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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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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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61Findlay’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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1066Hegel, 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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126Analytic 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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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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96Pierre 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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48Continental 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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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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2The Role of Work within the Processes of Recognition in Hegel’s IdealismIn Nicholas H. Smith & Jean-Philippe Deranty (eds.), New Philosophies of Labour: Work and the Social Bond, Brill. 2012.
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513Wilfrid 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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