DANIEL SUTHERLAND

Department of Philosophy, M/C 267
1424 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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Daniel Sutherland became an Associate Professor at UIC in 2005.  He received his Ph.D. from U.C.L.A in 1998, was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science Department of Indiana University from 1998-99, and came to UIC in 1999.  His primary interests are early modern philosophy and the historical relationship between philosophy, mathematics, and science, with a particular focus on the work of Immanuel Kant.  His publications include “The Role of Magnitude in Kant’s Critical Philosophy” Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2005), “The Point of Kant’s Axioms of Intuition” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2005), “Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics and the Greek Mathematical Tradition” Philosophical Review (2004), “Kant on Fundamental Geometrical Relations” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2005), “Kant on Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Theory of Proportions” Journal of the History of Philosophy, (2006), and “Philosophy and Geometry in Leibniz, Wolff, and the Early Kant,” in Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge: Essays at the Intersection of History, Philosophy, and Science, edited by Michael Dickson and Mary Domski (forthcoming). He taught at Harvard University in the Spring semester of 2006, and was awarded an NSF Grant for 2006-2007 to pursue further research into Kant’s philosophy of mathematics.