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31Tetens’s Writings on Method, Language, and Anthropology (edited book)Bloomsbury. 2022.Containing all of the key writings leading up to the publication of his Philosophical Essays in 1777, this volume presents complete works by Johann Nicolaus Tetens (1736-1807) in English for the very first time. These important essays focus on method in metaphysics and mathematics, the analysis of language, and various anthropological questions that occupied thinkers of the period. Key features of the volume include: · Accurate, readable translations · Detailed scholarly notes · A substantial…Read more
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32Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics: A Critical Guide (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.Kant divided his course of lectures on metaphysics into six parts: a section entitled 'prolegomena' followed by chapters on ontology, cosmology, empirical psychology, rational psychology, and natural theology. This volume's ten chapters, written by leading Kant scholars, constitute the most comprehensive and informed analysis of his metaphysics lectures to date. The book provides balanced coverage of the lecture transcripts from Kant's course by following his general structure, with at least one…Read more
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122Problems with the Highest GoodJournal of Transcendental Philosophy 3 (3): 385-404. 2022.In this paper, I want to focus not on the problems that I believe may threaten Kant’s account of the highest good, but instead on those that I believe threaten the majority of the interpretive reconstructions attempted by commentators and thus prevent the emergence of a consensus in the near future. My goal is to set forth exactly four problems to which I believe any successful interpretation or reconstruction of Kant’s account of the highest good will have to provide substantive solutions and, …Read more
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28Brigitte Falkenburg: Kant’s Cosmology: From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason. Springer: Cham 2020, 284 + xvii pp., € 108,99, ISBN: 9783030522896 (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 53 (4): 601-603. 2022.
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1042Alexander Baumgarten on the Principle of Sufficient ReasonPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (44): 127-147. 2014.This paper defends the Principle of Sufficient Reason, taking Baumgarten as its guide. The primary aim is not to vindicate the principle, but rather to explore the kinds of resources Baumgarten originally thought sufficient to justify the PSR against its early opponents. The paper also considers Baumgarten’s possible responses to Kant’s pre-Critical objections to the proof of the PSR. The paper finds that Baumgarten possesses reasonable responses to all these objections. While the paper notes th…Read more
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17Neue Reflexionen. Die Frühen Notate zu Baumgartens Metaphysica by Immanuel KantJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (4): 691-692. 2021.In an age when the use of an approved textbook was required for all lectures held in the kingdom of Prussia, Immanuel Kant's use of such was anything but a formality. The existing exemplars exhibit a density of emendations and notes that is difficult to comprehend without examining a sample page oneself. These typically fill the interleaved blank pages—a common device for lecturing—as well as the margins, the spaces between the lines of text, and even the spaces within the page decorations and m…Read more
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16The Fundamental Ambiguity of Kant’s Teleology of ReasonIn Paula Órdenes & Anna Pickhan (eds.), Teleologische Reflexion in Kants Philosophie, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 11-37. 2019.In a previous study, I argued that Kant was guided throughout his intellectual career by a few fundamental insights regarding what, broadly, has been called “teleology.” In particular, I argued that Kant’s Critical and utterly original conception of the structure and unity of reason as teleological evolved out of his pre-Critical attempts to perfect the theocentric teleology typical of – to take just two relevant examples – Christian Wolff and Alexander Pope. In this process, Kant came to the ge…Read more
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193Kant’s World Concept of Philosophy and CosmopolitanismArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101 (4): 535-583. 2019.The goal of this paper is to better understand Kant’s conception of philosophy as a “world concept”, which is at the heart of the Architectonic of Pure Reason. This is pursued in two major parts. The first evaluates the textual foundation for reading Kant’s world concept of philosophy as cosmopolitanism and concludes that he most probably never himself equated philosophy as a world concept with any form of cosmopolitanism. The second major part of the paper clarifies this concept of philosophy t…Read more
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James Kirwan, The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique (review)Philosophy in Review 25 (5): 259-360. 2005.
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1Jay F. Rosenberg, Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason (review)Philosophy in Review 26 (5): 377-379. 2006.
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2Anthony Savile, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Orientation to the Central Theme (review)Philosophy in Review 26 (2): 132-134. 2006.
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Anthony Savile, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Orientation to the Central ThemePhilosophy in Review 26 (2): 132. 2006.
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1James Kirwan, The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (5): 359-361. 2005.
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122On a Supposed Solution to the Reinhold/Sidgwick Problem in Kant's Metaphysics of MoralsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 349-373. 2012.The purpose of this paper is to challenge the suggestion that Kant offers a solution to the Reinhold/Sidgwick Problem in his Metaphysics of Morals. The problem, briefly, is about how Kant can hold moral evil to be imputable when he also seems to hold that freedom is found only in moral actions. After providing a new formulation of this problem under the title ‘Objection R/S’ and describing the popular strategy for addressing it through reference to this text, the paper recounts some of the histo…Read more
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62Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant’s Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology TranscriptBloomsbury Academic. 2016.Designed as a textbook for use in courses on natural theology and used by Immanuel Kant as the basis for his Lectures on The Philosophical Doctrine of Religion, Johan August Eberhard's Preparation for Natural Theology (1781) is now available in English for the first time. With a strong focus on the various intellectual debates and historically significant texts in late renaissance and early modern theology, Preparation for Natural Theology influenced the way Kant thought about practical cogniti…Read more
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23Teleology, Freedom and Will in Kant’s Moral PhilosophyIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 207-218. 2013.
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19Introduction to Part IIIIn The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 243-247. 2014.
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12Chapter 2 Teleology: Rudiments of a TheoryIn The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 57-108. 2014.
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15PrefaceIn The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, De Gruyter. 2014.
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788The Highest Good and Kant's Proof(s) of God's ExistenceHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 31 (2). 2014.This paper explains a way of understanding Kant's proof of God's existence in the Critique of Practical Reason that has hitherto gone unnoticed and argues that this interpretation possesses several advantages over its rivals. By first looking at examples where Kant indicates the role that faith plays in moral life and then reconstructing the proof of the second Critique with this in view, I argue that, for Kant, we must adopt a certain conception of the highest good, and so also must choose to b…Read more
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