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15Kant and Maimon on the Quid Juris: Competing Conceptions of Experience and AnimalsIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1201-1208. 2021.
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33Tetens’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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117It’s About That Time: Sartre’s Theory of TemporalityIn Matthew Eshleman & Constance L. Mui (eds.), The Sartrean Mind, Routledge. 2019.This chapter argues that J. P. Sartre has overlooked two motivations in developing his theory of temporality: first, to found the method of phenomenological ontology; and, second, to show that human freedom, pace I. Kant, must be situated within the empirical world. Sartre argues that consciousness is nothingness’s origin by having the ontological characteristic of being “its own nothingness”. Sartre begins his account by noting that temporality is “an organized structure” such that the three te…Read more
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42Your Past Comes Back to Haunt YouSartre Studies International 26 (2): 63-89. 2020.This paper examines how Sartre’s early phenomenological works were influenced by Emmanuel Levinas’s The Theory of Intuition in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Sartre embraced two key aspects of Levinas’s interpretation of Husserl: 1) that phenomenology is an ontological philosophy whose foundation is the doctrine of intentionality; and, 2) that consciousness’s being consists in intentionality, which entails that consciousness is non-substantial as well as pre-reflectively or non-thetically aware of its…Read more
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92Béatrice Longuenesse, I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 Pp. xx+257 ISBN 9780199665761 $45.00 (review)Kantian Review 23 (3): 504-510. 2018.Review of Béatrice Longuenesse, I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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690The Central Role of Cognition in Kant's Transcendental DeductionDissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington. 2016.I argue that Kant’s primary epistemological concern in the Critique of Pure Reason’s transcendental deduction is empirical cognition. I show how empirical cognition is best understood as “rational sensory discrimination”: the capacity to discriminate sensory objects through the use of concepts and with a sensitivity to the normativity of reasons. My dissertation focuses on Kant’s starting assumption of the transcendental deduction, which I argue to be the thesis that we have empirical cognition.…Read more
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255Empirical Cognition in the Transcendental Deduction: Kant’s Starting Point and his Humean ProblemKantian Review 21 (3): 437-463. 2016.In this paper, I argue that in the sense of greatest epistemological concern for Kant, empirical cognition is “rational sensory discrimination”: the identification or differentiation of sensory objects from each other, occurring through a capacity to become aware of and express judgments. With this account of empirical cognition, I show how the transcendental deduction of the first Critique is most plausibly read as having as its fundamental assumption the thesis that we have empirical cognition…Read more
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842Erkenntnis in Kant’s Logical WorksIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. 2018.In this paper, I shed light on Kant’s notion of Erkenntnis or cognition by focusing on texts pertaining to Kant’s thoughts on logic. Although a passage from Kant’s Logik is widely referred to for understanding Kant’s conception of Erkenntnis, this work was not penned by Kant himself but rather compiled by Benjamin Jäsche. So, it is imperative to determine its fidelity to Kant’s thought. I compare the passage with other sources, including Reflexionen and students’ lecture notes. I argue that seve…Read more
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222Sartre’s Case for Nonthetic Consciousness: The Ground of the Cartesian Cogito’s Certainty and the Methodological Basis for Phenomenological OntologyArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 99 (4): 405-442. 2017.Sartre’s phenomenological view of consciousness gives primacy to the thesis that all consciousness is nonthetically aware of itself, i.e., pre-reflectively aware of itself but not as an object. Few commentators, however, have explained Sartre’s grounds for holding this thesis, despite his view that the thesis’s truth underwrites the certainty of the Cartesian cogito and thereby the method of Sartre’s own phenomenological ontology. I document three lines of support for the thesis, the most promis…Read more
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9Book Reviews (review)Sartre Studies International 22 (2): 97-125. 2016.Thomas R. Flynn, Sartre: A Philosophical Biography Review by Matthew C. Eshleman Steven Churchill and Jack Reynolds, eds., Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts Review by Eric Hamm Benedict O’Donohoe, ed., Severally Seeking Sartre Review by Eric Hamm Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer, and Clara Bravo Morando, eds., Pre-Reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind Review by Curtis Sommerlatte Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails Review by …Read more
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