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4Critique of Religion and Critical Religion in Fichte’s Addresses to the German NationIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered, Suny Press. pp. 103-115. 2016.
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4IntroductionIn Benjamin D. Crowe & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: essays on the "Science of knowing", State University of New York Press. pp. 1-7. 2024.
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17Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental IdealismLexington Books. 2014.Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy
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4The "we" of speculative philosophyIn Benjamin D. Crowe & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: essays on the "Science of knowing", State University of New York Press. pp. 173-190. 2024.
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34Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: essays on the "Science of knowing" (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2024.Illuminating new essays on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing.
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11To the “Things Themselves”: Heidegger, the Baden School, and ReligionThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 6 (1): 127-146. 2011.
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8Paul in the grip of the philosophers: the apostle and contemporary Continental philosophy (edited book)Fortress Press. 2013.One of the remarkable developments in the contemporary study of Paul is the dramatic interest in his thought amongst European philosophers. This collection of insights from leading scholars makes accessible a discussion often elusive to those not already conversant in the categories of European philosophy"--Publisher description.
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4Philosophy and Historical MeaningIn John Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth‐Century Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.This chapter discusses that Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey are united by a shared conviction that historical reality is the proper domain of philosophical inquiry. In their view, Kant's critical philosophy had effectively foreclosed the traditional enterprise of metaphysics. Rather than viewing this as a loss, however, both Schleiermacher and Dilthey took the Kantian revolution as a cue to make historical reality, as opposed to an ahistorical domain of transcendent entities, an ind…Read more
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89Leibniz, Bayle, and Locke on Faith and ReasonAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (4): 575-600. 2002.This paper illuminates Leibniz’s conception of faith and its relationship to reason. Given Leibniz’s commitment to natural religion, we might expect his view of faith to be deflationary. We show, however, that Leibniz’s conception of faith involves a significant non-rational element. We approach the issue by considering the way in which Leibniz positions himself between the views of two of his contemporaries, Bayle and Locke. Unlike Bayle, but like Locke, Leibniz argues that reason and faith are…Read more
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25Religion and the ‘sensitive branch’ of human nature: BENJAMIN D. CROWEReligious Studies 46 (2): 251-263. 2010.While the theses that human beings are primarily passional creatures and that religion is fundamentally a product of our sensible nature are both closely linked to David Hume, Hume's contemporary Henry Home, Lord Kames , also defended them and explored their implications. Importantly, Kames does not draw the same sceptical conclusions as does Hume. Employing a sophisticated account of the rationality of what he calls the ‘sensitive branch’ of human nature, Kames argues that religion plays a cent…Read more
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16Philosophy, World-View, and the Possibility of Ethics in the Basic Problems of PhenomenologyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 34 (2): 184-204. 2003.
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22Heidegger's Eschatology: Theological Horizons in Martin Heidegger's Early WorkBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (3): 627-629. 2014.
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27F. H. Jacobi on faith, or what it takes to be an irrationalist: BENJAMIN D. CROWEReligious Studies 45 (3): 309-324. 2009.F. H. Jacobi , a key figure in the philosophical debates at the close of the eighteenth century in Germany, has long been regarded as an irrationalist for allegedly advocating a blind ‘leap of faith’. The central claim of this essay is that this venerable charge is misplaced. Following a reconstruction of what a charge of irrationalism might amount to, two of Jacobi's most important works, the Spinoza Letters and David Hume , are scrutinized for traces of irrationalism. Far from being an irratio…Read more
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74Reasons for worship: A response to Bayne and NagasawaReligious Studies 43 (4): 465-474. 2007.Worship is a topic that is rarely considered by philosophers of religion. In a recent paper, Tim Bayne and Yujin Nagasawa challenge this trend by offering an analysis of worship and by considering some difficulties attendant on the claim that worship is obligatory. I argue that their case for there being these difficulties is insufficiently supported. I offer two reasons that a theist might provide for the claim that worship is obligatory: (1) a divine command, and (2) the demands of justice wit…Read more
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25Resoluteness in the Middle Voice: On the Ethical Dimensions of Heidegger’s Being and TimePhilosophy Today 45 (3): 225-241. 2001.
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35Nietzsche, the cross, and the nature of GodHeythrop Journal 48 (2). 2007.In this essay, I treat of a type of moral objection to Christian theism that is formulated by Friedrich Nietzsche. In an effort to provoke a negative moral‐aesthetic response to the conception of God underlying the Christian tradition, with the ultimate aim of recommending his own allegedly ‘healthier’ ideals, Nietzsche presents a number of distinct but related considerations. In particular, he claims that the traditional theological interpretation of the crucifixion of Jesus expresses the taste…Read more
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270Dilthey's Philosophy of Religion in the "Critique of Historical Reason": 1880-1910Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (2): 265-283. 2005.Religion was an important subject of Dilthey's philosophical reflections. In this essay, I examine this largely untouched thematic area, focusing in particular on one period in his career. My thesis is that the core of Dilthey's philosophy of religion is what I call the "immanence thesis." This is a claim that Dilthey employs in interpreting various phenomena of religious life. Dilthey's view is that religious myths and symbols are ways of articulating the immanent "meaning" or "sense" of histor…Read more
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Fichte's philosophical BildungsromanIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, State University of New York Press. pp. 33-44. 2013.
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Jacobi on practical nihilismIn James A. Clarke & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Practical Philosophy From Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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Jacobi and philosophy : rationalism and skepticismIn Alexander J. B. Hampton (ed.), Friedrich Jacobi and the end of the enlightenment: religion, philosophy, and reason at the crux of modernity, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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Fichte on Normativity in the Late Jena PeriodIn Stefano Bacin & Owen Ware (eds.), Fichte’s System of Ethics: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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12The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant’s Doctrine of the Transcendental PrinciplesRowman & Littlefield International. 2018.A complete English translation of an important work from a crucial period in Heidegger’s overall intellectual trajectory.
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27Practical Philosophy From Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2020.Scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian philosophy and German Idealism. This volume of new essays illuminates that reception and how it informed the development of practical philosophy between Kant and Hegel. The essays discuss, in addition to Kant, Hegel and Fichte, relatively little-known thinkers such as Pistorius, Ulrich, Maimon, Erhard, E. Reimarus, Reinhold, Jacobi, F. Schlegel, Humboldt, Dalberg, Gentz, Rehberg, and M…Read more
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56Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion: Realism and Cultural CriticismIndiana University Press. 2007.Throughout his long and controversial career, Martin Heidegger developed a substantial contribution to the phenomenology of religion. In Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion, Benjamin D. Crowe examines the key concepts and developmental phases that characterized Heidegger's work. Crowe shows that Heidegger's account of the meaning and structure of religious life belongs to his larger project of exposing and criticizing the fundamental assumptions of late modern culture. He reveals Heidegger as …Read more
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41Herder's Moral Philosophy: Perfectionism, Sentimentalism and TheismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (6): 1141-1161. 2012.While the last several decades have seen a renaissance of scholarship on J. G. Herder (1744?1804), his moral philosophy has not been carefully examined. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap, and to point the way for further research, by reconstructing his original and systematically articulated views on morality. Three interrelated elements of his position are explored in detail: (1) his perfectionism, or theory of the human good; (2) his sentimentalism, which includes moral epistemology an…Read more
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24Heidegger's Religious Origins: Destruction and AuthenticityIndiana University Press. 2006.Sheds new light on Heidegger's early theological development.
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62Heidegger's godsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (2). 2007.The notorious difficulty of Heidegger's post-Second World War discussions of 'the gods', along with scholarly disagreement about the import of those discussions, renders that body of work an unlikely place to look for a substantive theory of religion. The thesis of this article is that, contrary to these appearances, Heidegger's later works do contain clues for developing such a theory. Heidegger's concerns about the category of 'religion' are addressed, and two recent attempts to 'de-mythologiz…Read more
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40Hutcheson on Natural ReligionBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (4). 2011.Recent scholars have examined the important role of English Deism in the formation of a modern naturalistic approach to the study of human religiosity. Despite the volume of important studies of various aspects of his thought, the role of Francis Hutcheson (1694?1746) in this development has been overlooked. The aim of this paper is to show how Hutcheson develops his own account of the origins of religion, consonant with his more well-known theories in aesthetics and moral philosophy, that diver…Read more
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87Fichte's transcendental theologyArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 92 (1): 68-88. 2010.The relationship between Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and Kant's philosophy is as important as it is ambiguous. The aim of this paper is to explore one significant and under-examined aspect of this relationship, i.e., the respective views of Fichte and Kant on the concept of God. Fichte's noteworthy divergences from Kant's discussions are described and analyzed. Fichte's explication of the concept of God is considerably sparser than Kant's. Furthermore, Fichte excludes from philosophy some of the…Read more