Sabina F. Vaccarino Bremner

About

I am currently an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsyl­vania, with a secondary affiliation with Penn’s department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies. In 2023-2024, I am an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Potsdam, hosted by Thomas Khurana. Prior to Penn, I was an assistant professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, in the History of Philosophy department of the Faculty of Philosophy.

I obtained my PhD from Columbia University in 2021, where my research was generously supported by the Mellon Foundation, American Council for Learned Societies, and Council for European Studies. Prior to my PhD, I completed a BA degree at the University of Chicago in 2014 and a DAAD Research Fellowship at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt in 2015.

I work primarily on Kant and 19^th-20^th century European philosophy, extending into social and political philosophy, aesthetics, value theory, philosophy of science, and early analytic philosophy. My work has been recognized by the North American Kant Society, the American Philosophical Association, and the American Society for Aesthetics, among others.

For more, see my Research page and CV.

background image: a chiesa rupestre in Matera, Southern Italy

Contact

Email: svbremner@gmail.com
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Research

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

The Autonomy of Reason, Reconsidered: On the 'Autonomy of Ideas' in the Later Kant
Journal of the History of Philosophy, forthcoming

Relativizing the A Priori By Way of Reflective Judgment
Kantian Review 28 (2023): 355-372 (file)

The Early Marx’s Materialism of Sensibility as Activity: Rejecting a New Myth of the Given
Practices of Truth in Philosophy (2023), ed. Gori and Serini (file)

Critical Discussion of Recent Work in Kantian Ethics: Timmermann, Herman, Timmons
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, forthcoming (file)

Practical Judgment as Reflective Judgment
European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming (file)

On Moral Unintelligibility: Beauvoir’s Genealogy of Morality
The Monist 105 (2022), 521-540 (file)

On Conceptual Revision and Aesthetic Judgment
Kantian Review 26.4 (2021): 531-547 (file)

‘Until Art Once More Becomes Nature’: Culture and the Problem of Unity in Kant's Critique of Judgment
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 104.2 (2022): 367-402 (file)

Anthropology as Critique: Foucault, Kant, and the Metacritical Tradition
British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28.2 (2020): 336-358 (file)

‘When You (Say You) Know, You Can’t Be Wrong’: J.L. Austin on ‘I Know’ Claims
Forthcoming in Inquiry (file)

Some Remarks on Kant's Post-Critical Conception of the Autonomy of Reason
Proceedings of the 13 ^th International Kant Congress (2021): 1605-1614 (file)

Talks

Peer-Reviewed

Teaching

As primary instructor at Columbia, I taught Existentialism in Summer 2019.

As a teaching assistant at Columbia, I have taught the following courses:

• Spring 2019: Philosophy of Language, Karen Lewis
• Fall 2018: Philosophy of Law, Michele Moody-Adams
• Spring 2018: Kant, Patricia Kitcher
• Fall 2017: European Social Philosophy, Frederick Neuhouser
• Spring 2017: 20th Century European Philosophy, Taylor Carman
• Fall 2016: Philosophy & Feminism, Christia Mercer

CV

View my CV here.

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