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78On Bernard Bosanquet’s “The Reality of the General Will”Ethics 125 (1). 2014.This article is a discussion of Bernard Bosanquet's paper 'The Reality of the General Will', in which its main arguments and motivations are explained. His position is compared to Rousseau's on the general will.
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93Why Hegel Now – and in What Form?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 78 187-210. 2016.This paper considers the prospects for the current revival of interest in Hegel, and the direction it might take. Looking back to Richard J. Bernstein's paper from 1977, on ‘Why Hegel Now?’, it contrasts his optimistic assessment of a rapprochement between Hegel and analytic philosophy with Sebastian Gardner's more pessimistic view, where Gardner argues that Hegel's idealist account of value makes any such rapprochement impossible. The paper explores Hegel's account of value further, arguing for…Read more
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67Hegelian metaphysicsOxford University Press. 2009.The volume concludes by examining a critique of Hegel's metaphysical position from the perspective of the "continental" tradition, and in particular Gilles ...
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82The Autonomy of Morality and the Morality of AutonomyJournal of Moral Philosophy 6 (3): 395-415. 2009.This review article is a discussion of Charles Larmore's book The Autonomy of Morality. After presenting an outline of Larmore's position, it focuses on three critical issues: whether Larmore is right to see Kant as an anti-realist; whether he deals adequately with the threat to autonomy posed by the apparent obligatoriness of morality; and whether he establishes that the constructivist idea of practical reason as self-legislating must really be as unconstrained and empty as he suggests
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Freedom, self-legislation and morality in Kant and Hegel: Constructivist vs. realist accountsIn Espen Hammer (ed.), German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 245--66. 2007.
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31Review of Ellis, Fiona, Concepts and Reality in the History of Philosophy: Tracing a Philosophical Error From Locke to Bradley (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (5). 2006.
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86An Hegelian in Strange Costume? On Peirce’s Relation to Hegel IPhilosophy Compass 8 (1): 53-62. 2013.This paper considers the relation between the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce and the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel . While Peirce engaged with Hegel’s thought quite extensively, his often critical comments on the latter have made it hard to see any genuine common ground between the two; recent ways of reading Hegel, however, suggest how this might be possible, where the connections between their respective metaphysical positions and views of the categories are explored here. Issues …Read more
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K R Westphal's Hegel's Epistemological Realism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 27 56-58. 1993.
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151Is Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic a Refutation of Solipsism?British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (2): 333-361. 2012.This paper considers whether Hegel's master/slave dialectic in the Phenomenology of Spirit should be considered as a refutation of solipsism. It focuses on a recent and detailed attempt to argue for this sort of reading that has been proposed by Frederick Beiser ? but it argues that this reading is unconvincing, both in the historical motivations given for it in the work of Jacobi and Fichte, and as an interpretation of the text itself. An alternative reading of the dialectic is proposed, where …Read more
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22The Routledge Guide Book to Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritRoutledge. 2013.The _Phenomenology of Spirit_ is arguably Hegel’s most influential and important work, and is considered to be essential in understanding Hegel’s philosophical system and his contribution to western philosophy. The_ Routledge Guidebook to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit_ introduces the major themes in Hegel’s great book and aids the reader in understanding this key work, examining: The context of Hegel’s thought and the background to his writing Each separate part of the text in relation to its …Read more
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156Hegel, british idealism, and the curious case of the concrete universalBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (1). 2007.[INTRODUCTION] Like the terms 'dialectic', 'Aufhebung' (or 'sublation'), and 'Geist', the term 'concrete universal' has a distinctively Hegelian ring to it. But unlike these others, it is particularly associated with the British strand in Hegel's reception history, as having been brought to prominence by some of the central British Idealists. It is therefore perhaps inevitable that, as their star has waned, so too has any use of the term, while an appreciation of the problematic that lay behind …Read more
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157Did Hegel hold an identity theory of truth?Mind 102 (408): 645-647. 1993.The aim of this paper is to criticize Thomas Baldwin's claim, that in developing an identity theory of truth, F H Bradley was following Hegel. It is argued that Baldwin has incorrectly understood certain passages from Hegel which he cites in defense of this view, and that Hegel's conception of truth was primarily material, not propositional.
