Daniel Sutherland, PhD
Professor
Philosophy
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About
Daniel Sutherland is a Professor; he joined UIC in 1999 after receiving his PhD from U.C.L.A. in 1998 and working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science Department of Indiana University from 1998-99. His interests are broad, but his primary interests include Immanuel Kant, especially the relationship between philosophy, mathematics and science in his work; accounts of mathematical cognition in philosophy and the cognitive sciences; philosophy of mind; and what philosophy can teach us about death.
He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and a guest lecturer at UCLA and at the University of Chicago. He has been awarded grants by the NSF, the American Philosophical Society, ACLS, and the NEH. A selection of his publications include: "Reflections on Kant on Reflections," Kant Yearbook, 2024, Kant's Mathematical World, Cambridge University Press 2022, "Kant's Conception of Number," Philosophical Review (2017), "Philosophy and Geometrical Practice in Leibniz, Wolff, and the Early Kant," in Discourse on a new Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science (2010), "From Kant to Frege: Numbers, Pure Units, and the Limits of Conceptual Representation," Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement (2008), "Kant on Arithmetic Algebra, and the Theory of Proportions," Journal of the History of Philosophy (2006), "The Role of Magnitude in Kant's Critical Philosophy," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2005) "Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics and the Greek Mathematical Tradition," Philosophical Review (2004).