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2Kant: the possibility of metaphysicsIn Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
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26Intrinsic Natures: A Critique of Langton on KantPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1): 143-169. 2006.This paper argues that there is an important respect in which Rae Langton's recent interpretation of Kant is correct: Kant's claim that we cannot know things in themselves should be understood as the claim that we cannot know the intrinsic nature of things. However, I dispute Langton's account of intrinsic properties, and therefore her version of what this claim amounts to. Langton's distinction between intrinsic, causally inert properties and causal powers is problematic, both as an interpretat…Read more
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72Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and His RealismOxford University Press UK. 2015.Lucy Allais presents an original interpretation of Kant's transcendental idealism. She argues that his distinction between things in themselves and things as they appear to us has both epistemological and metaphysical components. Kant is committed to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but this is not a phenomenalist idealism. He is committed to the claim that there is an aspect of reality that grounds mind-dependent spatio-temporal objects, and which we cannot cognize, but he …Read more
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335Kant's transcendental idealism and contemporary anti‐realismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 11 (4). 2003.This paper compares Kant's transcendental idealism with three main groups of contemporary anti-realism, associated with Wittgenstein, Putnam, and Dummett, respectively. The kind of anti-realism associated with Wittgenstein has it that there is no deep sense in which our concepts are answerable to reality. Associated with Putnam is the rejection of four main ideas: theory-independent reality, the idea of a uniquely true theory, a correspondence theory of truth, and bivalence. While there are supe…Read more
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537Kant's argument for transcendental idealism in the transcendental aestheticProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (1pt1): 47-75. 2010.This paper gives an interpretation of Kant's argument for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic. I argue against a common way of reading this argument, which sees Kant as arguing that substantive a priori claims about mind-independent reality would be unintelligible because we cannot explain the source of their justification. I argue that Kant's concern with how synthetic a priori propositions are possible is not a concern with the source of their justification, but with how th…Read more
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32Dissolving Reactive Attitudes: Forgiving and UnderstandingSouth African Journal of Philosophy 27 (2): 179-201. 2008.In ‘Freedom and Resentment,’ Strawson argues that we cannot separate holding people morally responsible for their actions from specific emotional responses, which he calls reactive attitudes, which we are disposed towards in response to people’s actions. Strawson’s view might pose problems for forgiveness, in which we choose to overcome reactive attitudes like resentment without altering the judgments that make them appropriate. I present a detailed analysis of reactive attitudes, which I use bo…Read more
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61Exposure Ethics: Does Hiv Pre‐Exposure Prophylaxis Raise Ethical Problems for the Health Care Provider and Policy Maker?Bioethics 28 (6): 269-274. 2013.The last few years have seen dramatic progress in the development of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). These developments have been met by ethical concerns. HIV interventions are often thought to be ethically difficult. In a context which includes disagreements over human rights, controversies over testing policies, and questions about sexual morality and individual responsibility, PrEP has been seen as an ethically complex intervention. We argue that this is mistaken, and that in fact, PrEP …Read more
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94Kant on the Human Standpoint, by Béatrice Longuenesse. Cambridge University Press, 2005, hardback, £45.00 (review)Kantian Review 12 (2): 164-173. 2007.
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78Book Symposium on Lucy Allais' Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and His Realism An OverviewEuropean Journal of Philosophy 24 (1): 235-240. 2016.
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182Transcendental idealism and metaphysics: Kant’s commitment to things as they are in themselvesKant Yearbook 2 (1): 1-32. 2010.One of Kant’s central central claims in the Critique of Pure Reason is that we cannot have knowledge of things as they are in themselves. This claim has been regarded as problematic in a number of ways: whether Kant is entitled to assert both that there are things in themselves and that we cannot have knowledge of them, and, more generally, what Kant’s commitment to things in themselves amounts to. A number of commentators deny that Kant is committed to there actually being an aspect of reality …Read more