Timothy Franz
Doctorate (PhD) in Philosophy, New School for Social Research. Supervisor: Dmitri Nikulin. Examinors: Jay Bernstein (New School for Social Research); Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins). Dissertation: Salomon Maimon’s Opus Alienum: from Criticism toTranscendental Philosophy (August, 2019).
Master in Philosophy, New School for Social Research. Advisors: Dmitri Nikulin, Omri Boehm. Thesis: Maimon, Kant, and Intellectual Intuition (2011).
Bachelors of Arts. Boston University, University Professors Program. Advisor: Jeffrey Mehlman. Thesis: ‘Ernst Jünger and Georges Bataille on Materialism and the Experience ofWorld War One’ (2002).
Areas of Competence
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science, Bioethicsv
Areas of Specialization
Immanuel Kant, Salomon Maimon, German Idealism
Scholarships and Distinctions
(2022-2025) Fondecyt Postdoctoral, Instituto de Filosofía Pontificia Universidad Católica.
(2020-2021) Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship , for a translation of Salomon Maimon’s Versuch einer neuen Logik oder Theorie des Denkens (1794)
(2020) Alfred Schutz Memorial Award in Philosophy and Sociology (for dissertation, Salomon Maimon’s Opus Alienum: from Criticism toTranscendental Philosophy)
(2018-2019) Junior Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS), University of Hamburg
(2017) Kennington Foundation Scholarship (for military veterans in higher education)
(2002) University Professors’ Award, Best Senior Thesis (Ernst Jünger and Georges Bataille on Materialism and the Experience of World War One)
(1998-2002) Cardinal Madeiros Full Tuition Merit Scholarship, Boston University
Classes Taught
‘Beginning Informal Logic,’ Cuny College York, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
‘Ethical Issues in Health Care,’ Western Connecticut State University, Fall 2020
‘Introduction to Philosophy,’ Western Connecticut State University, Fall 2020, Spring 2020
‘Medieval Philosophy,’ Western Connecticut State University, Spring 2020
TA, recitation leader, and lecturer for NYU Core Curriculum, ‘Democracy, Knowledge, and Equality’, Fall 2017
TA for NYU Classics course, ‘History of the Roman Empire’, Fall 2016
TA and lecturer for NYU Classics course, ‘Ancient Mythology’, Spring 2016, Spring 2014
‘Introduction to Philosophy’, Western Connecticut State University, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
‘Moral Issues in Modern Society’, Western Connecticut State University, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
‘Bioethics’, Marymount Manhattan, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
TA, recitation leader, and lecturer for NYU Core Curriculum, ‘Expressive Cultures: Performance’, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, and Fall 2013
- Salomon Maimon’s Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking, Presented with Philosophical Commentary, Oxford University Press. Accepted
- Editor of Salomon Maimon’s Kritische Untersuchungen über den mensclichen Geist oder das höhere Erkenntniß- und Willensvermögen for Band 6 of Salomon Maimon’s Gesamtausgabe, Reihe I: Deutsche Schriften. Fromann-Holzboog. Forthcoming.
- Franz, Timothy. 2023. “The Systematic Unity of the Theoretical and Axiotic in Salomon Maimon’s Late Philosophy” Religions 14, no. 8: 1045. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14081045
- “Salomon Maimon’s On the Weltseele (Entelechia Universi), Translation and Commentary,” The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (Fall 2020), pp. 533-552.
- “The Place of the World-Soul in the Development of Maimon’s Thought,” The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (Fall 2020), pp. 515-531.
- “What was Maimon After? Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science in 1790,” Y. Meyrav (ed.), Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- “Kant’s Proof-Theoretic Functions of the Understanding” en el “Kants Projekt der Aufklärung – 14. Internationaler Kant-Kongress 2024” en Bonn, Alemania.
- March 24, 2023, ‘The Justification of Deduction in Kant’s False Subtlety and Beyond,’ at the North American Kant Society Biennial at UNAM, Mexico City. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9H2cCJ1MXs
- March 11, 2021, ‘Maimon’s Interweaving of General and Transcendental Logic in the Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking’ at the Leuven Seminar in Classical German Philosophy
- May 20, 2019, ‘They Go from Strength to Strength: Salomon Maimon’s Way from Critique to Transcendental Philosophy,’ presented at the lecture series ‘Toleranz & Skepsis: Moses Mendelssohn, Salomon Maimon und die Jüdische Aufklärungsphilosophie’ at the Universität Hamburg
- February 19, 2019, ‘Salomon Maimon and Transcendental Philosophy’ presented at‘Themes in Early Modern Judaism’, a conference at MCAS with cooperation of Johns Hopkins University
- Review of “Maimon’s Autobiography, the Complete Translation,” in the European Journal of Jewish Studies, 17 Aug. 2020, pp. 1-5.