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25Correction to: Kant on the Normativity of Obligatory EndsThe Journal of Ethics 28 (1): 75-76. 2024.
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25A merely national ‘universal’ basic income and global justiceJournal of Political Philosophy 31 (2): 158-176. 2023.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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24Parfit’s Mixed Maxim Objection against the Formula of Universal Law ReconsideredJournal of Value Inquiry 58 (1): 13-32. 2024.
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24Kant on the Normativity of Obligatory EndsThe Journal of Ethics 28 (1): 53-73. 2024.I propose a novel way to understand the stringency of Kant’s conception of beneficence. This novel understanding can ground our intuition that we do not have to forego (almost) all pursuit of our personal ends. I argue that we should understand the application of imperfect duties to specific cases according to the framework set by the adoption and promotion of ends. Agents have other ends than obligatory ones and they must weigh obligatory ends against these other ends. Obligatory ends are speci…Read more
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23Owen Ware, Kant’s Justification of Ethics Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021 Pp. 192 ISBN 9780198849933 (hbk), $70.00 (review)Kantian Review 27 (2): 338-341. 2022.
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22Die Ansprüche der Theorie und Praxis in der Nikomachischen EthikZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (4): 380-399. 2016.
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20Kant on Reflection and Virtue Melissa Merritt, (Cambridge: University Press, 2018, 234pp ISBN: 9781108344005, £75.00 hbk (review)European Journal of Philosophy 27 (2): 532-534. 2019.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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18Working Oneself Up and Universal Basic IncomeKantian Review 1-9. forthcoming.I respond to a challenge raised by Jordan Pascoe: Kant’s conception of obtaining full citizenship through working oneself up necessarily condemns some people to passive citizenship. I argue that we should not focus on work to establish universal full citizenship. Rather, a Universal Basic Income, an income paid regularly to everyone and without conditions, can secure everyone’s full citizenship. Moreover, I argue that such a scheme is more Kantian in nature than hitherto assumed.
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16Reflection or Ethical Community? Kant’s and Hegel’s Conception of Pre-Theoretical Moral CognitionHegel-Jahrbuch 2017 (1): 247-252. 2017.
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14True Need in KantKant Studien 113 (3): 432-458. 2022.A number of influential Kantian philosophers assume that true need represents shared and fundamental human concerns that can both ground duties of aid and limit how much an agent can be morally required to do for others. In this paper, I take on this misreading and argue that true need is representative of personal priorities. This subjectivist reading fits better with Kant’s own characterization of true need and with his conceptions of need and happiness. Moreover, I argue that Kant’s own conce…Read more
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12Kant and Global Poverty: Guest Editors’ Introduction to Special IssueEthical Theory and Moral Practice 26 (2): 169-175. 2023.
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11Common Human Reason and the Fact of ReasonIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 2191-2198. 2018.
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8Maxims and the Role of Moral PrinciplesIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1561-1570. 2021.
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6System und Systemkritik – Witz und Ironie als philosophische Methode beim frühen Friedrich SchlegelPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 120 (1): 64-81. 2013.The conceptions of wit and irony of the early Friedrich Schlegel together constitute a philosophically ambitious form of early-romantic dialectic. This dialectic was directed especially against the closed philosophical system of Fichte, and tries to show a third way between the abandonment of a system and a closed system. The result is an open system, which can accommodate historical change and an infinite approach to the absolute. The article discusses the origin of this third way in romantic i…Read more
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RationalizingCambridge University Press. 2021.Kant was a keen psychological observer and theorist of the forms, mechanisms and sources of self-deception. In this Element, the author discusses the role of rationalizing/Vernünfteln for Kant's moral psychology, normative ethics and philosophical methodology. By drawing on the full breadth of examples of rationalizing Kant discusses, the author shows how rationalizing can extend to general features of morality and corrupt rational agents thoroughly. Furthermore, the author explains the often-ov…Read more
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