha Mudd 'Rethinking the Priority of the Practical in Kant'. Fordham Kant Seminar. New York, NY: Fordham University.
Teufel, T. (2018, December 31). 'Much that is Unnameable' in Nature and in Art: Kant's Doctrine of Aesthetic Ideas. XII International Kant Congress. Vienna, Austria
Teufel, T. (2017, December 31). Analytic and Dialectic of the Teleological Power of Judgment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
Teufel, T. (2016, December 31). Comments on Matthew Coate 'On Ugliness or the Absolute Lack of Purpose'. APA Eastern Division Meeting. Washington, D.C.: American Philosophical Association.
Teufel, T. (2013, December 31). Merely Mechanistic Laws: Causal Mechanism and Kant's Antinomy of the Teleological Power of Judgment. XI International Kant Congress. Pisa, Italy
Teufel, T. (2012, December 31). What is the Problem of Teleology in Kant's 'Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment'?. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
Teufel, T. (2011, December 31). Kant's §§ 76-7. Kant's Teleology Workshop. Colchester, VT: St. Michael's College.
Teufel, T. (2009, December 31). Commentator, Miller, J. Reflective Judgments and Reflexive Truth. American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting. Denver, CO: American Society for Aesthetics.
Teufel, T. (2009, December 31). Wholes that Cause their Parts. CUNY GC Philosophy Colloquium Series. New York, NY: Department of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center.
Teufel, T. (2009, December 31). Teleology in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, Sage School of Philosophy.
Teufel, T. (2009, December 31). Naturalizing Final Causes: Kant and Darwin on the Teleology of Nature. 'Darwin's Reach: A Celebration of Darwin's Legacy Across the Disciplines'. Darwin’s Reach: A Celebration of Darwin’s Legacy Across the Disciplines. New York: Hofstra University.
Teufel, T. (2008, December 31). Commentator on Gorodeisky, K. Kant on the Normativity of Aesthetic Judgment and Love. American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting. Northampton, MA: American Society For Aesthetics.
Teufel, T. (2008, December 31). Commentator on Kalar, B. Kant on A Priori and Empirical Aesthetic Theory. American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting. Northampton, MA
Teufel, T. (2008, December 31). The Introduction(s) to Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment.. New Jersey: Philosophy Department, Princeton University.
Teufel, T. (2008, December 31). . The Legacy of Kant II: The Fate of Kant in an Age of Crisis 1918-1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
Teufel, T. (2006, December 31). Kant's Principle of Purposiveness: Realism's 'Neglected Alternative'. Colloque intermediaire de la Societe d'Etudes Kantiennes de Langue francaise. Bordeaux, France: Universite Michel de Montaigne.
Teufel, T. (2005, December 31). Prussian Prude and Austrian Romantic, A Kantian Response to Wittgenstein's Aesthetics. Colloquium Series. University of Chicago, IL: Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine.
Teufel, T. (2005, December 31). Affinity and Purposiveness in Kant's Critical Philosophy. Colloquium Series. Chicago, IL: Illinois Institute of Technology.
Teufel, T. (2004, December 31). The That and the Why of Design. Colloquium Series. Chicago, IL: Illinois Institute of Technology.
Other Scholarly Works
Teufel, T., & Wuerth, J. (2017). "Power of Judgment". Cambridge Kant Lexicon. 4; 2100 words.
Teufel, T., & Wuerth, J. (2014). "Aesthetic Idea". Cambridge Kant Lexicon. 2; 1250 words.
Teufel, T., Hohendahl, P. U., & Kosch, M. (2012). Back to Kant III: The Fate of Kant after 1945. 43.3
Teufel, T., Hohendahl, P., & Gilgen, P. (2010). Back to Kant II: The Fate of Kant in a Time of Crisis. 41.1&2
Teufel, T., Chignell, A., & Irwin, T. (2008). Back to Kant: Neo-Kantianism and Its Relevance Today. 39.2
Teufel, T., & Parsons, C. (2003). "The Gödel-Günther Correspondence" in The Collected Works of Kurt Godel. 4476-535.
Teufel, T. (1999). Depicting Photography: The Art of Steinar Jakobson.
Teufel, T., Lariviere, A., & Easton, P. A. (1997). "Early Modern Logic Bibliography.”. Logic and the Workings of the Mind. The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy. 5319-328.
Reviews
Teufel, T. (2016,January 1). Kantian Conceptual Geography. The Philosophical Forum.
Teufel, T. (2016,January 1). The Normativity of Nature. Jahrbuch des deutschen Idealismus.
Teufel, T. (2015,January 1). Kant's Organicism. HOPOS.
