James Van Cleve is a contemporary American analytic philosopher specializing in epistemology, metaphysics, and the history of modern philosophy. He is best known for his close engagement with Kantian philosophy and his work on perception, color, and the structure of epistemic justification. His book Problems from Kant (1999) is a widely cited treatment of Kant's theoretical philosophy from an analytic perspective.
Authored Problems from Kant (1999), a rigorous analytic examination of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Developed influential work on foundationalism and the regress problem in epistemology
Contributed to debates on perception, color ontology, and the veil-of-perception problem
Critically analyzed competing reconstructions of Kant's views on space, time, and mind-dependence
Long-standing faculty at the University of Southern California, shaping analytic philosophy pedagogy