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20Till Hoeppner, Urteil und Anschauung. Kants metaphysische Deduktion der Kategorien, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xvii + 410. ISBN 9783110556278 (hbk) $126.99 (review)Kantian Review 28 (4): 640-644. 2023.
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8Kantian Nonconceptualism Once MoreCritique (May). 2018.my reply to critiques by Sacha Golob and Tim Jankowiak of my position in the nonconceptualism debate
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31One of the most irritating habits of analytic philosophers when they show a passing interest in the work of philosophers from the past is the professed ignorance of textual and philological detail. This used to be worse than it is in current analytical philosophy. Many detailed scholarly readings that roughly can be categorised as belonging to the analytic school of philosophy are published now that show great care for exegesis and philosophical argument in equal measure. But wilful exegetical i…Read more
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17Review of Alain Séguy-Duclot: Kant, le premier cercle. La déduction transcendantale des catégories (1781 et 1787) (review)Kantian Review. forthcoming.review of Alain Séguy-Duclot: Kant, le premier circle. A book on the A- and B-edition of the Transcendental Deduction pre-print via link below
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18Review of Till Hoeppner Urteil und Anschauung. Kants metaphysische Deduktion der Kategorien (review)Kantian Review. forthcoming.review of Till Hoeppner - Urteil und Anschauung. Kants metaphysische Deduktion der Kategorien
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143Enlightenment and Prophecy (review)A Critical Notice on Omri Boehm's "Radikaler Universalismus. Jenseits von Identität" (Propyläen/Ullstein 2022). This article is private. If you're not a subscriber to kritik dot substack dot com, you will need to subscribe in order to be able to read it.
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5The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. “Transformative” Approaches to the B-Deduction, or, How to Read the LeitfadenIn Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting & Udo Thiel (eds.), Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception: New Interpretations, De Gruyter. pp. 403-436. 2022.
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14Kant’s Copernican Analogy: Beyond the Non-Specific Reading (Translated by A.A. Polyakov)Studies in Transcendental Philosophy 3 (1-2). 2022.References to Kant’s so-called Copernicanism or Copernican turn are often put in very general terms. It is commonly thought that Kant makes the Copernican analogy solely in order to point out the fact as such of a paradigm shift in philosophy. This is too historical an interpretation of the analogy. It leaves unexplained both Kant’s and Copernicus’ reasons for advancing their respective hypotheses, which brought about major changes in the conceptual schemes of philosophy and astronomy. In this a…Read more
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412Talk at University of Turin, 'Kant, oltre Kant, May 5th 2023. --- It is useful, while keeping in mind a holistic approach, to concentrate on a common theme in Kant’s text, which it will turn out is the quintessential element of his novel ‘way of thinking’, as he himself put it in preface of the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. This common theme is the idea of synthesis, which is what holds together, and is the entryway to, all the other familiar aspects of Kant’s thought: his conce…Read more
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38I wrote earlier on the difference between the Pippinian and Houlgatian interpretations of Hegel’s Logic. In the current piece, I want to elaborate a bit more on Stephen Houlgate’s take on what he calls ‘sheer being’. It will still be extremely exploratory, without delving into the detail of Hegel’s own text, let alone into the secondary literature on the beginning of the Logic (apart from Houlgate, important work in this area is offered by Robert Pippin, Dieter Henrich, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, and…Read more
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Often it is said that Robert Pippin’s Hegel is too Kantian or too Fichtean. By this is meant, not so much that it is wrong per se that Pippin emphasises the Kantian and Fichtean elements, but rather that something crucial is left out by his reading of Hegel. His is, supposedly, a deflationary reading of Hegel, a kind of bowdlerised version of Hegel the thoroughbred metaphysician in the Spinozan sense, say. Too much emphasis is put, by Pippin, on the fact that we can’t know Being without a depend…Read more
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19Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception: New Interpretations (edited book)De Gruyter. 2022.This volume examines the philosophical sources of the Kantian concepts "apperception" and "self-consciousness", the historical development of the theories of apperception and deduction of categories within the pre-critical period, the structure and content of A- as well as B-deduction of categories, and finally the Kantian meaning of "apperception" and "self-consciousness".
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20In a most interesting recent essay on Derrida and French philosophy, written by Peter Salmon, a well-known contemporary critique of Enlightenment conceptions of subjectivity was rehearsed, namely as being biased towards a Eurocentric male perspective, which presumes to present a ‘neutral’ view of subjective identity, valid for everyone, always, and universally, without regard for particular personalities, histories, cultural backgrounds, sex or privilege. I criticize this view, in particular wit…Read more
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100the essay examines why Kant was conflicted about vaccination, on why vaccination can still be seen as a moral duty and on why a vaccination mandate is not (necessarily) consistent with our rightful, external freedom. It is an essay, not a scholarly paper.
