Hi. I’m the Edward S. Gould Professor of Philosophy, at Claremont McKenna College. My research concerns the History of European Philosophy, and mostly Classical German Philosophy.

I am the author of Reason in the World (Oxford University Press, 2015), Hegel and Spinoza (Cambridge University Press, 2026), and numerous articles on Kant, Hegel, and post-Kantianism. I amcurrently working on an NEH-funded book project titled Nothing Halfway, about productive conflict between system-critique and system-building in post-Kantian philosophy.

I teach more broadly about philosophy that is distant, historically and/or culturally.

My pages at PhilPapers : Google Scholar

I usually spend roughly May/June of each year based in Berlin, to travel for conferences and talks. Email questions to jkreines@cmc.edu.

Projects

  • Hegel and Metaphysics — 2006–

  • The Importance of Life in Hegel’s Philosophy — 2009–

  • Hegel and Spinoza — 2018-

  • Nothing Halfway: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and System-Critique — 2024–

  • A Dialectic-First Re-Reading of Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy — 2015–

  • Kant and the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science: Teleology, Life, Law, Essence, and Kinds — 2005–

Books

Selected Essays (Writing page for more).

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