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342Limitation and Idealism: Kant's 'Long' Argument from the CategoriesIn Dennis Schulting Jacco Verburgt (ed.), Kant's Idealism, Springer. 2010.
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310Kritische notitie over een fenomenalistische lezing van Kants idealisme (review)Radix 46 (4): 351-355. 2020.In this review, I criticize aspects of Emanuel Rutten's new reading of Kant, which belongs to the radical phenomenalistic interpretations of Kant's idealism
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310The Current Status of Research on Kant's Transcendental DeductionRevista de Estudios Kantianos 3 (1). 2018.
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303The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. “Transformative” Approaches to the B-Deduction, or, How to Read the Leitfaden (A79)In Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting & Udo Thiel (eds.), Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception. New Interpretations, De Gruyter. forthcoming.In the context of a critique of James Conant’s (2016) important new reading of the main argument of the Deduction, I present my current, most detailed interpretation of the well-known Leitfaden passage at A79, which in my view has been misinterpreted by a host of prominent readers. The Leitfaden passage is crucial to understanding the argument of, not just the so-called Metaphysical Deduction, but also the Transcendental Deduction. This new account expands and improves upon the account of the Le…Read more
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301Review: Westphal, Kenneth, Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism (review)Kant Studien 100 (3): 382-385. 2009.review of Westphal's Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism (CUP 2004)
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284Transcendental Apperception and Consciousness in Kant's Lectures on MetaphysicsIn Robert R. Clewis (ed.), Reading Kant's Lectures, De Gruyter. pp. 89-113. 2015.
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271Review of Robert Pippin Hegel's Realm of Shadows (University of Chicago Press 2018) (review)Hegel Bulletin 42 (3): 480-485. 2021.I review Robert Pippin's "Hegel's Realm of Shadows" (University of Chicago Press 2018) for the Hegel Bulletin. A draft can be read on my website (see link below). Or download below. See also the appendix (philpapers link below)
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269Kant, Non-Conceptual Content and the 'Second Step' of the B-DeductionKant Studies Online (1): 51-92. 2012.
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255Subjectivism, Material Synthesis and IdealismIn Kant's Radical Subjectivism. Perspectives on the Transcendental Deduction, Palgrave. pp. 371-429. 2017.In this chapter, I show that there is at least one crucial, non-short, argument, which does not involve arguments about spatiotemporality, why Kant’s subjectivism about the possibility of knowledge, argued in the Transcendental Deduction, must lead to idealism. This has to do with the fact that given the implications of the discursivity thesis, namely, that the domain of possible determination of objects is characterised by limitation, judgements of experience can never reach the completely dete…Read more
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239Kant, Kästner and the Distinction between Metaphysical and Geometric SpaceKantian Review 19 (2): 285-304. 2014.
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221Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in KantIn Matthew Altman (ed.), The Palgrave Kant Handbook, Palgrave-macmillan. 2017.
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214Review: K.L. Reinhold, Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögen (review)Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism 8 356-361. 2011.Review of new edition of K. L. Reinhold's Versuch (1789), ed. E.-O. Onnasch.
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196Zelfbewustzijn, objectiviteit en idealisme--over Kant's radicale subjectivismeTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 80 (2): 313-322. 2018.This is a précis of my book Kant's Radical Subjectivism, to be published as part of a symposium dedicated to the book, with critics Hein van den Berg, Karin de Boer, Henny Blomme en Joris Spigt, including a reply by me. The symposium is in Dutch, but the pre-print uploaded here is in English!
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195In this paper, I explain why for Kant self-consciousness is intimately related to objectivity, how this intimacy translates to real objects, what it means to make judgements about objects, and what idealism has got to do with all of this.
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193In this paper, I want to zero in on the Kantian idea that,whilst things in themselves must logically be presupposed as the ground underlying appearances and things are not reducible to their representations, (1) objects as appearances are not properties of things in themselves, and (2) things in themselves or the thing in itself cannot properly be represented or even thought. To do this, I turn to one of the earliest defenders and champions of the Kantian philosophy, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and …Read more
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191The Bounds of Transcendental LogicPalgrave Macmillan. 2021.The book addresses two main areas of Kant’s theoretical philosophy: the doctrine of transcendental idealism and various central aspects of the arguments from the Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions, as well as the relation between the deduction argument and idealism. Among the topics covered are the nature of objective validity, the role and function of transcendental logic in relation to general or formal logic, the possibility of contradictory thoughts, the meaning of the Leitfaden at A…Read more
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185Kant's Idealism: New Interpretations of a Controversial Doctrine (edited book)Springer. 2010.This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant’s doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject. Well-known Kantians Karl Ameriks and Manfred Baum present their considered views on this most topical aspect of Kant's thought. Several essays by acclaimed Kant scholars broach a vastly neglected problem in discussions of Kant's idealism, namely the relation between his conception of logic a…Read more
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169Review of Scott Stapleford 'Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason' (review)Kant Studies Online (x). 2011.review of Scott Stapleford's 'Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason'
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163Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason by Scott SraplefordKant Studies Online 2011 (1): 105-115. 2011.
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152Kant - On Kästner's TreatisesKantian Review 19 (2). 2014.An integral translation of Kant's 'Über Kästners Abhandlungen' (AA XX: 410-23). This translation is accompanied by an introductory essay on the importance of the Kästner treatise for an understanding of Kant's theory of space as infinite. See Onof & Schulting, "Kant, Kästner and the Distinction between Metaphysical and Geometrical Space"
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150Enlightenment and Prophecy (review)A Critical Notice on Omri Boehm's "Radikaler Universalismus. Jenseits von Identität" (Propyläen/Ullstein 2022). This article is private. If you're not a subscriber to kritik dot substack dot com, you will need to subscribe in order to be able to read it.
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129De zelfgenoegzaamheid van de linkse academici. Interview met Richard RortyKrisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 28 (1): 60-65. 2016.Interview with Richard Rorty, April 1997, Amsterdam. Occasion for the interview was Rorty being the occupant of the Spinoza Chair in 1997. The interview is mostly about Rorty's paper 'The Intellectuals and the Poor', in which he criticises the politics of left-wing academics.
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117Over een extreem fenomenalistische lezing van Kant (review)Critique. 2020.In this critical notice, I argue that Emanuel Rutten's reading of Kant's distinction between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds rests on an extremely phenomenalist reading of Kant's idealism. Rutten makes the ontological claim that Kant's phenomena are reducible to our sensations, and do not exist as objects outside our representations. As a result, his criticism of Kant's restriction thesis that we only know appearances is uncharitably narrow; Rutten argues that, according to Kant, our ignoranc…Read more
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101the essay examines why Kant was conflicted about vaccination, on why vaccination can still be seen as a moral duty and on why a vaccination mandate is not (necessarily) consistent with our rightful, external freedom. It is an essay, not a scholarly paper.
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96Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German IdealismBloomsbury. 2020.blurb from publisher: "In Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism, Dennis Schulting examines the themes of reflexivity, self-consciousness, representation and apperception in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and German Idealism more widely. Central to Schulting’s argument is the claim that all of human experience is inherently self-referential and that this is part of a self-reflexivity of thought, or what is called transcendental apperception, a Kantian insight that was f…Read more
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