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153Heidegger’s Concept of TruthCambridge University Press. 2000.This major study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that he developed in the 1920s. Daniel O. Dahlstrom critically examines the genesis, nature and validity of Heidegger's radical attempt to rethink truth as the disclosure of time, a disclosure allegedly more basic than truths formulated in scientific judgements. The book has several distinctive and innovative features. First, it is the only study that attempts to understand the logical dimension of H…Read more
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138Heidegger's transcendentalismResearch in Phenomenology 35 (1): 29-54. 2005.This paper attempts to marshall some of the evidence of the transcendental character of Heidegger's later thinking, despite his repudiation of any form of transcendental thinking, including that of his own earlier project of fundamental ontology. The transcendental significance of that early project is first outlined through comparison and contrast with the diverse transcendental turns in the philosophies of Kant and Husserl. The paper then turns to Heidegger's account of the historical source o…Read more
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129Heidegger's Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal IndicationsReview of Metaphysics 47 (4). 1994.In 1929, after rejecting the suggestion that contemporary Christians may be expected to feel "threatened" by Kierkegaard's criticisms, the Protestant theologian Gerhardt Kuhlmann remarks
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111Morning Hours, or Lectures on God's ExistenceSpringer. 2011.Morning Hours is the first English translation of Morgenstunden by Moses Mendelssohn, the foremost Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment. Published six months before Mendelssohn's death on January 4, 1786, Morning Hours is the most sustained presentation of his mature epistemological and metaphysical views, all elaborated in the service of presenting his son with proofs for the existence of God. But Morning Hours is much more than a theoretical treatise. It also plays a central role in t…Read more
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93The Dialectic of Conscience and the Necessity of Morality in Hegel’s Philosophy of RightThe Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 181-189. 1993.Hegel’s account of conscience at the conclusion to the chapter on morality in the Philosophy of Right has had more than its share of detractors. Theunissen tries to explain why the account is “so meager,” Findlay deems it “thoroughly scandalous,” and Tugendhat goes so far as to label it the pinnacle of a “no longer merely conceptual, but rather moral perversion.” Even commentators committed to rescuing Hegel’s discussion of conscience from such extreme reproaches agree that it is “one-sided” and…Read more
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88Hegel’s Science of Logic and Idea of TruthIdealistic Studies 13 (1): 33-49. 1983.To criticize a philosopher’s views properly a primary requirement is an accurate understanding of the questions he raises, the problems he acknowledges, and the procedures he follows. In the following study I attempt to identify the specific question of truth which Hegel addresses, the basis of the sort of skepticism posing a serious threat to its resolution, and finally a strategy he adopts. The specific question of truth for Hegel is a question of metaphysical truth or, in the Cartesian terms …Read more
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88Signification and logic: Scotus on universals from a logical point of viewVivarium 18 (2): 81-111. 1980.
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77Heidegger's Concept of TemporalityReview of Metaphysics 49 (1): 95-115. 1995.Another possible source of this neglect in the United States is the work of Mark Okrent. In Heidegger's Pragmatism Okrent does, indeed, take seriously the importance of the account of temporality for the project of Sein und Zeit, as originally conceived by Heidegger. However, like Dreyfus, Okrent is so taken by the pragmatic character of the analyses in Division I that he ignores Heidegger's analysis of authentic existence and thereby any bearing that this analysis might have on the account of t…Read more
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74Interpreting Heidegger: Critical Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.This volume of essays by internationally prominent scholars interprets the full range of Heidegger's thought and major critical interpretations of it. It explores such central themes as hermeneutics, facticity and Ereignis, conscience in Being and Time, freedom in the writings of his period of transition from fundamental ontology, and his mature criticisms of metaphysics and ontotheology. The volume also examines Heidegger's interpretations of other authors, the philosophers Aristotle, Kant and …Read more
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74Challenges to the Rational Observation of Nature in the Phenomenology of SpiritThe Owl of Minerva 38 (1-2): 35-56. 2006.This paper concerns Hegel’s much-neglected discussion of the rational observation of nature in the first part of the chapter on reason in the Phenomenology of Spirit. The paper focuses, in particular, on the themes of nature’s inexhaustibilit y, animal life’s holistic character, and the earth’s individual distinctiveness insofar as Hegel appeals to them to challenge a certain kind of self-understanding of what it means to observe nature rationally. In addition to examining the significance and t…Read more
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68The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (2): 423-425. 1994.In the section of the Critique of Pure Reason entitled "Clue to the Discovery of All Pure Concepts of the Understanding," Kant criticizes Aristotle for having "thrown together" his list of categories. On the basis of what Kant says in that same section, however, it has seemed to many readers that Kant's presentation of the categories on the basis of the table of the logical forms of judgment is no less "rhapsodic." In this and other related respects the so-called metaphysical deduction of the ca…Read more
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66The Development of FreedomProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 35-52. 2007.This paper elaborates four asymmetrical, developmental stages of the phenomenon of human freedom, starting with a rudimentary sort of freedom, thebasic experience of a relatively unencumbered power to act in alternative ways. The paper argues that structural elements of this rudimentary form of freedomare demonstrable in three distinct, supervening forms of freedom: instrumental freedom, the experience of the self-reflective ability to pursue certain aims, perfectionist freedom, the experience o…Read more
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59David Punter, "Blake, Hegel and Dialectic" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (2): 267. 1985.
