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10Review of: Howard Caygill, Art of Judgement (1989)Philosophical Books 32 (3): 186-187. 1991.Review of Caygill's book.
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3Review of Joseph Margolis, Art and Philosophy: Conceptual Issues in Aesthetics (1981). (review)Mind 93 (370): 294-296. 1984.
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9Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for BeginnersWiley-Blackwell. 2002.This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy. Each chapter focusses on a core philosophical topic, and contains an introduction to the topic, 2 classic readings and interactive commentaries on the readings. An introductory book which doesn't merely _tell_ th…Read more
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64Nietzsche on Free Will, Autonomy and the Sovereign IndividualAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80 (1): 339-357. 2006.[Ken Gemes] In some texts Nietzsche vehemently denies the possibility of free will; in others he seems to positively countenance its existence. This paper distinguishes two different notions of free will. Agency free will is intrinsically tied to the question of agency, what constitutes an action as opposed to a mere doing. Deserts free will is intrinsically tied to the question of desert, of who does and does not merit punishment and reward. It is shown that we can render Nietzsche's prima faci…Read more
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7Review of Julian Young, Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer (review)International Studies in Philosophy 24 (1): 151-152. 1992.
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86Kant's aesthetics and the `empty cognitive stock'Philosophical Quarterly 47 (189): 459-476. 1997.It is sometimes assumed that Kant’s claim that a judgement of taste is grounded in a pleasure ‘without concepts’ leaves little room for any credible account of critical judgements of art. I argue that even Kant’s conception of free (as opposed to dependent) beauty can provide the framework for an analysis of aesthetic judgements about art works. It is a matter of understanding what roles for concepts Kant prohibits in his analysis of pure judgements of taste: conceptual cognition must be neither…Read more
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15The Subject and the Objective OrderProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 84. 1984.The paper examines the alleged problem of locating the 'I' of self-consciousness in the world conceived objectively. It discusses the views of Nagel, Evans, Schopenhauer, and Wittgenstein among others.
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443Guilt, bad conscience, and self-punishment in Nietzsche's GenealogyIn Brian Leiter & Neil Sinhababu (eds.), Nietzsche and morality, Oxford University Press. pp. 138--54. 2007.The article provides a commentary on the Second Treatise of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality, entitled '"Guilt, "Bad Conscience," and Related Matters'. The Treatise's central train of thought is that having a bad conscience or feeling guilty is a way in which we satisfy a fundamental need to inflict cruelty. This is achieved by turning the exercise of cruelty inwards, upon the self rather than others, and by interpreting such a cruelty as a legitimate form of punishment of oneself.
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Schopenhauer: Subject, Object, and WillDissertation, Oxford University. 1983.DPhil thesis submitted 1983.
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49Beauty in nature, beauty in artBritish Journal of Aesthetics 33 (4): 321-332. 1993.The article argues against various proposals to treat the term 'beauty' as standing for a single, generic concept of aesthetic value, which has application both to natural objects and to art. It argues that in Kant's aesthetic theory 'beauty' must be treated as ambiguous because in the case of art, but not in that of nature, part of beauty is the expession of aesthetic ideas. This gives rise to the dilemma: either beauty is always the ultimate aesthetic value of any thing, in which case there is…Read more
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23Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: is the will merely a word?In Thomas Pink & Martin Stone (eds.), The Will and Human Action from Antiquity to the Present Day, Routledge. pp. 172-96. 2003.The article discusses Schopehauer's conception of the will and Nietzsche's critical reception of it.
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |