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145Kant on beauty and moralityKant Studien 95 (3): 338-354. 2004.The purpose of this paper is to give an interpretation of what Kant takes to be the moral importance of aesthetic experience. On my interpretation aesthetic experience pleases since, in general, it is the experience of our finding an object first the aim of our reflective judging efforts. However, satisfying such an aim only makes sense within Kant 's further account of beauty as the expression of aesthetic ideas. In the end I hold that on Kant 's account it is only because beauty can express ae…Read more
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140The meaning of universal validity in Kant's aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (3): 301-308. 1981.
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105The Transparency Game: Government Information, Access, and ActionabilityPhilosophy and Technology 33 (1): 71-92. 2020.Democratic governments might be required by law to disseminate information to the people. This is called governmental transparency. What is the burden of transparency? We propose a “pragmatic information theory of communication” that places information accessibility as a foundation of transparency. Using a game model—the Transparency Game—we show that the pragmatic theory is the only one that makes it difficult for governments to appear transparent while not actually being transparent. There are…Read more
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88Kant and Empirical ConceptsJournal of Philosophical Research 40 441-454. 2015.Although Kant is most well-known for his arguments in support of pure or a priori concepts, he also attempts to give an account of how empirical concepts are acquired. In this paper I want to take a close look at this account. Specifically, I am interested in a recent criticism that Kant’s explanation of empirical concept acquisition is, in some sense, circular. I will consider and criticize a recent attempt to solve this problem. Finally, I will argue for my own solution to the circularity prob…Read more
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57The Problem of Free Harmony in Kant's AestheticsState University of New York Press. 2008."In this book, Kenneth F. Rogerson explores the first half of Kant's Critique of Judgment, entitled the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment.
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57Kant On The Ideality Of SpaceCanadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (June): 271-286. 1988.The purpose of my paper is to interpret kant 's transcendental idealism by looking at his claim that space is "nothing but" ideal. My position is that if we grant to kant the thesis that space is an "a priori" condition for knowing objects, Then it follows that our notion of space can only refer to the character of our experience, Not to properties of things as they may be "in themselves." and this, I argue, Yields a sense of the ideality of space
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47Williams and Kant on IntegrityDialogue 22 (3): 461-478. 1983.For some time now ethical debates have been fought on a field whose boundaries are the historical theories of Kant's deontology and Mill's utilitarianism. Recently, however, several have chosen to leave the battlefield entirely—to suggest, in various ways, that both of the major ethical theories share a common, flawed outlook. Thomas Nagel, for example, has argued that founding ethics on the sole ground of interpersonal obligations unnecessarily “fragments” human value. Such an account has the e…Read more
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46Kant's Aesthetics: The Roles of Form and ExpressionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (4): 387-389. 1989.
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41Pleasure and Fit in Kant's AestheticsKantian Review 2 117-133. 1998.In the third Critique Kant shifts the focus in his enquiry from the status of factual statements in the Critique of Pure Reason and the grounding of moral imperatives in the Critique of Practical Reason to investigating two methods of considering the world which go beyond the strictly verifiable. This is a move from evaluating the interplay of a ‘determinate’ set of facts and intellectual preconditions to forming what Kant calls ‘reflective’ judgements on these facts. There are two major questio…Read more
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37Kant’s World(s) of Appearances and Things in ThemselvesSouthwest Philosophy Review 15 (2): 1-24. 1999.
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34Kant and Fine Art: An Essay on Kant and the Philosophy of Fine Art and CultureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2): 179-180. 1986.
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21Comments on “Contesting the Audience of Nietzsche’s Genealogy”Southwest Philosophy Review 30 (2): 9-11. 2014.
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15The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to ArtJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (4): 379-381. 1991.
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14Review of Christian Helmut Wenzel, An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (8). 2006.
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Florida International UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
University Park, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |