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Hegel's critique of theoretical spirit: Kant's functionalist cognitive psychology in contextIn Marina F. Bykova (ed.), Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2019.
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‘Norm Acquisition, Rational Judgment and Moral Particularism’.Theory and Research in Education 10 (1): 3--25. 2012.This paper argues that moral particularism, defined as the view that moral judgment does not require moral principles, depends upon a constricted and untenable view of rational judgment as simple syllogistic ratiocination. This I demonstrate by re-examining Nussbaum’s (1986/2002) case for particularism based on Sophocles’ Antigone. The central role of principles in moral judgment and in educational theory is supported by explicating ‘mature judgment’, which highlights key features of Thomas Gree…Read more
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Hegel's Solution to the Dilemma of the CriterionHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 5 (2): 173-188. 1988.
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Kant’s [Moral] Constructivism and Rational JustificationIn Pihlström & Williams Baiasu (ed.), Politics and Metaphysics in Kant, Wales University Press. 2011.This paper characterises concisely a key issue about rational justification which highlights an important achievement of Kant’s constructivist method for identifying and justifying basic norms: uniquely, it resolves the Pyrrhonian Dilemma of the Criterion. Kant’s constructivist method is both sound and significant because it is based on core principles of rational justification as such. Explicating this basis of Kant’s constructivism affords an illuminating and defensible explication of four key…Read more
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Modern moral epistemologyIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. 2018.
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Adriaan T. Peperzak: Hegels praktische Philosophie. Ein Kommentar zur enzyklopädischen Darstellung der menschlichen Freiheit und ihrer objektiven Verwirklichung (review)Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 2. 1994.
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Razionalità e relativismo: il significato storico e contemporaneo della risposta hegeliana a Sesto EmpiricoEtica E Politica 4 (1). 2002.Enlightenment confidence in reason and in our individual powers of reasoning have been subjected to growing criticism. One criticism is that Enlightenment universalism about reason has provided a cover story for cultural if not economic or political imperialism. I identify and criticize three central assumptions about reason common from the Enlightenment to the present day: That reason and tradition are distinct, if not conflicting intellectual resources; that reason is inherently a power of ind…Read more
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Hegel, Hume und die Identität wahrnehmbarer Dinge. Historisch-kritische Analyse zum Kapitel 'Wahrnehmung' in der Phänomenologie von 1807Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 61 (1): 171-172. 1999.
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‘Hegel’s Semantics of Singular Cognitive Reference, Newton’s Methodological Rule 4 and Scientific Realism Today’Philosophical Inquiries 2 (1): 9-67. 2014.Empirical investigations use empirical methods, data and evidence. This banal observation appears to favour empiricism, especially in philosophy of science, though no rationalist ever denied their importance. Natural sciences often provide what appear to be, and are taken by scientists as, realist, causal explanations of natural phenomena. Empiricism has never been congenial to scientific realism. Bas van Fraassen’s ‘Constructive Empiricism’ purports that realist interpretations of any scientifi…Read more
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ContributorsIn Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms: A Realistic Assessment, Fordham University Press. pp. 341-344. 2020.
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Kants Urteilstafel: Zur Deutung von Reinhard BrandtZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 49 (1): 84-91. 1995.
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A Kantian Justification of PossessionIn Mark Timmons (ed.), Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays, Clarendon Press. 2002.
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Die positive Verteidigung Kants der Urteils- und Handlungsfreiheit, und zwar ohne transzendentalen IdealismusIn Mario Brandhorst, Andree Hahmann & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), Sind wir Bürger zweier Welten?: Freiheit und moralische Verantwortung im transzendentalen Idealismus, Meiner. 2012.
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The Critique of Pure Reason and Analytic PhilosophyIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. 2010.This paper critically examines three key works of analytic Kantianism: C. I. Lewis, Mind and the World Order (1929), P. F. Strawson, The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Wilfrid Sellars, Science and Metaphysics (1968), focusing on their very different approaches to Kant’s Transcendental Deduction.
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Do Kant’s Principles Justify Property or Usufruct?Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics 5 141-194. 1997.Kant’s justification of possession appears to beg the question (petitio principii) by assuming rather than proving the legitimacy of possession. The apparent question-begging in Kant’s argument has been recapitulated or exacerbated but not resolved in the secondary literature. A detailed terminological, textual, and logical analysis of Kant’s argument reveals that he provides a sound justification of limited rights to possess and use things (qualified choses in possession), not of private proper…Read more
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Hume's Commitment to, and Critique of,''Knowledge by Acquaintance'': Some Hegelian Reflections'Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51. 2005.
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Consciousness and its Transcendental Conditions: Kant’s Anti-Cartesian RevoltIn Lähteenmäki & Remes Heinämaa (ed.), Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy, Springer. 2007.Kant was the first great anti-Cartesian in epistemology and philosophy of mind. He criticised five central tenets of Cartesianism and developed sophisticated alternatives to them. His transcendental analysis of the necessary a priori conditions for the very possibility of self-conscious human experience invokes externalism about justification and proves externalism about mental content. Semantic concern with the unity of the proposition—required for propositionally structured awareness and self-…Read more
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Kant, Hegel and our fate as zoôn politikonIn James Gledhill & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, Routledge. 2020.
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‘Can Pragmatic Realists Argue Transcendentally?’In John Shook (ed.), Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism, Prometheus. 2003.Kant’s and Hegel’s transcendental argument for mental-content externalism breaks the deadlock between ‘internal’ and genuine realists. This argument shows that human beings can only be self-conscious in a world that provides a humanly recognizable regularity and variety among the things (or events) we sense. This feature of the world cannot result from human thought or language. Hence semantic arguments against realism can only be developed if realism about the world is true. Some of Putnam’s ar…Read more
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Identifying and justifying moral norms : necessary basicsIn Patrick Capps & Shaun D. Pattinson (eds.), Ethical rationalism and the law, Hart Publishing. 2017.
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‘Frederick L. Will’s Pragmatic Realism: An Introduction’.In K. R. Westphal (ed.), Frederick L. Will, Pragmatism and Realism., Rowman & Littlefield. 1997.This critical editorial introduction summarizes and explicates Frederick Will’s pragmatic realism and his account of the nature, assessment, and revision of cognitive and practical norms in connection with: the development of Will’s pragmatic realism, Hume’s problem of induction, the oscillations between foundationalism and coherentism, the nature of philosophical reflection, Kant’s ‘Refutation of Idealism’, the open texture of empirical concepts, the correspondence conception of truth, Putnam’s…Read more
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Modern moral epistemologyIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. 2018.
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‘Community as the Basis of Free Individual Action’.In M. Daly (ed.), Communitarianism, Wadsworth. 1994.The passages translated here show that Hegel espoused ‘moderate collectivism’, a social ontology consisting in three theses: (1) Individuals are fundamentally social practitioners. Everything a person does, says, or thinks is formed in the context of social practices that provide material and conceptual resources, objects of desire, skills, procedures, techniques, and occasions and permissions for action, etc. (2) What individuals do depends on their own response to their social and natural envi…Read more
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Alumnus, 1986
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