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

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

Selected Research (see the Writing page for more)

• Reason in the World: The Philosophical Appeal of Hegel's Metaphysics. Monograph. 2015. Oxford University Press.

• Hegel and Spinoza, in progress, draft available.

• Nothing Halfway: Post-Kantian Philosophy from System-Critique to System, and Back (in progress)

• “The Poison Chalice of Metaphysical Grounding: Jacobi and Hegel as Reversing Contemporary Expectations” forthcoming in Hegel Bulletin.

• “A Theory of German Idealism: Where the PSR Turns Upside Down”. Forthcoming in Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Principle of Sufficient Reason.

• “Reasons for the Importance of the Post-Kantian Idea of a System: Nothing Halfway, Jacobi and Schelling”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 2025.

• “Schelling's Critique of Hegel: Options and Responses, in the Spirit of Highlighting Shared Insights” Society for German Idealism and Romanticism Review. 2024.

• “True Purposes and an Outstanding Problem of Purposiveness in Hegel”, Teorema, 2024.

See the Writing page for older essays and chapters…