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1Beyond Art - Dominic McIver Lopes (review)American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal 7 (2). 2015.
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20Kantian Legacies in German Idealism (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Scholarship on German Idealism typically couches the systems of Idealism in terms of a rejection of or departure from Kant's critical philosophy. The few accounts that do look to the positive influence of Kant on the Idealists typically focus on the perceived need among the Idealists to revise Kant's system due to various shortcomings arising from his dualism. This volume seeks to reverse this norm. It does this by bringing together an original set of critical reflections on the ways in which th…Read more
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19The concept of life in German Idealism and its Aristotelian rootsIntellectual History Review 31 (3): 379-390. 2021.
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16Hegel’s Logic of NegationIn Gregory S. Moss (ed.), The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 397-419. 2022.In his introduction to the General Concept of the Logic, Hegel writes: “What propels the concept onward is the already mentioned negative which it possesses in itself; it is this that constitutes the truly dialectical factor.” Negation is typically regarded as the fundamental engine of Hegel’s Science of Logic and for good reason. I call this the common thesis, although its hues are many. The method can be described as a ‘triplicity of negation’, consisting of (i) content, (ii) negation, and (ii…Read more
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26Pure Synthesis and the Principle of the Synthetic Unity of ApperceptionKant Studien 113 (1): 8-39. 2022.Kant calls the Principle of the Synthetic Unity of Apperception the “highest point” to which we “must affix all use of the understanding, even the whole of logic and, after it, transcendental philosophy.” In this article, I offer an original interpretation of this “supreme principle.” My argument is twofold. First, I argue that the common identification of this principle with the “I think” or even the form of the I think misses the basis on which this principle is capable of grounding Kant’s tra…Read more
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126Artworks are Valuable for Their Own SakeJournal of the American Philosophical Association, 9(2) 9 (2): 234-252. 2023.To hold that artworks are valuable for their own sake—regardless of whatever secondary value they may have, such as entertainment, formation, education, or a pleasurable experience—is to hold that their final worth is not derived from external or secondary ends. I call this collective set of views the end-in-itself view. Nicholas Stang recently leveled a twofold charge of reductio ad absurdum and operating from a double standard against the EI view. In this article, I refute Stang by showing tha…Read more
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159Hegel's End of Art and the Artwork as an Internally Purposive WholeJournal of the History of Philosophy 61 (3): 473-498. 2023.Abstractabstract:Hegel's end-of-art thesis is arguably the most notorious assertion in aesthetics. I outline traditional interpretive strategies before offering an original alternative to these. I develop a conception of art that facilitates a reading of Hegel on which he is able to embrace three seemingly contradictory theses about art, namely, (i) the end-of-art thesis, (ii) the continued significance of art for its own sake (autonomy thesis), and (iii) the necessity of art for robust knowledg…Read more
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Lewis UniversityRegular Faculty
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University of ChicagoResearcher
Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |