Tim Jankowiak

Biography

Tim Jankowiak's research focuses primarily on Kant's metaphysics, epistemology, and theory of mind. His recent work has contributed to debates about Kant's views on sensation's contribution to cognition, the object-directedness of mental states, and how these issues relate to Kant's broader metaphysics. Professor Jankowiak also has strong interests in contemporary debates about consciousness and, more recently, in the foundations of physics. 

Professor Jankowiak regularly teaches upper division courses in the history of philosophy (Phil 328 and Phil 427) and the philosophy of mind (Phil 315). He has also recently been teaching for the TSEM program (a new course on philosophical theories of the self), the Honors College (including a seminar on the history of panpsychism), and the Global Humanities M.A. program. In 2026-2027, he'll be introducing new curriculum on advanced logic (Phil 310) and the philosophy of physics (Phil 320). 

Since 2023, Professor Jankowiak has also been serving as Assistant Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Since 2026, he has been the Vice President of the North American Kant Society. 

In his non-academic life, Professor Jankowiak is an accomplished oil painter, specializing in representational and sometimes hyperrealist art. His work has been recently been included in national juried exhibitions. 

Selected Publications

• "Kant, Intentional Laser Beams, and the Mismatch Argument for a Phenomenalist Reading," Kantian Review, 30(4), 2025
• “‘Ordered and Placed in a Certain Form’: Kant on the Spatiality of Sensation,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 105(3), 2024
• “Berkeley and Kant,” in The Oxford Handbook to Berkeley, ed. Sam Rickless, Oxford University Press, 2022.
• “Kant’s ‘As If’ and Hume’s ‘Remote Analogy’: Deism and Theism in Prolegomena §§57-58," in Kant’s Prolegomena: A Critical Guide, ed. Peter Thielke, Cambridge University Press, 2021
• "Kant on the Continuity of Alterations," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 50(1), 2020.  
• "Kantian Phenomenalism Without Berkeleyan Idealism," Kantian Review, 22(2), 2017.
• “Sensations as Representations in Kant,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 22(3), 2014 [winner of the 2014 prize for best paper published in BJHP that year].