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1Natorp’s Critique of Appeals to Givenness in Light of the Marburg Renewal of IdealismPhänomenologische Forschungen 2021 (2): 38-56. 2021.For Natorp, the most urgent task for turn-of-the-century philosophy consisted in recovering the meaning of idealism. Instead of simply appealing to given facts, idealists transform givennesses of all sorts into tasks for thinking under the guidance of laws which we ourselves have laid down and for which we ourselves are responsible. In this paper I will try to connect the dots between (a) the broader Marburg project of tethering philosophy to the achievements of modern science and (b) Natorp’s c…Read more
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58Back to Fichte? Natorp’s Doubts about Husserl’s Transcendental PhenomenologyIn Iulian Apostolescu & Claudia Serban (eds.), Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Phenomenology, De Gruyter. pp. 411-438. 2020.It is well known that Husserl’s turn to a form of “transcendental” phenomenology troubled many of his followers in Munich and Göttingen. It was just as perplexing, though, for his contemporaries in the tradition of post-Kantian transcendental philosophy. Cohen had identified the living core of Kant’s philosophy as the “transcendental method,” and Natorp, in particular, had worked extensively to distinguish the principles of the Marburg recovery of Kant from his wayward appropriation by Fichte an…Read more
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58The Genesis of Heidegger's Reading of KantDissertation, Vanderbilt University. 2014.Since its 1929 publication, philosophers have been more or less unsure what to make of Heidegger's Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. Although it wielded more than its fair share of influence over the course of the twentieth century, its chief interpretive claims are mostly untenable today. Of course, it has always been recognized that the book was never intended as a straightforward piece of Kant interpretation. But neither does it appear to be a reliable presentation of Heidegger's own thoug…Read more
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126On Dōgen and DerridaPhilosophy East and West 58 (1): 60-82. 2008.Are Derrida’s critique of presence and Dōgen’s emphasis on presence incompatible? I argue that they are not—and, in fact, that there is a deep connection between the projects of the two thinkers. In showing this I hope to combat some serious misconceptions about essential aspects of both Zen Buddhism and deconstruction.
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Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |