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9Review: McDowell, Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars (review)Philosophical Review 120 (1). 2011.
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487Some Metaphysical Implications of Hegel’s TheodicyEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (1): 129--150. 2012.This paper examines Hegel’s claim that philosophy “has no other object than God‘ as a claim about the essentiality of the idea of God to philosophy. On this idealist interpretation, even atheistic philosophies would presuppose rationally evaluable ideas of God, despite denials of the existence of anything corresponding to those ideas. This interpretation is then applied to Hegel’s version of idealism in relation to those of two predecessors, Leibniz and Kant. Hegel criticizes the idea of the Chr…Read more
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40German IdealismIn George Klosko (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 348. 2011.
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Freud's theory of consciousnessIn M. Levine (ed.), The Analytic Freud, Routledge. pp. 119--131. 2000.
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23Kantian origins: one possible path from Transcendental Idealism to a "Post Kantian" philosophical theologyIn P. D. Bubbio & P. Redding (eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.After two centuries of Kant interpretation there is still no general agreement over the nature of Kant’s most basic philosophical commitments. One issue in particular about which it is difficult to find consensus is his metaphilosophical attitude towards the very project of metaphysics itself. Recently, a type of deflationist reading of Kant has been appealed to in order to address the problems inherent in his more traditional construal as a metaphysical skeptic who denies us the capacity to hav…Read more
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28Mind of God, Point of View of Man or Something Not Quite Either?In Paolo Diego Bubbio, Maurizio Pagano, Hager Weslati & Alessandro De Cesaris (eds.), in Paolo Diego Bubbio, Maurizio Pagano, Hager Weslati and Alessandro De Cesaris (eds), Hegel, Logic and Speculation, London: Bloomsbury, ISBN-13: 978-1350056367. DOI: 10.5040/9781350056381.ch-011., Bloomsbury. pp. 147-170. 2019.In his account of Plato’s ideas in the first book of the “Transcendental Dialectic”, “On the concepts of pure reason”, Kant, in describing how for Plato ideas were “archetypes of things themselves”, adds that these ideas “flowed from the highest reason, through which human reason partakes in them”.1 Later, in the section of the Transcendental Dialectic treating the “ideals of pure reason”, he again attributes to Plato the notion of a “divine mind” within which the “ideas” exist. An “ideal”, Kant…Read more
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903The Necessity of History for Philosophy – Even Analytic PhilosophyJournal of the Philosophy of History 7 (3): 299-325. 2013.Analytic philosophers are often said to be indifferent or even hostile to the history of philosophy – that is, not to the idea of history of philosophy as such, but regarded as a species of the genus philosophy rather than the genus history. Here it is argued that such an attitude is actually inconsistent with approaches within the philosophies of mind that are typical within analytic philosophy. It is suggested that the common “argument rather than pedigree” claim – that is, that claim that phi…Read more
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26Idealism: A love (of sophia) that dare not speak its nameArts 29. 2007.My first experience of philosophy at the University of Sydney was as a commencing undergraduate in the tumultuous year of 1973. At the start of that year, there was one department of philosophy, but by the beginning of the next there were two. These two departments seemed to be opposed in every possible way except one: they both professed to be committed to a form of materialist philosophy. One could think that having a common enemy at least might have been the cause for some degree of unanimity…Read more
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56Hegel’s Logic of Being and the Polarities of Presocratic ThoughtThe Monist 74 (3): 438-456. 1991.Recently a view of Hegel’s “idealism” which hitherto had seemed unquestionable—the view that it is fundamentally a metaphysical doctrine—has been seriously challenged. Thus yesterday’s metaphysical Hegel, complete with his cosmic megasubject hidden behind the events of nature and history, has been joined by today’s “nonmetaphysical Hegel,” the postkantian categorial “genealogist.” According to the nonmetaphysical Hegelians, a century and a half of misunderstanding has been based on the confusion…Read more
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14The Metaphysical and Theological Commitments of Idealism: Kant, Hegel, HegelianismIn Douglas Moggach (ed.), Politics, Religion, and Art: Hegelian Debates, Northwestern University Press. 2011.It is sometimes said that changes in academic philosophy in the twentieth century reflected a process in which a discipline that had been earlier closely tied to institutional religion became increasingly laicized and secularized.1 In line with this idea, the idealist philosophy that had flowered within British philosophy at the end of the nineteenth century can look like the last and ill-fated attempt of a Victorian religious sensibility to guard itself against a post-Darwinian God-less view of…Read more
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History and Hermeneutics: The 'Ontological' Critique of Historical ConsciousnessCritical Philosophy 1 (2): 55. 1984.
