Caroline Bowman
Term Assistant Professor
Caroline Bowman focuses on Kant, 19th-century German philosophy, and social and political philosophy. She is currently working on a monograph that investigates Hegel's account of the relationship between the psychological and social components of freedom. She also works on related themes in contemporary debates about freedom and autonomy, and has published work concerning the relationship between nature and freedom in the philosophical systems of Kant and Hegel.
- B.A., Claremont McKenna College
- Ph.D., NYU
- Kant; 19th-century German philosophy (esp. Hegel); social and political philosophy
- “The Transition to Self-Consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit.” The Review of Metaphysics. 76.2 (2022): 267-303.
- “Purposiveness, the Idea of God, and the Transition from Nature to Freedom in the Critique of Judgment.” Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress ‘The Court of Reason’ (Oslo, 6-9 August 2019). Ed. Camilla Serck-Hanssen and Beatrix Himmelmann. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter (2021).