Articles and Chapters
- Michael J. Olson, “The Bildungstrieb and Spontaneous Generation,” in Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s Bildungstrieb (1789): “What is Life” in Science, Philosophy, and Politics around 1800 (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
- Michael J. Olson, “The Chemistry of Skin Color,” Goethe Yearbook, vol. 31 (forthcoming).
- Michael J. Olson, “Kant on the Feeling of Health,” in Jennifer Mensch (ed.), Kant and the Feeling of Life: From the Beautiful to the Good in Kant’s Critique of Judgment (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming).
- Michael. J. Olson, “Scientific Metaphysics and Metaphysical Science: The Demand for Systematicity in Kant’s Transition Project,” in Toby Lovat and Robb Dunphy (eds.), Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy (London: Routledge).
- Michael J. Olson, “Early Modern Theories of the Senses,” in D. Jalabeanu and C.T. Wolfe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (Springer, 2020), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20797-9_895-1.
- Michael J. Olson, “Early Modern Conceptions of Embodiment,” in D. Jalabeanu and C.T. Wolfe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (Springer, 2020), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_592-1.
- Michael J. Olson and Jean-Philippe Deranty, “The Work of Art in the Age of its Digital Distribution,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol. 24, no. 5 (2019), 104-123.
- Michael J. Olson, “Kant and the Unity of the Activity of Thinking,” in Violetta L. Waibel and Margit Ruffing (eds.), Akten des 12. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses: Natur und Freiheit (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2019), vol. 2, 1099–1108.
- Michael. J. Olson, “On the Significance of the Copernican Revolution: Transcendental Philosophy and the Object of Metaphysics,” Con-Textos Kantianos, no. 7 (2018), 89-127.
- Michael J. Olson, “Literature in the German Science of the Soul: Johann Gottlob Krüger’s Träume,” History of European Ideas, vol. 44, no. 5 (2018), 528–542.
- Michael J. Olson, “Kant on Anatomy and the Status of the Life Sciences,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 58 (2016), 77–84.
- Michael J. Olson, “The Camera Obscura and the Soul: On a Tension between the Mechanics of Sensation and the Metaphysics of the Soul,” Intellectual History Review, vol. 25, no. 3 (2015), 279–291. (Reprinted in Anik Waldow (ed.), Sensibility in the Early Modern Era: From Living Machines to Affective Morality [New York: Routledge, 2016], 25–37.)
- Michael J. Olson, “A Materialist Transcendental: On the Ontology of Logics of Worlds,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol. 18, no. 2 (2013), 143–159.
- Michael J. Olson, “Transcendental Arguments, Axiomatic Truth, and the Difficulty of Overcoming Idealism,” in John Mullarkey and Anthony Paul Smith (eds.), Laruelle and Non-Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), 169–190.
- Michael J. Olson, “Critical Idealism and Transcendental Materialism: A Speculative Analysis of the Second Paralogism,” Cosmos and History, vol. 7, no. 1 (2011), 49–61.
- Michael J. Olson, “The Intuition of Simultaneity: Zugleichsein and the Constitution of Extensive Magnitudes,” Kant-Studien, vol. 101, no. 4 (December 2010), 429–444.
- Michael J. Olson, “Philosophy, Non-Philosophy, and the Axiomatization of Matter,” Philosophy Today, vol. 53, SPEP Supplement (December 2009), 257–262.
- Michael J. Olson, “Kant, Deleuze and Guattari, and the Metaphysics of Objects,” in Edward Willatt and Matt Lee (eds.), Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant (London: Continuum, 2009), 151–170.
Reviews
- Michael J. Olson, Review of Catherine Wilson, Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2022), Annals of Science (2023).
- Michael J. Olson, “The Metaphysics of the Epigenesis of Reason: on Jennifer Mensch’s Kant’s Organicism,” Philosophy Today, vol. 61, no. 3 (2017), 793–799.
- Michael J. Olson, Review of Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: On the Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason (Northwestern University Press, 2016), Critique (2016).
- Michael J. Olson, Review of Nicholas Jolley, Locke’s Touchy Subjects: Materialism and Immortality (Oxford University Press, 2015), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 94, no. 4 (2016), 838–839.