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13William Desmond: The Intimate Strangeness of Being (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (3): 298-300. 2012.
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23Review of Joel Madore: Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in Kant (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4): 365-368. 2011.
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15Review of A. Bergerson, K. Baker, C. Martin and S. Ostovich: The Happy Burden of History. From Sovereign Impuntiy to Responsible Selfhood (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 74 (1): 184-186. 2012.
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28For the Love of God: Kant on GraceInternational Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2): 175-190. 2014.Most philosophers do not read Kant’s philosophy of religion as providing a foundation for Christianity, or even as in line with it. Recently, however, a number of so-called “affirmative Kantians” have argued that Kant’s philosophy of religion explicitly aims at recovering the spirit of Christianity. In this article I scrutinize this claim with regard to Kant’s conceptualization of “grace” as a supplement to his moral theory. Contrary to these “affirmative Kantians,” I argue that Kant’s account o…Read more
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8The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s PessimismRoutledge. 2017.This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types—immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational—relate to Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, ethics and action, phil…Read more
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13Review of Risto Saarinen: Weakness of Will in Renaissance and Reformation Thought (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 74 (2): 341-343. 2012.
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30Review of Greg Graffin and Steve Olson: Anarchy Evolution. Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World without God (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 73 (4): 820-821. 2011.
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29Noble lies and tragedy in Nietzsche's ZarathustraInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 74 (2): 127-143. 2013.To date authors are unsure about Nietzsche's self-critical attitude regarding his Thus Spoke Zarathustra. While few doubt that the narrative reaches a dramatic climax at the end of its third part, the largely satirical fourth part invites to take this climax cum grano salis. I provide an interpretation of the dramatic structure of Thus Spoke Zarathustra by focusing on the tragic nature of Nietzsche's ideal of the Übermensch and the comical relief provided by part four. Accordingly, the completio…Read more
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15Christopher Ben Simpson: The William Desmond ReaderPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (1): 038-040. 2013.
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5Robert Pippin : Introductions to NietzschePhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (2): 133-135. 2012.
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9Review of James J. DiCenso: Kant, Religion, and Politics (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 304-307. 2011.
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12Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1. Edited and Translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janaway (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 302-303. 2011.
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15James J. DiCenso: Kant, Religion, and PoliticsPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 304-307. 2011.
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6Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root (edited book)Routledge. 2016.This volume collects 12 essays by various contributors on the subject of the importance and influence of Schopenhauer’s doctoral dissertation for both Schopenhauer’s more well-known philosophy and the ongoing discussion of the subject of the principle of sufficient reason. The contributions deal with the historical context of Schopenhauer’s reflections, their relationship to idealism, the insights they hold for Schopenhauer’s views of consciousness and sensation, and how they illuminate Schopenh…Read more
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15Erratum to: The lutheran influence on Kant’s depraved willInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (2): 135-135. 2013.Contemporary Kant-scholarship has a tendency to allign Kant’s understanding of depravity closer to Erasmus than Luther in their famous debate on the freedom of the will. While, at face value, some paragraphs do warrant such a claim, I will argue that Kant’s understanding of the radical evil will draws closer to Luther than Erasmus in a number of elements. These elements are the intervention of the Wille for progress towards the good, a positive choice for evil, the inscrutability of moral progre…Read more
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22Review of Robert Wicks: Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation'. A Reader's Guide (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 73 (4): 766-767. 2011.
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22Review of Jonathan Kvanvig (Ed.): Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 73 (4): 821-822. 2011.
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3Review of Allen Wood and Songsuk Susan Hahn (Eds.): The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (3): 322-325. 2013.
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9Daniel Blue: The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche. The Quest for Identity, 1844–1869Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 69 (1): 071-073. 2016.
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59Schopenhauer and the Paradox of GeniusEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (1): 149-168. 2015.Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy proved more palpable to artists of the nineteenth century than to philosophers as such. Ironically, Schopenhauer’s aesthetical theory is particularly paradoxical on a variety of fronts. One troubling paradox is how Schopenhauer subscribes both to the elitist nature of the genius artist and a naturalist metaphysics. How can a singular being have radically distinct abilities if s/he cannot principally differ from the rest of existence? I address this paradox in thi…Read more
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23Review of Mark Walker: Kant, Schopenhauer and Morality (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 74 (2): 359-361. 2012.
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6Review of Christopher Ben Simpson: The William Desmond Reader (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (1): 38-40. 2013.
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9Joel Madore: Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in KantPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4): 365-368. 2011.
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19Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1. Edited and Translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman and Christopher JanawayPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 302-303. 2011.
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26The Poverty of PhilosophyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (3): 411-432. 2013.Recently, William Desmond’s metaxological philosophy has been gaining popularity since it proposes a powerful counterweight to the dominance of deconstruction in certain areas of contemporary philosophy of religion. This paper serves to introduce Desmond’s philosophy and confront it with one specific form of Postmodern theology, namely John Caputo’s “weak theology.” Since Desmond’s philosophy is—while thought-provoking and refreshing—not well known, a substantial part of this paper is devoted to…Read more
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15Review of Stephen Palmquist: Cultivating Personhood (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 73 (3): 562-563. 2011.
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30Review of James DiCenso: Kant's 'Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason' (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 75 (2): 387-388. 2013.
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29Review of Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings edited by Cartwright, Erdmann, Janaway (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (2): 206-208. 2013.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |