In the Formula of Humanity, Kant embraces the principle that it is wrong for us to treat others merely as means. For contemporary Kantian ethicists, this Mere Means Principle plays the role of a moral constraint: it limits what we may do, even in the service of promoting the overall good. But substantive interpretations of the principle generate implausible results in relatively ordinary cases....

This paper seeks to delineate some of the significant modes of philosophical resistance to, and subversion of, British Idealism already operational in Russell’s earliest work. One key tactic employed in An Essay On the Foundations of Geometry (1897) is to reorient the findings of the ‘modern logic’ of Bradley and Bosanquet by employing some ‘transcendental’ or neo-Kantian strategies. Russell th...

I distinguish the ethics of transhumanism from a related metaphysical position which I refer to as “speculative posthumanism.” Speculative posthumanism holds that posthumans might be radically non-human and thus unintelligible in human terms. I claim that this transcendence can be viewed as analogous to that of the thing-in-itself in Kantian and post-Kantian European philosophy. This schema imp...

Abstract This article offers a reading of the “transcendental” character Alain Badiou’s and Giorgio Agamben’s ontologies. While neither Badiou nor Agamben are philosophers in Kantian sense, this argues that their respective projects ontology both recover aspects “classical” conception transcendentals. Not unlike how pre-modern conceived oneness, truth goodness as transcendental properties all t...