Welcome to my website! I am Claudi Brink. I am an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of New Hampshire.

 

I received my PhD in philosophy from UCSD in 2022. My work focuses on Kant's philosophy of mind and his faculty psychology. I am also interested in the emergence of his thought from within the rationalist tradition that he inherits. My dissertation, "Spontaneity and Teleology in Kant's Theory of Apperception" explores Kant's theory of self-consciousness and develops what I call a 'formalist' conception of self-consciousness. According to this view, self-consciousness is an involuntary end-directed act of a subject that provides representations with the form that is required for them to be intelligible to a subject.

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Beyond Kant's theoretical philosophy, I am interested in extending the formalist model to explain his theory of practical cognition. I am also interested in the ways in which Kant's thought is taken up by his contemporaries and successors, and, beyond Kant, in questions of intentionality, self-reference and self-consciousness in contemporary philosophy of mind. 

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When I am not doing philosophy, I love spending time in nature. I enjoy hiking and bird-watching, and my favourite place in the world to visit is the Kruger National Park in South Africa. But most of all I love spending time with my daughter and family.

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