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In August 2022 I finished a new version of my manuscript Freedom and Insight. The book's principal focus is now on the relationship between Kant’s Groundwork to his second Critique. A description of the book can be found here. Chapters having to do with Kant’s take on religion were taken out, and several new chapters were added. I am already at work on another book devoted exclusively to Kant’s approach to religion. Right now I am writing a paper on Kant’s understanding of conscience in the context of his Theodicy essay. This will be presented at Notre Dame this March, and a version of it will appear in an edited volume dedicated to Kant’s theodicy.
Other (somewhat) recent work has focused on the radically new understanding of consciousness put forward in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and its effects on 19th-century understandings of religion. I recently finished a piece on how Kant’s theory of consciousness was received by both Romantics and Idealists, and how it became the central locus for understanding religion in the late 18th and 19th centuries. That piece is grouped with others in my page on the reception of Kant. I also have a couple of recent pieces on Kant’s religion, and some further work on Schleiermacher.
Yet another project I have been thinking about is Kant’s understanding of consciousness and its implications for the subject of personal identity. A (very) preliminary description can be found here.