Teufel, T. (2014,January 1). Die Postulate Des Empirischen Denkens Überhaupt. Critique.
Teufel, T. (2009,January 1). The Cambridge Companion to The Origin of Species. Greece: Philosophical Inquiry.
Teufel, T. (2002,January 1). Douglas Burnham: ‘An Introduction to the Critique of Judgment”. U.K.: British Journal of Aesthetics.
Teufel, T. (2001,January 1). Christian Wenzel: ‘Das Problem der Subjektiven Allgemeingültigkeit des Geschmacksurteils bei Kant. U.K.: British Journal of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press.
Research Currently in Progess
Teufel, T.(n.d.). Duchamp's Fountain and Aesthetic Ideas. In Progress.
12 pp. Ongoing.
| Title | Funding Agency Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Date | Total Funding | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merely Mechanistic Laws: Causal Mechanism and Kant's Antinomy of the Teleological Power of Judgment | PSC-CUNY 41 | 07/01/2010 | 06/30/2011 | 3990 | Completed | |
| Kant and Darwin on Naturalizing Teleology | PSC-CUNY 40 | 07/01/2009 | 06/30/2010 | 2000 | Completed | |
| Kant's Notion of 'Reflecting' in the 'Critque of the Power of Judgment' | PSC-CUNY 39 | 07/01/2008 | 12/31/2009 | 4210 | Completed | |
| Kant's Principle of Purposiveness Revisited | PSC-CUNY 38 | 07/01/2007 | 06/30/2008 | 6000 | Completed |
| Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship | Baruch College | 2008 | |
| Fay Horton Sawyier Pre-Doctoral Fellowship | IIT | 2005 | |
| Fay Horton Sawyier Pre-Doctoral Fellowship | IIT | 2004 | |
| Richard M. Martin Prize Fellowship | Harvard University | 2001 | Merit Fellowship, Department of Philosophy |
| Graduate Society Term Time Fellowship | Harvard University | 2000 | Complete dissertation fellowship in the faculty of arts and sciences |
| Harvard University Tuition Scholarship | Harvard University | 2000 | |
| DAAD North America Scholarship | 1998 | German Academic Exchange Service | |
| Ontario Graduate Scholarhip | 1995 | declined | |
| Exchange Scholarship | University of Wetern Ontario | 1994 | 1992-1994 |
| Social Sciences essay contest, first prize | University of Western Ontario | 1992 |
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presidential Research Reassigned Time Task Force | Committee Member | Present | |
| WSAS Graduate Affairs Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Strategic Plan Implementation Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Freshman Text Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| WSAS Assessment Committee | Committee Chair | Present | |
| Joint Committee on Curriculum and Articulation | Committee Member | Present | |
| WSAS Personnell and Budget Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| WSAS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Executive Committee | Committee Chair | Present | |
| Assessment Committee | Committee Chair | Present | |
| Strategic Planning Steering Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2018 | |
| MSCHE Monitoring Report Steering Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2017 | |
| COACHE Analysis Committee | 12/31/2016 | ||
| Assessment Director Search Committee | 12/31/2016 | ||
| Executive Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2016 | |
| ZSB Ethics Committee | WSAS Observer | 12/31/2016 | |
| WSAS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2009 | |
| WSAS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Assessment Sub-Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2009 | |
| Financial Aid Committee | 12/31/2006 |
University
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy Program Colloquium Committee | Committee Chair | 1/1/2016 | Present |
| Qualifying Paper | Faculty Advisor | 1/1/2015 | Present |
| Dissertation Committee | Committee Member | 1/1/2010 | Present |
| Philosophy Program Executive Committee | Committee Member | 1/1/2016 | 12/31/2017 |
| Graduate Admissions | Committee Member | 1/1/2015 | 12/31/2016 |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Journal of the History of Philosophy | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2018 | Present | |||
| Cambridge University Press | Reviewer, Book | 1/1/2018 | Present | |||
| European Journal of Philosophy | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2018 | Present | |||
| Synthese | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2018 | Present | |||
| Routledge | Reviewer, Book | 1/1/2017 | Present | |||
| Bloomsbury | Reviewer, Book | 1/1/2016 | Present | |||
| Dialogue | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2015 | Present | |||
| European Journal of Political Theory | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2015 | Present | |||
| Journal of Social Philosophy | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2015 | Present | |||
| History of Philosophy Quarterly | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2013 | Present | |||
| Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2011 | Present | |||
| Kantian Review | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2011 | Present | |||
| The Philosophical Forum | 1/1/2007 | Present | ||||
| Kant Studies Online | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2011 | 12/31/2015 |