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11Empathy--our capacity to cognitively or affectively connect with other people's thoughts and feelings--is a concept whose definition and meaning varies widely within philosophy and other disciplines. Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy advances research on the nature and function of empathy by exploring and challenging different theoretical approaches to this phenomenon. The first section of the book explores empathy as a historiographical method, presenting a number of rich and interesting ar…Read more
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11Mechanism and Thought Formation: Hume’s Emancipatory ScepticismIn Stephen Buckle & Craig Taylor (eds.), Hume and the Enlightenment, Pickering & Chatto Publishing. pp. 171-186. 2011.
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10Geschlechterordnung und Staat. Legitimationsfiguren der politischen Philosophie (Gender Roles Under the Influence of Nature and Education)In Heinz Marion & Kuster Friederike (eds.), Geschlechterordnung und Staat. Legitimationsfiguren der politischen Philosophie (1600-1850), Akademie Verlag. pp. 151-162. 2012.
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9Introduction to Special Issue: Sensibility in the Early Modern Era: From Living Machines to Affective MoralityIntellectual History Review 25 (3): 255-256. 2015.
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8Nature and Norms in ThoughtIn Anik Waldow & Martin Lenz (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1-12. 2013.The present volume joins contributions to early modern debates on nature and norms in thought with decidedly contemporary perspectives, thereby hoping to shed new light on developments in early modern philosophy as well as enrich current discussions on the relation between nature and norms. Clearly, the relation between mind and world poses perennial problems and debates. How do we explain that thoughts and other mental states have content? What makes it the case that some thought is about this …Read more
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8Back to the Facts. Herder on the Normative Role of Sensibility and ImaginationIn Martin Lenz & Anik Waldow (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy, Springer. pp. 115-133. 2013.n his 1785 review of Herder’s Ideen zur Geschichte der Menschheit Kant stresses the negative effects of sensibility and imagination in undermining philosophy. This essay will offer a defence of Herder against Kant in order to gesture towards a more positive account of the cognitive function of these capacities. I will argue that the eighteenth-century fascination with the experimental sciences and the demand to engage in anti-speculative philosophy in fact called for the integration of sensibili…Read more
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8David Hume: Geschlechterrollen unter dem Einfluss von Natur und ErziehungIn Sabine Doyé & Marion Heinz (eds.), Geschlechterordnung Und Staat: Legitimationsfiguren der Politischen Philosophie, Akademie Verlag. pp. 151-162. 2012.
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6Condillac and His Reception. On the Origin and Nature of Human Abilities (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume explores the philosophy of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. It presents, for the first time, English-language essays on Condillac's philosophy, making the complexity and sophistication of his arguments and their influence on early modern philosophy accessible to a wider readership. Condillac's reflections on the origin and nature of human abilities, such as the ability to reason, reflect and use language, took philosophy in distinctly new directions. This volume showcases the diversity …Read more
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6IntroductionIn Waldow Vinicius & DeSouza Nigel (eds.), Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-9. 2017.Herder brings the entire human being into focus by tracing its connections with the natural, cultural, and historical world. The first part of the volume examines the various dimensions of Herder’s philosophical understanding of human nature through which he sought methodologically to delineate a genuinely anthropological philosophy. This includes his critique of traditional metaphysics and its revision along anthropological lines; the metaphysical, epistemological, and physiological dimensions …Read more
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3Descartes on Self-KnowledgeIn Stephen Hetherington (ed.), Knowledge: From Antiquity to the Present, Bloomsbury. forthcoming.
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1Bridging the Gap: Can Conceptual Analysis solve the Problem of Other MindsAnthropology and Philosophy 11 133-147. 2014.
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Who is able to feel Pain? A Cartesian Attack on the Bête MachineIn Tumini Angela & Sternudd Hans (eds.), How does it Feel?, Interdisciplinary Press. pp. 3-15. 2011.
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Personal IdentityIn Dana Jalobeanu & Charles T. Wolfe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer. forthcoming.
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Reconceptualising Affect: Descartes on the PassionsIn Juanita Ruys & Kirk Essary (eds.), Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling (400-1800), Routledge. forthcoming.
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Hume and German philosophyIn Angela Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.
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Triggers of Thought: Impressions within Hume’s Theory of MindHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 13. 2010.This essay argues that Humean impressions are triggers of associative processes, which enable us to form stable patterns of thought that co-vary with our experiences of the world. It will thus challenge the importance of the Copy Principle by claiming that it is the regularity with which certain kinds of sensory inputs motivate certain sets of complex ideas that matters for the discrimination of ideas. This reading is conducive to Hume’s account of perception, because it avoids the impoverishmen…Read more
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Condillac and His Reception: On the Nature and Origin of Human Abilities (edited book)Routledge. 2023.
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Verstehen durch Emotionen. Hume zum Problem des Fremdpsychischen (Understanding through Emotions)In Frank Brosow & Heiner Klemme (eds.), David Hume nach 300 Jahren. Historische Kontexte und systematische Perspektiven, Mentis. pp. 128-148. 2014.
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Projection and Realism in Hume’s Philosophy (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 62 (3). 2008.
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Hume and German philosophyIn Angela Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.