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5In this dissertation I advance a Jaspersian account of the formation and possession of irrational attitudes. This account stands in opposition to two competing views – externalism and internalism with respect to rational and irrational attitudes. According to externalism, a subject’s attitudes are irrational when they fail to satisfy standards or criteria independent of the subject, such as laws of logic, methods for evidence acquisition, and rules of decision theory. According to internalism, a…Read more
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7Faith without Dogmatism: Karl Jaspers’ Critique of Bultmann's and Barth's Dogmatic TheologiesHeythrop Journal 64 (3): 287-300. 2023.In his mature philosophical writings, Karl Jaspers juxtaposes his own theory of reason with what he considers irrational and dogmatising tendencies in the works of Rudolf Bultmann and Karl Barth. On Jaspers's view, both Bultmann and Barth construct theologies that serve as a priori frameworks through which to understand all the contingencies of existence. In opposition to such dogmatisms, Jaspers advances a hermeneutics that forbids, in advance, any permanent conclusions by proposing that we und…Read more
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30Milbank and Heidegger on the Possibility of a Secular Analogy of BeingInternational Philosophical Quarterly 59 (2): 155-173. 2019.Traditionally, analogical ontologies—ontologies that are hierarchically structured with beings participating in a primary being—have been defended by those who criticize secularism. Secularism, it is said, depends on the leveling out of being, the elimination of hierarchies in favor of ontologies in which beings differ only according to intensity. John Milbank, for example, argues that secularism became a possibility only once medieval analogical ontologies were supplanted by univocal accounts o…Read more
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16Milbank and Heidegger on the Possibility of a Secular Analogy of BeingInternational Philosophical Quarterly 59 (2): 155-173. 2019.Traditionally, analogical ontologies—ontologies that are hierarchically structured with beings participating in a primary being—have been defended by those who criticize secularism. Secularism, it is said, depends on the leveling out of being, the elimination of hierarchies in favor of ontologies in which beings differ only according to intensity. John Milbank, for example, argues that secularism became a possibility only once medieval analogical ontologies were supplanted by univocal accounts o…Read more
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American University in BulgariaAssistant Professor
Marquette University
PhD, 2020
Blagoevgrad, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria
Areas of Specialization
Existentialism |
Karl Jaspers |