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48Back 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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56The 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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125On 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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