Melissa Merritt

ARC Future Fellow
Associate Professor

Melissa Merritt is a philosopher working primarily on the history of ethics.  Her book, Kant on Reflection and Virtue (Cambridge University Press, 2018), examines how the Kantian idea of virtue is rooted in an account of the essentially reflective nature of the rational mind.  Her current research examines the Stoic influences on Kant, particularly in ethics and moral psychology -- and from this historical foundation aims to reassess the possibilities of moral rationalism in contemporary ethics.  

Merritt is currently an ARC Future Fellow working on a project called Reason, Value, and Virtue: Assessing the Stoic Legacy in Kantian Ethics (FT180100494, 2018-2022), and Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW. 

 

 

publications
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Books
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Merritt M, 2018, Kant on Reflection and Virtue, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108344005
2018
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Merritt M, 2018, The Sublime, Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108529709
2018
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Book Chapters
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Merritt M, 2020, 'Mendelssohn and Kant on virtue as a skill', in Fridland E; Pavese C (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill and Expertise, Routledge, London, pp. 88 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315180809-8
2020
Merritt M, 2017, '“Sublimity and Joy: Kant on the Aesthetic Constitution of Virtue”', in Altman MC (ed.), The Palgrave Kant Handbook, edn. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism, Palgrave, London, pp. 447 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54656-2
2017
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Merritt M, 2014, '"Kant on the Pleasures of Understanding"', in Kant on Emotion and Value, edn. Philosophers in Depth, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, pp. 126 - 145, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?sf1=id_product&st1=632938
2014
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Melissa MM, 2012, '"Kant and Kantian Epistemology"', in Hetherington S (ed.), Epistemology: The Key Thinkers, edn. Original, Continuum, London, pp. 131 - 152
2012
Melissa MM, 2012, '"The Moral Source of the Kantian Sublime"', in Costelloe T (ed.), The Sublime: From Antiquity to Present, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 37 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511978920.005
2012
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Melissa MM; Valaris M, 2012, 'Kant and Kantian Epistemology', in Stephen Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology: The Key Thinkers, edn. 1st, Continuum, London, pp. 131 - 152
2012
Journal articles
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Merritt M, 2020, 'Nature, corruption, and freedom: Stoic ethics in Kant's Religion', European Journal of Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12553
2020
Merritt MM, 2020, 'Feeling and Orientation in Action: A Reply to Alix Cohen', Kantian Review, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1369415420000515
2020
Merritt MMB, 2017, 'Motherhood in Ferrante's the lost daughter: A Case study of Irony as extraordinary reflection', Philosophy and Literature, vol. 41, pp. 185 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2017.0012
2017
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Merritt M, 2017, 'Practical Reason and Respect for Persons', Kantian Review, vol. 22, pp. 53 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000376
2017
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Merritt MM; Valaris M, 2017, 'Attention and Synthesis in Kant's Conception of Experience', The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 67, pp. 571 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqw085
2017
Merritt M, 2017, 'Love, Respect, and Individuals: Murdoch as a Guide to Kantian Ethics', European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 25, pp. 1844 - 1863, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12280
2017
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Merritt M, 2015, 'Varieties of Reflection in Kant's Logic', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 23, pp. 478 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1018129
2015
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Melissa MM, 2011, 'Kant's Argument for the Apperception Principle', European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 19, pp. 59 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00364.x
2011
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Melissa MM, 2011, 'Book Review: Will Dudley and Kristina Engelhard (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/27135-immanuel-kant-key-concepts/
2011
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Melissa MM, 2011, '"Kant on Enlightened Moral Pedagogy"', Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 49, pp. 227 - 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-6962.2011.00072.x
2011
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Melissa MM, 2010, 'Book Review: Robert R. Clewis, The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 18, pp. 529 - 532
2010
Melissa MM, 2010, 'Kant on the Transcendental Deduction of Space and Time: an essay on the philosophical resources of the Transcendental Aesthetic', Kantian Review, vol. 14, pp. 1 - 37
2010
Merritt MM, 2010, 'The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom', BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, vol. 18, pp. 528 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608781003779883
2010
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Melissa MM, 2009, 'Reflection, Enlightenment, and the Significance of Spontaneity in Kant', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 17, pp. 981 - 1010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608780903339178
2009
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Melissa MM, 2007, 'Analysis in the Critique of Pure Reason', Kantian Review, vol. 12, pp. 61 - 89, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/kant/2007/00000012/00000001/art00004
2007
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Melissa MM, 2006, 'Analysis in the Critique of Pure Reason', Kantian Review, vol. 12, pp. 60 - 88
2006
Melissa MM, 2006, 'Science and the Synthetic Method of the Critique of Pure Reason', Review of Metaphysics, vol. 59, pp. 517 - 539
2006
Other
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2017, Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, by Jonathan Lear: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 328, US$39.95 (hardback)., http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1365090
2017
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Merritt M, 2017, Review of Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and His Realism, by Lucy Allais, Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1168857
2017
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Awards
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2019 North American Kant Society Book Prize for Kant on Reflection and Virtue

Grants
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Australian Research Council (ARC), Future Fellowship: "Reason, Value, and Virtue: Assessing the Stoic Legacy in Kantian Ethics" (FT180100494,  AU$850,525), 2018-2022.

Australian Research Council (ARC), Discovery Project, Chief Investigator: "Enlightened Judgment: Reflection and Cognitive Virtue in Kant’s Critical Philosophy" (DP130100172, AU$135,000), 2013-2015.

Area of expertise
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Immanuel Kant (ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and metaphysics)

Ethics and Moral Psychology

History of Philosophy (esp. early modern European, and ancient Greek and Hellenistic) 

 

 

Subject areas
lensPhilosophy