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23Trust and Recognition ReconsideredDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (4): 675-693. 2021.
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48Recognition and Trust: Hegel and Confucius on the Normative Basis of Ethical LifeDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18 (1): 1-22. 2019.This essay offers a comparative analysis of the notion of trust in Hegel and Confucius. It shows that Hegel’s two senses of trust depend upon his theory of recognition and recognitive struggle. The competitive thrust of Hegel’s account of trust, it argues, introduces a series of problems that cannot be adequately resolved within his theory, since it presupposes the kinds of trusting relations—self-, intersubjective- and world-trust—that it purports to explain. This essay then turns to the Confuc…Read more
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31Social Coordination or Social Cooperation? Ambiguities of Haslanger’s Approach to Social LifeTandf: Australasian Philosophical Review 3 (1): 104-108. 2019.Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2019, Page 104-108.
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10Givenness and Conceptual ContentProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 34 57-63. 2018.Although he is usually understood to be an immanent critic who belongs to the first generation of the Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin’s thought is much more heterodox than typically acknowledged. In this paper, I draw attention to one of Benjamin’s most heterodox tendencies. I show that Benjamin problematizes on the animating idea of immanent critique, i.e., that one can move from an object given in experience to the implicit concept of that object in order to assess the fit between concept an…Read more
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47The Conditions of Immanent CritiqueCritical Horizons 23 (1): 22-43. 2022.ABSTRACT This article contributes to methodological debates in contemporary critical theory regarding the scope and features of immanent critique. I spell out the philosophical commitments presupposed by this approach to criticism and identify its basic features by comparing it with more recognizable argumentative or interpretative strategies. This comparison yields three immanent-critical requirements – for inherence, contradiction, and access – which bring into relief the heuristic and ampliat…Read more
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29Can social systems theory be used for immanent critique?Thesis Eleven 143 (1): 97-114. 2017.Two trends have emerged in recent work from the Frankfurt School: the first involves a reconsideration of immanent critique’s basic commitments and viability for critical social theory, while the second involves an effort to introduce temporal considerations for social interaction into critical theorizing to help make sense of the phenomenon of social acceleration. This article contributes to these ongoing discussions by investigating whether social systems theory, in which temporal relations pl…Read more
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131The Origins of Walter Benjamin's Concept of Philosophical CritiqueMetaphilosophy 44 (5): 655-681. 2013.Focusing on Walter Benjamin's earliest pieces dedicated to school reform and the student movement, this article traces the basic critical approaches informing his mature thought back to his struggle to critically implement and transform the theory of concept formation and value presentation developed by his Freiburg teacher, Heinrich Rickert. It begins with an account of Rickert's work, specifically of the concept of Darstellung (presentation) and its central role in Rickert's postmetaphysical t…Read more
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29Manifest Reason: Walter Benjamin on Violence and Collective AgencyConstellations 21 (3): 390-400. 2014.
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63Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of LanguagePhilosophy Compass 9 (6): 368-381. 2014.In this article, I reconstruct Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language and refine the non-predicational view of meaning often attributed to him. By situating his 1916 essay ‘On Language as Such and on the Language of Man’ within the context of his struggle with Russell's paradox and its implications for phenomenology, I show how Benjamin arrives at his conception of non-conceptual content as an environmentally embedded affordance that is directly apprehended by appropriately situated and capabl…Read more
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28The German Historicist Tradition, by Frederick C. Beiser (review)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 34 (1): 238-243. 2013.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsNon tenure-track faculty
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Specialization
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |