Jennifer K. Uleman

I teach courses in the history of modern philosophy, with emphases on German Idealism and moral and political thought; in contemporary aesthetics, with emphases on epistemological and moral questions; and on method, including a course on the logic of the Trivium and a course on objectivity.  I also teach interdisciplinary courses that, like many of the courses already noted, critically take up race, class, and gender.  I am interested in experiential Humanities, that is, in ways of engaging texts and methods traditional to the Humanities in embodied, experimental, personal, and otherwise playful ways.

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

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

Here is a short video where I talk about my book on Kant’s moral philosophy.

• What Is Education?
• Truth (first-year seminar on truth and its discontents)
• Thinking Race
• Possession (first-year course on property and ownership generally)
• Gender and Power
• Methods of Reasoning (the classical trivium)
• Kant Seminar
• Hegel Seminar
• Light and Truth: Film, Photography and Realism in Representation
• Art and Morality
• Objectivity
• 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.

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