Ken Rogerson (center) with friends
Ken Rogerson (center) with friends
Department of Philosophy
Florida International University
North Miami, Florida 33181
(305) 919-5972
Education:
Ph.D. in philosophy: University of California, San Diego, 1981.
M.A. in philosophy: University of California, San Diego, 1977.
M.A. in philosophy: San Francisco State University, 1975.
B.A. in philosophy/mathematics: University of Washington, 1971.
Dissertation:
Title: Kant's Aesthetic Theory: The Roles of Form and Expression.
Committee: Henry E. Allison (chairman), Frederick A. Olafson, Robert
B. Pippin.
Areas of Specialization:
Kant, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics.
Areas of Competence:
Modern Philosophy, Topics in philosophy of language
Teaching Experience:
Professor: Florida International Univ., 1998-
Associate Professor: Florida International Univ., 1990-98
Assistant Professor: Florida International Univ., 1985-89
Visiting Professor: Texas A&M University, 1984-5
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow: Rice University, 1982-4
Visiting Lecturer: Univ. of California, San Diego, 1981-2
Instructor: University of San Diego, 1980-1
Adminsitrative Experience:
Director of Humanities Program Florida International Univ., 1994-
Director of Liberal Studies Program Biscayne Bay Campus Florida International
Univ. 2000-
Associate Chair of Philosophy Florida International Univ., 1992-
Director of Law, Ethics, and Society Certificate Program Florida International
Univ., 1992-
Publications:
>Books:
Introduction to Ethical Theory (1991, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston)
Kant's Aesthetics: The Roles of Form and Expression (1986, University
Press of America)
>Presidential Address:
"Kant and Anti-Realism," Southwest Philosophy Review (12:1, Jan. 1996)
>Refereed Journal Articles:
"Was Everything Beautiful for Kant?," forthcoming in Southwest Philosophy
Review
"On the Morality of Eating Animals," Southwest Philosophy Review (18:
1, Jan. 2001)
"Kant on Beauty and Morality," forthcoming in Kant-Studien
"Kant's Identity Crisis," Southwest Philosophy Review (17: 1, Jan.
2000)
"Is Everything Beautiful for Kant?" Kant und die Berliner Aufklarung:
Akten des IX Internationalen Kant-Kongress (Berlin: Walter
de Gruyter, 2001)
"Kant's World(s) of Appearances and Things in Themselves," Southwest
Philosophy Review (15: 2, July 1999)
"Pleasure and Fit in Kant's Aesthetics," Kantian Review (2: 1998)
"Beauty without Concepts," Proceedings of the Eighth International
Kant-Congress (Marquette: Marquette University Press, 1995)
"Truth, Bivalence and Realism," Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical
Quarterly (43, Jan. 1994)
"A Problem for Anti-Realism," Southwest Philosophy Review (9: 1, Jan.
1993)
"Kantian Ontology," Kant-Studien (84: 1, 1993)
"Kant on Art and Nature," Akten Des Siebenten Internationalen Kant-Kongresses,
edited by G. Funke (Bonn: Bouvier, 1991)
"Verificationism and Anti-Realism," Southwest Philosophy Review, (Vol.
7: 1, 1991)
"The Inequality of Markets," Dialogue (XXVIII, 1989)
"Causal Hermits," Dialectica (43:4, 1989)
"Kant on the Ideality of Space," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (18:2,
June 1988)
"Dickie's Disinterest," Philosophia (17:2, March 1987)
"Kant's Notion of Free Harmony," Southwest Philosophy Review, (Vol.
III, 1986)
"Appearances and Things in Themselves," Southwest Philosophy Review
(Vol. II, 1985)
"Rights at Risk," Southwest Philosophy Review (Vol. I, 1984)
"Williams and Kant on Integrity," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical
Review (22:3, September 1983)
"The Meaning of Universal Validity in Kant's Aesthetics," Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism (40:3, Spring 1982)
>Book Review Articles:
"Review of The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art by Paul Crowther,"
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (49:4, Fall 1991)
"Review of Kant's Aesthetic by Mary A. McCloskey," International Studies
in Philosophy (22:1, January 1990)
"Review of Kant and Fine Art by Salim Kemal," Journal of Aesthetics
and Art Criticism (47:2, Spring 1989)
"Review of Rationality in Thought and Action by Tamny and Irani," Ethics
(98:2, January 1988)
Work in Progress:
"Models for Kantian Idealism"
Papers Delivered:
"Was Everything Beautiful for Kant?," (Southwest Philosophical Society,
Nov. 2002)
"On the Morality of Eating Animals" (Southwest Philosophical Society,
Nov. 2001)
"Kant's Identity Crisis" (Central APA, April 2000; Southwest Philosophical
Society, Nov. 2000)
"Is Everything Beautiful for Kant?" (9th Internationaler Kant-Kongress)
"Pleasure and Fit in Kant's Aesthetics" (Pacific APA, March 1997)
"Kant and Anti-Realism" (Presidential address of the Southwest Philosophical
Society, November 1995)
"Beauty without Concepts" (8th International Kant-Congress, March 1995)
"A Problem for Anti-Realism" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November
1992)
"Verificationism and Anti-Realism" (Southwest Philosophical Society,
November 1990)
"Kant on Art and Nature" (7th International Kant Congress, April 1990)
"Liberalism" (Symposium paper for the program "Liberalism: An Update"
at Miami-Dade Community College, June 1988)
"The Inequality of Markets" (University of Miami, October 1987; Florida
Philosophical Association, November 1987)
"Kant's Notion of Free Harmony" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November
1986)
"Dickie's Disinterest" (Pacific APA, March 1986)
"Appearances and Things in Themselves" (Southwest Philosophical Society,
November 1985)
"Kant on the Ideality of Space" (Pacific APA, March l984 and Rice University,
October 1983)
"Rights at Risk" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November 1984 and
U.C. San Diego, June 1983)
"The Meaning of Universal Validity in Kant's Aesthetics" (Rice University,
February 1982 and U.C. San Diego, November 1981)
Language Competency:
German
Membership in Professional Organizations:
American Philosophical Association
North American Kant Society
Southwestern Philosophical Society (Vice President, 1993-4; President,
1994-5)
References:
Henry E. Allison: Department of Philosophy, University of California
at San Diego
Karl Ameriks: Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Theodore Uehling: Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
at Morris