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381Apperception, Objectivity, and IdealismIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 641-650. 2021.talk Oslo-Kant congress. In this paper, I explain why for Kant self-consciousness is intimately related to objectivity, how this intimacy translates to real objects, what it means to make judgements about objects, and what idealism has got to do with all of this.
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190The Bounds of Transcendental LogicPalgrave Macmillan. 2021.The book addresses two main areas of Kant’s theoretical philosophy: the doctrine of transcendental idealism and various central aspects of the arguments from the Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions, as well as the relation between the deduction argument and idealism. Among the topics covered are the nature of objective validity, the role and function of transcendental logic in relation to general or formal logic, the possibility of contradictory thoughts, the meaning of the Leitfaden at A…Read more
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154Review of Scott Stapleford 'Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason' (review)Kant Studies Online (x). 2011.review of Scott Stapleford's 'Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason'
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472Apperception and Object. Comments on Mario Caimi's Reading of the B-DeductionRevista de Estudios Kantianos 7 (2): 462-481. 2022.I critically examine one central line of reasoning in Mario Caimi's book »Kant's B Deduction« (Cambridge Publishing, 2014).
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45In this appendix, I want to briefly reflect on some aspects addressed in the chapter ‘Logic and Metaphysics’ (Chapter 2) in Robert Pippin’s masterful »Hegel’s Realm of Shadows« for which there was no space in my review of the book. Below remarks are not fully worked out, rough ruminations that must be seen in that context. Pippin’s philosophically rich account warrants a more expansive exploration.
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Review of L. Filieri, Sintesi e guidizio. Studio su Kant e Jakob Sigismund Beck (Edizione ETS, 2020) (review)Studi Kantiani. forthcoming.Review of L. Filieri, Sintesi e guidizio. Studio su Kant e Jakob Sigismund Beck
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270Review of Robert Pippin Hegel's Realm of Shadows (University of Chicago Press 2018) (review)Hegel Bulletin 42 (3): 480-485. 2021.I review Robert Pippin's "Hegel's Realm of Shadows" (University of Chicago Press 2018) for the Hegel Bulletin. A draft can be read on my website (see link below). Or download below. See also the appendix (philpapers link below)
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298Kritische notitie over een fenomenalistische lezing van Kants idealisme (review)Radix 46 (4): 351-355. 2020.In this review, I criticize aspects of Emanuel Rutten's new reading of Kant, which belongs to the radical phenomenalistic interpretations of Kant's idealism
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117Over een extreem fenomenalistische lezing van Kant (review)Critique. 2020.In this critical notice, I argue that Emanuel Rutten's reading of Kant's distinction between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds rests on an extremely phenomenalist reading of Kant's idealism. Rutten makes the ontological claim that Kant's phenomena are reducible to our sensations, and do not exist as objects outside our representations. As a result, his criticism of Kant's restriction thesis that we only know appearances is uncharitably narrow; Rutten argues that, according to Kant, our ignoranc…Read more
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96Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German IdealismBloomsbury. 2020.blurb from publisher: "In Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism, Dennis Schulting examines the themes of reflexivity, self-consciousness, representation and apperception in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and German Idealism more widely. Central to Schulting’s argument is the claim that all of human experience is inherently self-referential and that this is part of a self-reflexivity of thought, or what is called transcendental apperception, a Kantian insight that was f…Read more
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303The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. “Transformative” Approaches to the B-Deduction, or, How to Read the Leitfaden (A79)In Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting & Udo Thiel (eds.), Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception. New Interpretations, De Gruyter. forthcoming.In the context of a critique of James Conant’s (2016) important new reading of the main argument of the Deduction, I present my current, most detailed interpretation of the well-known Leitfaden passage at A79, which in my view has been misinterpreted by a host of prominent readers. The Leitfaden passage is crucial to understanding the argument of, not just the so-called Metaphysical Deduction, but also the Transcendental Deduction. This new account expands and improves upon the account of the Le…Read more
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195In this paper, I explain why for Kant self-consciousness is intimately related to objectivity, how this intimacy translates to real objects, what it means to make judgements about objects, and what idealism has got to do with all of this.
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892I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant and Back Again (review)Philosophical Review 128 (1): 107-111. 2019.review of Béatrice Longuenesse latest book on Kant and self-consciousness I, Me, Mine (Oxford 2017)
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