Mark Pickering
Professor Mark Pickering joined St. Thomas University 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:
This Is Not Who We Are: Punishment is Justified as Disavowal, Tulsa L. Rev. (2026). Forthcoming.
Berkeley on Whether Human Sensible Ideas Are Identical to Certain Divine Ideas, 68 Inquiry: Interdisc. J. Phil. 2214 (2025).
Kant’s Ontological Phenomenalism, 114 Kant-Studien 247 (2023).
Kant on Why Criminal Offenders Must Be Punished, 60 S. J. Phil. 637 (2022).
Against the Hybrid Interpretation of Kant’s Theory of Punishment, 28 Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Ann. Rev. L. and Ethics 115 (2020).
Hume and Kant on Identity and Substance, in 230 Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment (Elizabeth Robinson and Christopher Surprenant ed., 2017).
Kant’s Theoretical Reasons for Belief in Things in Themselves, 107 Kant-Studien 589 (2016).
The Idea of the Systematic Unity of Nature as a Transcendental Illusion, 16 Kantian Rev. 429 (2011).