Universität Bonn
Institut für Philosophie
PhD, 1982
Munich, Bayern, Germany
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy
  •  52
    Kant’s Theory of Imagination (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 36 (3): 360-362. 1996.
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    The paper assesses Martin's recent logico-phenomenological account of judgment that is cast in the form of an eclectic history of judging, from Hume and Kant through the 19th century to Frege and Heidegger as well as current neuroscience. After a preliminary discussion of the complex unity and temporal modalities of judgment that draws on a reading of Titian's "Allegory of Prudence" (National Gallery, London), the remainder of the paper focuses on Martin's views on Kant's logic in general and hi…Read more
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    Das Element aller Gewißheit
    Fichte-Studien 14 21-41. 1998.
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    Authenticities (review)
    Philosophical Review 106 (4): 638-640. 1997.
    Kivy distinguishes between three different claims to authenticity in the historical performance movement: authenticity with respect to the composer’s intention, authenticity with regard to sound, and authenticity in matters of performance practice. To this, Kivy adds a fourth notion of authenticity that does not figure in the idealized self-description of the historical performance movement but rather points to an alternative kind of authenticity championed by Kivy himself: the authenticity that…Read more
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    Of empty thoughts and blind intuitions Kant's answer to McDowell
    Trans/Form/Ação 33 (1): 65-96. 2010.
    This paper examines the relation between intuition and concept in Kant in light of John McDowell's neo-Kantian position that intuitions are concept-laden.2 The focus is on Kant's twofold pronouncement that thoughts without content are empty and that intuitions without concepts are blind. I show that intuitions as singular representations are not instances of passive data intake but the result of synthetic unification of the given manifold of the senses by the power of the imagination under the g…Read more
  • Kollegnachschriften 1794-1799 (edited book)
    with Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Erich Fuchs, Reinhard Lauth, Ives Radrizzani, Peter K. Schneider, Heinrich Fauteck, and Hans Georg von Manz
    frommann Holzboog. 2000.
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    InhaltVorwortSiglenverzeichnisEröffnung und GrußwortePlenarvorträgeGünter ZÖLLER: Fichte in Berlin in München Claudio CESA : Urfragen und Gestalten der Menschheitsgeschichte im Hinblick auf den späten FichteBernard BOURGEOIS: Über die Sich-selbst-Gleichheit der Fichteschen Rechts- und StaatslehreReinhard LAUTH: Zur grundsätzlichen Richtung der philosophischen Fichte-Forschung Fichtes letzte Darstellungen der Wissenschaftslehre Urs RICHLI: Die ursprüngliche Konstitution des Wissens in Fichtes spä…Read more
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  • Immanuel Kant: Der Streit mit Johann August Eberhard; Immanuel Kant: Réponse à Eberhard (review)
    Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 53 (1). 2000.
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    On revient toujours..
    Fichte-Studien 20 253-266. 2003.
    Fichte hat nur eine, die allererste und nicht einmal förmlich zum Abschluß gebrachte, Darstellung der Wissenschaftslehre publiziert, doch in den nächsten knapp zwei Jahrzehnten bis zu seinem Tod im Januar 1814 die Wissenschaftslehre noch insgesamt fünfzehn Mal öffentlich vorgetragen und dabei dreizehn Mal neu oder verändert dargestellt. Hinzukommen noch drei umfangreiche Ausarbeitungen, die den öffentlichen Vortrag der Wissenschaftslehre vorbereiten bzw. begleiten: »Eigne Meditationen über Eleme…Read more
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    Anthropology, History, and Education (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2007.
    Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but…Read more
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    InhaltVorwortSiglenverzeichnisJürgen STOLZENBERG: Fichtes Deduktionen des Ich 1804 und 1794Ulrich SCHLÖSSER: Worum geht es in der späteren Wissenschaftslehre und inwiefern unterscheiden sich die verschiedenen Darstellungen von ihr dem Ansatz nach?Enrico GIORGIO: Der Begriff »absolutes Wissen« in der WL-1801/02 aus der Perspektive der SpätlehreFaustino FABBIANELLI: Ist die späte Wissenschaftslehre ein »Aktualer Idealismus«? Ein spekulativer Vergleich zwischen Fichtes und Gentiles DenkenVadim V. M…Read more
  • Gesamtausgabe II, 13, Nachgelassene Schriften 1812, « Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften »
    with Johann Gottlieb Fichte, E. Fuchs, R. Lauth, I. Radrizzani, and P. K. Schneider
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 193 (1): 106-107. 2003.
  • Gesamtausgabe IV, 3, Kollegenachschriften, 1794-1799
    with Johann Gottlieb Fichte, E. Fuchs, R. Lauth, I. Radrizzani, and P. K. Schneider
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (4): 499-499. 2002.
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    Minds, Ideas and Objects: Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern Philosophy
    with Michael Ayers and Phillip D. Cummins
    Philosophical Review 106 (2): 288. 1997.
    Minds, Ideas and Objects is a collection of conference papers on the topic of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories of ideas or “sensory experience, thought, knowledge and their objects.” At least half the twenty-three papers are by well-known historians of philosophy who seldom disappoint, and there is some equally thought-provoking work among the rest. Some papers say little that is surprising, and some, including good ones, fail to convince, but few are weak. It is perhaps to be expect…Read more
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    Aesthetic Cognition: Kant on the Productive Power of the Imagination
    Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2018 (3): 23-36. 2018.
    The contribution examines the aesthetic aspect of cognition in Kant by exploring the central function of the power of the imagination (Einbildungskraft) in Kant’s critical epistemology, first featured in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787) and revisited in the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790). First, the focus will be on the relationship between the power of the imagination and the two main sources of (theoretical) cognition in Kant, viz., sensibility and the understanding. Second, …Read more
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    In the summer semester of 1931, Heidegger taught a lecture course entitled, "Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy," at the University of Freiburg. The edited version of Heidegger's manuscript for the course was published as volume 33 of the Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe in 1981 and is now available in an English translation that includes the original editor's epilogue and a brief foreward by the translators. The course covers the first three chapters of Book IX of Aristotle's Metaphysics. With…Read more
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    In her recent study, Kant's Organicism.Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy, Jennifer Mensch employs the technical term "organicism" to designate both Kant’s thinking about organisms and his thinking about other matters–chiefly among those transcendental cognition –in terms of his thinking about organisms. The article places Mensch's organicist reading of Kant into the wider context of recent and current work on Kant as a natural historian and its repercussion for understanding …Read more
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    Filosofía sistemática de la libertad Kant y Fichte en comparación crítica
    Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 55 251-274. 2018.
    El presente artículo compara a Kant y a Fichte en la perspectiva doble de identidad y diferencia referida a dos pensadores a quienes une una primera relación de maestro y alumno y a quienes separa una posterior difamación mutua. En el centro de la presentación se encuentra la relación entre espíritu de libertad y forma del sistema que une a Kant y a Fichte más allá de divergencias metódicas y de diferencias doctrinales. La comparación crítica entre Kant y Fichte se desarrollará en cuatro etapas:…Read more
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    Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
    Fichte-Studien 45 267-288. 2018.
    This essay seeks to present Fichte as a political thinker of European significance. To this end, the first section elucidates the basic political profile of Fichte’s philosophy. The second section further investigates the political character of Fichte’s philosophy by recourse to the triple motto of the French Revolution – „Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” – and its correlation with Fichte’s trinity of „I”, „You” and „We“. The final section addresses the mediating and transitional role and function…Read more