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25Kant, Propositions, and Non-Fundamental MetaphysicsIn Chris Tillman & Adam Murray (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Propositions, Routledge. pp. 144-158. 2022.In this chapter, my aim is to present an account of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism that centers his view of propositions as mental acts. As I intend to show, Kant’s strategy in the Critique of Pure Reason is only intelligible under the assumption that the fundamental bearers of truth are mental entities.
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29Representation and Reality in Kant’s Antinomy of Pure ReasonKantian Review 28 (4): 615-634. 2023.In this article, I take on a classic objection to Kant’s arguments in the Antinomy of Pure Reason: that the arguments are question-begging, as they draw illicit inferences from claims about representation to claims about reality. While extant attempts to vindicate Kant try to show that he does not make such inferences, I attempt to vindicate Kant’s arguments in a different way: I show that, given Kant’s philosophical backdrop, the inferences in question are not illicit. This is because the trans…Read more
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11Anna Tomaszewska, Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment: From Spinoza to Contemporary Debates New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 Pp. 226 ISBN 9781350195844 (hbk) $143.95 (review)Kantian Review 28 (3): 490-493. 2023.
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50Kant’s Argument for Transcendental Idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic RevisitedArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 105 (1): 141-162. 2023.This paper provides a novel reconstruction of Kant’s argument for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic. This reconstruction relies on two main contentions: first, that Kant accepts the then-ubiquitous view that all cognition is either from grounds or consequences, a view he props up by drawing a distinction between logical and real grounds; second, that Kant, like most of his contemporaries, holds that our representations are the most immediate grounds of our cognition. By str…Read more
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31Early Modern German Philosophy: 1690–1755, ed. C. Dyck (review)The Leibniz Review 31 157-169. 2021.
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75Truthmaker NoumenalismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (1): 40-55. 2022.ABSTRACT One of the core issues where interpreters of Kant disagree concerns his alleged Noumenalism—the claim that the objects of our experience, which are in space and time, are underpinned by entities that are not spatio-temporal and that non-spatio-temporally cause our representations of empirical objects. Although there is much textual evidence in favour of Noumenalism, non-Noumenalists have also gathered a significant number of philosophical and exegetical challenges to such a reading of K…Read more
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33Kant’s lectures on metaphysics: a critical guide: edited by Courtney D. Fugate, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 264, £75.00 (hb), ISBN: 9781107176980 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (2): 413-415. 2020.Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2020, Page 413-415.
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136Against Existential GroundingThought: A Journal of Philosophy 7 (1): 3-11. 2018.Existential grounding is the thesis that all existential generalizations are grounded in their particular instances. This paper argues that existential grounding is false. This is because it is inconsistent with two plausible claims about existence: the claim that singular existence facts are generalizations and the claim that no object can be involved in a fact that grounds that same object's existence. Not only are these claims intuitively plausible, but there are also strong arguments in favo…Read more
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