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16Stanley Rosen. The Idea of Hegel’s Science of Logic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-06588-5 . Pp. 520. $55 (review)Hegel Bulletin 39 (2): 366-371. 2018.
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400Hegel, modal logic, and the social nature of mindInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (5): 586-606. 2019.ABSTRACTHegel's Phenomenology of Spirit provides a fascinating picture of individual minds caught up in “recognitive” relations so as to constitute a realm—“spirit”—which, while necessarily embedded in nature, is not reducible to it. In this essay I suggest a contemporary path for developing Hegel's suggestive ideas in a way that broadly conforms to the demands of his own system, such that one moves from logic to a philosophy of mind. Hence I draw on Hegel's “subjective logic”, understood in the…Read more
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50Hegel’s Treatment of Predication Considered in the Light of a Logic for the Actual WorldHegel Bulletin 40 (1): 51-73. 2019.For many recent readers of Hegel, Wilfrid Sellars’s 1956 London lectures on the “Myth of the Given” have signaled an important rapprochement between Hegelian and analytic traditions in philosophy. Here I want to explore the ideas of another philosopher, also active in London in the 1950s, who consciously pursued such a goal: John N. Findlay. The ideas that Findlay brought to Hegel—sometimes converging with, sometimes diverging from those of Sellars—had been informed by his earlier study of the A…Read more
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34Hegel’s Subjective Logic as a Logic for (Hegel’s) Philosophy of MindHegel Bulletin 39 (1): 1-22. 2018.In the 1930s, C. I. Lewis, who was responsible for the revival of modal logic in the era of modern symbolic logic, characterized ‘intensional’ approaches to logic as typical of post-Leibnizian ‘continental philosophy’, in contrast to the ‘extensionalist’ approaches dominant in the British tradition. Indeed Lewis’s own work in this area had been inspired by the logic of his teacher, the American ‘Absolute Idealist’, Josiah Royce. Hegel’s ‘Subjective Logic’ in Book III of hisScience of Logic, can,…Read more
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9Stanley Rosen. The Idea of Hegel’s Science of Logic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-06588-5 . Pp. 520. $55 (review)Hegel Bulletin 1-6. 2016.
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17Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice by Terry PinkardJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2): 378-379. 2018.Terry Pinkard has been a leading figure within the revival of Hegelian philosophy over the last quarter century, together with Robert Pippin articulating an innovative and influential interpretation of Hegel as the rightful successor to Kant’s distinctly modern critique of “dogmatic metaphysics.” In Does History Make Sense?, he attempts the challenging task of rescuing Hegel’s philosophy of history, drawing on his earlier account of Hegel as a kind of “modified Aristotelian naturalist,” here ske…Read more
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64Findlay’s Hegel: Idealism as Modal ActualismCritical Horizons 18 (4): 359-377. 2017.Here, I suggest a hitherto relatively unexplored way beyond the opposed Aristotelian realist and Kantian idealist approaches that divide recent interpretations of the categories or “thought determinations” of Hegel’s Logic, by locating his idealism within the terrain of recent debates in modal metaphysics. In particular, I return to the outlook of the first philosopher to attempt to bring Hegel into the analytic conversation, John Niemeyer Findlay, and consider Hegel’s idealism as instantiating …Read more
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1159Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and ThoughtCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 3 (2-3): 16-31. 2007.Can Hegel, a philosopher who claims that philosophy lsquo;has no other object but God and so is essentially rational theologyrsquo;, ever be taken as anything emother than/em a religious philosopher with little to say to any philosophical project that identifies itself as emsecular/em?nbsp; If the valuable substantive insights found in the detail of Hegelrsquo;s philosophy are to be rescued for a secular philosophy, then, it is commonly presupposed, some type of global reinterpretation of the en…Read more
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11The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, Brandom and McDowell, by Chauncey Maher. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012, xiii + 156 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐415‐80442‐4 hbk £80.00; ISBN: 978‐0‐203‐09750‐2 ebk £53.20 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 21 (S3). 2013.
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30Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Willem A.deVries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 302 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐957330‐1 hb $65 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 19 (4): 633-639. 2011.
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3The Mind's Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry (review)European Journal of Philosophy 12 (1): 135-138. 2004.Books Reviewed:Gemma Corradi Fiumara.
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13Dialectic and Gospel in the Development of Hegel's Thinking (review)Dialogue 39 (4): 852-854. 2000.While for many of his readers in the nineteenth century Hegel seemed to have offered a viable systematic philosophy, this has generally not been the case in the twentieth. The reasons for this are undoubtedly complex, but among them would surely be the proximity that philosophy bears to religion, rather than to the empirical sciences, within the Hegelian system. To the decidedly more secular philosophical outlook of the twentieth century, Hegel's systematic philosophy has looked more like Christ…Read more
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61Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian ThoughtCambridge University Press. 2007.This 2007 book examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile dismissal of the idealists, based on the claim that their metaphysical views were irretrievably corrupted by the faulty logic that informed them. These assumptions are challenged by the work of such analytic philosophers as John McDowell and Robert Brandom, who, while contributing to core are…Read more
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Science, medicine, and illness: Rediscovering the patient as a personIn Paul A. Komesaroff (ed.), Troubled bodies: critical perspectives on postmodernism, medical ethics, and the body, Duke University Press. 1995.
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34The logic of affectCornell University Press. 1999.Introduction: A Logic for the Reasons of the Heart? Creating an aphorism that would prove irresistible to many later investigators into affective life, ...
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79Tragedy, Recognition and the Death of God (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 201307. 2013.
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85Leibniz and Newton on Space, Time and the TrinityJournal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 7 (16): 26-41. 2011.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who was born in 1646 just before the end of the Thirty Years War and who died 1716, is surely one of the most bizarre and interesting of the early modern philosophers. He was an astonishing polymath, and responsible for some of the most advanced work in the sciences of his day—he was, for instance, the co-inventor along with Newton, of differential calculus, and is generally recognized as the greatest logician of the early modern period, responsible for advances in log…Read more
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51The relation of logic to ontology in HegelIn Leila Haaparanta & Heikki J. Koskinen (eds.), Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic, Oxford University Press. 2012.Even among those philosophers who hold particular aspects of Hegel's philosophy in high regard, there have been few since the 19th century who have found Hegel's "metaphysics" plausible, and just as few not sceptical about the coherency of the "logical" project on which it is meant to be based. Indeed, against the type of work characteristic of the late nineteenth-century logical revolution which issued in modern analytic philosophy, it is often difficult to see exactly how Hegel's "logical" wri…Read more
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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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18Hegel's philosophy of religionIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 4, Routledge. 2009.
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492Some 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 Uk. pp. 348. 2011.
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Freud's theory of consciousnessIn Michael Philip Levine (ed.), Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Routledge. pp. 119--131. 1999.
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23Kantian origins: one possible path from Transcendental Idealism to a "Post Kantian" philosophical theologyIn Paolo Diego Bubbio & Paul 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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