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51Reasons and Feelings in Kantian MoralityKant and the Experience of FreedomPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 369. 1995.
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367Debating Allison on Transcendental IdealismKantian Review 12 (2): 1-39. 2007.People talk about rats deserting a sinking ship, but they don't usually ask where the rats go. Perhaps this is only because the answer is so obvious: of course, most of the rats climb aboard the sounder ships, the ships that ride high in the water despite being laden with rich cargoes of cheese and grain and other things rats love, the ships that bring prosperity to ports like eighteenth-century Königsberg and firms such as Green & Motherby. By making the insulting comparison - as I am in the co…Read more
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34Based on lectures given to graduate students by Wilfrid Sellars.
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58Review: Dickerson, Kant on Representation and ObjectivityPhilosophical Books 46 (2): 113-117. 2005.
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22Review: Burnham, Kant's Philosophies of JudgementBritish Journal of Aesthetics 46 (1): 99-102. 2006.
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18Studies in Kant's Aesthetics, 1415Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 35 (1): 154-157. 1981.
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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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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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135What does the Transcendental Deduction prove, and when does it prove it? Henry Allison on Kant’s Transcendental DeductionKant Studien 108 (4): 589-600. 2017.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 108 Heft: 4 Seiten: 589-600.
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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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73Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in AestheticsCambridge University Press. 2005.Values of Beauty discusses major ideas and figures in the history of aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The core of the book features Paul Guyer's essays on the epochal contribution of Immauel Kant, and sets Kant's work in the context of predecessors, contemporaries, and successors including David Hume, Alexander Gerard, Archibald Alison, Arthur Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill All of the essays emphasize the complexity rather than isol…Read more
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60What Happened to Kant in Neo‐Kantian Aesthetics? Cohen, Cohn, and Dilthey 1Philosophical Forum 39 (2): 143-176. 2008.No Abstract
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81The Unity of Reason: Rereading KantPhilosophical Review 106 (2): 291. 1997.The thesis of this book is that Kant employs a single conception of reason throughout his analysis of the fundamental principles of natural science, morality and politics, rational religion, and the practice of philosophy itself, and that this conception is that reason is the source of the ultimate goals or ideals for our conduct of both inquiry and action, but never a faculty that yields cognition of objects that exist independently of us, whether sensible or supersensible. In Neiman’s words, “…Read more
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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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17The Unity of Reason (review)Philosophical Review 106 (2): 291-295. 1997.The thesis of this book is that Kant employs a single conception of reason throughout his analysis of the fundamental principles of natural science, morality and politics, rational religion, and the practice of philosophy itself, and that this conception is that reason is the source of the ultimate goals or ideals for our conduct of both inquiry and action, but never a faculty that yields cognition of objects that exist independently of us, whether sensible or supersensible. In Neiman’s words, “…Read more
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57The 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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97The transcendental deduction of the categoriesIn The Cambridge companion to Kant, Cambridge University Press. pp. 3--123. 1992.
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315. TeleologieIn Dietmar Hermann Heidemann & Kristina Engelhard (eds.), Warum Kant heute? Bedeutung und Relevanz seiner Philosophie in der Gegenwart, De Gruyter. pp. 383-413. 2003.
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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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19The Twofold Morality of Recht: Once More Unto the BreachKant Studien 107 (1): 34-63. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 107 Heft: 1 Seiten: 34-63.
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253Thomson's problems with Kant: A comment on "Kant's problems with ugliness"Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (4): 317-319. 1992.
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130The Psychology Of Kant’s AestheticsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39 (4): 483-494. 2008.Contrary to both his own intentions and the views of both older and more recent commentators, I argue that Kant’s aesthetics remains within the confines of eighteenth-century aesthetics as a branch of empirical psychology, as it was then practiced. Kant established a plausible connection between aesthetic experience and judgment on the one hand and cognition in general on the other, through his explanatory concept of the free play of our cognitive powers. However, there is nothing distinctly ‘a …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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110The obligation to be virtuous: Kant's conception of the tugendverpflichtung: Paul GuyerSocial Philosophy and Policy 27 (2): 206-232. 2010.In the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant makes a distinction between duties of virtue and the obligation to be virtuous. For a number of reasons, it may seem as if the latter does not actually require any actions of us not already required by the former. This essay argues that Kant does succeed in describing obligations that we have to prepare for virtuous conduct that are different from simply fulfilling specific duties of virtue, and that in so doing he describes an important element of the moral li…Read more
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The obligation to be virtuous : Kant's conception of the TugendverpflichtungIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Moral obligation, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |