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    Schelling on understanding organisms
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (6): 1180-1201. 2017.
    In this paper, I attempt to reconstruct Schelling’s theory of organism, primarily as it is elaborated in the First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature and the Introduction to the Outline. First, I discuss the challenge that the properties of organisms presented to the dominant scientific viewpoint by the end of the eighteenth century. I present different responses to this challenge, including reductive materialism, metaphysical and heuristic vitalism, and the Kantian response, and I …Read more
  •  68
    Logical and natural life in Hegel
    European Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 129-147. 2022.
    In this article, I discuss the specific ways in which Hegel's account of life and organisms advances upon Kant's account of natural purposes in the third Critique. First of all, I argue that it is essential for Hegel's account that it contains two levels. The first level is that of logical life, the discussion of which does not depend on any empirical knowledge of natural organisms. I provide my reconstruction of this logical account of life that answers to the objection made by a number of Hege…Read more
  •  63
    The Varieties of Self-Knowledge [M.A. Thesis]
    Dissertation, Texas A&M. 2011.
    In this thesis I consider the problem of the distinctiveness of knowledge of our own mental states and attitudes. I consider four influential approaches to this problem: the epistemic approach, the "no reasons view," the neo-expressivist approach and the rational agency approach. I argue that all of them face serious problems. I further argue that many of these problems are connected with the lack of fine-grained enough classification of the entities with respect to which we have self-knowledge.…Read more
  •  63
    A priori philosophy of nature in Hegel and German rationalism
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (5): 797-817. 2022.
    Hegel’s many remarks that seem to imply that philosophy should proceed completely a priori pose a problem for his philosophy of nature since, on this reading, Hegel offers an a priori derivation of...
  •  54
    Hegel's metaphysics of nature
    European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 778-792. 2021.
    European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 778-792, June 2022.
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    Hegel on the impotence of nature
    Hegel Jahrbuch 2019 (1): 300-305. 2019.
  •  36
    Hegel on beauty (review)
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 630-633. 2018.
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    This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which it has a single organizing focus, giving philosophical force to his arguments in his central Science of Logic, and undercutting prominent worries. The focus is not epistemology or skepticism, but the metaphysics of reason in the world.
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    Hegel’s anti-reductionist account of organic nature
    Intellectual History Review 31 (3): 479-494. 2021.
    Recent scholarship has analyzed Hegel’s account of life in the Logic in some detail and has suggested that Hegel provides ways of thinking about organic phenomena that might still be fruitful for us today. However, it failed to clearly distinguish this account from Hegel’s discussion of natural organisms in his Philosophy of Nature and to assess the latter philosophically. In particular, it has not yet been properly discussed that some things that Hegel says about organic phenomena there suggest…Read more
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    John Sallis, The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense. Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 37 (4): 160-162. 2017.
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    Romantic Empiricism: Nature Art and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
    In this book, Dalia Nassar identifies and engages with the neglected philosophical tradition that includes the four thinkers that are discussed in the book: Kant, Herder, Goethe, and Alexander von...
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    Kant’s treatment of organic phenomena in the third _Critique_ is relatively well-known. Less known is that Schelling offered an original answer to the same problems in his early writings on the philosophy of nature. Even less known is the significance of his rethinking of the role of chemistry in his approach to organic phenomena. In this article, after outlining the problem of organic phenomena at the end of the eighteenth century, I reconstruct Schelling’s account of chemistry against the back…Read more
  • Hegel on the impotence of nature
    Hegel-Jahrbuch 2019 (1): 300-305. 2019.
  • From Individuality to Universality: the Role of Aesthetic Education in Kant
    American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal 3 (2): 12-20. 2011.
    In this paper I make a reconstruction of Kant’s idea of aesthetic education and show the peculiarity of this idea in comparison with more familiar projects of Schiller and the German Romantics. In the first section I briefly outline those features of Kant’s ethics which are relevant for this problem, namely its universalistic character. In the second section I show how aesthetic experience, according to Kant, could help to make an individual less sensitive to the demands of particular interests …Read more