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15Der Gottesgedanke in der Philosophie Kants (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (3): 690-692. 1985.This well-written, ambitious, and admirably condensed reconstruction of Kant's concept of God in relation to his theoretical and moral philosophy, from the precritical writings to the Opus Postumum, is by its very nature an uneven survey of the works and problems treated. The author strives for a new interpretation of Kant's moral theology by interpreting Kant's practical postulate of God as "eine qualitätive neue Metaphysik," making possible "subjektiven moralischen Glauben an einen wirklichen …Read more
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Rationality, Anthropomorphism, And Hegel's Metaphysics Of Nature: Remarks On Alison Stone's Petrified IntelligenceBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51 13-21. 2005.
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11Business Meeting April 5, 1986Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 263-263. 1986.
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23Technik und Gelassenheit (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (3): 688-690. 1985.According to the author, Heidegger's understanding of the metaphysical roots of modern technology also indicates a way out of its life-threatening grip. Technik und Gelassenheit is an attempt to clear that alternative path according to and after Heidegger. Unaware of the extent of "die ökologische Katastrophe wie das atomäre Inferno," Heidegger was too generous to metaphysics and unable to hope that technology itself would be part of the turn from metaphysics. Schirmacher aims to cultivate that …Read more
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58Heidegger's Kantian Turn: Notes to His Commentary on the Kritik Der Reinen VernunftReview of Metaphysics 45 (2). 1991.IN THE SPRING OF 1928, approximately one year after the publication of Sein und Zeit, Heidegger concludes a seminar on Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft with the following remark
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29Pragmatist Aesthetics (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (1): 166-168. 1994.This engaging work presents a persuasive argument for placing a morally populist and somatic pragmatism at the center, not only of aesthetics and art, but also of what the author calls "the aesthetic life." In the opening chapter the author begins by situating pragmatist aesthetics in its philosophical context, chiefly through a contrast with analytic aesthetics. Casting the contrast as a renewal of the quarrel between Kantians and Hegelians, the author elaborates the fundamental opposition of a…Read more
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40The Natural Right of Equal Opportunity in Kant’s Civil UnionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 295-303. 1985.
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66The Development of FreedomProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 35-52. 2007.This paper elaborates four asymmetrical, developmental stages of the phenomenon of human freedom, starting with a rudimentary sort of freedom, thebasic experience of a relatively unencumbered power to act in alternative ways. The paper argues that structural elements of this rudimentary form of freedomare demonstrable in three distinct, supervening forms of freedom: instrumental freedom, the experience of the self-reflective ability to pursue certain aims, perfectionist freedom, the experience o…Read more
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27Hegel's Appropriation of Kant's Account of Teleology in NatureProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 13 167-188. 1998.
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18Interpreting Heidegger: critical essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.This volume of essays by internationally prominent scholars interprets the full range of Heidegger's thought and major critical interpretations of it. It explores such central themes as hermeneutics, facticity and Ereignis, conscience in Being and Time, freedom in the writings of his period of transition from fundamental ontology, and his mature criticisms of metaphysics and ontotheology. The volume also examines Heidegger's interpretations of other authors, the philosophers Aristotle, Kant and …Read more
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89Signification and logic: Scotus on universals from a logical point of viewVivarium 18 (2): 81-111. 1980.
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22Existential PersonalismProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 263-263. 1986.
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138Heidegger's transcendentalismResearch in Phenomenology 35 (1): 29-54. 2005.This paper attempts to marshall some of the evidence of the transcendental character of Heidegger's later thinking, despite his repudiation of any form of transcendental thinking, including that of his own earlier project of fundamental ontology. The transcendental significance of that early project is first outlined through comparison and contrast with the diverse transcendental turns in the philosophies of Kant and Husserl. The paper then turns to Heidegger's account of the historical source o…Read more
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40Review of Iain D. Thomson, Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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75Challenges to the Rational Observation of Nature in the Phenomenology of SpiritThe Owl of Minerva 38 (1-2): 35-56. 2006.This paper concerns Hegel’s much-neglected discussion of the rational observation of nature in the first part of the chapter on reason in the Phenomenology of Spirit. The paper focuses, in particular, on the themes of nature’s inexhaustibilit y, animal life’s holistic character, and the earth’s individual distinctiveness insofar as Hegel appeals to them to challenge a certain kind of self-understanding of what it means to observe nature rationally. In addition to examining the significance and t…Read more
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4William A. Wallace, Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof: The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Galileo's Logical Treatises Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 14 (1): 70-73. 1994.
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39Hermeneutic OntologyIn Roberto Poli & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 395--415. 2010.
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10An asterisk denotes a publication by a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The Editors welcome suggestions for reviews. Bash, Anthony. Forgiveness and Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+ 208. Hard Cover $85.00, ISBN: 978-0-521-87880-7. Cary, Phillip. Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul. New York (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (3). 2008.
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37The Sexual Basis of Moral LifeProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 62 (n/a): 202. 1988.
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23Minutes of the Executive Council MeetingProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56 213-214. 1982.
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34The First Person. An Essay on Reference and Intentionality (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (3): 695-698. 1983.The work of the author's serious revisions of his earlier analyses of belief-locutions, this crisply argued essay has an impressive range and force, with important ramifications for ontology, epistemology, and theory of reference. Chisholm takes as the primary form of belief and reference the non-propositional belief expressed in the locution "he believes himself to be..." and explicates this basic sort of belief without recourse to such "impure" Platonic entities as indexical properties and sin…Read more
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50Ludwig Feuerbach (review)The Owl of Minerva 14 (2): 8-9. 1982.The jumble of themes contained in Feuerbach’s Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit testify to the youthfulness of a work published when its author was a mere 26. These “thoughts” contain a scathing polemic against the veiled egoism of pietism and rationalism, an off-beat blend of Jacob Boehme’s theosophical mysticism with Lucretius’ arguments against personal immortality, and unique renditions of Hegel’s conceptions of nature, history, and God. There is even a somewhat tedious attempt to dispro…Read more
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1The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and SchillerIn Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge companion to German idealism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 76--94. 2000.
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26Report of the SecretaryProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56 (n/a): 210-212. 1982.
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