Jennifer K. Uleman

Here she is talking about Nietzsche and blondness for a panel, “Complicit Freedom,” at Pioneer Works in Red Hook. (Watch it all! But she’s at 40:30-51:30, and in Q&A at 1:10:05-1:13:11.)

Here she is in a long video of the SUNY Purchase Philosophy Society’s event, “Democracy and Its Discontents.” (Again, it’s all great – but she’s at 13:15-26:00, and throughout Q&A) (Here is her PowerPoint.)

Here is a short video where she talks about her book on Kant’s moral philosophy.

Jennifer Uleman’s current research looks at how communities can sustain and repair themselves in the face of significant moral failure and other internal breaches.    

• What Is Education?
• Theories of Justice
• Truth (first-year seminar on truth and its discontents)
• Possession (first-year course on property and ownership generally)
• Gender and Power
• Thinking Race
• Methods of Reasoning (the classical trivium)
• Kant Seminar
• Hegel Seminar
• History of Philosophy II: Descartes to Kant

Book

• An Introduction to Kant’s Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Refereed Journal Articles

• “No King and No Torture: Kant and Suicide and Law,” Kantian Review 21:1, March 2016, 77-100.

• “External Freedom in Kant’s Rechtslehre: Political, Metaphysical,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68:3, May 2004, 578-601.

• “On Kant, Infanticide, and Finding Oneself in a State of Nature,” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 54:2, April-June 2000, 173-195.

Other Selected Publications

• “Desiring to Understand” (on the phenomenology and reality of reason), Artforum online, August 16, 2018.
• “Balloons, an Innocence, and Its End: Some Whiteness at the NYC Women’s March, January 20, 2018,” Medium, February 1, 2018, and hosted on The Racial Imaginary Institute Whiteness Issue.
• “How Would You Regard a Friend? On Suicide and the Moral Demands of Friendship,” Nature and Freedom/Natur und Freiheit/Nature et Liberté: Proceedings of the XII. International Kant Congress (De Gruyter, 2018), forthcoming.
• “Kant and Moral Motivation: The Value of Free Rational Willing,” in Moral Motivation (Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series), ed. Iakovos Vasiliou (Oxford University Press, 2016), 202-226.
• “What to Study at College and Why,” op-ed in LoHud Journal News, Sep. 16, 2015.

• “Everyday Noumena: The Fact and Significance of Ordinary Intelligible Objects,” Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht: Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010 [Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense: Proceedings of the 11th International Kant Congress, 2010], ed. S. Bacin, A. Ferrarin, C. La Rocca, and M. Ruffing (De Gruyter, 2014), 2, 799-807.

• “Tino Sehgal: A Collaborator Recalls,” ArtReview, 60, Summer 2012, 84–87.

• “Occupy Philosophy!” Possible Futures, Jan. 25, 2012.

• “The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants: Thinking Occupy Wall Street,” Possible Futures, Jan. 25, 2012.

• “Dispatch from Occupy Wall Street,” The Feminist Wire, Oct. 17, 2011.

• “Guilt, Love, and What We Want: Comments on Anita Superson’s, ‘Privilege, Immorality, and Responsibility for Attending to the “Facts about Humanity,”’” Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy, 2:1, January 2006.

• “Bush creating climate of intimidation,” op-ed in The Journal News, Oct. 2, 2004.

• Book review: Categorical Principles of Law: A Counterpoint to Modernity, by Otfried Höffe, Mind, 113:450 (April 2004), 357-60.

• Book review: The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project, by Martin Schönfeld, Florida Philosophical Review, 2:1 (Summer 2002), 41-45.

• “Kant on the Right to Property and the Value of External Freedom,” Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, Memphis 1995, vol. II. (Marquette University Press, 1995), 549-555.

• with James S. Uleman (father), “Unintended thought and non-conscious inferences exist”(invited commentary on J. R. Searle, “Consciousness, explanatory inversion, and cognitive science”), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13:4 (December, 1990), 627-628.

Selected, as relate to current research:

“Politics in the Classroom: Reflections of a Year-Long Faculty Reading, Discussion, and Strategy Group,” convener and panelist, SUNY Gen Ed Conference, April 2026.

“Bloodguilt: Toward a Kantian Account of Communal Responsibility,” paper-in-progress presented at Brown University, April 2024, and to the International Means and Ends Network, October 2024 

“‘Bad Air, Bad Air!’ or, a Meditation on Nietzsche, Blondness, and Fabricated Innocence,” presented at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, August 2018, and at Northwestern, the University of Illinois Chicago, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in November, 2018.

“On Isolation and the Moral Harms of Suicide and Lying in Kant,” North American Kant Society Biennial, May 18-20, 2018, Vancouver.

“The Impact of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in the US, or, Bloom, Unlock, Connect: The Effects of Sister Miriam Joseph’s 1948 Trivium Curriculum on the Undergraduate Mind,” international workshop on the global crisis facing the Humanities and the Social Sciences in Higher Education at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, March 5-6, 2018.

Interpreter in Tino Sehgal’s piece, “This Progress,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Jan. 29 – Mar. 10, 2010.