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242Schopenhauer, Kant and CompassionKantian Review 17 (3): 403-429. 2012.Schopenhauer presents his moral philosophy as diametrically opposed to that of Kant: for him, pure practical reason is an illusion and morality can arise only from the feeling of compassion, while for Kant it cannot be based on such a feeling and can be based only on pure practical reason. But the difference is not as great as Schopenhauer makes it seem, because for him compassion is supposed to arise from metaphysical insight into the unity of all being, thus from pure if theoretical reason, wh…Read more
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1Sources and AbbreviationsIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. 2008.
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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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55The Value of Agency: The Practice of Moral Judgment. Barbara Herman (review)Ethics 106 (2): 404-. 1996.
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22Review of Kai Hammermeister, The German Tradition in Aesthetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (8). 2003.
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18Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge.Matter in Mind: A Study of Kant's Transcendental DeductionPhilosophical Review 100 (4): 703. 1991.
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33Re-enactment, reconstruction and the freedom of the imagination: Collingwood on history and artBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (4): 738-758. 2018.ABSTRACTAn implication of Kant’s aesthetics is that the audience for art must be able to meet the free play of the imagination of the artist with free play of their own imagination in order to enjoy the work of art. Does Collingwood’s conception of the aesthetic audience’s ‘reconstruction’ of the imaginative work of the artist leave room for this thought? No, but his conception of the historian’s ‘re-enactment’ of the thought of the historical subjects suggests a model for this relation that mig…Read more
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20Review of Joseph Margolis, The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (7). 2010.
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35Response to criticsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (5). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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10Report on the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel KantProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 1325-1327. 1995.
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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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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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136Review essay: Luigi Caranti, Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy: The Kantian Critique of Cartesian Scepticism (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 218 pp., $60.00 (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 34 (7): 825-836. 2008.
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10Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and KantOxford University Press. 2020.Paul Guyer presents the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn. He explores their influence on each other and their disagreements, with particular focus on metaphysics, religion, and aesthetics.
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88Principles of Justice, Primary Goods and Categories of Right: Rawls and KantKantian Review 23 (4): 581-613. 2018.John Rawls based his theory of justice, in the work of that name, on a ‘Kantian interpretation’ of the status of human beings as ‘free and equal’ persons. In his subsequent, ‘political rather than metaphysical’ expositions of his theory, the conception of citizens of democracies as ‘free and equal’ persons retained its foundational role. But Rawls appealed only to Kant’s moral philosophy, never to Kant’s own political philosophy as expounded in his 1797 Doctrine of Right in theMetaphysics of Mor…Read more
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106One Act or Two? Hannah Ginsborg on Aesthetic JudgementBritish Journal of Aesthetics 57 (4): 407-419. 2017.Hannah Ginsborg rejects my ‘two-acts’ interpretation of Kant’s conception of aesthetic judgement as untrue to Kant’s text and as philosophically problematic, especially because it entails that every object must be experienced as beautiful. I reject her criticisms, and argue that it is her own ‘one-act’ interpretation that is liable to these criticisms. But I also suggest that her emphasis on Kant’s ‘transcendental explanation’ of pleasure as a self-maintaining mental state suggests an alternativ…Read more
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Organisms and the Unity of ScienceIn Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant and the Sciences, Oxford University Press. 2001.This paper considers Kant’s understanding of organisms by undertaking a developmental approach to the issue. It presents three different arguments Kant posits in the third Critique regarding the kind of explanation organisms require, and then considers how Kant ultimately seems to find these arguments wanting in the Opus postumum. Due to Kant’s sustained reflections on how to incorporate teleological explanations of organisms into his natural philosophy toward the end of his career, it is argued…Read more
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5Perception and UnderstandingIn Bart Vandenabeele (ed.), A Companion to Schopenhauer, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012.This chapter contains sections titled: Schopenhauer on Perception and Understanding Reid on Perception and Understanding Kant on Understanding and Perception Notes References Further Reading.
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3On Kitcher on Kant and the Claims of KnowledgePacific Philosophical Quarterly 68 (3-4): 317-331. 2017.
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25Precis of Kant and the Experience of FreedomKant and the Experience of Freedom (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 357. 1995.
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3Organisms and the Unity of ScienceIn Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant and the Sciences, Oxford University Press. pp. 259--281. 2001.
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5Psychology and the Transcendental DeductionIn Eckart Förster (ed.), Kant’s Transcendental Deductions: The Three ‘Critiques’ and the ‘Opus Postumum’, Stanford University Press. pp. 47-68. 1988.
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36Natural Ends and the End of Nature: Reply to Richard AquilaSouthern Journal of Philosophy 30 (S1): 157-165. 1992.
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48Moral 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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22Nature, Morality and the Possibility of PeaceProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 51-69. 1995.
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Notes and Fragments (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2009.This volume provides an extensive translation of the notes and fragments that survived Kant's death in 1804. These include marginalia, lecture notes, and sketches and drafts for his published works. They are important as an indispensable resource for understanding Kant's intellectual development and published works, casting fresh light on Kant's conception of his own philosophical methods and his relations to his predecessors, as well as on central doctrines of his work such as the theory of spa…Read more
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