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81From the clarity of ideas to the validity of judgments: Kant’s farewell to epistemic perfectionismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 44 (1): 18-35. 2014.Against the standard interpretation of Kant's ‘Copernican revolution’ as the prioritization of epistemology over ontology, I argue in this paper that his critique of traditional metaphysics must be seen as a farewell to the perfectionism on which early modern rationalist ontology and epistemology are built. However, Kant does not simply replace ‘perfection’ with another fundamental concept of normativity. More radically, Kant realizes that it is not simply ideas but only the relation of ideas th…Read more
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113‘An Almost Single Inference’ – Kant's Deduction of the Categories ReconsideredArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 90 (3): 323-345. 2008.By taking into account some texts published between the first and the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason that have been neglected by most of those who have dealt with the deduction of the categories, I argue that the core of the deduction is to be identified as the ‘almost single inference from the precisely determined definition of a judgment in general’, which Kant adumbrates in the Metaphysical Foundations in order to ‘make up for the deficiency’ of the A-deduction. Whereas the fir…Read more
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The 'transcendental method': on the reception of the Critique of pure reason in neo-KantianismIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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22Kant’s Theory of Normativity: Exploring the Space of ReasonCambridge University Press. 2017.Konstantin Pollok offers the first book-length analysis of Kant's theory of normativity that covers foundational issues in theoretical and practical philosophy as well as aesthetics. Interpreting Kant's 'critical turn' as a normative turn, he argues that Kant's theory of normativity is both original and radical: it departs from the perfectionist ideal of early modern rationalism, and arrives at an unprecedented framework of synthetic a priori principles that determine the validity of our judgmen…Read more
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Jens Kulenkampff : David Hume. Eine Untersuchung über den menschlichen Verstand (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 51 (1). 1998.
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16Die Normativität des Expressiven: Überlegungen zum Begriff der WahrhaftigkeitZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 59 (3). 2005.Welchen Standards müssen Personen genügen, damit ihre Äußerungen als wahrhaftig angesehen werden? Nicht Wahrhaftigkeit als soziale Tugend und auch nicht Wahrhaftigkeit als notwendige Argumentationsvoraussetzung , sondern die normativen Voraussetzungen wahrhaftiger Äußerungen von Überzeugungen, Werten, Wünschen und Gefühlen einer Person, d. h. eine Analyse der normativen Erfordernisse der Wahrhaftigkeit als Teilaspekt einer Sprachpragmatik, sind das Thema dieses Aufsatzes. Ausgehend von Überlegun…Read more
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12Review: Kants naturtheoretische Begriffe (1747-1780). Eine Datenbank zu ihren expliziten und impliziten Vernetzungen (review)Kant Studien 93 (3): 406. 2002.
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Kants Philosophie der Erkenntnis. Durchgehender Kommentar zu den Hauptkapiteln der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 52 (3). 1998.
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I. Kant: Kritik Der Reinen Vernunft. [reihe "klassiker Auslegen"] Hrsg. Mohr/willaschek (review)Kant Studien 93 (1): 122-127. 2002.
Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Immanuel Kant |
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Immanuel Kant |
History of Science |
Meta-Ethics |
History of Ethics |