-
Hope and faith : Kierkegaard's call for the self to develop its relationship to itselfIn Katerina Mihaylova & Anna Ezekiel (eds.), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism, Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.
-
The Davos Debate, pure philosophy and normativity : thinking from the perspective of the history of philosophyIn Tobias Endres, Ralf Müller & Domenico Schneider (eds.), Kyoto in Davos. Intercultural Readings of the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate, Brill. 2024.
-
9Critical Idealism as Method: Ernst Cassirer and the Philosophy of Symbolic FormsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (4): 1105-1114. 2023.To commemorate the centenary of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms this essay focuses on how Cassirer in the development of a distinctive philosophical method analyzed the newest development within philosophy and science. Discussing Einstein's theory of relativity and Russell's formal logic Cassirer found tools to expand the critique of reason into a critique of culture. The course of argumentation is as follows. At the outset Cassirer's outline of the idea of The Philosophy of Symbol…Read more
-
8Anthropology & philosophy: dialogues on trust and hope (edited book)Berghahn Books. 2015.Anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark and cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style.
-
180Call For Abstracts - Special Issue: Philosophical Perspectives on Trust and Distrust in Contemporary SocietiesSats. Northern European Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.Invitation to submit abstracts to the new special issue PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRUST AND DISTRUST IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES to be published by Sats. Northern European Journal of Philosophy in spring 2024
-
347Philosophy and Digitization: Dangers and Possibilities in the New Digital WorldsSATS 22 (1): 1-9. 2021.Our world is under going an enormous digital transformation. Nearly no area of our social, informational, political, economic, cultural, and biological spheres are left unchanged. What can philosophy contribute as we try to under- stand and think through these changes? How does digitization challenge past ideas of who we are and where we are headed? Where does it leave our ethical aspirations and cherished ideals of democracy, equality, privacy, trust, freedom, and social embeddedness? Who gets …Read more
-
16A Two-Level Theory of TrustBalkan Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 47-56. 2010.The chief aim of the paper is to argue for a two-level theory of trust consisting of basic and intentional trust. The paper sets out by comparing the concepts of trust and justice to highlight the double meaning of trust as a descriptive social phenomenon and an evaluative normative term. It is subsequently argued that the conceptions of trust known from political science and recent philosophical debates of trust do not capture this double meaning of trust as the former focuses on trust as a soc…Read more
-
29The origins of the transcendental justification of taste: Kant’s several views on the status of beautyNordic Journal of Aesthetics 26 (54). 2018.The article follows Kant’s different views on aesthetics ranging from the pre-critical period to the Critique of the Power of Judgement. It argues that John Zammito’s psychological explanation of why Kant in the third Critique developed an argument for the transcendental justification of judgements of taste is unconvincing. As an alternative, the article shows how Kant in his published pre-critical discussions of aesthetics was relying upon empiricist sources while he in private comments turned …Read more
-
20Religion is the Opium of the People: An Investigation into the Intellectual Context of Marx's Critique of ReligionReview of Metaphysics. forthcoming.
-
40A Kantian Conception of TrustSATS 13 (2): 147-169. 2012.Name der Zeitschrift: Jahrgang: 13 Heft: 2 Seiten: 147-169