Chris is currently engaged in three broad research programs. The first is a series of papers on Hegel’s natural and mathematical philosophy with Ralph Kaufmann which began with “Math by Pure Thinking: R First and the Divergence of Measures in Hegel’s Philosophy of Mathematics” (European Journal of Philosophy, 2017). The second is a book manuscript tentatively entitled A Social Ontology of Economic Institutions with Justin Litaker, in which they attempt to understand the ontology of firms, markets, and banks and the normative and explanatory principles of our participation in them. This work attempts to replace the concepts of property and …
Chris is currently engaged in three broad research programs. The first is a series of papers on Hegel’s natural and mathematical philosophy with Ralph Kaufmann which began with “Math by Pure Thinking: R First and the Divergence of Measures in Hegel’s Philosophy of Mathematics” (European Journal of Philosophy, 2017). The second is a book manuscript tentatively entitled A Social Ontology of Economic Institutions with Justin Litaker, in which they attempt to understand the ontology of firms, markets, and banks and the normative and explanatory principles of our participation in them. This work attempts to replace the concepts of property and contract that were formed in the early modern period in response to feudalism with more descriptively and explanatorily adequate concepts of economic activity within contemporary institutions. The third is a book manuscript on Hegel’s understanding of concepts as forms of self-consciousness which develops the interpretation presented in “Perspective and Logical Pluralism in Hegel” (Hegel Bulletin, 2018).