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    Johann Gottlieb Steeb on Human Diversity: Synthesizing Kant and Blumenbach.Joris van Gorkom - 2019 - Critical Philosophy of Race 7 (2):352-371.
    This article shows that Johann Gottlieb Steeb supported different aspects of Kant's theory of race. Despite the growing research on Kant's racial and biological theory, one finds no mention of Steeb in these interpretations. However, his work is relevant because of his attempt in 1785 to synthesize Kant's preformationist terminology with Blumenbach's epigenetic theory. This article aims at understanding this synthesis. Recent interpreters of Kant presuppose that preformationism excluded epigenesis. But already in 1785 Steeb saw the possibility of integrating Kant's (...)
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    Skin color and phlogiston Immanuel Kant’s racism in context.Joris van Gorkom - 2020 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42 (2):1-22.
    Although much attention has already been paid to Kant’s ideas on race, more research is needed to determine the sources that he used to support his portrayal of non-white races. A comprehension of the intellectual context gives us the opportunity to see the way in which Kant wished to contribute to discussions on inheritable human characteristics and the inferiority of certain races. This article will emphasize the relevance of the views of Joseph Priestley and Alexander Wilson for Kant’s hypothesis on (...)
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  3. The portrait. An image of the subject.Joris van Gorkom - 2007 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (2):325-353.
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    Immanuel Kant’s Inheritance: Race in his Early Lectures on Physical Geography.Joris van Gorkom - forthcoming - Kantian Review:1-18.
    This article examines Immanuel Kant’s evolving ideas on race and inheritance, focusing on his early lectures on physical geography. It highlights his engagement with contemporary debates on physiological defects and adaptation. The notes of Georg Hesse, a student of Kant, are analysed to show how Kant’s ideas matured before his first published essay on race in 1775. The article also contextualizes Kant’s relationship with the works of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Henry Baker, showing how their studies on hereditary (...)
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    Derrida and Kant's staging of capital punishment.Joris van Gorkom - forthcoming - Southern Journal of Philosophy.
    Jacques Derrida's claim that Immanuel Kant was the most rigorous defender of the death penalty has rekindled interest in this topic in the context of Kant's work. Understandably, most articles have focused on Kant's The Metaphysics of Morals, in which he defends the legitimacy of capital punishment. However, many of these readings ignore the fact that the death penalty is a recurring theme in his writing. This article explores references to capital punishment in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and uncovers (...)
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    Immanuel Kant and a Second Slavery.Joris van Gorkom - 2025 - Critical Philosophy of Race 13 (1):24-52.
    Racism is a societal problem, which means that it should (also) be analyzed on an institutional, structural, and systemic level. When critiques of racism focus solely on particular beliefs, they overlook its broader manifestations. This article does not aim to ascertain Kant’s personal stance on race but rather to shed light on a blind spot in our own understanding of racism. It explores this through Kant’s endorsement of serfdom. We should not simply stay at the level of moral principles because (...)
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    Johann Gottlieb Stoll and Forster’s Challenge to Kant.Joris Van Gorkom - 2022 - Critical Philosophy of Race 10 (2):295-311.
    When in 1786 Georg Forster criticized Immanuel Kant’s racial theory, he famously challenged him to oppose slavery. Although Kant declined to take up this challenge, the discussion between Forster and Kant was the impetus for Johann Gottlieb Stoll to present his views on the matter. In his defense of monogenesis Stoll did what Kant had failed to do, namely, explicitly criticize oppressive institutions like the slave trade and slavery with a demand to respect the dignity and humanity of every human (...)
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  8. Immanuel Kant on Racial Identity.Joris van Gorkom - 2008 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 15 (1):1-10.
    Immanuel Kant enshrined the modem notion of race. Many commentators prefer to ignore this aspect of Kant’s thinking, considering it to be out-dated, merely a remnant of eighteenth century philosophy or bad science. This article will examine Kant’s racial theory within the context of his wider work, and mainly so with regard to the teleological principle. Kant often presents his new notion of race and racial differences in relation to teleology, i.e., he used races as an example for understanding the (...)
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    De legitimatie Van het alsof de 'marginale' discussie tussen Lyotard en Nancy.Aukje van Rooden & Joris van Gorkom - 2005 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 67 (3):527 - 546.
    Both Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Luc Nancy have tried to understand the law within the heterogeneity of society by means of Kant's notion of 'as if'. Kant introduced this notion in order to respect the gap between reason and intuition; Lyotard and Nancy took it up to explain the lack of unity in society. In the margins of their work — footnotes and postscripts — they have discussed this theme and searched for the presuppositions and risks of each others position, as (...)
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  10. De talers van Immanuel Kant, de God van de hebzuchtige.Joris van Gorkom - 2011 - de Uil Van Minerva 24:187-210.
     
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  11. Geldkunst: de komedie van het verzilveren.Joris van Gorkom - unknown - Wijsgerig Perspectief 50 (3).
    De kunstenaar J.S.G. Boggs tekende zijn eigen geld en probeerde dit uit te geven. Hierbij hield hij zich aan enkele regels. Hij schreef zichzelf voor dat hij zijn tekeningen niet mocht verkopen en alleen kon uitgeven in transacties. Boggs vroeg mensen of zij zijn Boggs-biljetten accepteerden voor de nominale waarde die hij er zelf op had getekend. Dit betekende ook dat hij in ruil niet alleen de waren wilde maar ook het wisselgeld en het bonnetje. Hoewel het aanbod vaak werd (...)
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  12. Immanuel Kant over ras en teleologie.Joris van Gorkom - 2010 - de Uil Van Minerva 23:193-218.
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    Kant, Kafka, Josef K.Joris van Gorkom, Filip Buekens, Niels Jørgen CAPPELØRN & Steven Spileers - 2010 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 72 (1):41.
  14. Levinas, fenomenologie en ethiek.Joris van Gorkom, Annette Hilt & Thomas Folens - 2007 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 3.
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  15. Ritme.Joris van Gorkom - 2005 - de Uil Van Minerva 20:133-150.
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    The Reddish, Iron-Rust Color of the Native Americans. Immanuel Kant's Racism in Context.Joris van Gorkom - 2019 - Con-Textos Kantianos 9:154-177.
    In this essay, I discuss Kant’s views on the “American race.” Robert Bernasconi has pointed out that more research on the sources of Kant’s ideas on non-white races is needed in order to have a better understanding of his racism. This essay responds to that call in order to show how Kant contributed to on-going discussions on the causes and meaning of human differences. However, I will also focus on his influence on his contemporaries. The reason for doing so is (...)
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