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31Hegel’s social ethics: Religion, conflict, and rituals of recognitionContemporary Political Theory 1-4. 2017.
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48Hegel’s Philosophy and Common SenseThe European Legacy 23 (3): 269-285. 2018.Although, as many scholars have noted, Hegel appears to dismiss common sense, I argue that his claim that speculative philosophy can provide the rational ground for what is implicit in ordinary consciousness amounts to a critical vindication of common sense. Hegel’s attitude to common sense/ordinary consciousness is thus more complex and intriguing than either the longstanding consensus on his dismissal of and disdain for common sense, or the McDowellian attempt to ally Hegel’s position with lat…Read more
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151Epistemic injustice: A role for recognition?Philosophy and Social Criticism 44 (2): 141-158. 2018.My aim in this article is to propose that an insightful way of articulating the feminist concept of epistemic injustice can be provided by paying significant attention to recognition theory. The article intends to provide an account for diagnosing epistemic injustice as a social pathology and also attempts to paint a picture of some social cure of structural forms of epistemic injustice. While there are many virtues to the literature on epistemic injustice, epistemic exclusion and silencing, cur…Read more
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47Idealism and the metaphysics of individualityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (2): 208-229. 2017.What is arguably the central criticism of Hegel’s philosophical system by the Continental tradition, a criticism which represents a unifying thread in the diverse work of Schelling, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Adorno, is that Hegel fails to adequately do justice to the notion of individuality. My aim in this paper is to counter the claim that Hegel’s idea of the concrete universal fails to properly explain the real uniqueness of individuals. In what follows, I argue that whilst the Con…Read more
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77Pragmatist themes in Van Fraassen’s stances and Hegel’s forms of consciousnessInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (1): 95-111. 2016.The aim of this paper is to establish a substantial positive philosophical connection between Bas van Fraassen and Hegel, by focusing on their respective notions of ‘stance’ and ‘form of consciousness’. In Section I, I run through five ways of understanding van Fraassen’s idea of a stance. I argue that a ‘stance’ is best understood as an intellectual disposition. This, in turn, means that the criteria for assessing a stance are ones which ask whether or not a stance adequately makes sense of thi…Read more
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25Battling for Metaphysics: The Case for IndispensabilityMetaphysica (1): 127-150. 2017.The aim of this paper is to propose that both Hegel and Peirce are committed to two arguments against the notion that metaphysics is impossible, where not only do they claim metaphysics is possible, but that they also insist on theindispensabilityof this philosophical discipline. In the first argument, both Hegel and Peirce argue that it is impossible to eliminate metaphysical concepts from ordinary language and our scientific practices. In the second argument, both Hegel and Peirce argue that m…Read more
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40Hegel, Analytic Philosophy’s PharmakonThe European Legacy 22 (2): 1-14. 2017.In this article I argue that Hegel has become analytic philosophy’s “pharmakon”—both its “poison” and its “cure.” Traditionally, Hegel’s philosophy has been attacked by Anglo-American analytical philosophers for its alleged charlatanism and irrelevance. Yet starting from the 1970s there has been a revival of interest in Hegel’s philosophical work, which, I suggest, may be explained by three developments: the revival of interest in Aristotelianism following Saul Kripke’s and Hilary Putnam’s work …Read more
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155Liberal Naturalism: The Curious Case of HegelInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (2): 248-270. 2014.My aim in this paper is to defend the claim that the absolute idealism of Hegel is a liberal naturalist position against Sebastian Gardner’s claim that it is not genuinely naturalistic, and also to defend the position of ‘liberal naturalism’ from Ram Neta’s charge that there is no logical space for it to occupy. By ‘liberal naturalism’, I mean a doctrine which is a non-reductive form of philosophical naturalism. Like Fred Beiser, I take the thesis of liberal naturalism to find support in the ide…Read more
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61New Directions for Transcendental ClaimsGrazer Philosophische Studien 93 (2): 212-231. 2016.This article aims to provide an account of the relationship between transcendental claims and the project of using transcendental argumentation that differs from the mainstream literature. In much of the literature, such claims are said to have as their primary value the overcoming of various sceptical positions. The author argues that, whilst transcendental arguments may be narrowly characterised as anti-sceptical, transcendental claims do not have to be used in only this way, and in fact can b…Read more
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The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth century Philosophy (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 33 (2): 97-100. 2012.
