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65The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (2): 423-425. 1994.In the section of the Critique of Pure Reason entitled "Clue to the Discovery of All Pure Concepts of the Understanding," Kant criticizes Aristotle for having "thrown together" his list of categories. On the basis of what Kant says in that same section, however, it has seemed to many readers that Kant's presentation of the categories on the basis of the table of the logical forms of judgment is no less "rhapsodic." In this and other related respects the so-called metaphysical deduction of the ca…Read more
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Hegel's appropriation of Kant's account of teleology in natureIn Stephen Houlgate (ed.), Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature, Suny Press. pp. 167--88. 1998.
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22Selbstbewußtseinsmodelle (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (4): 938-940. 1999.Challenging twentieth-century skepticism regarding the notion of subjectivity, the author sets for himself the task of elaborating several models of self-consciousness, each differentiated by an advancing degree of complexity. Düsing’s book is accordingly both critical and constructive; its aim is to construct a viable theory of subjectivity and a clear foundation for scientific research, thereby forestalling the naive practice, common among researchers of neural processes, of assuming an arbitr…Read more
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21Die Schematisierung des Seinssinnes als Thematik des dritten Abschnitts vonReview of Metaphysics 49 (3): 664-665. 1996.
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51Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft, Debrecen and BudapestThe Owl of Minerva 26 (1): 110-110. 1994.Over a hundred scholars from as far away as Tokyo, New York, and Buenos Aires, participated in the twentieth congress of the Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft held in Debrecen and Budapest, Hungary, from August 24 to August 28, 1994, on the theme: Vernunft in der Geschichte? Among those addressing the Debrecen portion of the congress were Agnes Heller, Manfred Riedel, Shlomo Avineri, Walter Jaeschke, and Ludwig Siep. Howard Kainz of Marquette University also gave a well received paper in Debrece…Read more
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56Review of Edmund Husserl, J. N. Findlay (trans.) , Michael Dummett (new preface), Dermot Moran (intro), Logical Investigations, Volumes 1 and 2 and the Shorter Logical Investigations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (4). 2002.
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13Wild and Mild: Heidegger on Human Liberation and the Essence of HistoryInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (4): 569-582. 2014.In the late 1930s Heidegger makes allusions to ?the wild? and ?the mild? in connection with a human liberation that he understands as a steadfast response to the claim that historical being (Seyn) makes upon us. The following paper elucidates these allusions in terms of the overturning of metaphysics that they entail
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14Hegel’s Science of Logic and Idea of TruthIdealistic Studies 13 (1): 33-49. 1983.To criticize a philosopher’s views properly a primary requirement is an accurate understanding of the questions he raises, the problems he acknowledges, and the procedures he follows. In the following study I attempt to identify the specific question of truth which Hegel addresses, the basis of the sort of skepticism posing a serious threat to its resolution, and finally a strategy he adopts. The specific question of truth for Hegel is a question of metaphysical truth or, in the Cartesian terms …Read more
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13Philosophische Betrachtungen über einige Bedingungen des Gedichtes (review)Review of Metaphysics 39 (3): 553-556. 1986.
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8Philosophical knowledge (edited book)National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America. 1980.
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40Temptation, Self-Possession, and Resoluteness: Heidegger's Reading of Confessions X and What Is the Good of Being and Time?Research in Phenomenology 39 (2): 248-265. 2009.In Heidegger's 1921 lectures, he presents an extensive interpretation of Book Ten of Augustine's Confessions . The present paper elaborates parallels between that interpretation of Augustine's Confessions and Heidegger's interpretation of existence in Being and Time , with special reference to the themes of self-possession and resoluteness as respective anchors of the two interpretations. The study also highlights ways the two interpretations diverge, i.e., the aspects of the interpretation of t…Read more
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127Heidegger's Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal IndicationsReview of Metaphysics 47 (4). 1994.In 1929, after rejecting the suggestion that contemporary Christians may be expected to feel "threatened" by Kierkegaard's criticisms, the Protestant theologian Gerhardt Kuhlmann remarks
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Mutual Need and Frustration: Hegel's Conception of Religion and Philosophy in the Modern EraThe Thomist 47 (3): 339. 1983.
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Theodore F. Geraets, ed., l'esprit absolu/The Absolute Spirit (review)Philosophy in Review 5 193-196. 1985.
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11The Heidegger dictionaryBloomsbury Academic. 2013.A concise and accessible dictionary of the key terms used in Heidegger's philosophy, his major works and philosophical influences.
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36Kant's Theory of Natural Science (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (1): 151-153. 1995.The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science was conceived by Kant as an application of the positive conclusions or "general metaphysics" demonstrated in the Analytic of Principles of the Critique of Pure Reason to the specialized objects of knowledge that fall under the concept of matter. The application was meant to provide a metaphysical foundation for natural science, capable of explaining, among other things, how mathematics as an a priori discipline is necessarily applicable to the empi…Read more
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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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25Günter Figal’s Objectivity: Some Critical RemarksResearch in Phenomenology 44 (1): 111-120. 2014.
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13Review of Nikolas Kompridis (ed.), Philosophical Romanticism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (10). 2006.
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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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20James Dodd, Idealism and Corporeity: An Essay on the Problem of the Body in Husserl’s Phenomenology (review)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 22 (1): 340-343. 2000.From a phenomenological point of view, others present themselves as unities within my intentional life as a whole, constituted ‘for’ me even while maintaining a certain reserve. This ‘reserve’ is meant to indicate that the consciousness of alter egos involves the consciousness of a breach that does not obtain between consciousness and its other ‘objects’. Indeed, there is an obvious sense in which this very consciousness requires a considerable modification of the phenomenological understanding …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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21Technik 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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28Pragmatist 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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39The Natural Right of Equal Opportunity in Kant’s Civil UnionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 295-303. 1985.
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55Heidegger'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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