James Kreines

James Kreines is Edward S. Gould professor of philosophy, at Claremont McKenna College. His research mostly concerns Classical German Philosophy.

Life and works Kreines started studying philosophy in Princeton University in 1986 and received his bachelor in 1990. He received his PhD from University of Chicago in 2001 with the dissertation title "Hegel on Mind, Action and Social Life: The Theory of Geist as a Theory of Explanation", under supervision of Robert B. Pippin.

His 2016 book Reason in the World has received numerous reviews from Franz Knappik, Robert Stern (followed by a response from Kreines), Paul Redding, Armando Manchisi, Christopher Yeomans, Sebastian Rand, François Touchard, Anton Kabeshkin, Carlos Ortiz de Landázuri, Karen Ng and Paul Giladi. The work also featured on a book symposium held by Humboldt University later published by the Hegel Bulletin, and an author-meets-critics session later published in Hegel-Studien, containing reviews from Brady Bowman, Terry Pinkard and Clinton Tolley, accompanied by an introduction and response from Kreines.

In 2026 he published Hegel and Spinoza (CUP: Elements). There was a workshop on the book at the LMU Munich, and planned events at Basel, Padua, and the Eastern Division of the APA.

He is on the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat of Hegel-Studien and on the editorial board of the Hegel Bulletin.

Selected publications

Monographs

Edited volumes

Articles