Curriculum vitae | Khafiz Kerimov

Academic Appointments

St. John’s College, Annapolis, Tutor (Assistant Professor), July 2020—Present

DePaul University, Ph.D. in Philosophy | 2020

Dissertation: “Providence and Prudence in Kant.”

DePaul University, M.A. in Philosophy | 2016

American University in Bulgaria, B.A., summa cum laude | 2014

Political Science and International Relations; minor in Philosophy and Religion.

Additional study: Richardson-DAAD Fellowship, Freiburg (2016); Sciences Po Bordeaux (2013).

Come What May: Kant and the Future of Practical Reason (under review)
My book reassesses Kant’s moral theory by showing how providential faith sustains the exercise of practical judgment and the pursuit of the highest good. It challenges criticisms—from Schiller and Hegel to contemporary virtue ethicists—that Kantian ethics is insufficiently responsive to human vulnerability and changing circumstances. I argue that Kant’s ethics and theology give rise to an ethical subjectivity prepared for the uncertainties of practical life and not easily discouraged by them.
The Practical Sublime (provisional title) (in progress)
My second book project asks how moral judgment and commitment remain possible in response to challenges (from climate change to the unforeseen repercussions of technological development) whose global scale and temporal reach exceed our capacities for comprehension and judgment. The project develops from my reading of Kant’s theory of the highest good in dialogue with his theory of the sublime.

“‘ΚΑΘΆΠΕΡ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ ΦΡΌΝΙΜΟΣ’: Prudence in Aristotle’s Ethics and Biology.” Apeiron 54.4 (2021).

“Nancy, Descartes, and Continuous Creation.” Kronoscope: A Journal for the Study of Time 19.1 (2019). Co-authored with Tapdyg Kerimov.
“Descartes, Bergson, and Continuous Creation.” Methodos: Savoirs et textes 18 (2018).

“Practical Faith and Theoretical Practice: The Single Logic Underlying Kant’s Deduction of Nature’s Purposiveness and the Deduction of the Highest Good.” Kant-Studien (online first, 2025).
“Providence and Prudence in Kant’s Theology and Ethics.” Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 6.1 (2025).
“‘The Most Interesting Point in the Kantian System’: Kant’s Aesthetic Ideas in Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge.” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 28.2 (2024).
“Antinomy of Reason or Transcendental Deduction?: Making Sense of the Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason.” Kant-Studien 114.1 (2023).
“The Teleological Argument in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.” Kant-Studien 112.1 (2021).
“The Time of the Beautiful in Kant’s Critique of Judgment.” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24.1 (2019).

“Must the World Be Completely Determined? Idealism, Pragmatism, and Representationalism in Kant and Dewey.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy (forthcoming, 2026).

“Ontology and Stupor: Heidegger, Gilson, and Agamben.” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 32 (2020).
“From Matter to Earth: Heidegger, Aristotle and ‘The Origin of the Work of Art.’” Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 9 (2019).

“Conceptuality Without Concepts? AI, Mechanistic Interpretability, and Transcendental Method.” Minds and Machines (under review).

Terry Pinkard. Hegel, Dewey, Democracy. Philosophy Today (forthcoming).
Samantha Matherne. Seeing More: Kant’s Theory of Imagination. Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 6.1 (2025).
Anna Tomaszewska. Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment: From Spinoza to Contemporary Debates. Journal of Early Modern Studies 13.2 (2024).
Michael Rosen. The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History. Idealistic Studies 53.1 (2023).
Andrew Cooper. The Tragedy of Philosophy: Kant’s Critique of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics. Philosophy Today 63.1 (2019).

Kerimov, K., & Bellinson, N. AI Is Making the College Experience Lonelier. The Chronicle of Higher Education 72.3 (2025).

Aubenque, Pierre. “The Cosmology of Prudence,” in Practice and Ancient Thought, ed. Abraham Jacob Greenstine, Ryan Johnson, and David Mesing (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). Co-translated with Cameron Coates.

“‘Foams Forth to Him His Infinity’: The Puzzle of the Phenomenology’s Ending.” Dean’s Lecture Series. St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD. October 10, 2025.
“Hegel’s ‘Upside Down World’ and the Phenomenology's ‘Pragmatic’ Turn.” Philosophy Department, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. May 2, 2025.
“Ptolemy’s Bisection of Mars’ Eccentricity: The Genealogy of the Punctum Aequans.” Dean’s Lecture Series. St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD. September 22, 2024.