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413Hegel, 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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1144Hegel, 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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55Empiricism, 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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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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131The 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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830Thom 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 Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (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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3336Hegel, Aristotle and the Conception of Free AgencyIn Gunnar Hindrichs Axel Honneth (ed.), Freiheit: Stuttgarter Hegelkrongress 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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