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15A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2015.In his Enquiry Edmund Burke overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics and replaced metaphysics with psychology. His revolutions in method and sensibility influenced later philosophers and literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel to Romanticism and beyond. This new edition guides the reader through Burke's arguments.
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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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15Review: Guyer, Kant and the experience of freedom, essays on aesthetics and moralityIn Peter Singer (ed.), Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 105--1. 1994.
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15CHAPTER 3: Cause, Object, and SelfIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 124-160. 2009.
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14The Inescapability of Contingency: The Form and Content of Freedom in Kant and HegelIn Mario Egger (ed.), Philosophie Nach Kant: Neue Wege Zum Verständnis von Kants Transzendental- Und Moralphilosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 523-546. 2014.
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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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13This book departs from much of the scholarship on Kant by demonstrating the centrality of imagination to Kant's philosophy as a whole. In Kant's works, human experience is simultaneously passive and active, thought and sensed, free and unfree: these dualisms are often thought of as unfortunate byproducts of his system. Gibbons, however, shows that imagination performs a vital function in "bridging gaps" between the different elements of cognition and experience. Thus, the role imagination plays …Read more
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13The Poetic Possibility of the SublimeIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 307-326. 2018.
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12Introducing Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonCambridge University Press. 2021.This Element surveys the place of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant's overall philosophical project and describes and analyzes the main arguments of the work. It also surveys the developments in Kant's thought that led to the first critique, and provides an account of the genesis of the book during the 'silent decade' of its composition in the 1770s based on Kant's handwritten notes from the period.
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12Mendelssohn, Kant, and Religious PluralismDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (4): 590-610. 2020.Two foremost spokesmen for the German Enlightenment, Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant, continued the defence of the separation of church and state that was at the heart of the Enlightenment in general and advocated by such great predecessors as Roger Williams and John Locke and contemporaries such as James Madison. The difference between Mendelssohn and Kant on which I focus here is that while Mendelssohn argues against his critics that Judaism is the appropriate religion for a specific peopl…Read more
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12A Philosopher Looks at ArchitectureCambridge University Press. 2021.What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, as well as in artistic styles and cultures. Guyer discusses philosophers and architects throughout history, includin…Read more
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12CHAPTER 2: CausationIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 71-123. 2009.
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11IntroductionIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-22. 2009.
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11The Form and Matter of the Categorical ImperativeIn Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Ralph Schumacher (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 131-150. 2001.
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11A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 3, the Twentieth 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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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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11Review: Nagel, The Structure of Experience: Kant's System of Principles (review)Philosophy in Review 4 (5): 213-216. 1984.
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11Yirmiahu Yovel, Kant and the Philosophy of History (review)Philosophy in Review 1 (2/3): 137-142. 1981.
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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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Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |