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79The Domain of AuthorityPhilosophy 82 (1): 23-43. 2007.If the commands of authority are peremptory and content-independent directives, it is a great puzzle why any rational autonomous agent should accept them as morally binding, as Robert Paul Wolff and others have argued. I analyse the peremptory and content-independent quality of authoritative directives and argue that all earthly authorities operate within a specified domain. I investigate three candidates for the role of universally applicable boundary conditions–morality, harm to self, and absu…Read more
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22Alan Brudner and the Contemporary Significance of Hegel's Philosophy of Law (review)Jurisprudence 3 (1): 211-251. 2012.
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8Virtue and taste: essays on politics, ethics, and aesthetics: in memory of Flint Schier (edited book)Blackwell. 1993.
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76Practical ReflectionPhilosophical Quarterly 40 (161): 524-527. 1990.“What do you see when you look at your face in the mirror?” asks J. David Velleman in introducing his philosophical theory of action. He takes this simple act of self-scrutiny as a model for the reflective reasoning of rational agents: our efforts to understand our existence and conduct are aided by our efforts to make it intelligible. Reflective reasoning, Velleman argues, constitutes practical reasoning. By applying this conception, _Practical Reflection_ develops philosophical accounts of int…Read more
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3G.W.F. HegelRoutledge. 2009.Hegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy. The essays in this volume bring together some of the finest interpreters of Hegel writing in English, explore his distinguished heritage and explain its contemporary relevance.
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8Hegel's practical philosophy: rational agency as ethical life – Robert B. PippinPhilosophical Quarterly 61 (242): 192-196. 2011.No abstract available.
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92Natural Law and Practical RationalityMind 112 (447): 555-558. 2003.This essay argues that Mark C. Murphy's original contribution to natural law ethics succeeds in finding a way between older metaphysical and newer purely practical approaches in this genre. Murphy's reconstruction of the function argument, critique of subjectivist theories of well-being, and rigorous formulation of a flexible welfarist theory of value deserve careful attention. I defend Kant against Murphy's critique and argue that Murphy faces the problem of showing that all his basic goods are…Read more
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17G.W.F. Hegel, Political Writings, eds. Laurence Dickey and H.B. Nisbet, trans. H.B. Nisbet , pp. 1 + 357. ISBN 0521459753. £13.95 (review)Hegel Bulletin 23 (1-2): 124-130. 2002.
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33Hegel's CitizenHegel Bulletin 25 (1-2): 41-53. 2004.Hegel's account of freedom is complex and difficult. It integrates a doctrine of free agency, a theory of social freedom, and a self-determining theodicy of Spirit. To achieve full understanding, if full understanding is possible, the student must both disentangle and articulate the components, and then fit together the separate pieces into an intelligible whole. And what is true of the whole is true of the parts; each element is in turn complex and controversial.In this paper, I want to investi…Read more
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8Michael Inwood, A Hegel Dictionary, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992, pp vii + 347, Hb £37.50, Pb £14.95Hegel Bulletin 14 (1-2): 92-94. 1993.
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2John Walker , Thought and Faith in the Philosophy of Hegel, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, pp xi + 190, £50 Hb (review)Hegel Bulletin 12 (1-2): 97-99. 1991.
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4Liberalism and Democracy RevisitedJournal of Applied Philosophy 12 (3): 283-292. 2008.In JAP 9 (1992) Gordon Graham argued that liberals cannot be counted on to support democratic institutions since there are no conceptual or strongly contingent links between democracy and liberal ideals. This paper responds to Graham's challenge by claiming that his model of liberal aristocracy is not liberal in several respects. In particular, the liberal should recognise a right to democratic participation which individuals may plausibly claim as an element in a respectable conception of how t…Read more
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56Recent Work on HegelAn Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel.Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts .Hegel.Hegel's Concept of God.History and System: Hegel's Philosophy of History.Hegel: An Introduction.Hegel and the Human Spirit: A Translation of the Fena Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit with Commentary.Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism (review)Philosophical Quarterly 35 (139): 199. 1985.
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17Edward Caird,Hegel, Adelaide, London, and Washington: Cambridge Scholars Press Ltd., 2002. VIII + 177 pp. hardcover, £24.95. ISBN: 1904303102 (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 1 (2): 187-189. 2003.
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47Climbing: Because It's There – Stephen E. SchmidPhilosophical Quarterly 61 (245): 887-890. 2011.
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10Z. A. Pelczynski (ed), The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel's Political Philosophy (review)Philosophical Books 27 (2): 84-89. 1986.
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25Explanation and its Limits (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1990.This collection of new essays explores the nature of explanation and causality.
Dudley Knowles
(1947 - 2014)
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |