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

• Jacob Librizzi
• Hongjian Tan
• Patrick Winther-Larsen

Selected publications

• Kant and the Supposed Right of Necessity

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

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie

  Timmermann, J., May 2025, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 239 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 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

• Kant on punishment, pardon, and forgiveness

  Moran, K. & Timmermann, J., 6 May 2022, Conflict and resolution: the ethics of forgiveness, revenge and punishment. Satne, P. & Scheiter, K. M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 225-238 14 p.

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

• Kant’s will at the crossroads: an essay on the failings of practical rationality

  Timmermann, J., 4 Aug 2022, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 170 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  The quandary of infanticide in Kant's 'Doctrine of Right'

  Timmermann, J., 16 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. Advance article, 28 p.

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

• Lectures on ethics

  Timmermann, J. & Walschots, M., 23 Feb 2021, The Cambridge Kant lexicon. Wuerth, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 760-766 7 p.

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

• Respect, moral progress, and imperfect duty

  Timmermann, J., 1 Jun 2021, Kant and the possibility of progress: from modern hopes to postmodern anxieties. Wilford, P. T. & Stoner, S. A. (eds.). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 47-61 15 p.

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

• Der Status unvollkommener Pflichten in Kants Theorie des Gewissens

  Timmermann, J., May 2020, Kasuistik und Theorie des Gewissens: Von Pascal bis Kant. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, p. 217–232

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

• Open access

  A tale of two conflicts: on Pauline Kleingeld’s new reading of the Formula of Universal Law

  Timmermann, J., 19 Dec 2018, In: Kant-Studien. 109, 4, p. 581-596

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

 

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