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123Hegel on the Particular in the Science of LogicThe Owl of Minerva 43 (1-2): 1-40. 2011.Hegel begins the third main part of the Science of Logic, the “logic of the concept,” with the dialectic of universality. This dialectic, however, proves to be insufficient for the exposition of the fundamental structure of being-as-concept, because it is dominated by the perspective of self-identity. For this reason speculative logic develops a dialectic of particularity whose domain is dominated by the perspective of difference. While the dialectic of universality made explicit the meaning of …Read more
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45Being, Presence, and Implication in Heidegger's Critique of HegelHegel Bulletin 44 (2): 345-369. 2023.For Heidegger, Hegel understands being, ‘the highest actuality’, as the categories which pervade and thereby form all objects and events. Since, Heidegger argues, the categories are, in Hegel, present-at-hand, Hegel conceives of being as presence-at-hand. This is a problem, for Heidegger, because it entails the full transparency and knowability of being, whereas, in his view, being is partially hidden and unknowable. I consider the objection to this Heideggerian critique of Hegel that Hegelian l…Read more
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12Phenomenology as MetaphysicsSymposium 25 (2): 125-154. 2021.The article reflects on Heidegger’s “metaphysical” interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This interpretation is driven by two theses Heidegger holds: that the Phenomenology is a necessary part of Hegel’s “system of science” and that the Phenomenology is metaphysics. These two theses contrast with Houlgate’s “epistemological” interpretation, which claims that the Phenomenology is not a necessary part of Hegel’s system of science and that it is not metaphysics. The article shows that …Read more
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35Heidegger on the Beginning of Hegel's PhenomenologyIn Ivan Boldyrev & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Interpreting Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings, Routledge. pp. 14-32. 2019.In his "Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit," which includes his 1930-31 lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit," Heidegger states not only that Hegelian phenomenology “begins absolutely with the absolute,” but also that this phenomenological beginning is a necessary beginning of Hegel’s “system of science.” Although Heidegger acknowledges that the “proper” or “appropriate” beginning or “ground” of this system is the logical beginning (the beginning posited by Hegelian logic), he insists not only…Read more
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891Phenomenology as Metaphysics: On Heidegger's Interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 25 (2): 125-154. 2021.The article reflects on Heidegger’s “metaphysical” interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This interpretation is driven by two theses Heidegger holds: (1) that the Phenomenology is a necessary part of Hegel’s “system of science” and (2) that the Phenomenology is metaphysics. These two theses contrast with Houlgate’s “epistemological” interpretation, which claims that the Phenomenology is not a necessary part of Hegel’s system of science and that it is not metaphysics. The article sho…Read more
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213The Stubbornness of Nature in Art: A Reading of §§556, 558 and 560 of Hegel's EncyclopediaIn Joshua Wretzel & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. pp. 232-250. 2021.Speight has recently raised the question, which he himself leaves unanswered, how naturalism relates to spirit in Hegel’s philosophy of art. ‘Naturalism’ denotes an explanation that invokes aspects of nature that are (allegedly) irreducible or resistant to thought. I call nature ‘stubborn’ insofar as it evinces resistance to its being formed by thought and hence to its being united with it. This paper argues that §§556, 558 and 560 of Hegel’s Encyclopedia answer Speight’s question by specifying …Read more
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448What is Wrong with Machine Art? Autonomy, Spirituality, Consciousness, and Human SurvivalHumanities Bulletin 3 (2): 9-26. 2020.There is a well-documented Pre-Reflective Hostility against Machine Art (PRHMA), exemplified by the sentiments of fear and anxiety. How can it be explained? The present paper attempts to find the answer to this question by surveying a considerable amount of research on machine art. It is found that explanations of PRHMA based on the (alleged) fact that machine art lacks an element that is (allegedly) found in human art (for example, autonomy) do not work. Such explanations cannot account for the…Read more
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416Can Kant’s Aesthetics Accommodate Conceptual Art? A Reply to CostelloCon-Textos Kantianos 12 226-247. 2020.Diarmuid Costello has recently argued that, contra received opinion, Kant’s aesthetics can accommodate conceptual art, as well as all other art. Costello offers an interpretation of Kant’s art theory that demands from all art a minimal structure involving three basic “players” and three basic “actions” corresponding to those “players.” The article takes issue with the “action” assigned by Costello’s Kant to the artwork’s recipient, namely that her imagination generates a multitude of playful tho…Read more
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6Hegel on Scepticism in the Logic of EssenceIn Klaus Vieweg, Stella Synegianni, Georges Faraklas & Jannis Kozatsas (eds.), Hegel and Scepticism: On Klaus Vieweg's Interpretation, De Gruyter. pp. 99-120. 2017.
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31Hegel on the Particular in the Science of LogicThe Owl of Minerva 43 (1/2): 1-40. 2011.Hegel begins the third main part of the Science of Logic, the “logic of the concept,” with the dialectic of universality. This dialectic, however, proves to be insufficient for the exposition of the fundamental structure of being-as-concept, because it is dominated by the perspective of self-identity. For this reason speculative logic develops a dialectic of particularity whose domain is dominated by the perspective of difference. While the dialectic of universality made explicit the meaning of …Read more
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335Boris Hessen and Newton's GodSociety and Politics 13 (1): 64-86. 2019.A significant thread in Boris Hessen‟s iconic essay, The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia (1931), is his critique of Newton‟s involving God in his physics. Contra Newton, Hessen believes that nature does not need God in order to function properly. Hessen gives two, quite distinct, „internal‟ explanations of Newton‟s failure to see this. The first explanation is that Newton‟s failure is caused by his believing that motion is a mode instead of an attribute or essence of matter. The …Read more
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6Kant’s theory of normativity: exploring the space of reason: by Konstantin Pollok, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017,xv+326 pp., £23.99 (pb), ISBN: 978-1107567221 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (6): 1251-1254. 2019.Volume 27, Issue 6, December 2019, Page 1251-1254.
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25Kant’s theory of normativity: exploring the space of reason: by Konstantin Pollok, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017,xv+326 pp., £23.99 , ISBN: 978-1107567221British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (6): 1251-1254. 2019.Volume 27, Issue 6, December 2019, Page 1251-1254.
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722Descartes' Solitude Thesis: A Neglected Aspect of the Cartesian MethodologyNew Europe College Yearbook - EntE 153-182. 2014-2015.Recent research has defended the surprising thesis that in many cases the search for truth is better off if the information exchanged between the members of an epistemic community is limited. This is what one may call the limited information thesis. There is, however, the possibility of an even more radical position than this: the thesis that any communication between peers has zero epistemic value and that the search for truth is better off if the truth-inquirer does not take into consideration…Read more
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134The Two-Sense Reading of Spinoza’s definition of attributeBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (6): 1093-1115. 2017.Spinoza’s definition of ‘attribute’ has been described as ‘one of the most puzzling passages in the Ethics’ and ‘a longstanding worry’ for Spinoza interpreters. Its puzzling status stems from its apparent ‘subjectivist’ character and the dominant understanding of Spinoza’s notion of attribute as an ‘objectivist’ notion. The paper aspires to remove this puzzlement by proposing and defending a reading of E1d4 in which it is understood to have two senses. First, I defend the objectivist character o…Read more
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18Truth, Judgment and Speculative LogicBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57 154-172. 2008.
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59Hegel's Analysis of Universality in the Science of LogicIn Patricia Hanna (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Atiner. 2008.
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851Hegel on Scepticism in the Logic of EssenceIn Jannis Kozatsas, George Faraklas, Klaus Vieweg & Stella Synegianni (eds.), Hegel and Scepticism, De Gruyter. pp. 99-120. 2017.Early in the Logic of Essence, the second main part of Hegelian Logic, Hegel identifies a logical structure, seeming (Schein), with “the phenomenon of scepticism.” The present paper has two aims: first, to flesh this identification out by describing the argument that leads up to it; and, second, to argue that it is mistaken. I will proceed as follows. Section 1 deciphers the opening statement of the Logic of Essence, “the truth of being is essence,” by specifying the meaning of each of its comp…Read more
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6Kant and the Early Moderns (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (2): 348-351. 2010.
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283The Logic of the BorderRussian Sociological Review 13 (4): 18-41. 2014.In his Science of Logic Hegel purports to give an account of a dialectical logic that generates the totality of being’s fundamental structures. This totality does not exhaust the richness of being, but it exhausts the basis of this richness. Any phenomenon, whether cognitive, scientific, social or political, is based upon some or all of those structures. The paper presents and examines the logic of a structure which pervades each and every phenomenon: the border(die Grenze). It is analyzed as an…Read more
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182Hegelian IdentityJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 47 (2): 98-116. 2016.In his article “Hegelian Identity,” Trisokkas examines the dialectic of identity and difference in the second chapter of Section One of Book Two of Hegel’s Science of Logic, “The Determinations of Reflection.” Trisokkas initially shows that Hegel understands identity as having its truth in contradiction. He then explains that Hegel understands contradiction in two ways. Ordinarily, a contradiction occurs when a quality or quantity (F) and its contradictory (not F) are predicated of the same thin…Read more
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36Truth, judgement and speculative logic: Chong-Fuk Lau, Hegel's Urteilskritik: Systematische Untersuchungen Zum Grundproblem Der Spekulativen LogikBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57 154-172. 2008.
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54Hegel's Early Response to Pyrrhonian ScepticismIn Patricia Hanna (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 3, Atiner. 2009.
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Hegel on the Beginning of ScienceIn Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel's Theory of Judgement, Brill. pp. 93-119. 2012.
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35Allen W. Wood and Songsuk Susan Hahn, eds. , The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790–1870) . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 33 (5): 424-429. 2013.
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The Pyrrhonian ProblematicIn Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel's Theory of Judgement, Brill. pp. 11-42. 2012.
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2Hegel on the Judgement of ReflectionIn Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel's Theory of Judgement, Brill. pp. 275-296. 2012.