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58Review: Dickerson, Kant on Representation and ObjectivityPhilosophical Books 46 (2): 113-117. 2005.
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57Kant's Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals: a reader's guideContinuum. 2007.An introductory guide to the seminal work of Kant and his modern moral philosophy.
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57The Virtues of Freedom: Selected Essays on KantOxford University Press. 2016.The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends. When regulated by the principle that the freedom of all is equally valuable, the freedom to set our own ends -- what Kant calls "humanity" - becomes what he calls autonomy. These essays explore Kant's strategies for establishing the premise that freedom is the inner wo…Read more
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56Monism and Pluralism in the History of AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71 (2): 133-143. 2013.
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56The Unity of ReasonThe Monist 72 (2): 139-167. 1989.Understanding provides one form of unity in our experience—let us say, at least for the sake of illustration, that form of unity constituted by the capacity to assign any given experiences a uniquely determined place relative to any other given experiences in the ideal chronology of our experience as a whole. But the unity of experience does not, as Kant sees things, exhaust the forms of unity among our representations which we must seek. In addition to the unity of experience sought by understa…Read more
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56Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to LessingPhilosophical Review 121 (2): 285-290. 2012.
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55The Value of Agency: The Practice of Moral Judgment. Barbara Herman (review)Ethics 106 (2): 404-. 1996.
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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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54Is ethical criticism a problem? : a historical perspectiveIn Garry Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism, Blackwell. pp. 3--32. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Is There a Problem about Ethical Criticism? The Sensible Representation of the Moral The Theory of Disinterestedness Coda: The Beautiful as that which is Complete in itself.
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54Identitiit und Objektivitiit: Eine Untersuchung iiber Kants transcendentale Deduktion by Dieter Henrich (review)Journal of Philosophy 76 (3): 151-167. 1979.
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51Kant's Theory of Imagination: Bridging Gaps in Judgement and ExperienceJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 (3): 337-340. 1994.
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51Aesthetic Judgment and the Moral Image of the World: Studies in Kant by Dieter Henrich (review)Journal of Philosophy 91 (3): 148-153. 1994.
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51Interest, Nature, and ArtReview of Metaphysics 31 (4): 580-603. 1978.In this paper, however, I will argue that Kant’s restriction of interest to natural rather than artistic beauty should not be taken as a basic aspect of his aesthetic theory, and thus need not affect our assessment of that theory’s more basic claims. First, I will suggest that Kant’s theory of intellectual interest is not really necessary to explain what we ordinarily mean by an interest in beautiful objects—a desire to preserve them for repeated experience, a motivation for our efforts to see t…Read more
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50Kant and the Limits of Autonomy, by Susan Meld Shell. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. viii, 434. ISBN 978-0-674-03333-7. $55.00 (review)Kantian Review 15 (2): 138-147. 2010.
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50Moltke S. Gram, "The Transcendental Turn: The Foundations of Kant's Idealism" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 494. 1988.
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50Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy. The essays not only consider the ways that key figures viewed the concept. They also detail how these different beliefs about infinity influenced major philosophical systems throughout the era. These domains include mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, science, and theology. Coverage begins with an introduction that outlines the overall importance of infinity to early modern philosophy. It then moves from a …Read more
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48Reasons and Feelings in Kantian MoralityKant and the Experience of FreedomPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 369. 1995.
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47The Infinite Given Magnitude and Other Myths About Space and TimeIn Igor Agostini, Richard T. W. Arthur, Geoffrey Gorham, Paul Guyer, Mogens Lærke, Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Ohad Nachtomy, Sanja Särman, Anat Schechtman, Noa Shein & Reed Winegar (eds.), Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 181-204. 2018.I argue that Kant's claim in the “Transcendental Aesthetic” of the Critique of Pure Reason that space and time are immediately given in intuition as infinite magnitudes is undercut by his general theory of mathematical knowledge. On this general theory, pure intuition does not give objects of any determinate magnitude at all, but only forms of possible objects. Specifically, what pure intuition itself yields is the recognition that any determinate space or time is part of a larger one, but it re…Read more
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47Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in AestheticsPhilosophical Quarterly 57 (227): 313-316. 2007.
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46Kantowskie dedukcje pryncypiów prawaHybris. Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny 34 171-228. 2016.Translation of Paul Guyer's "Kant’s Deductions of the Principles of Right"
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45Kant’s Teleological Conception of Philosophy and its DevelopmentKant Yearbook 1 (1): 57-98. 2009.
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44Moral Worth and Moral Motivation: Kant’s Real ViewIn Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.), Begehren / Desire, De Gruyter. pp. 19-38. 2018.
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43Seventy-Five Years of Kant … and CountingJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (4): 351-362. 2017.There have been more articles on Kant's aesthetics in the history of the Journal than on the next four leading figures in the history of aesthetics combined. I argue that this is because Kant's aesthetic theory consists of multiple levels of theory that makes it accessible to and important for multiple approaches to the subject itself. Continuing issues for both Kant interpretation and for aesthetics in general arise at each of these levels, including the plausibility of the claim to universal v…Read more
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43Critique 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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43Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Freedom (review)Philosophical Review 100 (4): 703-710. 1991.
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History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
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