Doctoral Candidate David Craig receives 2014-2015 UO Doctoral Research Fellowship
Doctoral Candidate David Alexander Craig was selected as recipient of the university-wide 2014-2015 UO Doctoral Research Fellowship. The fellowship carries a service-free stipend of $18,000 and is intended to facilitate completion of the dissertation within the fellowship year to the most distinguished and innovative doctoral students at the University of Oregon.
David Alexander Craig is co-founder of the University of Oregon’s Human/Animal Research Interest Group. His research treats animality and the human/animal relation in the history of philosophy. His dissertation examines the concept of animality [Tierheit] in Kant’s philosophy, and argues, against the dominant view, that animality has a positive non-moral normative determination within Kant’s thinking. He is also currently producing, with Anna Baumeister, a new translation of Schiller’s “Über den Zusammenhang der tierischen Natur des Menschen mit seiner geistigen,” and editing, with Ted Toadvine, a volume on Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign seminars.