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Michigan State UniversityDepartment of PhilosophyFrederick J. RauscherAssociate Professor
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Degree: |
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania |
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Teaching Areas: |
Kant, Ethical Theory, Early Modern Philosophy. |
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Professor Rauscher is a specialist in Immanuel Kant, particularly the role of metaphysics in Kant's moral theory. Rauscher is working on a book, Kant's Metaethics of Enlightenment, on Kant's arguments against naturalism and realism in ethical theory. This topic covers the metaphysical and epistemological issues in the Critique of Pure Reason as well as more direct moral theory from Kant's other works. Rauscher has published on these issues and on Kant and Hegel's theories of history, Hutcheson's moral theory, the prospects for evolutionary ethics, and methodology in evolutionary psychology. Interests extend to contemporary ethics and political philosophy, early modern philosophy, and the German Idealists. Rauscher is also translating selections from Kant's Nachlaß for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in English and has co-edited a book, Evolutionary Psychology: Alternative Approaches (Kluwer, 2002). |
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Address: |
500 S. Kedzie Hall |