dr. Boris Demarest

Nature and Normativity

Boris Demarest is lecturer in history of philosophy and history and philosophy of science at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his Ph.D from Ghent University in 2016, for a dissertation on the implications of Kant’s philosophy of the life sciences for his theoretical philosophy. His research focuses mainly on the interactions between theoretical philosophy and reflections on the life sciences throughout the history of philosophy, and specifically in the Early Modern period.

Keywords:

Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

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Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed Journals:

Demarest, B. (2010). "The Importance of Anticipation in Kant's Philosophy", International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems 23: 74-85.
Ramirez-Trejo, L., Demarest, B., Van Poucke, J. & Van de Vijver, G. (2011). "Conflated Epistemology or how to lose the Organism Again", Ludus Vitalis 19(36): 353-385.
Demarest, B. (2012). "Tijd voor het Onbewuste: Over de Organisatie van het Psychische Apparaat", Psychoanalytische Perspectieven 30(1): 11-28.
Demarest, B. (2013) “From the More Geometrico to the More Algebraico: D'Alembert and the Enlightenment's Transformation of Systematic Order”, Philosophica 88: 71-102.
Demarest, B. (2014). "Novum sub Sole: Organicity and Temporality in Kant and Bergson", International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems 26: 21-34.
Demarest, B., Van Poucke, J. & Van de Vijver, G. (2016). “Voorbij alle intuïties?” Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 108(2): 167-172.

Book Reviews:
Demarest, B., Eriksen, C. B. & Wolfe, C. T. (2015). Review of Justin E. H. Smith’s Divine Machines. Journal of Early Modern Studies 4(1): 128-132.

Book Chapters:
Van de Vijver, G. & Demarest, B. (2013). “Introduction”, in Van de Vijver, G. & Demarest, B. (eds.) Objectivity after Kant: its Meaning, its Limitations, its Fateful Omissions. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
Demarest, B. (2013). "System and Organ. In Defense of an Analogy", in Van de Vijver, G. & Demarest, B.. (eds.) (2013). Objectivity after Kant: its Meaning, its Limitations, its Fateful Omissions. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
Demarest, B. (2013). "The Ideal (of) Democracy. Multitude and Multiplicity in Spinoza's Political Ontology", in Acosta, E. (ed.) Re-thinking Europe. Europhilosophie.

Edited books:
Van de Vijver, G. & Demarest, B. (eds.) (2013). Objectivity after Kant: its Meaning, its Limitations, its Fateful Omissions. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.