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History of Modern AestheticsIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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11Review: Nagel, The Structure of Experience: Kant's System of Principles (review)Philosophy in Review 4 (5): 213-216. 1984.
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128Hegel, Leibniz, and the contradiction in the finitePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 40 (1): 75-98. 1979.
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14Humean Critics, Imaginative Fluency, and Emotional Responsiveness: A Follow-Up to Stephanie Ross: ArticlesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 48 (4): 445-456. 2008.In ‘Humean Critics: Real or Ideal?’ : 20-28), Stephanie Ross argues that four of Hume's five criteria for qualified critics in “Of the Standard of Taste’, namely practise, comparison, freedom from prejudice, and good sense, should be understood as conditions for improving the basic constituent of taste, namely delicacy of perception, in real critics whose judgments can be canonical or guiding for the rest of us, but that delicacy of perception needs to be supplemented by what she calls imaginati…Read more
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75Free play and true well-being: Herder's critique of Kant's aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (4). 2007.
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55Freedom, Happiness, and Nature: Kant’s Moral TeleologyIn Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 221-238. 2014.
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118Gerard and Kant: Influence and OppositionJournal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (1): 59-93. 2011.In his notes and lectures on anthropology, Kant explicitly refers to Alexander Gerard's 1774 Essay on Genius, and his own position that genius is necessary for art but not for science is clearly a response to Gerard. Kant does not explicitly mention Gerard's 1759 Essay on Taste, but it was probably an influence on his own conception of free play, and in any case a comparison of the two theories of aesthetic response is instructive. Gerard's development of a version of the theory of free play wit…Read more
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82Genius and Taste: A Response to Joseph Cannon, ‘The Moral Value of Artistic Beauty in Kant’Kantian Review 16 (1): 127-134. 2011.
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33God and the Structure of the Transcendental Dialectic: On Willaschek’s Kant on the Sources of MetaphysicsKantian Review 25 (2): 267-277. 2020.Marcus Willaschek’s new book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason is a penetrating analysis of the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In his comments, the author first raises some questions concerning the structure of the Transcendental Dialectic and then proposes that looking at the second Critique and continuing on into the third Critique will reveal more roles for the idea of God in Kant’s reconstruction of traditional metaphysics than Will…Read more
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27Frederick C. Beiser, The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism: 1796–1880 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 Pp. xiii + 610 ISBN 9780198722205 £75.00 (review)Kantian Review 20 (3): 483-492. 2015.
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15Freedom and the Essential Ends of MankindIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 229-244. 2013.
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21Formalism around 1800: A Grudging Concession to Aesthetic SensibilityFilozofija I Društvo 30 (2): 241-256. 2019.This paper compares the outwardly similar structural formalisms of Marc- Antoine Laugier and Arthur Schopenhauer. Laugier purports to base his aesthetics on an historical argument from the “primitive hut”; but his preferences are really based on aversion to structurally and programmatically non-functional elements. His preferences show disregard for purely aesthetic considerations, such as pleasing proportions. Schopenhauer’s formalism is based on his cognitivist approach to aesthetics, accordin…Read more
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124Feeling and freedom: Kant on aesthetics and moralityJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (2): 137-146. 1990.
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94Ends of Reason and Ends of Nature: The Place of Teleology in Kant's Ethics (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 36 (2-3): 161-186. 2002.
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4Freedom and the Essential Ends of MankindIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 229-244. 2013.
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19Early Modern EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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169Free and adherent beauty: A modest proposalBritish Journal of Aesthetics 42 (4): 357-366. 2002.
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71Examples of PerfectionismJournal of Aesthetic Education 48 (3): 5-27. 2014.Two claims stand behind my title. I will argue first that, if we read Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy the way I do, in which rationality is the means to the end of human freedom rather than being an end in itself, then Kant offers a fuller example of what Stanley Cavell calls Emersonian perfectionism, but which I will call Cavell’s own perfectionism, than Cavell himself has recognized even in his most sympathetic account of Kant, and can help us see the full power of such perfectionism. Second,…Read more
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20CHAPTER 4: Reason, Desire, and ActionIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 161-197. 2009.
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56Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to LessingPhilosophical Review 121 (2): 285-290. 2012.
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310Disinterestedness and desire in Kant's aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 36 (4): 449-460. 1978.
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1Dialogue: Paul Guyer and Henry Allison on Allison's Kant's theory of tasteIn Rebecca Kukla (ed.), Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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19CHAPTER 5: Systematicity, Taste, and PurposeIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 198-254. 2009.
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39Dependent beauty revisited: A reply to WicksJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (3): 357-361. 1999.
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44Critique of the Power of Judgment (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2000.The Critique of the Power of Judgment is the third of Kant's great critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. This translation of Kant's masterpiece follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume, first published in 2000, includes: the indispensable first draft of Kant's introduction to the work; an English edition notes to the many differences between the first and seco…Read more
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11Chapter 9. Play and Society in the Lectures on AnthropologyIn Robert R. Clewis (ed.), Reading Kant's Lectures, De Gruyter. pp. 223-241. 2015.
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