Juuso W. Rantanen

Doctoral Candidate— King's College London & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

About

Juuso Rantanen

I am a doctoral candidate in the King's College London - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Joint PhD programme. Before that I completed an MPhilStud in Philosophy at King's College London.

My primary research interests lie in Kant's theoretical philosophy, and specifically his account of the mind and its capacities. I am also interested in contemporary philosophy of mind, and its relation to metaphysics and epistemology. In this area, I am primarily interested in perception and temporal consciousness. I am also interested in post- and neo-Kantian 19th and 20th century German philosophy.

In my dissertation I offer a novel reading of Kant's account of the mind, with a focus on the role of inner sense and temporality. I think that appreciating the mind's temporality is central to a correct understanding of it, and that Kant understood this as well.

In my free time I like to ride bicycles in all their varied forms. 

Research 

Works in progress (drafts available upon request) 

  1. Paper on the role of inner sense in sensory consciousness, under review.
  2. Paper on intellectualism and pure intuitions of space, manuscript in preparation.
  3. Paper examining Kant's views about the temporal structure of (sensory) consciousness, manuscript in preparation.
  4. Paper defending Kant's argument in Refutation of Idealism, manuscript in preparation.
  5. Paper on Kant's account of the sources of errors in judgements, manuscript in preparation.

Public philosophy

  1. Immanuel Kant: mellan tanke och erfarenhet, Svensk Filosofi, August 2026. [link]

CV

You can find my CV below. 

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Last updated: August 2026