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58Internal Realism and Twin EarthIdealistic Studies 31 (1): 73-80. 2001.This paper is structured as follows. First, it offers a brief presentation of the Twin Earth thought experiment. Second, it offers an interpretation of Putnam'santi-realism. Third, it argues for the incompatibility of anti-realism and the semantic role of extension that Twin Earth is supposed to establish.
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147The Development and Scope of Kantian Belief: The Highest Good, The Practical Postulates and The Fact of ReasonKant Studien 102 (3): 290-315. 2011.This paper offers an account of the historical development of Kant's understanding of belief ( Glaube ) from its early ties to George Friedrich Meier's Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre through various stages of refinement. It will be argued that the Critique of Pure Reason reflects an important but not final stage in Kant's understanding of belief. Its structure is further refined and its scope narrowed in later works, including the Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgment . After chart…Read more
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5Kant’s Doctrinal Belief in GodIn Oliver Thorndike (ed.), Rethinking Kant: Volume 3, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.In the Canon of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant endorses both a Moral Belief in God as well as what he there calls Doctrinal Belief. The former mode of belief is well known and can be found throughout the Kantian Corpus. The latter, however, is far more obscure and thus far has not been carefully studied. Doctrinal Belief only appears explicitly in the Canon, but is related to a number of issues in the Transcendental Dialectic as well as the Critique of Judgment. This paper will provide an…Read more
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30Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason (edited book). 2016.The aim of Kant’s Sources in Translation is to retrieve the rich intellectual world that influenced Kant’s philosophical development. In its first stage, the series makes available the most important textbooks Kant used throughout his long teaching career. Many of these textbooks are in Latin or in German and remain inaccessible to Anglophone readers. Lacking this material, however, it is difficult to appreciate Kant’s originality and process of philosophical maturation, for readers are unable t…Read more
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1Kant’s Touchstone of Communication and the Public Use of ReasonSociety and Politics 8 (1): 78-91. 2014.Nearly all of the work that has been done on Kant’s conception of public reason has focused on its socio-political significance. John Rawls, Onora O’Neill and others have explored its relevance to a well ordered democracy, to pluralism, to toleration, and so on. However, the relevance of public reason for Kant is not limited to the socio-political. Kant repeatedly appeals to the “touchstone of communication” in relation to the normative side of his epistemology. The purpose of this paper is …Read more
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833The ‘Two Experiments’ of Kant’s Religion: Dismantling the ConundrumKantian Review 22 (1): 107-131. 2017.The past decade has seen a sizable increase in scholarship on Kant’s Religion. Yet, unlike the centuries of debate that inform our study of his other major works, scholarship on the Religion is still just in its infancy. As such, it is in a particularly vulnerable state where errors made now could hinder scholarship for decades to come. It is the purpose of this paper to mitigate one such danger, a danger issuing from the widely assumed view that the Religion is shaped by “two experiments.” W…Read more
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1631The Many Gods Objection to Pascal’s WagerPhilo 15 (2): 158-178. 2012.The Many Gods Objection (MGO) is widely viewed as a decisive criticism of Pascal’s Wager. By introducing a plurality of hypotheses with infinite expected utility into the decision matrix, the wagerer is left without adequate grounds to decide between them. However, some have attempted to rebut this objection by employing various criteria drawn from the theological tradition. Unfortunately, such defenses do little good for an argument that is supposed to be an apologetic aimed at atheists and …Read more
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1Kant on Faith: Religious Assent and the Limits to KnowledgeIn Matthew Altman (ed.), The Palgrave Kant Handbook, Palgrave. forthcoming.
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40Gambling Maxims and their UniversalizabilityInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 17 (1): 17-28. 2003.This paper explores the moral status of various gambling maxims, particularly as they relate to the bettor’s interest in profit and the mathematical expectation of the game being played. Certain difficulties with the prevailing interpretations of the Formula of Universalizability will also be discussed, particularly in relation to games for which the bettor can have a positive expectation.
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"Kant's Fourfold Critique of the Ontological Argument: Conceptual Containment, Predication, and the Portents of Free Logic"In Graham Oppy (ed.), The Ontological Argument (Cambridge Classic Philosophical Arguments Series), Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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29Preface to Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason by Georg Friedrich MeierIn Lawrence Pasternack & Pablo Muchnik (eds.), Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason by Georg Friedrich Meier, Bloomsbury Academic. 2016.The aim of Kant’s Sources in Translation is to retrieve the rich intellectual world that influenced Kant’s philosophical development. In its first stage, the series makes available the most important textbooks Kant used throughout his long teaching career. Many of these textbooks are in Latin or in German and remain inaccessible to Anglophone readers. Lacking this material, however, it is difficult to appreciate Kant’s originality and process of philosophical maturation, for readers are unable t…Read more
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57Intrinslc value and overridingness in kant’s groundworkSouthwest Philosophy Review 18 (1): 113-121. 2002.
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57Christopher Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 Pp. xiv + 264 ISBN 9780199677603 £65.00 (review)Kantian Review 20 (1): 162-166. 2015.Book Reviews Lawrence Pasternack, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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