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850Kant on sex and marriage: The implications for the same-sex marriage debateKant Studien 101 (3): 309-330. 2010.When examined critically, Kant's views on sex and marriage give us the tools to defend same-sex marriage on moral grounds. The sexual objectification of one's partner can only be overcome when two people take responsibility for one another's overall well-being, and this commitment is enforced through legal coercion. Kant's views on the unnaturalness of homosexuality do not stand up to scrutiny, and he cannot (as he often tries to) restrict the purpose of sex to procreation. Kant himself rules ou…Read more
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39Willful History: Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Possibility of FreedomInternational Studies in Philosophy 36 (3): 5-13. 2004.
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35Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Allen Wood (ed.), Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (5). 2010.
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57Benjamin Rutter, Hegel and the Modern Arts (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (3): 381-382. 2011.
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66The Self as Creature and CreatorIdealistic Studies 37 (3): 179-202. 2007.The conception of subjectivity that dominates the Western philosophical tradition, particularly during the Enlightenment, sets up a simple dichotomy: either the subject is ultimately autonomous or it is merely a causally determined thing. Fichte and Freud challenge this model by formulating theories of subjectivity that transcend this opposition. Fichte conceives of the subject as based in absolute activity, but that activity is qualified by a check for which it is not ultimately responsible. Fr…Read more
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319F. Scott Scribner, Matters of spirit: J. G. Fichte and the technological imagination (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2): 259-261. 2011.
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50Decentering Anthropocentrisms: A Functional Approach to Animal MindsBetween the Species 18 (1). 2015.Anthropocentric biases manifest themselves in two different ways in research on animal cognition. Some researchers claim that only humans have the capacity for reasoning, beliefs, and interests; and others attribute mental concepts to nonhuman animals on the basis of behavioral evidence, and they conceive of animal cognition in more or less human terms. Both approaches overlook the fact that language-use deeply informs mental states, such that comparing human mental states to the mental states o…Read more
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60Mandatory Ultrasound Laws and the Coercive Use of Informed ConsentTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 16 (1): 16-30. 2012.Requiring that a woman who is seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to view an ultrasound of her fetus has spread from anti-abortion “pregnancy resource centers” to state laws. Proponents of these laws claim that having access to the ultrasound image is necessary for a woman to make a medically informed decision. In this paper, we argue that ultrasound examinations frame fetuses visually and linguistically as persons and interpellate pregnant women as mothers, with all of the cultural mea…Read more
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54Subjecting Ourselves to Capital Punishment: A Rejoinder to Kantian RetributivismPublic Affairs Quarterly 19 (4): 247-264. 2005.
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43Idealism is the Only Possible Philosophy: Systematicity and the Fichtean Fact of ReasonIdealistic Studies 31 (1): 1-30. 2001.Fichte develops his idealism through a higher-level critique: only through the Fichtean fact of reason can one justify a systematic transcendental idealism, thereby making possible the self-sufficiency of theoretical reason. By examining the metaphilosophical implications of our immediate consciousness of the moral law, Fichte is able to assert the necessary metaphilosophical primacy of practical reason for any possible wissenschaftlich philosophy as well as the philosophical unity of theory and…Read more
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