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8Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze. By Beth Lord. Pp. xiv, 212, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, £60.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (3): 555-556. 2017.
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45Beyond the Analytic of Finitude: Kant, Heidegger, FoucaultFoucault Studies 21 184-199. 2016.The editors of the French edition of Michel Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology claim that Foucault started rereading Kant through Nietzsche in 1952 and then began rereading Kant and Nietzsche through Heidegger in 1953. This claim has not received much attention in the scholarly literature, but its significance should not be underestimated. In this article, I assess the likelihood that the editor’s claim is true and show how Foucault’s introduction to Kant’s Anthropology and his comme…Read more
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21The Kantian Aesthetic: From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde, by Paul Crowther.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 122 (488): 1075-1078. 2013.
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18Review of Alison Stone, The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2011.
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20Patrick R. Frierson, Kant's Empirical Psychology. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 35 (6): 299-301. 2015.
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70Kant's Critique of Baumgarten's AestheticsIdealistic Studies 45 (1). 2015.This article considers three objections Immanuel Kant raises against Alexander Baumgarten’s plan for a science of aesthetics at different points in his career. Although Kant’s objections appear to be contradictory, this article argues that the contradiction is the result of an anachronism in the composition of Kant’s Logic. When the contradiction is resolved, it becomes apparent that Kant’s main reason for rejecting Baumgarten’s aesthetics during the pre-critical period—the lack of a priori prin…Read more
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16Agamben’s Fictions (review)Philosophy Compass 7 (6): 376-387. 2012.This article argues that Agamben’s conception of fiction is crucial for understanding his recent works. I suggest that the key to understanding Agamben conception of fiction is to be found in a few curious remarks at the end of Language and Death. These remarks explain why the distinctions between life and death, animal life and human life, bare life and political forms of life, the outlaw and the sovereign, and the norm and the exception that continue to preoccupy Agamben are all fictions. Afte…Read more
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33Recent Contributions to Dilthey’s Philosophy of the Human SciencesJournal of the History of Philosophy 50 (4): 622-624. 2011.
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29Philosophical Archaeology and the Historical A PrioriSymposium 20 (2): 142-159. 2016.Most accounts of the historical a priori can be traced back to Husserlian phenomenology. Foucault’s appeals to the historical a priori are more problematic because of his hostility to this tradition. In this paper, I argue that Foucault’s diplôme thesis on Hegel, his studies of Kant’s Anthropology, his response to critics of The Order of Things, and his later work on Kant’s essay “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” all suggest that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German philos…Read more
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48Gary Banham, Dennis Schulting And Nigel Helms , The Continuum Companion To Kant London And New York: Continuum International Publishing, 2012 Pp. Xiv+394 Isbn 9781441112576 , Us $190.00 (review)Kantian Review 18 (1): 162-166. 2013.Book Reviews Colin McQuillan, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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35Review of Alix Cohen, Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology, and History (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
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51Michel Foucault: Introduction to Kant’s anthropology. Semiotext, translated by Roberto Nigro and Kate Briggs: Los Angeles, 2008, 160 pp, $14.94 , ISBN: 978-1584350545 (review)Continental Philosophy Review 45 (4): 579-585. 2012.
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26A Merely Logical DistinctionEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (2): 387-405. 2016.Throughout his career, Immanuel Kant objects that Leibniz and Wolff make the distinction between sensible and intellectual cognition into a “merely logical” distinction. Although it is not clear that anyone in the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition actually holds this view, Kant’s objection helps to define the “real” distinction between sensible and intellectual cognition that he defends in his inaugural dissertation in 1770. Kant raises the same objection against Leibniz and Wolff in the Critique of…Read more
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43Plato in germany: Kant-Natorp-Heidegger (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (3): 382-383. 2011.
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3The History of a Distinction: Sensible and Intellectual Cognition from Baumgarten to KantIn Oliver Thorndike (ed.), Rethinking Kant (Volume III), Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.
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116The Intelligence of Sense: Rancière’s AestheticsSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (2): 11-27. 2011.In this paper, I argue that Jacques Rancière does not propose a purely sensible conception of the aesthetic in his recent writings on art. Unlike many contemporary philosophies of art, Rancière’s aesthetics retains an important cognitive dimension. Here, I bring this aspect of Rancière’s aesthetics into view by comparing the conception of intelligence found in his earlier works with his more recent writings on art, showing that intelligence and sense are distributed in the same ways. The distinc…Read more
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23Moses Mendelssohn , Morning Hours: Lectures on God’s Existence , Ed. And Trans. by Daniel O. Dahlstrom and Corey Dyck. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 34 (5): 257-261. 2014.
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3Baumgarten on Sensible PerfectionPhilosophica -- Revista Do Departamento de Filosofia da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa 44. 2014.One of the most important concepts Baumgarten introduces in his Reflections on Poetry is the concept of sensible perfection. It is surprising that Baumgarten does not elaborate upon this concept in his Metaphysics, since it plays such an important role in the new science of aesthetics that he proposes at the end of the Reflections on Poetry and then further develops in the Aesthetics. This article considers the significance of the absence of sensible perfection from the Metaphysics and its impli…Read more
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13Patrick R. Frierson, Kant's Empirical Psychology. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 35 (6): 299-301. 2015.
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11Immanuel Kant , Immanuel Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime and Other Writings . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (6): 438-441. 2011.
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32Agamben’s FictionsPhilosophy Compass 7 (6): 376-387. 2012.This article argues that Agamben’s conception of fiction is crucial for understanding his recent works. I suggest that the key to understanding Agamben conception of fiction is to be found in a few curious remarks at the end of Language and Death. These remarks explain why the distinctions between life and death, animal life and human life, bare life and political forms of life, the outlaw and the sovereign, and the norm and the exception that continue to preoccupy Agamben are all fictions. Afte…Read more
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155Transcendental Philosophy and Critical Philosophy in Kant and Foucault: Response to Colin KoopmanFoucault Studies 9 145-155. 2010.
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166Oaths, Promises, and Compulsory Duties: Kant’s Response to Mendelssohn’s JerusalemJournal of the History of Ideas 75 (4): 581-604. 2014.This article argues that Kant's essay on enlightenment responds to Moses Mendelssohn's defense of the freedom of conscience in Jerusalem. While Mendelssohn holds that the freedom of conscience as an inalienable right, Kant argues that the use of one's reason may be constrained by oaths. Kant calls such a constrained use of reason the private use of reason. While he also defends the unconditional freedom of the public use of reason, Kant believes that one makes oneself a part of the machinery of …Read more
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12Early Modern AestheticsRowman & Littlefield International. 2015.A clear and concise account of the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the development of aesthetics as a discipline in its own right.
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