Prof Jens Timmermann

Professor of Moral Philosophy

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2468

Email

jt28@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Ethical theory, Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics;the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

Elected to the Academia Europaea, May 2023.

PhD supervision

• Chen-Wei Chang
• Nicolas Knecht
• Patrick Winther-Larsen
• Yujie Yang

Selected publications

• Kant and the supposed right of necessity

  Timmermann, J., Jan 2026, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Should criminals be punished for their folly? On the ethical foundations of Kant’s legal philosophy

  Moran, K. & Timmermann, J., 22 Jan 2026, Law and morality in Kant. Brecher, M. & Hirsch, P.-A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 114-128

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Jens Timmermann: Kant, Constant und Michaelis über das (vermeinte) Recht, aus Menschenliebe zu lügen

  Timmermann, J., 11 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen. 277, 1-2, p. 117-129

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Kant and the supposed right to lie

  Timmermann, J., 28 Aug 2025, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 240 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Kant’s theory of sympathy

  Timmermann, J., 1 Jan 2025, In: Studi Kantiani. 38, p. 133–146

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Life as a game of skill? Kant and the Stoics about the results of human agency

  Timmermann, J., 7 Aug 2025, Kant and stoic ethics. Merritt, M. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 137-150

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A credential for the moral law? On the alleged coherentism of the critique of practical reason

  Timmermann, J., 2024, Problems of reason: Kant in context. Falduto, A. (ed.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 127-134 (Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte; vol. 226).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Equality and reciprocity, or: The primacy of the practical

  Timmermann, J., 2024, Kant for children. Krajewski, B. J. (ed.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 141-144

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Vom guten und angenehmen. Kants replik auf Hermann Andreas Pistorius

  Timmermann, J., 23 Sept 2024, Immanuel Kant – freiheit, vernunft, sinnlichkeit: Vielstimmiger widerhall der philosophie Kants im zwanzigsten jahrhundert. Waibel, V. L., Brinnich, M., Geml, G. & Schaller, P. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 165-182

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Das neue in Kants Critik der practischen Vernunft

  Timmermann, J., 6 Jun 2022, Immanuel Kant 1724-1804: ein europäischer Denker. Gerhardt, V., Weber, M. & Schepelmann, M. (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, p. 74-83 (Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa; vol. 83).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

 

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