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15Gerhard Martin Wölfle, Die Wesenslogik in Hegels “Wissenschaft der Logik”, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1994, pp 549, Hb DM180 (review)Hegel Bulletin 16 (2): 40-47. 1995.
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5Jens Brockmeier, “Reines Denken”: Zur Kritik der teleologischen Denkform, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Verlag B R Grüner, 1992, pp 331, Hb Hfl 165/$95 (review)Hegel Bulletin 14 (1-2): 79-85. 1993.
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6Gilbert Gérard, Critique et Dialectique: l'itinéraire de Hegel à Jena . Bruxelles, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 1982, pp. viii, 456 (review)Hegel Bulletin 5 (2): 42-45. 1984.
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10Alan White, Absolute Knowledge: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics. Athens, Ohio/Landon, Ohio University Press, 1983, pp. xi, 188, hardback £18.40, paperback £9.60 (review)Hegel Bulletin 5 (1): 36-41. 1984.
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21Right and Trust in Hegel’s Philosophy of RightHegel Bulletin 37 (1): 104-116. 2016.According to Hegel, true freedom consists not just in arbitrariness, but in the free willing of right. Right in turn is fully realised in the laws and institutions of ethical life. The ethical subject, for Hegel, is a practical subject that acts in accordance with ethical laws; yet it is also a theoretical, cognitive subject that recognizes the laws and institutions of ethical life as embodiments of right. Such recognition can be self-conscious and reflective; but it can, and indeed must, also b…Read more
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84Hegel on the Personhood of GodThe Owl of Minerva 39-58. 2017.In this essay, I examine Robert Williams’s account of Hegel’s concept of divine “personhood.” I endorse Williams’s claims that God, for Hegel, is not a person but exhibits only personhood, and that divine personhood realises itself in a human community based on mutual recognition. I take issue, however, with Williams’s further claim that Hegel also takes God and humanity to stand in a relation of mutual recognition to one another, since this claim, in my view, risks turning God into a person aft…Read more
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55Enseñando a hablar inglés a la filosofía hegeliana Entrevista a Stephen HoulgateIdeas Y Valores 66 (165): 373-411. 2017.RESUMEN Largamente desatendida o malinterpretada, la noción de caos en la filosofía de Nietzsche es una pieza constitutiva de la particular concepción del ser que este autor habría dejado apenas esbozada. El artículo se propone elaborar este concepto en la obra nietzscheana, siguiendo algunas de las metáforas que lo iluminan. Desde allí se busca plantear los rasgos centrales de una ontologia del caos, de sesgo no metafísico, que, al afirmar el carácter acontecimental de la realidad, puede verse …Read more
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7Right and Trust in Hegel’s Philosophy of RightIn Anders Moe Rasmussen & Markus Gabriel (eds.), German Idealism Today, De Gruyter. pp. 121-134. 2017.
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24Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowellEuropean Journal of Philosophy 14 (2): 242-261. 2006.
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17Hegel and FichteThe Owl of Minerva 26 (1): 3-19. 1994.In his excellent recent book, Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other, Robert Williams argues that, contrary to what many commentators claim, Hegel’s philosophy does not seek to swallow up individuality and difference in an all-embracing and all-consuming absolute, but rather takes individuality and differentiation seriously as essential features of the society and the world in which we live. Williams defends this interpretation by arguing that Hegel understands all forms of genuine human com…Read more
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15Response to Professor HorstmannProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 1017-1023. 1995.
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54Hegel at Oxford, 1985The Owl of Minerva 18 (1): 103-109. 1986.The Seventh Annual Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain took place on September 12–13, 1985 at Pembroke College, Oxford. The theme of the conference was Hegel’s political philosophy.
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37Hegel at Oxford, 1984The Owl of Minerva 17 (1): 121-126. 1985.The Sixth Annual Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain took place on September 13–14, 1984 at the same venue as the 1983 conference, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. The topic for this year’s conference was “The Young Hegel,” and the papers covered various aspects of Hegel’s thought in the period before 1803.
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39Hegel at OxfordThe Owl of Minerva 15 (2): 246-250. 1984.The Fifth Annual Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain took place on September 15–16, 1983 in the delightful setting of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. The theme of this year’s conference - “Hegel’s Dialectic” - was approached in a variety of ways by the contributors and provoked several lively and interesting discussions. The first paper of the conference was to have been given by Howard Williams, but unfortunately he had found his way to Pembroke College instead of St. Edmund Hall and so w…Read more
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219Hegel and the "End" of ArtThe Owl of Minerva 29 (1): 1-21. 1997.The aim of this article is to explain why, in Hegel's view, art's history brings it to the point at which it can no longer afford the highest satisfaction of our spiritual needs and so fulfill its own highest calling, and why, nevertheless, we moderns still need art and still need it to create beauty. I argue that Hegel advocates a modern art of beauty because he believes that what has to be given aesthetic expression in the modern world is concrete human freedom and life (ratherthan the abstrac…Read more
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36Logic and Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy: A Response to John W. BurbidgeThe Owl of Minerva 34 (1): 107-125. 2002.In this essay I argue that Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature combines four elements. Hegel develops an a priori account of the logical determinations immanent in and peculiar to nature—determinations that incorporate the determinations set out in the Logic. Hegel then points to the empirical phenomena corresponding to each determination and so proves indirectly that such phenomena are necessary. Finally, he draws attention to those aspects of nature that cannot be explained by nature’s immanent logic…Read more
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16Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2001.Employs Derrida's critique of Hegel as the impetus for a new understanding of Hegel's concept of "spirit."
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J Brockmeier's "reines Denken": Zur Kritik Der Teleologischen Denkform (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 27 79-85. 1993.
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65The Hegel Reader (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998._The Hegel Reader_ is the most comprehensive collection of Hegel's writings currently available in English
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G M Wolfle's Die Wesenlogik In Hegels "wissenschaft Der Logik" (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 32 40-47. 1995.
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46Schiller and the dance of beautyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51 (1). 2008.Frederick Beiser’s study, Schiller as Philosopher, is a work of outstanding philosophical intelligence and exemplary scholarship. This is good news for the student of Schiller. It is, however, somewhat less good news for the aspiring critic of Beiser—at least for this aspiring critic, for there is little that I disagree with, and a very great deal that I admire, in Beiser’s book. Particularly valuable—to mention just one of the book’s many merits—is Beiser’s subtle and illuminating account of th…Read more