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38Positive Aesthetic Pleasure in Early Schopenhauer: Two Kantian AccountsIdealistic Studies 52 (3): 269-289. 2022.Schopenhauer is widely held to accommodate no positive aesthetic pleasure. While this may be the case in his mature oeuvre overall, where he insists on the negative character of all gratification, I reconstruct two early accounts of such pleasure in his manuscripts, both of which are a direct result of Schopenhauer’s engagement with Kant’s first and third Critiques. To do so, I analyze his so-called metaphysics of the ‘better consciousness’ and his transition from it to the metaphysics of will (…Read more
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27Schopenhauers "hermeneutischer" Metaphysik- und Kritizismus-Begriff vor dem Hintergrund seiner Kant-RezeptionJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (2): 299-325. 2021.ARRAY
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22Kantian vs. Platonic: The Ambiguity of Schopenhauer’s Notion of Ideas Explained via Its OriginsJournal of Transcendental Philosophy 3 (2): 213-234. 2022.The ‘Platonic Ideas’ in Schopenhauer’s metaphysics are appearances. On the other hand, as the immediate objecthood of the will, they are the essences of species and the only object of true aesthetic cognition, which leads beyond mere appearance. To explain this apparent incongruence, I offer an analysis of Schopenhauer’s early metaphysics, and its transformation into the metaphysics of will, fleshing out the several and divergent concepts of ‘idea’. Specifically, first, as part of his religious …Read more
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19The very possibility of contemplation: The dialectics of intellect and will in Schopenhauer's aestheticsSouthern Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.In this article, I explore how Schopenhauer's theory of aesthetic experience—independently of his theory of arts—accommodates the possibility of contemplation. The standard reading of his aesthetics is that contemplation becomes possible because of a certain “surplus” of intellect and facilitating external occasions. I argue, however, that the “essential imperfections” of intellect and Schopenhauer's overall metaphysics are inconsistent with the very idea of will‐less cognition and, hence, of a …Read more
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19This study examines BDI logics in the context of Gabbay's fibring semantics. We show that dovetailing can be adopted as a semantic methodology to combine BDI logics. We develop a set of interaction axioms that can capture static as well as dynamic aspects of the mental states in BDI systems, using Catach's incestual schema G^[a, b, c, d]. Further we exemplify the constraints required on fibring function to capture the semantics of interactions among modalities. The advantages of having a fibred …Read more
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6The Foundations of Schopenhauer’s Critical MetaphysicsPhilosophical Anthropology 4 (2): 117-151. 2018.
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Schopenhauer's synoptic metaphilosophyIn David Bather Woods & Timothy Stoll (eds.), The Schopenhauerian mind, Routledge. 2023.