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30The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian AftermathCambridge University Press. 2005.The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively recent historical development that human beings think of themselves as individual centers of agency, and that one's entitlement to such a self-determining life is absolutely valuable, the issue at stake also involves the question of the historic…Read more
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65Naturalness and mindedness: Hegel' compatibilismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.The problem of freedom in modern philosophy has three basic components: (i) what is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? (ii) Is it possible so to act? (iii) And how important is leading a free life?1 Hegel proposed unprecedented and highly controversial answers to these questions.
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161Bernard Williams: In the beginning was the deed: Realism and moralism in political argumentJournal of Philosophy 104 (10): 533-539. 2007.
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1Modernism as a Philosophical Problem. On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture, 2e édRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (1): 114-115. 2002.
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17Author's précis of Henry James and modern moral lifeInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (3). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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21Responses to Conway, Mooney, and RortyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (3). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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8Garrett Stewart. Closed Circuits: Screening, Narrative, Surveillance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 281 pp (review)Critical Inquiry 43 (3): 759-760. 2017.
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214Kant on the Spontaneity of MindCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (2). 1987.In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant refers often and with no apparent hesitation or sense of ambiguity to the mind. He does so not only in his justly famous destruction of rationalist proofs of immaterialism, but throughout his own, positive, ‘transcendental’ account in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Transcendental Analytic. In the first edition of the Critique, he even proposed what he adventurously called a ‘transcendental psychology’ and, although this strange discipline seemed to disappea…Read more
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7Fichte's Alleged Subjective, Psychological, One-Sided IdealismIn Sally Sedgwick (ed.), The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 147--170. 2000.
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39Heideggerean Postmodernism and Metaphysical PoliticsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 17-37. 1996.
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32Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian VariationsCambridge University Press. 1997.'Modernity' has come to refer both to a contested historical category and to an even more contested philosophical and civilisational ideal. In this important collection of essays Robert Pippin takes issue with some prominent assessments of what is or is not philosophically at stake in the idea of a modern revolution in Western civilisation, and presents an alternative view. Professor Pippin disputes many traditional characterisations of the distinctiveness of modern philosophy. In their place he…Read more
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73The belated genre classification, “film noir,” is a contested one, much more so than “Western” or “musical.”2 However, there is wide agreement that there were many stylistic conventions common to the new treatment of crime dramas prominent in the 1940s: grim urban settings, often very cramped interiors, predominantly night time scenes, and so-called “low key” lighting and unusual camera angles.3 But there were also important thematic elements in common.Two are especially interesting. First, noirs …Read more
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1Concluding RemarksIn Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton University Press. pp. 88-98. 2010.
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107The Significance of Self‐Consciousness in Idealist Theories of LogicProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (2pt2): 145-166. 2014.Among Kant's innovations in the understanding of logic (‘general logic’) were his claims that logic had no content of its own, but was the form of the thought of any possible content, and that the unit of meaning, the truth-bearer, judgement, was essentially apperceptive. Judging was implicitly the consciousness of judging. This was for Kant a logical truth. This article traces the influence of the latter claim on Fichte, and, for most of the discussion, on Hegel. The aim is to understand the re…Read more
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1412 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the metaphysics of modernityIn Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.), Nietzsche and Modern German Thought, Routledge. pp. 282. 1991.
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123The Idealism of Transcendental ArgumentsIdealistic Studies 18 (2): 97-106. 1988.Many philosophers have been suspicious of any “transcendental argument”. In the literature concerned with arguments such as Kant’s Transcendental Deduction, or the “private language” or “other minds” argument, there have been frequent charges that such attempts are “impossible,” spurious, or, even more frequently, incomplete, that their success depends on some controversial philosophical position, such as verificationism. A recent addition to the latter kind of charge is that a successful TA mus…Read more
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19Hegel on Ethics and Politics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2004.This series makes available in English some important work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American philosophical community, perspectives that have been largely ignored except by a handful of writers on German philosophy. The dissemination of this work will be of enormous value to Anglophone students and scholars of the history of German philosophy. Thi…Read more
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112McDowell's germans: Response to 'on Pippin's postscript'European Journal of Philosophy 15 (3). 2007.As McDowell makes clear in ‘On Pippin’s Postscript’ and in many other works, the interpretive question at issue in this exchange—how to understand the relation between Kant and Hegel, especially as that concerns Kant’s central ‘Deduction’ argument in the Critique of Pure Reason1—brings into the foreground an even larger problem on which all the others depend: the right way to understand at the highest level of generality the relation between active or spontaneous thought and our receptive and co…Read more
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6¿Lo mío y lo tuyo? El Estado kantianoAnuario Filosófico 37 (80): 595-630. 2004.Kant says there is a duty to exit the state of nature, to enter into a civil state. He says this is a duty of right, not a duty of virtue. The article discusses the argument he gives to support this view, as well as the contemporary discussion on the relationship between this duty of right and the categorical imperative. The discussion is full of implications. Particularly significant is the view of the Kantian state emerging from it, which challenges the conventional account: instead of a state…Read more
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2AcknowledgmentsIn Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton University Press. 2010.
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1010 Gadamer's HegelIn Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 225. 2002.
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Kant and the Problem of Transcendental Philosophy: Unity and Form in the "Critique of Pure Reason."Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. 1974.
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203Recognition and Reconciliation: Actualized Agency in Hegel’s Jena PhenomenologyIn Bert van den Brink & David Owen (eds.), Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 57--78. 2007.
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