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37Hegel and the Analytic Tradition (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (6): 1221-1223. 2012.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-3, Ahead of Print
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42Hegel's Therapeutic Conception of PhilosophyHegel Bulletin (Special Issue on Idealism and Pragmatism) 36 (02). 2015.The aim of this paper is to argue that Hegel has a therapeutic conception of philosophy, and also to argue that in significant respects this anticipates the classical pragmatist position, which is also interpreted as offering a therapeutic approach. In the first section, I introduce Hegel’s views on how theoretical reasoning has an important connection with practical life. I argue that this important connection between theoretical reason and the practical establishes Hegel as a member of the the…Read more
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58A Critique of Rorty’s Conception of PragmatismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 7 (2): 168-185. 2015.The aim of this paper is to argue that Richard Rorty’s claim that pragmatism is opposed to all varieties of metaphysics is fundamentally mistaken. After detailing pragmatist reasons for thinking Rorty’s proposal is justified, I argue that there are more compelling pragmatist reasons to think Rorty’s metaphilosophical interpretation of pragmatism is rather problematic: firstly, Rorty has a narrow understanding of ‘metaphysics’ and he does not take into account Peirce’s argument that it is impossi…Read more
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Moving from Transcendental Logic to Dialectical LogicHegel Jahrbuch. forthcoming.This paper is concerned with how best to explicate the connection between Kant’s transcendental logic and Hegel’s dialectical logic. After very briefly detailing Robert Pippin’s influential account of the Kant-Hegel relationship, I offer a basic criticism of his transcendentalist interpretation of Hegel. I argue that while this works well against Pippin’s reading, there is still space to regard Hegel as doing transcendental philosophy. What is crucial here is that Hegel’s rejection of transcende…Read more
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Non-reductivism and the Metaphilosophy of MindInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (5): 477-503. 2019.
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21Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (4). 2013.No abstract
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27Hegel’s Metaphysics as Speculative NaturalismIn Allegra De Laurentiis (ed.), Hegel and Metaphysics: On Logic and Ontology in the System, De Gruyter. pp. 149-162. 2016.The aim of this paper is to (i) reject the notion that one can ascribe no metaphysical commitments to Hegel; and (ii) argue that the kind of metaphysics one ought to ascribe to Hegel is a robust yet immanent/naturalist variety. I begin by exploring two reasons why one may think Hegel’s philosophical system has no metaphysical commitments. I argue that one of these reasons is based on a particular understanding of Hegel as a post-Kantian philosopher, whereas the second reason is centred on a part…Read more
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73Ostrich Nominalism and Peacock Realism: A Hegelian Critique of QuineInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (5): 734-751. 2014.My aim in this paper is to offer a Hegelian critique of Quine’s predicate nominalism. I argue that at the core of Hegel’s idealism is not a supernaturalist spirit monism, but a realism about universals, and that while this may contrast to the nominalist naturalism of Quine, Hegel’s position can still be defended over that nominalism in naturalistic terms. I focus on the contrast between Hegel’s and Quine’s respective views on universals, which Quine takes to be definitive of philosophical natura…Read more
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Recognition Theory and Kantian CosmopolitanismIn Florian Demont-Biaggi (ed.), The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.Kantian moral theory is construed as the paradigm of deontology, where such an approach to ethics is opposed to consequentialism and perfectionism. However, in Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim, Kant understands historical progress in terms of the realisation of our rational capacities, to the extent that such emphasis on capability actualisation amounts to a form of moral perfectionism: wars and incessant periods of armed conflict lead rulers to grasp the value of peace, beca…Read more
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50Embodied Meaning and Art as Sense-Making: A Critique of Beiser’s Interpretation of the ‘End of Art Thesis'Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 8. 2016.The aim of this paper is to challenge Fred Beiser’s interpretation of Hegel’s meta-aesthetical position on the future of art. According to Beiser, Hegel’s comments about the ‘pastness’ of art commit Hegel to viewing postromantic art as merely a form of individual self-expression. I both defend and extend to other territory Robert Pippin’s interpretation of Hegel as a proto-modernist, where such modernism involves (i) his rejection of both classicism and Kantian aesthetics, and (ii) his espousal …Read more
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