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17Actorschap en zelfstandigheidTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (4). 1998.This is a review article of the debate about the role of the hierarchical conceptionof personal autonomy in an analysis of agency. Three well-known problems are described:the infinite regress, the 'ab initio' problem, and the 'incompleteness' problem. It is suggested that solving the last problem would resolve the former two. Three strategies to solve the last problem are discussed and found unsatisfactory: (1) stressing the independent role of value judgements; (2) stressing the supreme value o…Read more
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108Self-Knowledge and Self-LoveEthical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (2): 309-321. 2015.In this paper I argue for the claim that self - love is a precondition for self -knowledge. This claim is relevant to the contemporary philosophical debate on self -knowledge, but mainly because it draws attention to the role of claims of self -knowledge in the larger context of our ordinary practice of rationalizing and appropriating our actions. In this practice it is crucial for persons to open-mindedly investigate the limits of their own responsible agency, an investigation that requires a w…Read more
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34Making X Happen: Prolepsis and the Problem of Mental DeterminationIn J. A. M. Bransen & S. E. Cuypers (eds.), Human Action, Deliberation and Causation, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 131--153. 1998.
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4Postmoderne benadering van de zin van de wijsgerige reflectie.
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Afhankelijkheid zonder dominantie (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 3. 2004.
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58Identification and the Idea of an Alternative of OneselfEuropean Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 1-16. 1996.
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53The importance of how we see ourselves: Self-identity and responsible agency * by Marina OshanaAnalysis 72 (1): 198-200. 2012.
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500Becoming Oneself through Failure and ResolutionIn Käthe Schneider (ed.), Becoming Oneself: Dimensions of “Bildung” and the facilitation of personality development, Springer Vs-‐verlag. pp. 5-28. 2012.The aim of this chapter is to show how we can account for a most peculiar feature of human life: i.e. the need to address the real possibility of failing to be ourselves.
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41On exploring normative constraints in new situationsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 44 (1). 2001.Philip Pettit's ethocentric account of rule-following is elaborated and defended in this paper as basically a story about the capacity to reason organized around largely implicit assumptions about what is and what is not normal. It is argued that this account can be insightfully used to elucidate the practical reasoning of agents confronted with the normative indeterminacy that seems to be characteristic of radically new situations. It is shown that practical reasoning consists to a large extent…Read more
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“Contemporary Anthropocentrism, Salomon Maimon, and the Problem of Experience”In H. Robinson (ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Kant Congress, Marquette University Press. pp. 2--1. 1995.
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31Anthropocentrism in favourable circumstancesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 37 (3). 1994.No abstract
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88Normativity as the key to objectivity: An exploration of Robert Brandom's articulating reasonsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (3). 2002.(2002). Normativity as the Key to Objectivity: An Exploration of Robert Brandom's Articulating Reasons. Inquiry: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 373-391.
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35I will surviveWijsgerig Perspectief 49 (3): 22-29. 2009.‘Kijk. Mijn kasteel heeft het overleefd!’ roept mijn zoon enthousiast. We zijn hier gisteren ook aan het strand geweest en er is inderdaad nog iets te herkennen van het bouwwerk dat hij hier toen gemaakt heeft. Het hoge water heeft nog niet alle sporen uitgeveegd, maar om nu te zeggen dat de vage contouren in het zand de uitroep rechtvaardigen dat ‘het kasteel’ het ‘overleefd’ heeft… Dat rekt óf het begrip kasteel óf het begrip overleven toch een heel eind verder op dan we normaal gesproken acce…Read more
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67Loving a StrangerIn Tony Milligan, Christian Maurer & Kamilla Pacovska (eds.), Love and Its Objects: What Can We Care For?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2014.In this paper, however, I shall explore an alternative motivational structure for our engagements with strangers, one that highlights the importance of reasons for love. Besides being a useful and promising alternative to impartial indifference, this motivational structure is theoretically interesting in its own right because it will enable us to improve our understanding of an important distinction between two types of reasons related to love – reasons of love and reasons for love.
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1Morton White, The Question of Free Will: A Holistic View Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (1): 70-72. 1995.
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38Contemporary Anthropocentrism, Salomon Maimon, and the Problem of ExperienceProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 145-153. 1995.
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