Associate Professor
Contact Information
382 Savery Hall
Office Hours
Autumn 2025: By appointment
Biography
Ph.D., New York University, 2010
B.A., Philosophy, Reed College, 2003
Colin Marshall received his BA from Reed College and his PhD from New York University. Before coming to the University of Washington, he was the Gerry Higgins Lecturer in History of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He was born and raised in northern New Mexico. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of German Studies. His work focuses primarily on the history of philosophy (especially Kant and Schopenhauer) and issues in ethics.
Marshall is currently finishing two books: Just Hear Me Out: How to Change Minds without Lies, Bullshit, or Moral Compromise (forthcoming Fall 2026 with U. Chicago Press) and Schopenhauer's Guide to a Tolerable Life (under contract with Princeton U. Press).
Research
Selected Research
- Marshall, Colin and Mehl, Kayla. 2024. “Schopenhauer's Five-Dimensional Normative Ethics.” In The Schopenhauerian Mind, David Bather Woods and Timothy Stoll (eds.). New York: Routledge Press, 213-27. Download PDF
- Marshall, Colin. Schopenhauer on the content of compassion. Noûs. 2021; 55: 782–799. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12330
- Marshall, Colin. "Kant's (Non-Question-Begging) Refutation of Cartesian Scepticism." Kantian Review 24, no. 1 (2019): 77-101.
- Marshall, Colin, ed. Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality. Routledge, (2019)
- Marshall, Colin. "Never Mind the Intuitive Intellect: Applying Kant's Categories to Things in Themselves" Kantian Review 23:1 (2018): 27-40.
- Marshall, Colin. Compassionate Moral Realism. (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Marshall, Colin. "Kant on impenetrability, touch, and the causal content of perception." European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).
- Marshall, Colin. "Schopenhauer and Non-Cognitivist Moral Realism." Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (2017): 293-316.
- Marshall, Colin. "Moral Realism in Spinoza's Ethics," in Spinoza's 'Ethics': A Critical Guide, edited by Yitzhak Melamed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Marshall, Colin. "Lockean Empathy." Southern Journal of Philosophy 54:1 (2016): 87-106.
- Marshall, Colin. "Does Kant demand explanations for all synthetic a priori claims?" Journal of the History of Philosophy 52:3 (2014), 549-576.
- Marshall, Colin. "Kant's appearances and things in themselves as qua-objects" Philosophical Quarterly 63:252 (2013), 520-545.
- Marshall, Colin. "Spinoza on destroying passions with reason" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85:1 (2012), 139-160.
- Marshall, Colin. Forthcoming. "Political Persuasion is Prima Facie Disrespectful." Journal of Moral Philosophy. Download PDF
- Marshall, Colin. "Schopenhauer on the Futility of Suicide." Mind (forthcoming) Download PDF
- Marshall, Colin. "Kant's derivation of the moral 'ought' from a metaphysical 'is.'" In The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds, edited by Nicholas Stang and Karl Schafer. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Autumn 2024
Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Autumn 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Affiliations
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