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46Phenomenology’s Constitutive ParadoxIdealistic Studies 48 (2): 133-147. 2018.I provide a phenomenological response to Quentin Meillassoux’s “realist” criticism of phenomenology and I explore the resources and limits of phenomenology in its own attempt to grapple with the paradox Meillassoux believes sinks it: subjectivity has priority over the physical reality it constitutes despite the anteriority and posteriority of that physical reality to subjectivity. I first offer a corrective to Meillassoux’s interpretation of Husserl. Then, I turn to Merleau-Ponty’s lectures on t…Read more
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27Phenomenology’s Constitutive ParadoxIdealistic Studies 48 (2): 133-147. 2018.I provide a phenomenological response to Quentin Meillassoux’s “realist” criticism of phenomenology and I explore the resources and limits of phenomenology in its own attempt to grapple with the paradox Meillassoux believes sinks it: subjectivity has priority over the physical reality it constitutes despite the anteriority and posteriority of that physical reality to subjectivity. I first offer a corrective to Meillassoux’s interpretation of Husserl. Then, I turn to Merleau-Ponty’s lectures on t…Read more
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15The Freedom to Design Nature: Kant's Strong Ought→Can Inference in 21st Century PerspectiveCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 1 (2): 213-221. 2005.Kant’s attempts to formulate a conception of the harmony of nature and freedom have two logical presuppositions. The first presupposition is separation of ought and is, which provides a logical formulation of the separation of freedom and nature. Kant might well have settled on the view that the separation between nature and freedom cannot be bridged. Why did Kant attempt to overcome said separation? The second presupposition of Kant’s project to bridge nature and freedom involves an ought→can i…Read more
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7The Freedom to Design Nature: Kant's Strong Ought→ Can Inference in 21st Century PerspectiveCosmos and History 1 (2): 213-221. 2005.Kant’s attempts to formulate a conception of the harmony of nature and freedom have two logical presuppositions. The first presupposition is separation of ought and is, which provides a logical formulation of the separation of freedom and nature. Kant might well have settled on the view that the separation between nature and freedom cannot be bridged. Why did Kant attempt to overcome said separation? The second presupposition of Kant’s project to bridge nature and freedom involves an ought→can i…Read more
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9Moral Rhetoric and Religious Pluralism: Reflections on the Language of Dharma in Aśoka's Imperial EdictsBudhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 4 (2 & 3): 91-101. 2000.
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L'archéologie du monde. Constitution de l'espace, idéalisme et intuitionnisme chez HusserlTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 63 (3): 614-616. 2001.
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Contemplation and Judgment in Kant's AestheticsDissertation, Boston College. 1994.The Critique of Judgment aims to account for the affective sharing of a common world of appearance. To accomplish this project, Kant retrieves a connection between contemplation and judgment which had lain dormant in the philosophical tradition since the time of Plato. Kant rescues the theme of contemplatio or $\theta\varepsilon\omega\rho\acute\iota\alpha$ from the Neo-platonist tradition culminating in Leibniz and Shaftesbury. This tradition took beauty as the motivation for an intuitive assimi…Read more
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5Robert Paul Churchill, Human Rights and Global Diversity. Prentice-Hall, 2006Human Rights Review 8 (4): 427-430. 2007.
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9Imagination as a reflection of value-commitmentEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 6 (2). 2007.Hume remarked on how our moral value-commitments set limits for what we are willing to imagine. Moral values also guide imagination when we envision variant scenarios and options for action. How do values reveal themselves through imagining? What does the manner through which values appear tell us about the nature of values? Imagination furnishes a non-perceptual manner of arriving at moral determinations anchored to the irreducibly first-person experience of moral approval and disapproval. The …Read more
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13Schopenhauer on the Individuation and Teleology of Intelligible CharacterIdealistic Studies 40 (1-2): 15-26. 2010.A problem arises in Schopenhauer’s claim that each individual person’s will, or intelligible character, is timeless. The principium individuationis depends upon spatio-temporal determinations governing the world as representation. As individual, one’s individual character would seem to depend upon spatio-temporalconditions. Yet, Schopenhauer adopts the Kantian distinction between empirical character and intelligible character, with the individual’s intelligible characterremaining the timeless Di…Read more
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7Kant's Critique of Judgment accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, Judging Appearances retrieves the connection between appearance and judgment in the Critique of Judgment. Kleist emphasizes the important but neglected idea of a sensus communis, which provides the indeterminate criterion for judgments regarding appearance. Judging Appearances examines the themes of appearance and judgment against t…Read more