Melissa Merritt

Melissa Merritt
AwardsNAKS Book Prize
Education
Education
ThesisDrawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique (2004)
Stephen Engstrom
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of New South Wales
Main interests
Kantian philosophy

Melissa McBay Merritt is an American philosopher and academic who works in Australia as an associate professor at the University of New South Wales.[1] She is known for her works on Kantian philosophy.[2][3]

Merritt has a 1994 bachelor's degree from Yale University, and completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation, Drawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique, was directed by Stephen Engstrom.[4] She is a winner of the North American Kant Society Book Prize[5] and the Annette Baier Essay Prize of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.[6]

Books

  • Kant on Reflection and Virtue, Cambridge University Press 2018[2]
  • The Sublime, Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Cambridge University Press 2018[3]
  • Kant and Stoic Ethics, Cambridge University Press 2025
  • Kant's Transformation of Stoic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press 2026[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Associate Professor Melissa Merritt". Staff. University of New South Wales. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Reviews of Kant on Reflection and Virtue:
  3. 1 2 Forum on The Sublime, discussed by Donald Ainslie, Rachel Zuckert, Paul Guyer, Luigi Filieri, and Samantha Matherne; edited by Giulia Milli. Lebenswelt 20 (2022), pp. 139–188.
  4. ↑ Merritt, Melissa McBay (2004). Drawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique (PhD thesis). University of Pittsburgh. ProQuest 305146139.
  5. ↑ "The Henry Allison Senior Scholar Prize". North American Kant Society.
  6. ↑ "Annette Baier Prize". AAP.
  7. ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/kants-transformation-of-stoic-philosophy/A998ECFB02FB076A8856FAA57AD8E698
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