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45Spinoza's Ethics: a collective commentary (edited book)Brill. 2011.Till today Spinoza's "Ethics" is a standard for enlightened theoretical and practical reasoning.
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36. Die Definition des menschlichen Geistes und die numerische Differenz von Subjekten (2p11–2p13s)In Robert Schnepf & Michael Hampe (eds.), Baruch de Spinoza: Ethik in Geometrischer Ordnung Dargestellt, Akademie Verlag. pp. 101-121. 2006.
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61. Einleitung: Spinozas Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrataIn Robert Schnepf & Michael Hampe (eds.), Baruch de Spinoza: Ethik in Geometrischer Ordnung Dargestellt, Akademie Verlag. pp. 1-15. 2006.
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9Spinoza on Human and Divine KnowledgeIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.This chapter argues that the human perspective is not fully reducible – that is, that something would indeed be lost in the absence of the human perspective. It shows that epistemic subjectivity itself is an irreducible, ineliminable feature of the human standpoint. Subjectivity goes along with substantiality, and to be an epistemic subject is to be a substance with a mind. In E2p13, Spinoza identifies the mind's object with the body, thereby specifying where the multiplicity of epistemic subjec…Read more
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8Selbsterkenntnis: Eine kantische StrategieIn Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting & Udo Thiel (eds.), Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception: New Interpretations, De Gruyter. pp. 571-596. 2022.
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12Schwerpunkt: Natur und Naturalisierung bei SpinozaDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (3): 396-398. 2009.
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5Handbuch Klassische Emotionstheorien: von Platon bis Wittgenstein (edited book)De Gruyter. 2012.Wegen des großen Erfolgs der gebundenen Ausgabe wird dieses Handbuch nun in einer günstigen Broschurausgabe neu aufgelegt. Emotionen sind in den letzten Jahren als zentraler Gegenstand der Ethik, philosophischen Anthropologie und Philosophie des Geistes wieder entdeckt worden. Dieser Band stellt die wichtigsten Emotionstheorien von Platon bis Wittgenstein vor. Für die aktuelle Philosophie der Gefühle soll er neue Anschlussmöglichkeiten aufzeigen.
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11Unsere Identität ist nicht, womit wir uns identifizierenZeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2022 (2): 96-106. 2022.
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5Die Rationalität der Kultur: zur Kulturphilosophie und ihrer transzendentalen Begründung bei Cohen, Natorp und Cassirer (edited book)Felix Meiner. 2002.
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15Epistemic autonomy in Descartes, Spinoza and Kant : the value of thinking for oneselfIn Aurelia Armstrong, Keith Green & Andrea Sangiacomo (eds.), Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others, Eup. pp. 33-49. 2019.
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Spinoza on the Good Life for HumansIn Karolina Hübner (ed.), Human: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), Oxford University Press. 2022.
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10Der Schatten der Tugend. Kant über die unergründliche Tiefe des HerzensKantian Journal 40 (4): 11-42. 2021.Among the most peculiar traits of Kant’s critical philosophy is the contention that, while we can know our moral maxims and can thus reflect on our actions from a moral point of view, we cannot really know whether in a given situation our actions are actually motivated by those maxims. This means that, although we have a firm sense of our moral duties, we can never be certain whether some particular action of ours is done from duty or simply in accordance with it. This view is voiced in several …Read more
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27Die Entstehung von Spinozas Urteilstheorie und ihre Implikationen für seine politische PhilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69 (4): 633-645. 2021.In this paper, we reconstruct the development of Spinoza’s theory of judgment against the backdrop of the development of his political views. In this context we also look at the difference between Descartes’ meta-act theory of judgment, which Spinoza criticises, and his own all-inclusive approach. By “meta-act theory” we understand the claim that content and judgment about the truth of the content are metaphysically really distinct mental items. By an “all-inclusive theory” we understand the cla…Read more
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5Einleitung: Für eine Rehabilitierung des UrteilsbegriffsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69 (4): 603-606. 2021.
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22Reason’s genuine historicity: the establishment of a history of philosophy as a philosophical sub-discipline in Marburg Neo-KantianismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (4): 694-717. 2021.. Reason’s genuine historicity: the establishment of a history of philosophy as a philosophical sub-discipline in Marburg Neo-Kantianism. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 29, Special Issue: Historical Thought in German Neo-Kantianism, Guest Editors: Katherina Kinzel and Lydia Patton, pp. 694-717.
