•  128
    The Aristotelian-Kantian and Hegelian Approaches to Categories
    The Owl of Minerva 40 (1): 77-114. 2008.
    This paper analyzes and compares the doctrines of categories of Aristotle, Kant and Hegel, each of which is first discussed separately. The paper explains the essential double perspective of the problem, showing how a logico-linguistic analysis of the form of rational discourse serves for them as an important clue to ontological problems. Although Aristotle and Kant’s doctrines differ significantly, they both endorse a kind of isomorphism between language/thought and reality. By contrast, Hegel,…Read more
  •  98
    Freedom, Spontaneity and the Noumenal Perspective
    Kant Studien 99 (3): 312-338. 2008.
    For Kant, both morality and the possibility of objective knowledge presuppose freedom. His theory of freedom is based on the distinction between phenomena and noumena, concepts which represent two different ways of viewing things. The question, however, is whether it is justified to take the noumenal perspective in addition to the phenomenal one. Isn’t freedom an illusion, if we regard ourselves as free, while in fact we are not? The crux of the problem lies in recognizing that there is no objec…Read more
  •  76
    Kant’s Transcendental Functionalism
    Review of Metaphysics 68 (2): 371-394. 2014.
    This paper develops a new functionalist interpretation of Kant that aims to unify his cognitive psychology with transcendental idealism. It argues that Kant’s faculty of cognition describes neither the phenomenal nor the noumenal mind, but a theoretical construct of the transcendental subject, comparable to the abstract Turing machine. This interpretation can be called “transcendental functionalism,” which determines what functions the mind has to realize if it is to be capable of objective cogn…Read more
  •  73
    Kant insists that the use of concepts must be subject to empirical conditions if they are to have objective validity. This article analyses Kants distinction between empirical and transcendental truths. Since transcendental concepts are pure concepts without spatio-temporal content, their objective validity is of the same second-order kind as that of unschematized categories. This characteristic of transcendental concepts implies that the cognitive powers picked out by them are not particular ps…Read more
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    This paper aims to make better sense of Hegel’s Philosophy of Objective Spirit and defend it against the charge of political conservatism and optimism. I will argue for the left Hegelian position in the theological-philosophical respect, thereby leaving the left-right divide in the social-political respect largely open. I will explain that Hegel’s commitment to the inherent rationality of the state and the course of human history as the progress of freedom does not imply blind optimism, since hi…Read more
  •  53
    Kant’s Epistemological Reorientation of Ontology
    Kant Yearbook 2 (1): 123-146. 2010.
    This paper analyzes Kant’s epistemological reorientation of ontology, explaining in what sense Kant’s complex theory of transcendental idealism and empirical realism should be understood as an ontological realism under the framework of epistemological idealism. The paper shows that Kant’s concept of existence is only applicable to empirical objects in the spatiotemporal causal framework. Accordingly, not only things in themselves, but also epistemic conditions such as the transcendental subject …Read more
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    The paper outlines a deflationary interpretation of Hegel’s metaphysics, as presented in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. It focuses mainly on the Science of Logic as a theory of categories, which explores the movement of the Concept. The major idea is to read Hegel’s identification of logic and metaphysics as a thesis on deflating metaphysics into logic and semantics. Hegel’s metaphysics, which may better be called logico-metaphysics, does not describe the objective world directl…Read more
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    On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
    Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2017 (2): 338-352. 2017.
    Even though the Cartesian mind-body dualism has largely been dismissed in contemporary philosophy, the idea that the conscious mind can be a bodiless and non-spatial entity is still held to be possible. This paper examines a series of arguments by Jaegwon Kim, Peter Strawson, and Immanuel Kant against the possibility of a disembodied mind. It is argued that although the concept of a disembodied mind is coherent, it derives from a more fundamental concept in which the mind and the body are origin…Read more
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    Hegel’s Critique of Foundationalism and Its Implications for Husserl’s Dream of Rigorous Science
    In Danilo Manca, Elisa Magrì, Dermot Moran & Alfredo Ferrarin (eds.), Hegel and Phenomenology, Springer Verlag. pp. 61-75. 2019.
    Hegel sees philosophy as the only rigorous science that does not have any presupposition, but he rejects the possibility of an absolute foundation for philosophy, instead maintaining that only the system as a whole can be free from all presuppositions. Hegel’s system lays claim to presuppositionlessness, not on the ground of any presuppositionless beginning, but rather as a holistic system of concepts in which inevitable presuppositions are made transparent and comprehended. This paper examines …Read more
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    Language and Metaphysics
    Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 17 55-74. 2006.
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    Kant’s Negative Noumena as Abstracta
    In Gregory S. Moss (ed.), The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 33-55. 2022.
    This paper takes a fresh look at Kant’s transcendental idealism with a new reading of negative noumena as abstract entities. It shows that the three criteria for abstractness, i.e., non-spatiotemporality, causal inefficacy, and non-indiscernibility, are true of Kant’s negative noumena. Phenomena, by contrast, are concrete entities in space and time, which can be understood as spatiotemporally instantiated noumena. Kant’s distinction between noumena in the positive and negative sense will be rein…Read more
  •  6
    Hegels Verwirklichung des Kantischen Autonomiebegriffs
    Hegel-Jahrbuch 2017 (1): 192-196. 2017.
  •  5
    From the Kantian to the Hegelian Court of Reason
    In Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 337-348. 2021.
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    Heige'er xin shi =
    Guo li Taiwan da xue chu ban zhong xin. 2014.
    西哲羅素曾言,黑格爾是所有大哲學家中最難理解的。 本書立論持之有據,論證言之成理,成功地將黑格爾「去神祕化」, 並詮釋其哲學為一開放的系統,為黑格爾研究開創新局面。 黑格爾是西方哲學史上最重要的哲學家之一,他的哲學體系包羅萬象,不單幾乎涵蓋所有傳統哲學領域,更觸及絕大部分的主要知識範疇,構成龐大而嚴密的體系。 本書嘗試整體地重新解釋黑格爾的哲學,處理並分析其主要著作《哲學百科全書》與《邏輯學》的系統框架和理論基礎,同時討論黑格爾在哲學史上的地位。筆者反對傳統將黑格爾哲學視為封閉形上學系統的一貫解讀方式,事實上,黑格爾是康德哲學的繼承者,他進一步發揮批判哲學的精神,不單審視理性的形式條件,也反省哲學思維自身的歷史文化條件,把純粹理性批判轉化為一種面向歷史的理性批判。本書期望,藉由整理黑格爾哲學中較容易被忽略的原則與創見,能展現其思想活力,讓黑格爾更接近當代哲學。
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    Die Urteilskritik, die in Hegels Lehre vom spekulativen Satz enthalten ist, stellt eine radikale Kritik der traditionellen Auffassung des prädikativen Urteils dar. Sie betrifft nicht nur dessen logische Form, sondern insbesondere dessen ontologische Implikationen. Der Form nach ist das prädikative Urteil für Hegel unfähig, das Wahre angemessen darzustellen. Hegels Konsequenz ist aber gerade nicht, stattdessen eine "spekulative" Sprachform zu erfinden, die der Endlichkeit der natürlichen Sprache …Read more