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393Hegel, 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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45Hegel’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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32Hegel’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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58Findlay’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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1056Hegel, 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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48Empiricism, 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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27Dialectic 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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124Analytic 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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32The 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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26If 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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84The possibility of German idealism after analytic philosophy : McDowell, Brandom and beyondIn James Williams (ed.), 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, . 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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148Habermas, Lyotard, Wittgenstein: Philosophy at the Limits of ModernityThesis Eleven 14 (1): 9-25. 1986.
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49Philosophical 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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311Embodiment, conceptuality and intersubjectivity in idealist and pragmatist approaches to judgmentJournal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (4): 257-271. 2001.
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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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130The 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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26Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Merleau-Ponty (review)Philosophy and Literature 14 (1): 190-191. 1990.
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807Thom 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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