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95The anxiety of influence: Sartre's search for an ethics and Kant's moral theorySartre Studies International 9 (1): 21-53. 2003.
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42Kant's Justification of WelfareDiametros 39 1-28. 2014.For several decades, theorists interested in Kant’s discussion of welfare have puzzled over Kant’s position on the issue of the redistribution of goods in society. They have done this both in order to clarify his position and as a source of inspiration for current conceptual problems faced by contemporary political philosophers who attempt to reconcile the ideal of equal freedom with the asymmetric interference necessary for redistribution and social provision. In this paper, I start with Kant’s…Read more
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60Institutions and the Normativity of DesertContemporary Political Theory 6 (2): 175-195. 2007.The question of whether desert depends on institutions or institutions on desert continues to divide politicians and political theorists, particularly in disputes over the justification of the welfare state. Even though it is a significant question with direct relevance for issues of economic justice, little has been done so far to evaluate the various positions in dispute and to make explicit the concepts involved. In this paper, I first present the main senses in which the concepts of desert, …Read more
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76Constitutivism and Kantian Constructivism in Ethical Theory: Editorial IntroductionPhilosophia 44 (4): 1125-1128. 2016.The introduction summarizes the main arguments formulated in the six papers of this special issue on Constitutivism and Kantian Constructivism in Ethical Theory. We highlight the unifying theme addressed in the essays, i.e., the question of whether constitutivism is able to fulfill the promise of providing an account of normativity starting from relatively slender assumptions, including the avoidance of realist presuppositions.
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30Right’s Complex Relation to Ethics in Kant: The Limits of IndependentismKant Studien 107 (1): 2-33. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 107 Heft: 1 Seiten: 2-33.
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Kant’s Account of Motivation: A Sartrean Response to Some Hegelian ObjectionsBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 61 86-106. 2010.
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31Caird on Kant's Idealism: Traditionalist or Revolutionary?Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 19 (1): 19-45. 2013.The traditionalist interpretation of Kant's idealism reads his Critical philosophy as a version of traditional idealism, à la Berkeley. By contrast, a revolutionary account of Kant will assert the threefold distinction between states of mind, external objects of the world and things in themselves, and will reject the attempt to reduce external objects to states of mind. In this paper, I argue that, while Caird's interpretation is clearly not traditionalist, nor is it obviously revolutionary: he …Read more
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27Toleration and Pragmatism: Themes from The Work of John HortonPhilosophia 45 (2): 397-413. 2017.John Horton’s work has been particularly influential in debates on specific topics related to toleration, political obligation, modus vivendi and political realism. More recently, he has synthesised these views in the form of a distinctive position in political philosophy, a position that has the potential to question much of the received wisdom in the field. The papers of this special issue engage with some of the most fundamental issues of Horton’s account, more exactly, the related issues of …Read more
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36Kantian Metaphysics and the Normative Force of Practical PrinciplesPolitics and Ethics Review 3 (1): 37-56. 2007.The aim of this paper is threefold. First, I critically examine two dominant Kantian views of practical justification and argue that they cannot provide an appropriate account of the normative force of moral and political principles. Secondly, as the main reason for these unsuccessful attempts, I identify a certain interpretation of Kant's account of practical judgement. Finally, I point to some of the differences between this interpretation and Kant's own claims on practical judgement, in order…Read more
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32Introduction: Kant and the British IdealistsCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 19 (1): 1-18. 2013.
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110Constitutivism and Transcendental Practical Philosophy: How to Pull the Rabbit Out of the HatPhilosophia 44 (4): 1185-1208. 2016.Constitutivism aims to justify substantial normative standards as constitutive of practical reason. In this way, it can defend the constructivist commitment to avoiding realism and anti-realism in normative disciplines. This metaphysical debate is the perspective from which the nature of the constitutivist justification is usually discussed. In this paper, I focus on a related, but distinct, debate. My concern will not be whether the substantial normative claims asserted by the constructivist ha…Read more
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128Kant and Sartre: Existentialism and Critical PhilosophyIn Sorin Baiasu (ed.), Comparing Kant and Sartre, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 3-17. 2016.Kant and Sartre are two of the most significant figures in modern philosophy, and yet there has, until very recently, been little comparative research undertaken on them. Despite dealing with many shared philosophical issues, they have traditionally been taken to be too opposed to each other to render any search for possible parallels between their works a useful enterprise. Indeed, Sartre is often taken to be one of Kant’s most vocal critics in the literature, and as rather indebted to other ma…Read more
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70Revolutionary versus Traditionalist Approaches to Kant: Some Aspects of the DebateKantian Review 16 (2): 161-173. 2011.
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15Kant and Sartre: re-discovering critical ethicsPalgrave-Macmillan. 2011.This book challenges the standard view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies, making a case for regarding Kant as one of Sartre's most significant predecessors. By using an original comparative methodology, the book identifies several fundamental theses of Sartre's practical philosophy despite the common reading of Sartre as a philosopher without a practical philosophy. Furthermore, the book shows that Sartre's practical philosophy proves to be closer to Kant tha…Read more
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50The Deontic Force of the Formula of Universal LawIn 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. 41-50. 2013.
Sorin Baiasu
Keele University
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University
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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford UniversityProfessor (Part-time)
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