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32Anthropocentrism in favourable circumstancesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 37 (3). 1994.No abstract
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89Normativity 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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36I 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 Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan & Kamila Pacovská (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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39Contemporary Anthropocentrism, Salomon Maimon, and the Problem of ExperienceProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 145-153. 1995.
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22Wat maakt blind? Liefde? Of Wetenschap?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 107 (1): 95-116. 2015.Blindness in therapy? Love? Or science? In this paper we dispute what seems an obvious truism these days: that increasing the influence of scientific research on psychotherapy is a good thing. We begin with an exploration of two distinct capacities that contribute in significant ways to human flourishing: knowledge and love. We then argue that modern society rather onesidedly capitalizes on the growth of scientific knowledge. This has an important drawback because the dominant model of growth pr…Read more
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57Alternatives of Oneself: Recasting some of our practical problemsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 381-400. 2000.This paper argues that there are practical problems of such a kind that neither impartial morality nor rational choice theory can provide us with comfort and guidance in our attempt to make the right choice if confronted with such a problem. It argues that both morality and rational choice theory are bound to misconstrue problems of this kind. Appreciating the limits of both morality and rational choice theory, as currently discussed in the literature (Wolf, Morton, Pettit, Hollis & Sugden), ena…Read more
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126Selfless Self-LoveEthical Theory and Moral Practice 9 (1): 3-25. 2006.This paper challenges the idea that there is a natural opposition between self-interest and morality. It does by developing an account of self-love according to which we can have self-regarding reasons that (1) differ substantially from the standard conception of self-interest, and that (2) share enough crucial features with moral reasons to count as morally respectable.
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210Nou zeg, waar bemoei je je meeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 103 (1): 4. 2011.This paper investigates the possibilities of ordinary people to estabish a moral authority in a subclass of everyday scenarios in the public domain that are characterised by an underdetermination of the obtaining norms and regulations. The paper offers a strategy based on hospitality to challenge the all too common practice of ignoring one’s responsibility as a moral agent and to hide in one’s shell, hoping that others (police power!) will solve one’s problem. The paper begins with a description…Read more
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212Learning to ActSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (1): 11-35. 2016.In this paper I argue that to understand minded agency – the capacity we typically find instantiated in instances of human behaviour that could sensibly be questioned by asking “What did you do?” – one needs to understand childhood, i.e. the trajectory of learning to act. I discuss two different types of trajectory, both of which seem to take place during childhood and both of which might be considered crucial to learning to act: a growth of bodily control (GBC) and a growth in taking responsibi…Read more
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118True to ourselvesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (1). 1998.The paper addresses the problem of authenticity from a point of view that diverges from the more usual social, political, or moral approaches, by focusing very explicitly on the internal psychological make-up of human agents in an attempt to identify the conditions that would enable us to use the colloquial phrase 'being true to ourselves' in a way that is philosophically tenable. First, it is argued that the most important and problematic condition is the requirement that agents can be the sour…Read more
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Albury Castell, Donald Borchert and Arthur Zucker, eds., An Introduction to Modern Philosophy. Examining the Human Condition, 6th ed (review)Philosophy in Review 14 (5): 315-317. 1994.
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3Personal Identity ManagementIn Kim Atkins & Catriona Mackenzie (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Routledge. 2007.
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Morton White, The Question of Free Will: A Holistic View (review)Philosophy in Review 15 70-72. 1995.
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35From Daily Life to PhilosophyMetaphilosophy 35 (4): 517-535. 2004.It is argued that the little everyday things of life often provide excellent entries into the intellectual problems of academic philosophy. This is illustrated with an analysis of four small stories taken from daily life in which people are in agony because they do not know what to do. It is argued that the crucial question in these stories is a philosophical question; not a closed request for empirical or formal information, but an open question about how best to conceive of human experience.
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14Anticipating reasons of one's ownIn Maureen Sie, Marc Slors & Bert van den Brink (eds.), Reasons of one's own, Ashgate. pp. 87--105. 2004.
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