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57Heidegger's Kantian Turn: Notes to His Commentary on the Kritik Der Reinen VernunftReview of Metaphysics 45 (2). 1991.IN THE SPRING OF 1928, approximately one year after the publication of Sein und Zeit, Heidegger concludes a seminar on Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft with the following remark
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56Review of Edmund Husserl, J. N. Findlay (trans.) , Michael Dummett (new preface), Dermot Moran (intro), Logical Investigations, Volumes 1 and 2 and the Shorter Logical Investigations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (4). 2002.
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55The Nineteenth Meeting of the Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, April 30 to May 2, 1992: “Recht und Staat”The Owl of Minerva 24 (1): 121-122. 1992.This meeting of the Hegel-Gesellschaft featured forty-six papers, including those presented during the two plenary sessions, covering a wide range of topics within the theme of the congress. The congress was ably administered and hosted by Dr. Wolfgang Sünkel at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Nürnberg. As usual, the congress was heavily represented by scholars from Eastern Europe and by scholars working at the Hegel-Archiv in Bochum. The contingent from the United States included Howard …Read more
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53Heidegger, Truth, and LogicBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (5): 1027-1036. 2012.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-10, Ahead of Print
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53Hegel's questionable legacyResearch in Phenomenology 32 (1): 3-25. 2002.This paper suggests that Hegel's legacy is precisely the questionability of any attempt to put it in question. Derrida's acknowledgment of différance's "absolute proximity" to Hegel's notion of Aufhebung is an admission of this difficulty and an insistence, nevertheless, on disestablishing Hegel's thinking. Part one reviews four Hegelian legacies, summed up in the notion of Aufhebung: a suspicion of immediacy, a presumption of the fully mediated character of reality, a decentering of subjectivit…Read more
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53Love, Honor, and ResentmentThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 11 179-192. 2001.For much of contemporary ethical theory, the universalizability of the motive of a contemplated action forms a necessary part of the basis of the action’s moral character, legitimacy, or worth. Considering the possibility of resentment springing from the performance of an action also serves as a means of determining the morality of an action. However, considerations of universalizability and resentment are plainly inconsistent with the performance of some unselfish moral actions. I argue that th…Read more
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51Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft, Debrecen and BudapestThe Owl of Minerva 26 (1): 110-110. 1994.Over a hundred scholars from as far away as Tokyo, New York, and Buenos Aires, participated in the twentieth congress of the Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft held in Debrecen and Budapest, Hungary, from August 24 to August 28, 1994, on the theme: Vernunft in der Geschichte? Among those addressing the Debrecen portion of the congress were Agnes Heller, Manfred Riedel, Shlomo Avineri, Walter Jaeschke, and Ludwig Siep. Howard Kainz of Marquette University also gave a well received paper in Debrece…Read more
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46Ludwig Feuerbach (review)The Owl of Minerva 14 (2): 8-9. 1982.The jumble of themes contained in Feuerbach’s Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit testify to the youthfulness of a work published when its author was a mere 26. These “thoughts” contain a scathing polemic against the veiled egoism of pietism and rationalism, an off-beat blend of Jacob Boehme’s theosophical mysticism with Lucretius’ arguments against personal immortality, and unique renditions of Hegel’s conceptions of nature, history, and God. There is even a somewhat tedious attempt to dispro…Read more
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46The Intentionality of Passive Experience: Husserl and a Contemporary DebateNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 7 25-42. 2007.
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44Temptation, Self-Possession, and Resoluteness: Heidegger's Reading of Confessions X and What Is the Good of Being and Time?Research in Phenomenology 39 (2): 248-265. 2009.In Heidegger's 1921 lectures, he presents an extensive interpretation of Book Ten of Augustine's Confessions . The present paper elaborates parallels between that interpretation of Augustine's Confessions and Heidegger's interpretation of existence in Being and Time , with special reference to the themes of self-possession and resoluteness as respective anchors of the two interpretations. The study also highlights ways the two interpretations diverge, i.e., the aspects of the interpretation of t…Read more
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42The Intentionality of Passive ExperienceNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 7 25-42. 2007.
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42The Sexual Basis of Moral LifeProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 62 (n/a): 202. 1988.
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