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Kant, Beck, and the highest goodIn Katerina Mihaylova & Anna Ezekiel (eds.), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism, Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.
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1Hegel's tragic conception of world historyIn Mark Alznauer (ed.), Hegel on tragedy and comedy: new essays, State University of New York Press. pp. 225-240. 2021.
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7Philosophy’s Persuasiveness of DeathPhilosophy Today 66 (1): 149-166. 2022.In his seminars on the death penalty, Derrida argues that Kant’s defense of that punishment is the most rigorous and systematically philosophical. For that same reason, he says, the arguments are especially vulnerable to deconstruction. I argue, in detail, that Derrida’s deconstruction fails if Kant’s distinction between the noumenal and the phenomenal is respected, which Derrida’s arguments do not specifically challenge. I close with some considerations for philosophical opponents of the death …Read more
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10Philosophy’s Persuasiveness of DeathPhilosophy Today 66 (1): 149-166. 2022.In his seminars on the death penalty, Derrida argues that Kant’s defense of that punishment is the most rigorous and systematically philosophical. For that same reason, he says, the arguments are especially vulnerable to deconstruction. I argue, in detail, that Derrida’s deconstruction fails if Kant’s distinction between the noumenal and the phenomenal is respected, which Derrida’s arguments do not specifically challenge. I close with some considerations for philosophical opponents of the death …Read more
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6Are the Frühromantiker Platonists?Idealistic Studies 49 (2): 123-143. 2019.How to classify the artistic and philosophical movement of Early German Romanticism remains a topic of ongoing disagreement. I consider the views of two of the leading interpreters—Frederick Beiser and Manfred Frank—and argue that the latter’s are closer to the truth. Beiser, however, has noticed a lacuna in the literature surrounding the metaphysics and epistemology of the Romantics, namely their debt to an ascendant Plato during their intellectual development. This is right, but Beiser’s ideal…Read more
Vanderbilt University
PhD, 2021
Chicago, IL, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Kantian Ethics |
Environmental Ethics |
Areas of Interest
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