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*On study leave Term 1 2025/26*

I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½. My research explores the philosophy of nature, mind, and life; currently I'm looking at philosophical issues surrounding conservation and land management. I'm the author of (SUNY Press, 2016), (OUP, 2023), and  (CUP, 2024). At ¹û¶³´«Ã½, I teach courses on life, nature, and existentialism.

I'm involved in several activities to share research in philosophy with a wide audience. I am a I host a podcast called Daybreak, I co-direct the , and I serve on the executive committee of the . I am also co-investigator on Empowering Young Voices with Karen Simecek, in partnership with Coventry Boys and Girls Club.

Before coming to ¹û¶³´«Ã½, I received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney and undertook postdoctoral studies at University of Bonn, Durham University and University College London. I have held visiting fellowships at UC San Diego (2018), University of Chicago (2019), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2020), and The Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (2023).

For further details of my current research, see my .

Teaching

• PH201 History of Modern Philosophy II - Term 2

Publications

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Amalia Holst. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. - -

Kant and the Transformation of Natural History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. - - - Reviewed in: , ; , .

The Tragedy of Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Judgment and the project of aesthetics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016 (paperback 2017). - - - Reviewed in: , ,

​Edited Books

Amalia Holst: On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. -

Edited Journals

Kant and philosophy of science. Edited with Andy Jones, Kantian Review 28(3), 2023. - -

Journal Articles

​Amalia Holst and the paradox of public reason (with Simon Gansinger). Journal of History of Philosophy.

The problem of Whewell's idealism. ​British Journal for the History of Philosophy. - - -

Empowering young voices through performing poetry (with Karen Simecek and Christopher Earley). Journal of Philosophy of Education. - - -

Evolution and ecology: a Hegelian frame, Teorema 43(2), 2024, 129-143. - - -

Kant's ongoing relevance for philosophy of science (with Andy Jones). Kantian Review 28(3), 2023: 337-354. - - -

Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 99, 2023: 97-105. - --

Reading Kant's Kritik der Urteilskraft in England, 1796-1840. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29(3), 2021: 472-493. - - -

Iris Murdoch on Moral Perception. The Heythrop Journal ​62(3), 2021: 454-466. - - -

Judgment, normativity and the subject. Thesis Eleven 161(1), 2020: 35-50. - - -

Do functions explain? Hegel and the organisational view. Hegel Bulletin 41(3), 2020: 389-406. - - -

Kant's Universal Conception of Natural History. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ​79, 2020: 77-87. - - -

Living Natural Products in Kant's Physical Geography. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 78, 2019. - - -

Systematicity in Kant's third Critique. ​Idealistic Studies 48(1), 2018: 25-46. - - -

Two Directions for Teleology: Naturalism and idealism. Synthese 195(7), 2018: 3097-3119. - - -

A Critical Method for Natural History: the development of Kant's teleological principle. Estudos Kantianos ​5(2), 2017: 105-124. - - -

The Representation of an Action: Tragedy between Kant and Hegel. European Journal of Philosophy 25(3), 2017: 573-594. - - -

Kant and Experimental Philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25(2), 2017: 256-286. - - -

For the (Philosophical) Love of Poetic Beauty: Plato’s hope in Republic. Philosophical Inquiry 41(1) 2017: 111-126. - - -

Beyond Heidegger: from ontology to action. Thesis Eleven 140(1), 2017: 90-105. - - -

Nature’s Ultimate End: hope and culture in Kant’s third Critique. Philosophica 48(1), 2016: 31-45. - - -

Interested Creatures: Kant on normativity and nature. Kant Studies Online 2016: 48-77. - - -

Philosophy’s Tragedy. Metaphilosophy 47(1), 2016: 59-74. - - -

Being or Chaos? Heidegger and Castoriadis at the crossroads. Cosmos and History 8(2), 2012: 78-99. - - -

Book Chapters

Defeating nomological ignorance. In Proceedings for the 14th International Kant Congress. Forthcoming.

Coleridge and the science of life. In Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists. â€‹Edited by Peter Cheyne. Dordrecht: Springer Nature. - - -

​Amalia Holst (1758-1829). In The Oxford Handbook for Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition. Edited by Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 24-43. - - -

Kant and biological theory. In Life, Organism and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy. Edited by Luca Corti & Johannes-Georg Schülein. Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2023, 21-37. - - -

The economy of the Bildungstrieb in Goethe's comparative anatomy. In The Concept of the Drive in Classical German Philosophy. Edited by Manja Kisner and Jörg Noller. London: Palgrave, 2022, 83-105. - --

Kant on observation. In The Court of Reason: Proceedings for the 13th International Kant Congress. Edited by Camilla Serck-Hanssen and Beatrix Himmelmann. ​Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021, 941-950. - - -

Force and Law in Kielmeyer's 1793 speech. In Kielmeyer and the Organic World. Edited by Daniel Whistler and Lydia Azadpour. London: Bloomsbury, 2020, 81-98. - - -

Aesthetics and Autonomy. In Castoriadis and Radical Democracy. Edited by Vrasidas Karalis. Leiden: Brill, 2014, 87-116. - - -

Encyclopedia Entries

Naturphilosophie. In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge: London, 2020. - -

Translations

On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education (Über die Bestimmung des Weibes zur höhren Geistesbildung), by Amalia Holst. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - -

Window into Chaos (Fenêtre sur le chaos), by Cornelius Castoriadis. Thesis Eleven 148(1), 2018, 77-88. - ​ -

Reviews

Kant, Race, and Racism, Huaping Lu-Adler. European Journal of Philosophy 32: 286-291. - -

Tragedy, The Greeks, and Us, Simon Critchley. Philosophy Today 65(1), 2021, 211-215. - - -

Coleridge and Contemplation, Peter Cheyne (ed.). British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27(1), 2019, 231-236. - -

Kants Theorie der Biologie: Ein Kommentar. Eine Lesart. Eine historische Einordnung, Ina Goy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26(3), 2018, 625-630. - -

The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, ethics and healthy choices, Christopher Mayes. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 14(1), 2017, 159-162. - -

Hope Without Optimism, Terry Eagleton. Philosophy Today 60(4), 2016, 991-94. - - -

Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, Phillip Honenberger (ed.). Phenomenological Reviews 2016, April. - -

Public-facing work

. Free Thinking, BBC Radio 4.

. The Essay, BBC Radio 3

. Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3

. Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3.

. Aeon.

Philosophy by Postcard.

Contact details

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Email: andrew.j.cooper@warwick.ac.uk

Office hours: On study leave Term 1

Room: S2.41 Social Sciences Building

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