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17Report of the SecretaryProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 253-255. 1986.
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53Hegel’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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24Review of Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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40Comments on Andrew Feenberg’s Heidegger and MarcuseTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 9 (3): 52-61. 2006.
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11The Role and responsibility of the moral philosopher (edited book)National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America. 1982.Proceedings of the Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held in Houston, Tex., Apr. 16-18, 1982. Includes bibliographical references.
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38Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (3): 579-580. 1987.Challenging art historians' scientific pretensions as well as their neglect of theoretical questions, the author traces art history's development from the turn of the century by critically reviewing the early and lesser known writings of Erwin Panofsky, "the most influential art historian in the twentieth century." In a brief sketch of art history's nineteenth century roots, the first chapter reviews what is retained and what is discarded in Hegel's, Burckhardt's, and Dilthey's successive concep…Read more
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26Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part 1, Science of Logic (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic constitutes the foundation of the system of philosophy presented in his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Together with his Science of Logic, it contains the most explicit formulation of his enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought. It offers a more compact presentation of his dialectical method than is found elsewhere, and also incorporates changes that he would have made to the second edition of the Sc…Read more
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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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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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29Towards 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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11Infinity (edited book)National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America. 1981.Based on the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, April 3-5, 1981. Includes bibliographical references.
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13Review of Martin Heidegger, Medard boss ed., Franz Mayr and Richard Askay (translated with notes and afterwords), Zollikon Seminars: Protocols - Conversations-Letters (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (2). 2002.
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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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29The Transcendental How (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (3): 663-665. 1995.This well-informed and perceptive study of Kant's theoretical philosophy aims at presenting "how Kant thought that transcendental philosophy can be established, and how he in fact tried to accomplish his task". After indicating the metaphilosophical motivations underlying the study, the author focuses primarily on the transcendental deduction as presented in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. The study itself is divided into three parts. In the first part Kant's philosophical mot…Read more
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19The Nineteenth Meeting of the Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, April 30 to May 2, 1992: “Recht und Staat”The Owl of Minerva 24 (1): 121-122. 1992.This meeting of the Hegel-Gesellschaft featured forty-six papers, including those presented during the two plenary sessions, covering a wide range of topics within the theme of the congress. The congress was ably administered and hosted by Dr. Wolfgang Sünkel at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Nürnberg. As usual, the congress was heavily represented by scholars from Eastern Europe and by scholars working at the Hegel-Archiv in Bochum. The contingent from the United States included Howard …Read more
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9Nature and Scientific MethodCatholic University of Amer Press. 1991."Publications of William A. Wallace, O.P.": p. 309-318. Includes index.
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Hegel's appropriation of Kant's account of teleology in natureIn Stephen Houlgate (ed.), Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature, State University of New York Press. pp. 167--88. 1998.
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31Modern German Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (3): 692-694. 1983.Somewhat rambling and loosely structured in the manner of an essay about a subject matter with no fixed parameters, Modern German Philosophy succeeds in presenting a lively picture of the contemporary German philosophical scene, and not least because of the author's critical participation in it. The book's origin in a native German speaker is fairly evident despite the curiosity that the book was apparently intended, not for German publication, but solely for its English translation. The exposit…Read more
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68The 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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21Die Schematisierung des Seinssinnes als Thematik des dritten Abschnitts vonReview of Metaphysics 49 (3): 664-665. 1996.
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52Internationale 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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