Ralf Bader
PhD students

Phone: 01334 462464
Office: Hut, Office 2
Email: rmb35@st-andrews.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ralf-bader.com/
Thesis/research: The Transcendental Structure of the World
Supervisors: Jens Timmermann and James Harris
Profile
Nationality: German
Degrees: BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford), M.Litt in Philosophy (St Andrews)
Other Research Interests
Metaphysics and Kant
Recent Publications
- “Kant and the Categories of Freedom”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 4 (2009), pp. 799-820
Recent Presentations
- “Being F intrinsically and extrinsically”, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco
- “Towards a hyperintensional theory of intrinsicality”, XII Taller d’Investigacio en Filosofia, Universitat de Girona
- “Mereological supervenience”, Mereology Workshop, University of St Andrews
- “Kant and the conditional intrinsic value of happiness”, Kant: Morality and Society – 2009 UK Kant Society Annual Conference
- “Supervenience and structure-specific indiscernibility”, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver
- “Neutrality and conditional goodness”, Conference on John Broome’s Weighing Lives, University of St Andrews
- “Structure-specific supervenience and the grounding problem”, 8th SIFA National Conference, Universita degli studi di Bergamo
- “Temporary coincidence and the grounding problem”, X Taller d’Investigacio en Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona
- “The categories of freedom”, Conference on ‘Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason’, University of St Andrews
- “Personal identity and the dualism of practical reason”, Conference on Roger Crisp’s Reasons & the Good, University of St Andrews
- “The non-transitivity of the contingent and occasional identity relations”, 9th Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference, University of Colorado at Boulder
- “Occasional identity theory as a variant of stage theory”, Syracuse Graduate Conference, Syracuse University
- “Time-determination and outer permanence”, Graduate Conference on Kant, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- “The Refutation of Idealism within the Critique of Pure Reason”, 3rd UK Kant Society Graduate Conference, University of Hertfordshire
Non-Academic Interests
Hiking, squash, boxing