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Hume and Kant on utility, freedom, and justiceIn Giovanni Pietro Basile & Ansgar Lyssy (eds.), System and freedom in Kant and Fichte, Routledge. 2022.
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98“Hobbes Is of the Opposite Opinion” Kant and Hobbes on the Three Authorities in the StateHobbes Studies 25 (1): 91-119. 2012.Like Hobbes and unlike Locke, Kant denied the possibility of a right to rebellion. But unlike Hobbes, Kant did not argue for a unitary head of state in whom legislative, judicial, and executive powers are inseparable, and thus did not believe that the executive power in a state to whom must be conceded a monopoly of coercion also defines all rights in the state. Instead, Kant insisted upon the necessary division of authority in a state into a separate legislature, executive, and judiciary, and t…Read more
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21Henry Allison: Kant’s Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 532 p. ISBN 978-1-107-14511-5 (review)Kant Studien 113 (2): 375-379. 2022.
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8Hume, Kant, and the Standard of TasteIn Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of David Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.Kant suggests that the chief advantage of his theory of taste over Hume’s is its a priori rather than empirical foundation. But his claim to have provided such a foundation for judgments of taste is questionable, and, in the end, both authors ground judgments of taste in a canon of proven or classical objects of taste rather than in determinate principles of taste. However, Kant does go beyond Hume in sketching a theory of aesthetic production, as well as reception in the form of his theory of a…Read more
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History of Modern AestheticsIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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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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83Genius and Taste: A Response to Joseph Cannon, ‘The Moral Value of Artistic Beauty in Kant’Kantian Review 16 (1): 127-134. 2011.
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44God and the Structure of the Transcendental Dialectic: On Willaschek’s Kant on the Sources of MetaphysicsKantian Review 25 (2): 267-277. 2020.Marcus Willaschek’s new book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason is a penetrating analysis of the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In his comments, the author first raises some questions concerning the structure of the Transcendental Dialectic and then proposes that looking at the second Critique and continuing on into the third Critique will reveal more roles for the idea of God in Kant’s reconstruction of traditional metaphysics than Will…Read more
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27Frederick C. Beiser, The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism: 1796–1880 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 Pp. xiii + 610 ISBN 9780198722205 £75.00 (review)Kantian Review 20 (3): 483-492. 2015.
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75Free play and true well-being: Herder's critique of Kant's aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (4). 2007.
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57Freedom, 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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123Gerard and Kant: Influence and OppositionJournal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (1): 59-93. 2011.In his notes and lectures on anthropology, Kant explicitly refers to Alexander Gerard's 1774 Essay on Genius, and his own position that genius is necessary for art but not for science is clearly a response to Gerard. Kant does not explicitly mention Gerard's 1759 Essay on Taste, but it was probably an influence on his own conception of free play, and in any case a comparison of the two theories of aesthetic response is instructive. Gerard's development of a version of the theory of free play wit…Read more
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96Ends of Reason and Ends of Nature: The Place of Teleology in Kant's Ethics (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 36 (2-3): 161-186. 2002.
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4Freedom 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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19Early Modern EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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172Free and adherent beauty: A modest proposalBritish Journal of Aesthetics 42 (4): 357-366. 2002.
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25Examples of PerfectionismJournal of Aesthetic Education 48 (3): 5-27. 2014.Two claims stand behind my title. I will argue first that, if we read Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy the way I do, in which rationality is the means to the end of human freedom rather than being an end in itself, then Kant offers a fuller example of what Stanley Cavell calls Emersonian perfectionism, but which I will call Cavell’s own perfectionism, than Cavell himself has recognized even in his most sympathetic account of Kant, and can help us see the full power of such perfectionism. Second,…Read more
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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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21Formalism around 1800: A Grudging Concession to Aesthetic SensibilityFilozofija I Društvo 30 (2): 241-256. 2019.This paper compares the outwardly similar structural formalisms of Marc- Antoine Laugier and Arthur Schopenhauer. Laugier purports to base his aesthetics on an historical argument from the “primitive hut”; but his preferences are really based on aversion to structurally and programmatically non-functional elements. His preferences show disregard for purely aesthetic considerations, such as pleasing proportions. Schopenhauer’s formalism is based on his cognitivist approach to aesthetics, accordin…Read more
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128Feeling and freedom: Kant on aesthetics and moralityJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (2): 137-146. 1990.
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22CHAPTER 5: Systematicity, Taste, and PurposeIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 198-254. 2008.
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40Dependent beauty revisited: A reply to WicksJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (3): 357-361. 1999.
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22CHAPTER 4: Reason, Desire, and ActionIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 161-197. 2008.
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56Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to LessingPhilosophical Review 121 (2): 285-290. 2012.
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315Disinterestedness and desire in Kant's aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 36 (4): 449-460. 1978.
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1Dialogue: Paul Guyer and Henry Allison on Allison's Kant's theory of tasteIn Rebecca Kukla (ed.), Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |