About

My research interests lie at the intersection of epistemology and aesthetics, particularly in how cognition and aesthetic experience explore the relationship between mind and world, or subject and object. I approach this inquiry through Kant’s critical philosophy alongside the broader context of 18th-century intellectual history, focusing on the role of perception in cognition and the relation of aesthetic attitude to conceptual thinking. I also explore how Kant’s philosophy can inform contemporary debates.

Currenty, I focus on perception as a point of contact between mind and world, serving as the common ground for both cognition and aesthetic experience. I aim to investigate the roles of inner sense and imagination across the First and Third Critiques, comparing how understanding functions in each. Given that Kant describes inner sense and time as “only one totality in which all of our representations are contained,” and that imagination acts as a faculty of transcendental time-determination, I believe their role in temporal representation is key to understanding both the connections and distinctions between cognition and aesthetic experience, as well as how can aesthetic experience contribute to cognition.