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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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578An 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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30If Reason is ‘in the World’, Where Exactly is it Located?European Journal of Philosophy 24 (3): 712-724. 2016.In his recent book James Kreines argues that for Hegel reason is “in the world”, but how we are to understand the idea of reason's being so located? One answer, suggested by more traditional theocentric readings of Hegel, would be to appeal to the idea of a divine thought, coursing through the world. Another answer, more congenial to modern sensibilities, might locate reason within the rational activities of inter-subjectively connected human beings, as suggested by Terry Pinkard's idea of the “…Read more
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151Habermas, Lyotard, Wittgenstein: Philosophy at the Limits of ModernityThesis Eleven 14 (1): 9-25. 1986.
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84The possibility of German idealism after analytic philosophy : McDowell, Brandom and beyondIn James Williams, Edwin Mares, James Chase & Jack Reynolds (eds.), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, Continuum. 2010.The late Richard Rorty was no stranger to provocation, and many an analytic philosopher would surely count as extremely provocative comments he had made on Robert Brandom’s highly regarded book from 1994, Making It Explicit.1 Brandom’s book was, Rorty asserted “an attempt to usher analytic philosophy from its Kantian to its Hegelian stage.”2 The reception of Kant within analytic philosophy has surely been, at best, patchy, but if it is difficult to imagine exactly what Rorty could have had in mi…Read more
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1Mathematics, Computation, Language and Poetry: The Novalis ParadoxIn Dalia Nassar (ed.), The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 221-238. 2014.Recent scholarship has helped to demythologise the life and work of Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg who, as the poet “Novalis”, had come to instantiate the nineteenth-century’s stereotype of the romantic poet. Among Hardenberg’s interests that seem to sit uneasily with this literary persona were his interests in science and mathematics, and especially in the idea, traceable back to Leibniz, of a mathematically based computational approach to language. Hardenberg’s approach to language, a…Read more
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312Embodiment, conceptuality and intersubjectivity in idealist and pragmatist approaches to judgmentJournal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (4): 257-271. 2001.
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50Philosophical Republicanism and Monarchism—and Republican and Monarchical Philosophy—in Kant and HegelThe Owl of Minerva 26 (1): 35-46. 1994.If Hegel has been taken seriously at all in this century it has been qua social and political philosopher. As author of the Science of Logic, that work on which he considered the Realphilosophie dependent, he has been largely dismissed. Recently, however, interest in Hegel’s peculiar logico-ontological project as developed in his Logic has been revived and the traditional negative reading of this work challenged. Here debate has tended to center on the question of his relation to Kant. In contra…Read more
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132The Role of Logic "Commonly So Called" in Hegel's Science of LogicBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 281-301. 2014.This paper examines Hegel’s accounts of the nature of judgements and inferences in the ‘subjective logic’ of the Science of Logic, and does so in light of the history of the tradition of formal logic to his time. It is argued that, contrary to the attitude often displayed by interpreters of Hegel’s logic, it is important to understand the positive role played by formal logic, ‘logic commonly so called’, in Hegel’s own conception of logic. It is argued that Hegel’s own scientific presentation [Da…Read more
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63In Mind and World and subsequent writings up to an essay first published in 2008 entitled “Avoiding the Myth of the Given”,1 John McDowell had insisted not only on the conceptuality of what is often discussed as “perceptual content” but also on the propositionality of that content. Many might find this puzzling. At the most intuitive level, one might think of the “content” of perception, what one perceives, as things— things with particular properties, and things arranged in particular relations…Read more
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833Thom Brook's project of a systematic reading of Hegel's Philosophy of RightHegel Bulletin 33 (2). 2012.Thom Brooks'sHegel's Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Rightpresents a very clear and methodologically self-conscious series of discussions of key topics within Hegel's classic text. As one might expect for a ‘systematic’ reading, the main body of Brooks's text commences with an opening chapter on Hegel's system. Then follow seven chapters, the topics of which are encountered sequentially as one reads through thePhilosophy of Right. Brooks's central claim is that to…Read more
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29Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars (review)Philosophical Review 120 (1): 137-140. 2011.
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26Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Merleau-Ponty (review)Philosophy and Literature 14 (1): 190-191. 1990.
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46Hegel's hermeneuticsCornell University Press. 1996.An advance on recent revisionist thinking about Hegelian philosophy, this book interprets Hegel's achievement as part of a revolutionary modernization of ...
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65The analytic neo-hegelianism of John McDowell & Robert BrandomIn Michael Baur & Stephen Houlgate (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Hegel, Blackwell. 2011.The historical origins of the analytic style that was to become dominant within academic philosophy in the English-speaking world are often traced to the work of Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore at the turn of the twentieth century, and portrayed as involving a radical break with the idealist philosophy that had bloomed in Britain at the end of the nineteenth. Congruent with this view, Hegel is typically taken as representing a type of philosophy that analytic philosophy assiduously avoids. Thus…Read more
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3352Hegel, Aristotle and the Conception of Free AgencyIn Gunnar Hindrichs Axel Honneth (ed.), Freiheit: Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress 2011, Vittorio Klostermann. 2013.
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G.W.F. HegelIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Routledge. pp. 3--49. 2009.
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17Review of Michael Quante, Hegel's Concept of Action (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (2). 2005.
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Absorbed in the Spectacle of the World: Hegel's Criticism of Romantic HistoriographyClio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 16 (4): 297-315. 1987.
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Nietzschean perspectivism and the logic of practical reasonPhilosophical Forum 22 (1): 72-88. 1990.
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2Kant: Transcendental Idealist and/or Cognitive ScientistIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 77-84. 2001.
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