Personal information

Sebastian Gardner completed his BA and PhD in Philosophy at King's College, Cambridge. Before joining the Department of Philosophy at UCL, he was Lecturer and Director of Studies in Philosophy at St. Hilda's College, Oxford (1987-89), and Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London (1989-98).

Research

Main research interests:

• Kant
• German Idealism
• Existential Phenomenology
• Aesthetics
• Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Editorial work

Reviews Editor of the European Journal of Philosophy

Selected publication

Books:

Fichte, Schelling and Early German Idealism (London: Routledge, forthcoming)

Art and Morality, ed. José Luis Bermúdez and Sebastian Gardner (London: Routledge, 2002)

Kant and the ‘Critique of Pure Reason' (London: Routledge, 1999).

Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: CUP, 1993).

Articles:

‘Tragedy, Morality and Metaphysics', in Art and Morality, ed. José Luis Bermúdez and Sebastian Gardner (London: Routledge, 2002).

The Romantic-Metaphysical Theory of Art', European Journal of Philosophy 10, 2002, 275-301.

German Idealism I', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 76, 2002, 211-28.

‘Value and Idealism', in Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful, Royal Institute of Philosophy: Supplement 47, ed. Anthony O'Hear (Cambridge: CUP, 2000).

‘Schopenhauer, Will and Unconscious', in The Cambridge Companion
to Schopenhauer, ed. Christopher Janaway (Cambridge: CUP, 1999).

‘Wallace Stevens and Metaphysics: The Plain Sense of Things', European Journal of Philosophy 2, 1994, 322-44.

‘Other Minds and Embodiment', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94, 1993-94, 35-52.