Professor Wiebke Deimling received her MA from the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich in 2008 and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Before coming to Clark she spent two years on the Ruth Norman Halls Postdoctoral Fellowship at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the recipient of Clark University’s Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship Award for Academic Year 2018-2019. Her work focuses on Kant and modern philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and the emotions.

Wiebke Deimling
Associate Professor, Philosophy
- About
- Scholarly and creative works
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
- M.A. in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
- M.A. in Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Logic, Ludwig-Maximilians University, 2008
Affiliated Department
Philosophy
Scholarly and creative works
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“The Passion for Freedom and the Passion for the Ultimate Means”
SupplementaDe Gruyter -
“Taking Something to Heart – A New Look at Kant’s Criticism of Sympathy,”
Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress13th International Kant CongressOsloFall2021 -
“Kant’s Theory of Tragedy”, Southwest Philosophical Review
Vol. 5Issue #1 -
Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Chapter: “Two Different Kinds of Value? Kant on Feeling and Moral Cognition”Published by Cambridge University Press2018 -
Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment
Chapter: “Hutcheson’s and Kant’s Critique of Sympathy”Published by Routledge2017 -
“Moralism about Propaganda”
Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics2015Vol. 7 -
Kant on Emotion and Value
Chapter: “Kant’s Pragmatic Concept of Emotions”Published by Palgrave Macmillan2014 -
“Hume’s Calm and Strong Passions”
41st International Hume Society Conference Proceedings2014 -
“Sensations Without Cartesian Bodies: Idealism and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz’s Early and Middle Period”
IX. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress Vorträge2011Vol. 1 -
“Imaginary Works of Art and Real Emotions”
Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics2010