Mark Pickering

Mark Pickering

Assistant Professor of Law

Email: mpickering@stu.edu

Mail:

St. Thomas University College of Law
Faculty Suite (217)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054


Education:

B.A., Brigham Young University
J.D., University of Chicago
Ph.D., Boston University


Expertise:

Constitutional Law
Jurisprudence
Torts

Professor Pickering’s Curriculum Vitae

Mark Pickering

Professor Mark Pickering joined St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2024. Previously he taught philosophy of law at the University of Alabama.

Professor Pickering received a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University.

His recent research is on the ethical justification of criminal punishment.

Scholarship & Research

Articles:

“Berkeley on Whether Human Sensible Ideas Are Identical to Certain Divine Ideas.” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (published online in 2023, forthcoming in print). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2159518.

“Kant’s Ontological Phenomenalism.” Kant-Studien 114 (2023): 247-270. https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2022-2038.

“Kant on Why Criminal Offenders Must Be Punished.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (2022): 637-663. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12486.

“Against the Hybrid Interpretation of Kant’s Theory of Punishment.” Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 28 (2020): 115-133. https://doi.org/10.3790/jre.28.1.115.

“Hume and Kant on Identity and Substance.” In Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment, edited by Elizabeth Robinson and Christopher Surprenant, 230-244. New York: Routledge, 2017.

“Kant’s Theoretical Reasons for Belief in Things in Themselves.” Kant-Studien 107 (2016): 589-616. https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2016-0053.

“The Idea of the Systematic Unity of Nature as a Transcendental Illusion.” Kantian Review 16 (2011): 429-448. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415411000215.