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6Die anerkennungskrise und der amerikanische traumIn Wilhelm Raimund Beyer, Andreas Arndt, Myriam Gerhard & Jure Zovko (eds.), 1996, De Gruyter. pp. 213-219. 1997.
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6Business Meeting April 5, 1986Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 263-263. 1986.
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6The 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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55 Shame: A Phenomenological Re-examination of Aquinas’s AnalysisIn Andrew LaZella & Richard A. Lee (eds.), The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy, Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy. pp. 97-114. 2020.
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5Existential PersonalismProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 253-255. 1986.
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4Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1997.Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of 'sentiments'. Mendelssohn offers a nuanced defence of Leibniz's theodicy and conception of freedom, an examination of the ethics of suicide, an account of the 'mixed sentiments' so central to the tragic genre, a hypothesis about weakness of will, an elaboration of the main principles and types of art, a definition of sublimity and analysis of its basic forms, and, lastly, a brief tra…Read more
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4Moses MendelssohnIn Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: Evidence, Idealism, and Common Sense The Aesthetics of “Mixed Feelings” Socrates and Rational Psychology in Mendelssohn's Phaedo Religious Tolerance and a Philosophy of Judaism “Refined Spinozism,” the Pantheism Controversy, and Morning Hours The Only Possible Bases of Natural Theology.
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4Review of Paisley Livingston, Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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4Scheler on shameMetodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 5 (1): 239-262. 2017.This paper presents a critical review of Scheler’s analysis of shame's structure, dynamic, and affectivity, and his explanation of phenomena of shame. This first part of the paper examines Scheler’s accounts of shame’s basic condition, the law ultimately governing its origin, and its basic dynamic. The second part of the paper turns to his general descriptions of what we feel when we feel shame and his analyses of two distinct forms of shame. The conclusion attempts to draw these aspects of his …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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4Critical Study Heidegger's Last WordReview of Metaphysics 41 (3): 589-606. 1988.LECTURE NOTES MAY BE "MURKY SOURCES," yet during the past decade "murky" manuscripts have been instrumental in the publication of many of Heidegger's own legendary lectures during the years between the world wars. To be sure, the Heidegger of these lectures is very much, as he puts it, "under way." His motto for the complete edition of his works reads: "Ways--not works." Nevertheless, as might be expected from lectures, the wording is simpler, the style more casual, and the chain of thoughts mor…Read more
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3Lawrence J. Hatab, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I (review)Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 9 226-238. 2019.
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3Zur Aktualität der Ontologie Nicolai HartmannsIn Gerald Hartung, Matthias Wunsch & Claudius Strube (eds.), Von der Systemphilosophie zur systematischen Philosophie - Nicolai Hartmann, De Gruyter. pp. 349-366. 2012.
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3Minutes of the Executive Council Meeting April 4, 1986Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 261-262. 1986.
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3Robert Scharff’s How History Matters to Philosophy (review)Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 8 85-96. 2018.
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2Edith Landmann-Kalischer (1877-1951)In Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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1Philosophische Betrachtungen über einige Bedingungen des GedichtesTheoretische Aesthetik. Die grundlegenden Abschnitte aus der "Aesthetica" Texte zur Grundlegung der Aesthetik (review)Review of Metaphysics 39 (3): 553-555. 1986.In her fine monograph, Kunst als Erkenntnis, Ursula Franke remarked that "Baumgarten ist sich der Schwerfälligkeit seines Stils offenbar bewußt gewesen." Not the least because of difficulties with his Latin style, Baumgarten's work has been little researched, despite the commonplace that he "founded" the science of aesthetics. These precise, but nonetheless quite readable, translations by Heinz Paetzold and Rudolf Schweizer should remedy this situation.
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1Towards an Explanation of LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 33-46. 2010.After reviewing basic features of language, this paper reviews a central debate among twentieth-century philosophers over the proper analysis of linguisticmeaning. While some center the analysis of meaning in language’s capacity to be true, others locate meaning in the communicative intentions of the users of thelanguage. As a means of addressing this impasse and suggesting its unfounded character, the paper draws on recent studies of language acquisition and relates them to existential dimensio…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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14. PhänomenologieIn Dietmar Hermann Heidemann & Kristina Engelhard (eds.), Warum Kant Heute?: Systematische Bedeutung und Rezeption seiner Philosophie in der Gegenwart, De Gruyter. pp. 100-125. 2003.
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The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of PhilosophyThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 8. 2000.Part of the bafflement over expressions like “contemporary” and “postmodern” in philosophy can be traced to a flood of nineteenth-century historians of philosophy who dubbed the so-called “post-medieval” era from Bacon and Descartes to Mill and Nietzsche the “Philosophie der Neuzeit,” “L’époque moderne,” and “modern philosophy.” Even the philosophers mentioned suffice to indicate that these labels are often only placeholders for views of thinkers linked by little more than a birth after the onse…Read more
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Thinking Fast: Freedom, Expertise, and SolicitationIn Nicolas de Warren & Jeffrey Bloechl (eds.), Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History: Essays in Honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens, Springer. 2015.
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Hermeneutics in Being and timeIn Michael J. Bowler & Ingo Farin (eds.), Hermeneutical Heidegger, Northwestern University Press. 2016.
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Theodore F. Geraets, ed., l'esprit absolu/The Absolute Spirit Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (5): 193-196. 1985.
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Die Altruistische EinstellungJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 6. 1998.This essay takes a critical look at a specific altruistic interpretation of the moral nature, legitimacy, and value of unselfish actions. The aim of the essay is to raise questions about this altruistic attitude toward the morality of unselfish actions by focussing on certain assumptions that inform that attitude. It is argued that, among those assumptions, the most counterintuitive and deleterious is the notion that the morality of an unselfish action can and should be established by appeal to …Read more
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