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41(Author’s reply at “Author-Meets-Critics” session (on Paul Redding, Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought) at the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Vancouver, April 10, 2009. Robert Brandom’s “critic’s” contribution is available as “Hegel and Analytic Philosophy” from his website http://www.pitt.edu/~brandom/.).
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49Continental Idealism: Leibniz to NietzscheRoutledge. 2009.Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism. In _Continental Idealism_, Paul Redding argues that the story of German idealism begins with Leibniz. Redding begins by examining Leibniz's dispute with Newton over the nature of space, time and God, and stresses the way in which Leibniz incorporated Platonic and Aristotelian elements in his distinctive brand of idealism. Redding shows…Read more
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99Pierre Bourdieu: From neo-Kantian to Hegelian critical social theoryCritical Horizons 6 (1): 183-204. 2005.This paper challenges the commonly made claim that the work of Pierre Bourdieu is fundamentally anti-Hegelian in orientation. In contrast, it argues that the development of Bourdieu's work from its earliest structuralist through its later 'post-structuralist' phase is better described in terms of a shift from a late nineteenth century neo-Kantian to a distinctly Hegelian post-Kantian outlook. In his break with structuralism, Bourdieu appealed to a bodily based 'logic of practice' to explain the …Read more
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2The Role of Work within the Processes of Recognition in Hegel’s IdealismIn Nicholas Smith & Jean-Philippe Dr Deranty (eds.), New Philosophies of Labour: Work and the Social Bond, Brill. 2011.
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24Macbeth and Hegel on the Historical Realization of Reason as a Power of KnowingInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (1): 122-131. 2017.
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523Wilfrid Sellars's Disambiguation of Kant's "Intuition" and its Relevance for the Analysis of Perceptual ContentParadigmi. Rivista di Critica Filosofica 30 (1). 2012.
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33Replies to Deranty, Ikaheimo, Lumsden and BowdenParrhesia 11. 2011.As Jean-Philippe suggests in his sketch of my account of Hegel’s concept of recognition, Hegel doesn’t think of self-reflection as basically achieved by “stepping back” and viewing one’s ideas from a type of metaperspective. Rather, self-consciousness comes primarily via engagement with another, differently located subject. (If I had a badge slogan for this, it might read “Other, not Meta”.) While at a theoretical level I’ve held to a dialogical model of philosophizing for a considerable time, i…Read more
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81Hegel, Fichte and the pragmatic contexts of moral judgmentIn Espen Hammer (ed.), German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge. 2007.Hegel’s treatment of ‘Moralität’ in both the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Philosophy of Right provides important clues as to how he conceives the recognitive dynamics of modern moral life. As ‘spirit that is certain of itself’, morality as comprehended in the Phenomenology is the final form of spirit [Geist], which, in Hegel’s exposition, follows ‘reason’ which itself had followed ‘consciousness’ and ‘self-consciousness’. Spirit had first been considered in its objective form as an ‘in itself…Read more
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1Hegel and Analytic PhilosophyIn Allegra de Lauentiis Jeffrey Edwards (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel, Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.
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4George di Giovanni, ed., Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (4): 256-259. 2011.
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632An Hegelian Solution to a Tangle of Problems Facing Brandom'S Analytic PragmatismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (4): 657-680. 2015.In his program of analytic pragmatism, Robert Brandom has presented a thoroughgoing reinterpretation of the place of analytic philosophy in the history of philosophy by linking his own non-representational ‘inferentialist’ approach to semantics to the rationalist – idealist tradition, and in particular, to Hegel. Brandom, however, has not been without his critics in regard to both his approach to semantics and his interpretation of Hegel. Here I single out four interlinked problematic areas faci…Read more
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111McDowell's Radicalization of Kant's Account of Concepts and Intuitions: a Sellarsian (and Hegelian) CritiqueVerifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 41 (1–3). 2012.McDowell’s attempts to find a way out of the grip of some seemingly intractable problems besetting analytic philosophy has led him back to Kant and Hegel. Understanding, with Kant, the role played by concepts in experience will point the way forward, but Kant’s thinking must be released from its own problems which threaten to reduce the contents of experience and knowledge to “facts about us”. Kant’s “subjectivism” must be subjected to an “Hegelian” critique. However, McDowell’s solution to that…Read more
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