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Patrick Kain

Arts and Humanities · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1998Rising activity
Philosophical Ethics and TheoryKantian Philosophy and Modern InterpretationsWar, Ethics, and JustificationPolitical Philosophy and EthicsSeventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

Publications

40

Citations

1,054

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

28

Publishing since 1998

Research summary
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Patrick Kain works in the history of philosophy, focusing especially on the eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy, including topics like human dignity, obligation, free will, and the concept of a 'good will.' Much of the work also examines related questions about divine freedom, theology, and Kant's views on human nature and animals, situating these ideas within the broader history of ethics and political philosophy.

Kant's moral philosophyHuman dignity and obligationDivine freedom and theologyHistory of ethics and political philosophyKant's philosophy of human/animal nature

Publication output was low and intermittent for most of the past decade but shows a large concentrated burst of publications in 2025, following several years with no recorded output.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 1 publication18192020: 1 publication202021: 2 publications212223242025: 13 publications132526
Recent publications
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  • Oxford University Press eBooks×1
  • Journal of the history of philosophy×1
  • Theology×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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