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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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36Die Wesenslogik in Hegels "Wissenschaft der Logik" (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (4): 953-955. 1996.The "logic of essence" is arguably the most important part of Hegel's Science of Logic, since it is where he offers his distinctive account of the fundamental concepts of metaphysics, such as form, substance, and causality. Yet, by Hegel's own admission, the "logic of essence" is by far "the most difficult part of the Logic" ; indeed, it is regarded by some as quite impenetrable. What Gerhard Martin Wölfle tries to do in this ambitious and remarkably lucid book is remove some of the difficulty o…Read more
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35Hegel, Kant, and the Formal Distinction of Reflective UnderstandingProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 12 125-141. 1995.
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34Glauben und wissen: Hegels immanente kritik der kantischen philosophie oder die »ahnung eines besseren«?Hegel-Jahrbuch 7 (1): 152-158. 2005.
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33Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility by Rocío ZambranaJournal of the History of Philosophy 55 (1): 172-173. 2017.This is a rich and thought-provoking study of Hegel’s all-too-often neglected masterpiece, the Science of Logic. Zambrana draws on commentators, such as Robert Pippin, Robert Brandom and Karin de Boer, to construct a highly original and challenging interpretation of the Logic. Her principal thesis is that, for Hegel, our conceptions of nature, self, and society are not simply given to us but are the “product of reason”. More precisely, such conceptions, through which we render the world and ours…Read more
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33Hegel, Rawls, and the Rational StateProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 15 249-273. 2001.
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24Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowellEuropean Journal of Philosophy 14 (2): 242-261. 2006.
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22Phenomenology and De Re Interpretation: A Critique of Brandom's Reading of HegelHegel Bulletin 29 (1-2): 30-47. 2008.
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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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19Recognition and the self in Hegel’s Phenomenology of SpiritBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-7. forthcoming..
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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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17Responses to Critics of Hegel on BeingHegel Bulletin 44 (3): 509-535. 2023.I must first express my heartfelt thanks to Susanne Herrmann-Sinai and Christoph Schuringa for convening this debate. I also owe a special debt of gratitude to the four commentators for generously taking the time to read and think about my book, and for their thought-provoking and challenging comments. I have responded to as many of the latter as I could, and I look forward to hearing or reading, on other occasions, further comments on my responses.1.
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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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15Response to Professor HorstmannProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 1017-1023. 1995.
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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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15Reason in Religion (review)The Owl of Minerva 23 (2): 183-188. 1992.The publication in the mid-1980s of the new critical edition of Hegel’s lectures on the philosophy of religion is widely recognized to have been one of the most important events in the history of modern Hegel scholarship. By differentiating between Hegel’s own manuscript and the individual transcripts of the lectures made by his students, this edition enabled a wider philosophical public to trace for the first time the development of Hegel’s philosophy of religion throughout the 1820s. In view o…Read more
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13Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowellIn Jakob Lindgaard (ed.), John McDowell, Blackwell. 2008-03-17.This chapter contains sections titled: Hegel on Sensation Hegel on Consciousness Hegel on Intelligence Thought and Being in Hegel McDowell and Hegel Conclusion Notes References.
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12Hegel, Derrida, and Restricted Economy: The Case of Mechanical MemoryJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 79-93. 1996.Hegel, Derrida, and Restricted Economy: The Case of Mechanical Memory STEPHEN HOULGA'FE A GLANCE AT THE TEXTS OF Jacques Derrida and at the texts and lectures of G. W. F. Hegel indicates that Hegel and Derrida are extraordi- narily different thinkers. Hegel is clearly what Derrida would regard as a philosopher of presence, working toward the point "where knowledge no longer needs to go beyond itself, where knowledge finds itself," where con- sciousness is present to itself as it is in itself. 1 …Read more