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10Critique of the Power of JudgmentCambridge University Press. 2001.The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated as the Critique 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 introduc…Read more
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10A History of Modern AestheticsCambridge University Press. 2014.A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because o…Read more
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9Stanley Cavell: What Becomes of People on Film?In Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 335-356. 2019.Stanley Cavell’s “ontology of film” is his way of expressing that in our experience of movies, we are both aware that we are perceiving nothing but flickering light on a screen yet also respond intellectually and emotionally as if we are experiencing real people, although in a world in which we cannot intervene. In his discussions of “comedies of remarriage” and “the melodrama of the unknown woman,” he argues that these movies are about what it is to grow into adult human beings who are free to …Read more
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9A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, the Nineteenth CenturyCambridge University Press. 2018.A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because o…Read more
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9Arguing for Freedom of ReligionRoczniki Filozoficzne 70 (4): 365-394. 2022.My title is “Arguing for Freedom of Religion,” not for “Toleration,” because I follow the eighteenth-century writer Christoph Martin Wieland in taking “toleration" to connote a gift or indulgence from a majority to a minority, whereas true freedom of religion would put everybody on the same plane to believe and practice religion as they see fit, or not at all. I consider three historically distinct ways of arguing for freedom of religion: from a premise held by one religion that requires freedom…Read more
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9Problems with freedom : Kant's argument in Groundwork III and its subsequent emendationsIn Jens Timmermann (ed.), Kant's Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals: a critical guide, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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8The Form and Matter of the Categorical ImperativeIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 131-150. 2001.
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8A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 1, the Eighteenth CenturyCambridge University Press. 2018.A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because o…Read more
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8The harmony of the faculties revisitedIn Rebecca Kukla (ed.), Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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8A History of Modern Aesthetics 3 Volume SetCambridge University Press. 2014.A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because o…Read more
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7Rawls and the History of Moral PhilosophyIn Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.John Rawls lectured directly on the history of modern moral philosophy throughout his 30‐year teaching career at Harvard, and his lectures from the final version of the course were published as Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy (LHMP). This chapter casts some light on Rawls's central attempt to demonstrate the superiority of a position inspired by Immanuel Kant over utilitarianism by focusing on Rawls's treatment of Kant in both Theory of Justice and LHMP. It focuses on Rawls's treatme…Read more
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6Schopenhauer, Kant, and the Methods of PhilosophyIn Christopher Janaway (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 93--137. 1999.
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6Kant's Ambivalent AnalogiesProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (1): 33-48. 1989.
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6The Symbols of Freedom in Kant’s AestheticsIn Herman Parret (ed.), Kants Ästhetik · Kant's Aesthetics · L'esthétique de Kant, De Gruyter. pp. 338-355. 1998.
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5Kant on the Rationality of MoralityIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1439-1446. 2021.
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5Back to Truth: Knowledge and Pleasure in the Aesthetics of SchopenhauerIn Robert Stern, Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Better Consciousness, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-02-19.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Kant Schopenhauer Nietzsche References.
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5BibliographyIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 255-262. 2009.
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5Kant on Freedom, Law, and HappinessCambridge University Press. 2000.Kant is often portrayed as the author of a rigid system of ethics in which adherence to a formal and universal principle of morality - the famous categorical imperative - is an end itself, and any concern for human goals and happiness a strictly secondary and subordinate matter. Such a theory seems to suit perfectly rational beings but not human beings. The twelve essays in this collection by one of the world's preeminent Kant scholars argue for a radically different account of Kant's ethics. Th…Read more
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5Bridging the Gulf: Kant's Project in the Third CritiqueIn Graham Bird (ed.), A Companion to Kant, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Why is there a Third Critique? The Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment The Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment Conclusion.
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5Moral feelings in the Metaphysics of moralsIn Lara Denis (ed.), Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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5The Origins of Modern Aesthetics: 1711–35In Peter Kivy (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, Blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson Du Bos Addison Baumgarten A Glimpse Ahead: Kant.
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4Disinterestedness by Any Other Name: Kant and MendelssohnIn Larissa Berger (ed.), Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty: Perspectives from Kantian and Contemporary Aesthetics, De Gruyter. pp. 11-30. 2023.
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