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8Perspektiven einer komparatistischen Philosophie?: Ein methodologisches TrilemmaDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69 (3): 492-497. 2021.
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19Self-Knowledge: A Kantian StrategyDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 55 (1): 19-39. 2019.In the past few years, the philosophical debate about self-knowledge has presented itself in a strikingly ‘pre-Kantian’ fashion. Some claimed that all sorts of self-knowledge can be analyzed in the manner of the empiricists, or in terms of cognitive psychology, whereas defenders of rationalism have not grown tired of voicing the claim that there must be some sort of self-knowledge present and underlying, as it were, all sorts of epistemic self-concern. It is against this background that this pap…Read more
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13The human good in Spinoza: towards a positive existentialismAstérion 23. 2020.Comment la conception de l’homme impliquée dans les notions et principes métaphysiques de la première et de la deuxième partie de l’Éthique peut-elle être conciliée avec le rôle que l’orientation vers le bien de l’homme joue dans la pensée éthique et politique de Spinoza? L’article suivant propose de dissoudre cette tension en attribuant à Spinoza une sorte d’existentialisme. Or, cet existentialisme n’est caractérisé ni par une réflexion sur la mortalité humaine, ni par l’invocation de la notion…Read more
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5Zwischen erkenntnistheoretischem Rationalismus und wissenschaftsphilosophischem Empirismus. Zu Cohens PhilosophiebegriffIn Christian Damböck (ed.), Philosophie Und Wissenschaft Bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-12. 2018.Versucht man die philosophische Entwicklung von Hermann Cohen zu überblicken, so sticht ins Auge, dass er genuin rationalistischen Überzeugungen immer näher rückt. Welche Bedeutung dabei der Philosophie von Leibniz für die Entwicklung einer rein idealistischen Urteilslogik zukommt, ist bekannt. Ich denke aber darüber hinausgehend, dass Cohens Ansatz im Verlauf der Jahre ganz zentralen erkenntnistheoretischen Grundintuitionen des klassischen Rationalismus immer näher kommt.
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6Explicable Explainers: the Problem of Mental Dispositions in Spinoza's EthicsIn Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf & Karsten Stüber (eds.), Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, De Gruyter. pp. 79-98. 2009.
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26Cassirer’s enlightenment: on philosophy and the ‘Denkform’ of reasonBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 636-652. 2020.This paper examines the way in which Cassirer implicitly commented on current issues in his historical studies, proposing a case study on his monograph The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, published in November 1932. It begins with a general overview of a few famous and a few neglected instances of Cassirer’s position-takings through historical studies, before discussing briefly the context in which this monograph was written and examining how the Enlightenment is presented in the monograph from…Read more
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18Conceptual and Methodological Considerations for the Study of Wisdom Arising from AdversityJournal of Value Inquiry 53 (3): 393-396. 2019.
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15Is there a human life-form in Spinoza?Astérion 19. 2018.Depuis quelques années, la philosophie s’intéresse de plus en plus à la notion de forme de vie humaine. D’un côté, quelques philosophes ont avancé que pour décrire l’existence d’un être vivant, il faut faire référence à la forme de vie caractéristique de son espèce. D’un autre côté, plusieurs penseurs ont soutenu la thèse qu’on ne peut pas évaluer une pratique sans la comprendre dans le contexte de la forme de vie humaine. Le présent article discute la question de savoir si l’idée de la forme de…Read more
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33The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human MindOxford University Press. 2018.This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier.
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57XIII—Self-Knowledge as a Personal AchievementProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (3): 253-272. 2017.
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40Self‐Knowledge and Knowledge of Mankind in Hobbes' LeviathanEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (1): 4-29. 2018.In the introduction to the Leviathan, Hobbes famously defends the anthropological point of departure of his theory of the state by invoking the Delphic injunction ‘Know thyself!’ of which he presents a peculiar reading thereafter. In this paper, I present a reading of the anthropology of the Leviathan that takes this move seriously. In appealing to Delphic injunction, Hobbes wanted to prompt a particular way of reading his anthropology for which it is crucial that the reader relate the presented…Read more