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280Tetens’ Refutation of Idealism and Properly Basic BeliefIn Gideon Stiening Udo Thiel (ed.), Johann Nikolaus Tetens (1736-1807): Philosophie in der Tradition des europäischen Empirismus, De Gruyter. pp. 147-168. 2014.
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Kurt Mosser, Necessity and Possibility: The Logical Strategy of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (review)Philosophy in Review 29 (6): 430. 2009.
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135What's the point of a dreaming argument?Think 18 (52): 31-34. 2019.In this paper, I argue that dreaming arguments are no cause for alarm.
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108Epistemic versus all things considered requirementsSynthese 192 (6): 1861-1881. 2015.Epistemic obligations are constraints on belief stemming from epistemic considerations alone. Booth is one of the many philosophers who deny that there are epistemic obligations. Any obligation pertaining to belief is an all things considered obligation, according to him—a strictly generic, rather than specifically epistemic, requirement. Though Booth’s argument is valid, I will try to show that it is unsound. There are two central premises: S is justified in believing that P iff S is blameless …Read more
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29Paul Guyer, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 27 (3): 182. 2007.
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54A Refutation of Idealism from 1777Idealistic Studies 40 (1-2): 139-146. 2010.The paper identifies a possible precedent for Kant’s Refutation of Idealism in the work of Johann Nicolaus Tetens. An attempt is made to reconstruct the reasoning that led Tetens to reject idealism as a false starting point, and some parallels are drawn between Tetens’s psychologistic approach to the problem andKant’s transcendental methodology.
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1Seeing a Flower in the Garden: Common Sense, Transcendental IdealismIn Elizabeth Robinson & Chris W. Surprenant (eds.), Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment, Routledge. 2017.Stapleford (2007) identified Johann Nicolaus Tetens as the missing link between Reid’s common sense treatment of external world scepticism and Kant’s transcendental Refutation of Idealism. While that account is arguably correct, it failed to recognize the distinction between being justified in believing P and being justified in believing that my belief in P is justified. This paper corrects the oversight and explains its implications. Tetens emerges as a weak externalist regarding knowledge of e…Read more
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35Tom Sorell, G. A. J. Rogers, and Jill Kraye, eds. , 'Scientia' in Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 30 (6): 438-441. 2010.
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1Kenneth R. Westphal, Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 26 (4): 308-310. 2006.
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85Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and ExplainedRoutledge. 2016.Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn how to read and engage with one of modern ph…Read more
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137Epistemic Value Monism and the Swamping ProblemRatio 29 (3): 283-297. 2016.Many deontologists explain the epistemic value of justification in terms of its instrumental role in promoting truth – the original source of value in the epistemic domain. The swamping problem for truth monism appears to make this position indefensible, at least for those monists who maintain the superiority of knowledge to merely true belief. I propose a new solution to the swamping problem that allows monists to maintain the greater epistemic value of knowledge over merely true belief. My tri…Read more
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75Reid, Tetens, and Kant on the External WorldIdealistic Studies 37 (2): 87-104. 2007.Building on the research of Manfred Kuehn, the author argues that, whatever influence the Scottish Common Sense Philosophy of Thomas Reid may have had on the development of Immanuel Kant’s refutation of idealism, it was filtered through the thinking of Kant’s largely forgotten German contemporary, Johann Nicolaus Tetens. While the importance of Tetens for understanding Kant is examined in connection with only one idea, the aim is to demonstrate that Tetens is a figure worthy of serious historica…Read more
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |