Melissa McBay Merritt is an American philosopher and academic who works in Australia as an associate professor at the University of New South Wales. She is known for her works on Kantian philosophy.
Merritt has a 1994 bachelor's degree from Yale University, and completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation, Drawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique, was directed by Stephen Engstrom. She is a winner of the North American Kant Society Book Prize and the Annette Baier Essay Prize of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.
Books Kant on Reflection and Virtue, Cambridge University Press 2018Reviews of Kant on Reflection and Virtue: Anastasia Berg, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, John J. Callanan, Kantian Review, Markus Kohl, Ethics, , Lars Lodberg, Studi Kantiani, Colin Marshall, Mind, , Colin McLear, "Kant and the Demands of Reflection", SGIR Review Samantha Matherne, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Sasha Mudd, The Philosophical Review, Laurentzi De Sasia, "El problema de la reflexión-c como apercepción pura en Kant on Reflection and Virtue de Melissa Merritt", Philosophia Martin Sticker, European Journal of Philosophy, Kristi Sweet, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Jessica Tizzard, "Moral Agency as Cognitive Agency: Recovering Kant’s Conception of Virtue", Con-Textos Kantianos The Sublime, Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Cambridge University Press 2018Forum on The Sublime, discussed by Donald Ainslie, Rachel Zuckert, Paul Guyer, Luigi Filieri, and Samantha Matherne; edited by Giulia Milli. Lebenswelt 20 (2022), pp. 139–188. Kant and Stoic Ethics, Cambridge University Press 2025 Kant's Transformation of Stoic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press 2026https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/kants-transformation-of-stoic-philosophy/A998ECFB02FB076A8856FAA57AD8E698
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