Pablo Muchnik
Professor, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Pablo Muchnik specializes in Kant, modern philosophy, and political philosophy. He is the author of Kant’s Theory of Evil: An Essay on The Dangers of Self-Love and the Aprioricity of History (Lexington Books, 2009), editor of the first two volumes of Rethinking Kant (Cambridge Scholar Publishers, vol. I, 2008; vol. II, 2010), co-editor of Kant’s Anatomy of Evil (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and of the fourth and fifth volumes of Rethinking Kant (2014 and 2018).
He received numerous national and international scholarships and awards, and codirects the book series Kantian Questions (Cambridge Scholar Publishers) and Kant’s Sources in Translation (Bloomsbury). He was the president of the North American Kant Society between 2014-2017, and vice president between 2009-2014. Dr. Muchnik is currently undergoing a four-year training in psychoanalysis as an academic candidate.
Courses
- Sophomore Honors Seminar 4
- Political Philosophy
- Self-Deception
- Virtues Vices & Temptations
- Great Philosophers
Academic Work
- 2026, "Judging the Inner Judge: On the Genesis of Kant’s Theodicy Essay," in Kantian Theodicy Reconsidered
- 2023, “Emotivism: A Kantian Response,” Society of German Idealism Review (SGIR), 6.1 (2023), 60-82
- 2021, “Healing the Wound: Rossi on Kantian Critique, Community, and the Remedies to the ‘Dear Self’,” in Philosophia, 49, 1817–1835
- 2019, “Clipping our Dogmatic Wings: The Role of Religion’s First Parergon in Our Moral Education,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51:13, 1381-1391. Special issue on “Kant on Education and Evil –perfecting human beings with an innate propensity to evil.”
- 2016, Immanuel Kant’s Sources in Translation (Volumes I-VI), with L. Pasternack (Eds.), London: Bloomsbury Press
- 2010-2018, Rethinking Kant (Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5), (Ed.) Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- 2010, Kant’s Anatomy of Evil, with S. Anderson-Gold (Eds.) New York: Cambridge University Press
- 2009, Kant’s Theory of Evil: An Essay on The Dangers of Self-Love and the Aprioricity of History, Latham, MD: Lexington Books