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104Self-Consciousness and KnowledgeIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 357-370. 2013.
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Die Normativität der Sprache: ein Irrtum?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 51 (1): 63-114. 2003.
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156The Form of the WillIn Sergio Tenenbaum (ed.), Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good, Oxford University Press. pp. 138--160. 2010.
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103Leben HerstellenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62 (1): 74-89. 2014.It is widely believed that we might be able produce life out of nonliving substances if we possessed the relevant knowledge. Thus synthetic biology is said to be on the way towards artificial life. But this is nonsense: “artificial life” cannot be thought. The idea that biological organisms could be produced reflects a misunderstandig of the concept “life”. Life is formally characterized by the fact that that which in the case of artifacts is three distinct activities - being something, producin…Read more
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59Comments on GuyerInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (5): 489-496. 2007.Before and in the Groundwork, Kant argues as follows for the validity of the moral law: we want to be free. Following the moral law is the only way to be free. So we should follow the moral law.1The first premise of this syllogism is treated differently before and in the Groundwork. First Kant thought it an empirical fact that men want to be free and want it more than anything else.2 Later he sought an a priori argument showing that we ought to want to be free and are right in thinking it good.3…Read more
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2Forms of practical knowledge and their unityIn Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby & Frederick Stoutland (eds.), Essays on Anscombe's Intention, Harvard University Press. 2011.
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6Selbstbezug und NormativitätF. Schoningh. 1998.Die neuzeitliche Philosophie beginnt mit der Einsicht Descartes', daß sich die Aussagen, in denen man sich selbst Gedanken, Absichten, Meinungen zuschreibt, fundamental von denen unterscheiden, in denen man die Welt der körperlichen Dinge beschreibt. Descartes, und mit ihm eine bis heute mächtige Tradition, schließt daraus, daß sich diese Ich-Aussagen auf eine eigene Welt geistiger Dinge beziehen. Der von den Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften inspirierte philosophische Naturalismus hat dagegen…Read more
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175Law as the Reality of the Free WillIn Andreas Speer, Wolfram Hogrebe & Markus Gabriel (eds.), Das Neue Bedürfnis Nach Metaphysik / the New Desire for Metaphysics, De Gruyter. pp. 207-220. 2015.
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176Education and AutonomyJournal of Philosophy of Education 50 (1): 84-97. 2016.In his book The Formation of Reason (2011), David Bakhurst asserts that the end of education is autonomy, which he explains is the power to determine what to do.
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195Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism, by Joel Smith and Peter Sullivan , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 212 pp. ISBN 978‐0199608553 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 22 (3): 483-504. 2014.
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53Leben und MoralJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 18 (1): 261-278. 2014.Name der Zeitschrift: Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik Jahrgang: 18 Heft: 1 Seiten: 261-278
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255Intentional transactionPhilosophical Explorations 17 (3): 304-316. 2014.Intentional transaction. . ???aop.label???. doi: 10.1080/13869795.2014.941909
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6Categories of the Temporal: An Inquiry into the Forms of the Finite UnderstandingHarvard University Press. 2012.The publication of Frege’s Begriffsschrift in 1879 forever altered the landscape for many Western philosophers. Here, Sebastian Rödl traces how the Fregean influence, written all over the development and present state of analytic philosophy, led into an unholy alliance of an empiricist conception of sensibility with an inferentialist conception of thought. According to Rödl, Wittgenstein responded to the implosion of Frege’s principle that the nature of thought consists in its inferential order,…Read more
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20Normativitat des Geistes versus Philosophie als Erklarung. Zu Brandoms Theorie des GeistesDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48 (5): 762-779. 2000.
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135Testimony and GeneralityPhilosophical Topics 42 (1): 291-302. 2014.The essay argues that there is no such thing as the epistemology of testimony as it is currently conceived: a subfield of epistemology that concerns itself with a special form of acquiring knowledge, a special kind of justification, a special sort of reason for belief. Rather, the concept of knowledge contains an account of the possibility of knowing from others. We cannot find ourselves in this predicament: we comprehend what knowledge is all right, and yet have difficulty seeing how one may, f…Read more
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88Finite KnowledgeIn James Conant & Andrea Kern (eds.), Varieties of Skepticism: Essays After Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell, De Gruyter. pp. 123-142. 2014.
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43Buchkritik Subjektivität. Ein Blick von außenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (6): 1005-1010. 2010.
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10Practice and the Unity of ActionIn Georg Meggle (ed.), Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical research, Dr. Hänsel-hohenhausen. 2002.
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159Joint action and recursive consciousness of consciousnessPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (4): 769-779. 2015.In a series of essays, Bratman defines a concept, which we may call the concept of Bratmanian action by many. Our discussion of this concept, in section 1, reveals that it is not the one called to mind by the usual examples of joint action. Section 2 lays alongside it a different concept of doing something together. According to it, many are doing A together if and only if the principle of the actions in which they are doing A is a joint intention to do A, an act of intending that is theirs. It …Read more
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146The Self-Conscious Power of Sensory KnowledgeGrazer Philosophische Studien 81 (1): 135-151. 2010.The essay develops a disjunctive account of perception, showing that it needs to be renamed 'self-conscious power account'. For it is by reference to a self-conscious power of sensory knowledge that, on the one hand, the unity of perception and illusion and, on the other hand, the priority of perception over illusion, specifically, its priority in knowledge, is understood. The concept of a self-conscious power thus transpires as lying at the basis of a sound epistemology and response to sceptica…Read more
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290Transcendental deduction of predicative structure in Kant and BrandomPragmatics and Cognition 13 (1): 91-107. 2005.Fregean predicates applied to Fregean objects are merely defined by a `timeless' deductive order of sentences. They cannot provide sufficient structure in order to explain how names can refer to objects of intuition and how predicates can express properties of substances that change in time. Therefore, the accounts of Wilson and Quine, Prior and Brandom for temporal judgments fail — and a new reconstruction of Kant's transcendental logic, especially of the analogies of experience, is needed.
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