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13Hammer Espen German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN 10:0-415-37305-0 . Ppx+339 (review)Hegel Bulletin 31 (1): 141-146. 2010.
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177Interest and AgencyIn Anders Moe Rasmussen & Markus Gabriel (eds.), German Idealism Today, De Gruyter. pp. 3-26. 2017.(2017) 'Interest and Agency', in Gabriel, Markus and Rasmussen, Anders Moe (eds.) German Idealism Today. De Guyter Verlag. Abstract: Undeterred by Kant’s cautionary advice, contemporary defenders of free will advance substantive metaphysical theses in support of their views. This is perhaps unsurprising given the mixed reception of Kant’s solution of the conflict between freedom and natural necessity, which is supposed to vindicate reason’s withdrawal from speculation. Kant argues that neither…Read more
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22The View From Within. Normativity and the Limits of Self‐Criticism. By Menachem Fisch and Yitzhak BenbajiPhilosophical Quarterly 63 (253): 816-819. 2013.The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 253, Page 816-819, October 2013.
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14Universalisability, Publicity, and Communication: Kant’s Conception of ReasonEuropean Journal of Philosophy 10 (2): 143-159. 2002.
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34Schiller as Philosopher, by Frederick Beiser; Schiller oder die Erfindung des deutschen Idealismus, by Rüdiger Safranski (review)European Journal of Philosophy 17 (2): 327-332. 2009.No Abstract
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604Autonomy in BioethicsSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (2). 2016.Autonomy in bioethics is coming under sustained criticism from a variety of perspectives. The criticisms, which target personal or individual autonomy, are largely justified. Moral conceptions of autonomy, such as Kant’s, on the other hand, cannot simply be applied in bioethical situations without moralizing care provision and recipience. The discussion concludes with a proposal for re-thinking autonomy by focusing on what different agents count as reasons for choosing one rather than another co…Read more
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587Individuals: the revisionary logic of Hegel's politicsIn Thom Brooks Sebastian Stein (ed.), Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, Oxford University Press. 2017.Interpretations of Hegel’s social and political thought tend to present Hegel as critic of modern individualism and defender of institutionalism or proto-communitarianism. Yet Hegel has praise for the historically emancipatory role of individualism and gives a positive role to individuals in his discussion of ethics and the state. Drawing on Hegel’s analysis of the category of ‘individual’ in his Logic, this chapter shows that Hegel criticizes the conception of ‘individual’ as a simple and argue…Read more
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Review: J Stewart Ed's The Hegel Myths And Legends (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 36 45-46. 1997.
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70Universalisability, publicity, and communication: Kant's conception of reasonEuropean Journal of Philosophy 10 (2). 2002.
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115Finite Agents, Sublime Feelings: Response to HanauerJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (2): 199-202. 2016.Tom Hanauer's thoughtful discussion of my article “The Pleasures of Contra-purposiveness: Kant, the Sublime, and Being Human” puts pressure on two important issues concerning the affective phenomenology of the sublime. My aim in that article was to present an analysis of the sublime that does not suffer from the problems identified by Jane Forsey in “Is a Theory of the Sublime Possible?”. I argued that Kant's notion of reflective judgment can help with this task, because it allows us to capture …Read more
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89The Pleasures of Contra‐purposiveness: Kant, the Sublime, and Being HumanJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (1): 25-35. 2014.Serious doubts have been raised about the coherence of theories of the sublime and the usefulness of the concept. By contrast, the sublime is increasingly studied as a key function in Kant's moral psychology and in his ethics. This article combines methodological conservatism, approaching the topic from within Kant's discussion of aesthetic judgment, with reconstruction of a conception of human agency that is tenable on Kantian grounds. I argue that a coherent theory of the sublime is possible a…Read more
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668Actions as Events and Vice Versa: Kant, Hegel and the Concept of HistoryIn Fred Rush & Jürgen Stolzenberg (eds.), Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, De Gruyter. pp. 175-197. 2014.The aim of this paper is to show how concern with agency, expressed in the idea that history is the doing of agents, shapes both Kant’s and Hegel’s conceptions of history and, by extension, the roles they accord philosophical historiography.
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R Pippin's Idealism As Modernism. Hegelian Variations (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 39 108-111. 1999.
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L Spencer & A Kraze’s Hegel For Beginners (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 36 65-65. 1997.
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12Hegel: New Directions (edited book)Mcgill-Queen's University Press. 2006.Over the last decade renewed interest in Hegel's thought and its legacy, especially in Anglo-American philosophy, has combined with the publication of new critical editions of his work in German to underline the value of Hegel for contemporary philosophy. "Hegel: New Directions" takes stock of this re-evaluation and presents an assessment of current thinking on this seminal philosopher. Leading scholars, who have spearheaded the reappraisal, bring the history of philosophy into dialogue with con…Read more
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Dissatisfied Enlightenmnet: Certain Difficulties Concerning The Public Use Of One's ReasonBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 35 39-53. 1997.
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24Review: González, Culture as Mediation: Kant on Nature, Culture, and Morality (review)Kantian Review 17 (3): 519-521. 2012.
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40Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel's Metaphysics of MoralsIn Stephen Houlgate & M. Baur (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Hegel, Blackwell. 2011.Hegelian ethics, which gives pride of place to the roles and relations that give substance to our moral life, is seen as a rejection of Kant's a priori treatment of morality, moral law and moral agency. Analysis of the so-called religious writings from the late 1790s to the early 1800s, 'The Positivity of the Christian Religion', the 'Love' fragment, and the essay 'On the Scientific Treatment of Natural Law', shows Hegel engaging profoundly with recognizably Kantian problems of moral metaphysics…Read more
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1P Redding's Hegel's Hermeneutics (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 36 26-28. 1997.
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68Kant and the Culture of EnlightenmentState University of New York Press. 2005._Interprets Kant's conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason._
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Freedom, Truth and History: An Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy (review)Radical Philosophy 64. 1993.
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105The Proper Telos of Life: Schiller, Kant and Having Autonomy as an EndInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (5). 2011.Abstract In this paper I set the debate between Kant and Schiller in terms of the role that an ideal of life can play within an autonomist ethic. I begin by examining the critical role Schiller gives to emotions in tackling specific motivational concerns in Kant's ethics. In the Kantian response I offer to these criticisms, I emphasise the role of metaphysics for a proper understanding of Kant's position whilst allowing that with respect to moral psychology, Kant and Schiller are in agreement ab…Read more
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Philosophy of Action |
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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