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16Kant and Skepticism, by Michael N. Forster. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. x + 154, hardcover. ISBN 9780691129877. $29.95/£l7.95 (review)Kantian Review 14 (1): 141-146. 2009.
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11History, meaning, and interpretation: a critical response to BevirHistory of European Ideas 28 (1-2): 1-12. 2002.This paper is a discussion of Mark Bevir's The Logic of the History of Ideas . It focuses on three topics central to Bevir's book: his weak intentionalism; his anthropological epistemology; and his priority claim regarding sincere, conscious, and rational beliefs. It is argued that Bevir's position on these issues is problematic in certain important respects, and that some of his related critical claims against Pocock, Skinner and others are misconceived
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276Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1999.Fourteen new essays by a distinguished team of authors offer a broad and stimulating re-examination of transcendental arguments. This is the philosophical method of arguing that what is doubted or denied by the opponent must be the case, as a condition for the possibility of experience, language, or thought.The line-up of contributors features leading figures in the field from both sides of the Atlantic; they discuss the nature of transcendental arguments, and consider their role and value. In p…Read more
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162Going beyond the Kantian philosophy: On McDowell's Hegelian critique of KantEuropean Journal of Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.The Kant-Hegel relation has a continuing fascination for commentators on Hegel, and understandably so: for, taking this route into the Hegelian jungle can promise many advantages. First, it can set Hegel’s thought against a background with which we are fairly familiar, and in a way that makes its relevance clearly apparent; second, it can help us locate Hegel in the broader philosophical tradition, making us see that the traditional ‘analytic’ jump from Kant to Frege leaves out a crucial period …Read more
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89_The Phenomenology of Spirit_ is Hegel's most important and famous work. It is essential to understanding Hegel's philosophical system and why he remains a major figure in Western Philosophy. This _GuideBook_ introduces and assesses: * Hegel's life and the background to the _Phenomenology of Spirit_ * the ideas and the text of the _Phenomenology of Spirit_ * the continuing importance of Hegel's work to philosophy
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42An Hegelian in Strange Costume? On Peirce’s Relation to Hegel IIPhilosophy Compass 8 (1): 63-72. 2013.In this paper, which is the second in a series, I continue to consider the relation between the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce and the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel. This article focuses on their views of epistemology and inquiry, and their accounts of the relation between language and thought. As with the earlier paper, it is argued that fruitful similarities between their positions on these issues can be found
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74Metaphysical dogmatism, Humean scepticism, Kantian criticismKantian Review 11 102-116. 2006.In this article, I want to argue that scepticism for Kant must be seen in ancient and not just modern terms, and that if we take this into account we will need to take a different view of Kant's response to Hume from the one that is standardly presented in the literature. This standard view has been put forward recently by Paul Guyer, and it is therefore his view that I want to look at in some detail, and to try to correct
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13Review: Guyer & Wood (eds & trs), Critique of Pure Reason (review)Kantian Review 3 137-140. 1999.
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84Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, KierkegaardCambridge University Press. 2011.In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy:…Read more
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40Hegel's Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to IdentityBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (4): 807-810. 2013.(2013). Hegel's Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 807-810. doi: 10.1080/09608788.2013.792778
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309Transcendental arguments: A plea for modestyGrazer Philosophische Studien 74 (1): 143-161. 2007.A modest transcendental argument is one that sets out merely to establish how things need to appear to us or how we need to believe them to be, rather than how things are. Stroud's claim to have established that all transcendental arguments must be modest in this way is criticised and rejected. However, a different case for why we should abandon ambitious transcendental arguments is presented: namely, that when it comes to establishing claims about how things are, there is no reason to prefer tr…Read more
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D Lamb 's Hegel And Modern Philosophy (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 15 44-49. 1987.
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79Peirce, Hegel, and the category of secondnessInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (2). 2007.This paper focuses on one of C. S. Peirce's criticisms of G. W. F. Hegel: namely, that Hegel neglected to give sufficient weight to what Peirce calls "Secondness", in a way that put his philosophical system out of touch with reality. The nature of this criticism is explored, together with its relevant philosophical background. It is argued that while the issues Peirce raises go deep, in some respects Hegel's position is closer to his own than he may have realised, whilst in others that criticism…Read more
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17The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and TruthPhilosophical Review 117 (2): 289-293. 2008.
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