Prof. Dr. Robert Clewis

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsHistory of Philosophy,Theoretical Philosophy
KeywordsHelen Maria Williams, aesthetic theory, 18th-c. European philosophy, the sublime/das Erhabene, Immanuel Kant
Honours and awards

2023: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, for collaborative project on Tetens

2019: American Council of Learned Societies, summer research grant for monograph

2019: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, visiting scholar grant

2018: Wilfrid Sellars Prize, awarded by the North American Kant Society

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityGwynedd Valley
InstitutionGwynedd Mercy University
InstituteInstitute of Philosophy
Homepagehttps://www.gmercyu.edu/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Günter ZöllerDepartment für Philosophie, Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie, Religionswissenschaft und Wirtschaftsethik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Marcus WillaschekInstitut für Philosophie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2012

Programme(s)

2012Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2018Robert R. Clewis: The Feeling of Enthusiasm. In: Kelly Sorensen, Diane Williamson, Kant and the Faculty of Feeling. Cambridge University Press, 2018. x-x
2017Robert R. Clewis: Does Kantian Ethics Condone Mood and Cognitive Enhancement?. In: Neuroethics, 2017, x-x
2017Robert R. Clewis: Kant’s Physical Geography and the Critical Philosophy. In: Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2017, x-x
2017Robert R. Clewis: “A Theory of the Sublime is Possible” . In: Elea Wassard Revista, 2017, 45-68
2017Robert R. Clewis: “Beauty and Utility in Kant’s Aesthetics: The Origins of Adherent Beauty.” . In: Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2017, xx-xx
2017Robert R. Clewis: “The Feeling of Enthusiasm.”. In: Kelly Sorensen and Diane Williamson., Kant and the Faculty of Feeling. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017. x-x
2016Robert R. Clewis: “Kant’s Natural Teleology? The Case of Physical Geography” . In: Kant-Studien, 2016, 1-29
2016Robert R. Clewis: “What’s the Big Idea? On Emily Brady’s Sublime.” . In: The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2016, 104-118
2015Robert R. Clewis: Reading Kant’s Lectures. Walter de Gruyter, 2015
2015Robert R. Clewis: The Place of the Sublime in Kant’s Project. In: Studi kantiani , 2015, 149-168
2015Robert R. Clewis: “Editor’s Introduction.” . In: Robert R. Clewis, Reading Kant’s Lectures. Walter de Gruyter, 2015. 1-29
2015Werner Stark: “Immanuel Kant: On Pedagogy: A Lecture like Any Other?”. In: Robert R. Clewis, Reading Kant’s Lectures. Walter de Gruyter, 2015. 259-276
2014Robert R. Clewis: “What Can Hume Teach Us About Film Evaluation.” . In: Aisthema, 2014, 1-22
2014Robert R. Clewis: “Kant’s Empiricist Rationalism of the Mid-1760s' . In: Eighteenth-Century Thought , 2014, 179-225
2013Robert R. Clewis: Lecture of the Winter semester 1784-1785 Based on the Transcription Mrongovius, Marienburg. In: Robert B. Louden, Allen Wood, Lectures on Anthropology . Cambridge University Press, 2013. 339-510
2012Robert R. Clewis: 'Film Evaluation and the Enjoyment of Dated Films” . In: Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, 2012, 42-63
2012Robert R. Clewis: 'Kant’s Distinction between True and False Sublimity'. In: Susan Shell, Richard Velkley, Kant’s Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 116-143
2010Robert R. Clewis: “A Case for Kantian Artistic Sublimity: A Response to Abaci” . In: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2010, 167-170
2009Robert R. Clewis: The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom. Cambridge University Press, 2009