DR. LUCAS THORPE

Associate Professor

PhD in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

lucas.thorpe@thapar.edu

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Thorpe, Lucas. The Kant Dictionary, Bloomsbury (2014)

• Thorpe, Lucas and Payne, Charlton (eds.) Kant and the Concept of Community, A North American Kant Society Special Volume, University of Rochester Press (2011)

Journal Articles

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Thomas Reid on the role of Conception and Belief in Perception and Memory”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 38.4 (2021).

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Atomic event concepts in perception, action and belief”, Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2021) AHCI

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Common Sense and Comparative Linguistics” Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'étranger (2021) AHCI

• Inci Ayhan, Melissa Kurtcan and Lucas Thorpe, “The effect of action on perceptual feature binding”, Vision Research, 177 (2020) 97-108. SCIE

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Sayyid Qutb and Aquinas: Liberalism, Natural Law and the Philosophy of Jihad.” Heythrop Journal (2019) AHCI
• Thorpe, Lucas. “Kant on the ‘Guarantee of Perpetual Peace’ and the Ideal of the United Nations, Dokuz Eylül University Journal of Humanities (2019)

• Thorpe, Lucas. “What’s wrong with Constructivist Readings of Kant?” in The Philosophy of Kant edited by Ricardo Gutierrez Aguilar, Nova Science Publishers, (2019)

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Kant, Guyer and Tomasello on the Capacity to Recognize the Humanity of Others” in Kate Moran (ed.) Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity, Cambridge University Press (2018)

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Experimental Philosophy, Williamson’s Expertise Defense of Armchair Philosophy and the Value of the History of Philosophy” in Yeditepe'de Felsefe, Special Issue on Method in Philosophy, pp. 169-184 (2016)

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Seeing White and Wrong: Reid on the Role of Sensations in Perception, with a Focus on Color Perception.” In Todd Buras and Bekko Copenhaver (eds.) Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value (Mind Association Occasional Series), Oxford University Press. (2015).

• Thorpe, Lucas. “One Community or Many? Community and Interaction in Kant: From Logic to Politics via Metaphysics and Ethics.” In Politics and Metaphysics in Kant edited by Howard Williams, Sorin Baiasa and Sami Pihlström, University of Wales Press (2013).

• Thorpe, Lucas and Payne, Charlton. “Introduction: The Many Senses of Community in Kant” in Thorpe, Lucas and Payne, Charlton (eds.) Kant and the Concept of Community, A North American Kant Society Special Volume, University of Rochester Press (2011)

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Autonomy and Community” in Thorpe, Lucas and Payne, Charlton (eds.) Kant and the Concept of Community, A North American Kant Society Special Volume, University of Rochester Press (2011)

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Is Kant’s Realm of Ends a Unum per Se? Aquinas, Suárez, Leibniz and Kant on Composition.” British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 18:3 (2010) 461–485 AHCI

• Thorpe, Lucas. “The Realm of Ends as a Community of Spirits: Kant and Swedenborg on the Kingdom of Heaven and the Cleansing of the Doors of Perception.” The Heythrop Journal, XLVIII (2010), pp. 1–24 AHCI

• Thorpe, Lucas. “Kant on the Transferal of Property: The Relationship between Kant's Metaphysics and his Philosophy of Right”, in Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants. Akten des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Im Auftrag von Kant-Gesellschaft e.V. Hrsg. v. Rohden, Valerio / Terra, Ricardo R. / Almeida, Guido A. de. September 2008 

• Thorpe, Lucas. “The logical Basis for Kant's distinction between Understanding and Intuition”, Proceedings Mu?la International Kant Symposium, 2007

• Thorpe, Lucas. “What is the Point of Studying Ethics According to Kant?” Journal of Value Inquiry, 2006 AHCI

 

Awards and Recognition

• “Kant, Reid and Contemporary Moral Psychology”. Bo?aziçi University BAP Project, 2019-2022. Principal Investigator. 150,000 ytl. 

• “Models, Theories, Research Programs” A Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK) 2232 project. 2019-Ongoing. Affiliated Researcher.
• “Agency and Autonomy: Kant and the Normative Foundations of Republican Self-Government.” A British Academy, Newton-Celebi Advanced fellowship, with Sasha Mudd at Southampton. 2015-2018. Total Budget: £70,000. Principal Investigator

• “Concept and Beliefs: From Perception to Action.” A Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK) 1001 project. 2014-2017. Total Budget: 269,000 ytl. (This is the largest type Tubitak Project). Principal Investigator.

• “Kant on Character, Virtue and Impossible Ideals.” A Bo?aziçi BAP Project. 2014-2017. Total Budget: 90,000ytl. Principal Investigator.

• “Realism from Reid and Kant to Sellars, Williamson and McDowell.” A Bo?aziçi BAP Project. 2011- 2014. Total Budget: 90,000ytl. Principal Investigator.