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49Kant, God and Metaphysics: The Secret ThornRoutledge. 2017.Kant is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher of modern times. He undertook his famous critical turn to save human freedom and morality from the challenge of determinism and materialism. Intertwined with his metaphysical interests, however, he also had theological commitments, which have received insufficient attention. He believed that man is a fallen creature and in need of ‘redemption’. He intended to provide a fortress protecting religious faith from the failure of rationalist meta…Read more
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56Carl Stumpf und Gottlob Frege – By Wolfgang Ewen (review)Philosophical Investigations 34 (3): 312-317. 2011.
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29Robinson, Daniel N., How Is Nature Possible? Kant’s Project in the First CritiqueReview of Metaphysics 66 (3): 597-599. 2013.
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132Kripke’s metalinguistic apparatus and the analysis of definite descriptionsPhilosophical Studies 156 (3): 363-387. 2011.This article reconsiders Kripke’s ( 1977 , in: French, Uehling & Wettstein (eds) Contemporary perspectives in the philosophy of language, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis) pragmatic, univocal account of the attributive-referential distinction in terms of a metalinguistic apparatus consisting of semantic reference and speaker reference. It is argued that Kripke’s strongest methodological argument supporting the pragmatic account, the parallel applicability of the apparatus to both names…Read more
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39Baumgarten, Alexander., Metaphysics: A Critical Translation, with Kant’s Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials (review)Review of Metaphysics 67 (4): 867-869. 2014.
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18True to Life. Why Truth Matters – By Michael P. Lynch (review)Philosophical Investigations 30 (4): 389-393. 2007.
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199Puzzles about descriptive namesLinguistics and Philosophy 32 (4): 409-428. 2009.This article explores Gareth Evans’s idea that there are such things as descriptive names, i.e. referring expressions introduced by a definite description which have, unlike ordinary names, a descriptive content. Several ignored semantic and modal aspects of this idea are spelled out, including a hitherto little explored notion of rigidity, super-rigidity. The claim that descriptive names are (rigidified) descriptions, or abbreviations thereof, is rejected. It is then shown that Evans’s theory l…Read more
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23Frege's Definition of Number: No Ontological Agenda?Hungarian Philosophical Review 54 (4): 76-92. 2010.Joan Weiner has argued that Frege’s definitions of numbers constitute linguistic stipulations that carry no ontological commitment: they don’t present numbers as pre-existing objects. This paper offers a critical discussion of this view, showing that it is vitiated by serious exegetical errors and that it saddles Frege’s project with insuperable substantive difficulties. It is first demonstrated that Weiner misrepresents the Fregean notions of so-called Foundations-content, and of sense, referen…Read more
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168The Ideality of Space and Time: Trendelenburg versus Kant, Fischer and BirdKantian Review 18 (2): 263-288. 2013.Trendelenburg argued that Kant's arguments in support of transcendental idealism ignored the possibility that space and time are both ideal and real. Recently, Graham Bird has claimed that Trendelenburg (unlike his contemporary Kuno Fischer) misrepresented Kant, confusing two senses of . I defend Trendelenburg's : the ideas of space and time, as a priori and necessary, are ideal, but this does not exclude their validity in the noumenal realm. This undermines transcendental idealism. Bird's attem…Read more
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22Ludwig WittgensteinReaktion Books. 2007.Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally considered as the greatest philosopher since Immanuel Kant, and his personal life, work, and his historical moment intertwined in a fascinating, complex web. Noted scholar Edward Kanterian explores these intersections in Ludwig Wittgenstein, the newest title in the acclaimed Critical Lives series. Wittgenstein’s works—from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations —are notoriously dense, and Kanterian carefully dist…Read more
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |