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13The Rightful Claims of Reason: A Priori Cognition, Metaphysics, and Kant’s CritiqueIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 583-590. 2021.
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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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12Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2021.With contributions by leading scholars in the field, this book is the first collection in the English language devoted to Baumgarten’s aesthetics.
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12Baumgarten on Sensible PerfectionPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (44): 47-64. 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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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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11Early 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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10Learnedness, Learned Cognition, and the Science of Logic : From Thomasius and Meier to KantKant Studien 114 (2): 295-328. 2023.It is well-known that Immanuel Kant used Meier’s Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason as a textbook in his logic lectures for almost forty years. Kant himself, and most later scholars, regard Meier as a follower of Wolff and Baumgarten; however, when we compare Meier’s Excerpt with Thomasius’ Introduction to the Doctrine of Reason, we find that Meier’s conception of “learned cognition” is derived from Thomasius’ conception of “learnedness.” Kant seems to have developed the pre-critical distinctio…Read more
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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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7The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics (edited book)Bloomsbury Publishing. 2012.Drawing from ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources, this textbook offers a comprehensive and systematic historical overview of aesthetic theory.
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3Immanuel Kant: The very idea of a critique of pure reasonNorthwestern University Press. 2016.Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason is a study of the background, development, exposition, and justification of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Instead of examining Kant's arguments for the transcendental ideality of space and time, his deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding, or his account of the dialectic of human reason, J. Colin McQuillan focuses on Kant's conception of critique. By surveying the different ways the concept of critique was used during the ei…Read more
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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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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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3Extensive Clarity in Baumgarten’s Poetics and Aesthetics in advanceIdealistic Studies. forthcoming.Anglophone philosophers have shown a surprising interest in Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s aesthetics in recent years. At the same time, new approaches to aesthetics have been proposed that come very close to the original conception of aesthetics that Baumgarten introduced in the middle of the eighteenth century. In light of these developments, this article undertakes a critical examination of a central concept in Baumgarten’s poetics and aesthetics—extensive clarity. It argues that historians …Read more
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2IntroductionIn María Del Del Rosario Acosta López & Colin McQuillan (eds.), Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory, Suny Press. pp. 1-19. 2020.
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2Clear and Distinct Ideas in Eighteenth Century Germany: Metaphysics, Logic, AestheticsIn Manuel Sánchez-Rodríguez & Miguel Escribano (eds.), Leibniz en Dialogo, Themata. 2017.
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2Kant, Heidegger, and the In/Finitude of Human ReasonCR: The New Centennial Review 17 (3): 81-101. 2017.
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1Does Kant's Critique Belong to the Tradition of Modern Logic?In Roberto Casales García & J. Martin Castro Manzana (eds.), La Modernidad en Perspectiva, Editorial Comares. 2017.
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1Beyond the Limits of Reason: Kant, Critique, and EnlightenmentIn Karin De Boer & R. Sonderegger (eds.), Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 66-82. 2011.
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1Not Yet a System, Not Yet a ScienceIn María Del Del Rosario Acosta López & Colin McQuillan (eds.), Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory, Suny Press. pp. 111-131. 2020.
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1Inner Sense, Outer Sense, and Feeling: Hutcheson and Kant on Aesthetic PleasureIn Elizabeth Robinson & Chris W. Surprenant (eds.), Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment, Routledge. 2017.
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Agamben's Critique of Sacrificial ViolenceIn Brendan Moran & Carlo Salzani (eds.), Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, Bloomsbury Academic. 2015.
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Review of Huaping Lu-Adler, Kant and the Science of Logic (review)Review of Metaphysics 73 375-378. 2019.
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Wolff's Logic, Kant's Critique, and the Foundations of MetaphysicsIn Arnaud Pelletier & Karin De Boer (eds.), 300 Years of Christian Wolff’s German Logic: Sources, Significance and Reception, Georg Olms. 2017.
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