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27Reines und empirisches Selbstbewusstsein in Kants Anthropologie: Das „Ich“ und die rationale CharakterentwicklungIn Udo Thiel & Giuseppe Motta (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Die Einheit des Bewusstseins (Kant-Studien Ergänzungshefte), De Gruyter. pp. 195-220. 2017.
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26Michael Friedman and the “marriage” of history and philosophy of science : Mary Domski and Michael Dickson : Discourse on a new method:Reinvigorating the marriage of history and philosophy of science; with a concluding essay by Michael Friedman. Chicago: Open Court, 2010, viii+852pp, $89.95 HBMetascience 23 (2): 225-232. 2013.
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25Kant über die dreifache Beziehung zwischen den Wissenschaften und der PhilosophieInternationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism 8 60-82. 2011.
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25Formal versus Bounded Norms in the Psychology of Rationality: Toward a Multilevel Analysis of Their RelationshipPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (3): 190-209. 2019.It is often claimed that formal and optimizing norms of the standard conception of rationality and the heuristics of the bounded rationality approach are at odds with one another. This claim, I arg...
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24Margaret S. Archer, Being Human: The Problem of Agency (review)Metapsychology 5 (46). 2001.A review which, among other criticisms of Archer's book, discusses some philosophical problems concerning talk of the "self" in the human sciences.
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19The Force of an Idea: New Essays on Christian Wolff's Psychology (edited book)Springer. 2021.This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the last decades, the publication of Wolff's Gesammelte Werke by Jean École and collaborators has aroused new interest in his ideas, but the meaning, scope, and impact of his psychological program have remained open to close and comprehensive analysis and…Read more
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15Zustand und Zukunft der Akademie-Ausgabe von Kants Gesammelten SchriftenKant Studien 90 (1): 100-106. 1999.The article reports discussions at an international conference of leading Kant scholars held at the University of Marburg (Germany) in 1998. The conference was concerned with both the current state and the need for revisions of the Academy edition of Kant's Gesammelte Schriften as well. As became clear, a complete revision is necessary in the case of Vols. XX-XXIV and XXVII-XXIX, since these can hardly be used for research. Improvements of various extent and content should be attempted in other …Read more
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14How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War RationalityUniversity of Chicago Press: Chicago. 2013.
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13Guest editors’ introductionTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 34 (3): 317-320. 2019.
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12Der elektronische Kant: Neue CD-ROMs zu Kants Schriften (review)Kant Studien 90 107-110. 1999.A review of electronic versions of writings by Kant's: first, a CD-Rom containing central parts of the Academy edition; second, an edition containing next to central works by Kant also texts by Locke, Berkeley and Hume. Both editions are useful and complement each other, although for scholarly purposes the electronic version of the Academy edition is to be preferred.
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8Scientific innovationTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 34 (3): 321-341. 2019.I offer an analysis of the concept of scientific innovation. When research is innovated, highly novel and useful elements of investigation begin to spread through a scientific community, resulting from a process which is neither due to blind chance nor to necessity, but to a minimal use of rationality. This, however, leads to tension between two claims: (1) scientific innovation can be explained rationally; (2) no existing account of rationality explains scientific innovation. There are good rea…Read more
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7Eine Frage des CharaktersIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 440-449. 2001.
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3Review: Sacks, Insight and Objectivity (review)Kant Studien 97 239-243. 2006.I criticize Sacks' ambitious work on objectivity and its history in modern philosophy in three main regards: First, Sacks tends to oversimplify the different views of Descartes, Locke, and Hume, which are not all haunted in the same sense by a "subject-driven skepticism". Second, Kant's conception of objectivity isn't directed (primarily) at refuting external world skepticism. Third, Sacks assumes that it is clear what transcendental idealism is: a doctrine that asserts an ontological distinctio…Read more
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2Johann Martin ChladeniusIn Heiner Klemme (ed.), The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers., Thoemmes. 2000.Biograhical entry.
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2Christian Gottfried SchützIn Heiner Klemme (ed.), The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers., Thoemmes. 2000.Biographical entry.
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1Kant on empirical psychology: How not to investigate the human mindIn Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant and the Sciences, Oxford University Press. pp. 163--184. 2001.
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1Johann Gottlob KrügerIn Heiner Klemme (ed.), The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers., Thoemmes. 2000.Biographical entry.
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Selbsttäuschung: Wer ist hier rational und warum?Studia Philosophica: Jahrbuch Der Schweizerischen Philosoph Ischen Gesellschaft, Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Philosphie 68 229-254. 2009.I argue that both psychological and philosophical studies of selfdeception suffer from serious weaknesses, albeit different ones. On the one hand, psychologists often use varying and unreflective conceptions of selfdeception in their research. On the other hand, philosophers either ignore the necessity of paying attention to psychological research – or, if they do, they use empirical studies of human cognition and reasoning without realizing that theories and data are loaded with highly problema…Read more
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Implicit ReasoningIn J. Robert Thompson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition, Routledge. pp. 377-388. 2023.
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Misuse of the FDA's humanitarian device exemption in deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorderHealthAffairs 30 (2): 302-311. 2011.Deep brain stimulation — a novel surgical procedure — is emerging as a treatment of last resort for people diagnosed with neuropsychiatric disorders such as severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. The US Food and Drug Administration granted a so-called humanitarian device exemption to allow patients to access this intervention, thereby removing the requirement for a clinical trial of the appropriate size and statistical power. Bypassing the rigors of such trials puts patients at risk, limits oppor…Read more
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