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17Kant's deontological eudaemonism: the dutiful pursuit of virtue and happinessOxford University Press. 2022.In this book, Professor Jeanine Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a system of eudaemonism, indeed, as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms of it: a system of what she calls Deontological Eudaemonism. In Deontological Eudaemonism, one achieves happiness both rationally conceived and empirically conceived only via authentic commitment to and fulfilment of what is demanded of all rational beings: making persons as such one…Read more
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10Deontological EudaemonismIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1431-1438. 2021.
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19Critique, Finitude and the Importance of Susceptibility: A Rossian Approach to Interpreting Kant on PleasurePhilosophia 49 (5): 1853-1874. 2021.In this paper, I take Philip Rossi’s robust interpretation of critique as an interpretive guide for thinking generally about how to interpret Kant’s texts. I reflect first upon what might appear to be a minor technical issue: how best to translate the term Fähigheit when Kant utilizes it in reference to the human experience of pleasure and displeasure. Reflection upon this technical issue will, however, end up being a case study in how important it is when we are interpreting Kant’s texts to hav…Read more
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32Review of Michael Austin, Humility and Human Flourishing: A Study in Analytic Moral Theology, Oxford Univ. Press, 2018 (review)European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (1): 205. 2020.
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15Autonomous moral education is Socratic moral education: The Import of repeated activity in moral education out of evil and into virtueEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (13): 1335-1346. 2019.Kant’s commitment to autonomy raises difficult questions about the very possibility of Kantian moral education, since appeal to external pedagogical guidance threatens to be in contradictio...
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3A Defense of First-Personal Phenomenological Experience: Responses to Sticker and SaundersCon-Textos Kantianos 8 370-376. 2018.In this paper, I respond to questions Sticker and Saunders raise about integrating third-personal interactions within my phenomenological first-personal account of moral obligatedness. Sticker argues that third-personal interactions are more central for grounding moral obligatedness than I admit. Saunders turns things around and suggests we might not even be able to access third-personal interactions with others at the level one would need to in order to secure proper moral interactions with the…Read more
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2Response to Frierson’s “Kantian Feeling: Empirical Psychology, Transcendental Critique and Phenomenology”Con-Textos Kantianos 3 372-380. 2016.In this paper, I reject Frierson’s interpretation of Kantian reductionist phenomenology. I diagnose his failure to articulate a more robust notion of phenomenology in Kant as traceable to a misguided effort to protect pure reason from the undue influence of sensibility. But in fact Kant himself relies regularly on a phenomenological and felt first personal perspective in his practical philosophy. Once we think more broadly about what Frierson calls “the space of reasons,” we must admit a robust …Read more
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32Autonomous moral education is Socratic moral education: The Import of repeated activity in moral education out of evil and into virtueEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (13): 1327-1338. 2018.Kant’s commitment to autonomy raises difficult questions about the very possibility of Kantian moral education, since appeal to external pedagogical guidance threatens to be in contradiction with autonomous virtue. Furthermore, moral education seems to involve getting good at something through repetition; but Kant seems to eschew the notion of repeated natural activity as antithetical to autonomy. Things become even trickier once we remember that Kant also views autonomous human beings as radica…Read more
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37Self-deception and self-knowledge: Jane Austen’s Emma as an Example of Kant’s Notion of Self-DeceptionCon-Textos Kantianos 1 162-176. 2015.In this paper, I address the theme of harmony by investigating that harmony of person necessary for obtaining wisdom. Central to achievement of that harmony is the removal of the unstable, unharmonious presence of self-deception within one’s moral character.
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24Courageous Humility in Jane Austen’s Mansfield ParkSocial Theory and Practice 33 (4): 645-666. 2007.
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1Moral Feeling and Human Autonomy: A Kantian Account of ActionDissertation, Emory University. 1996.Bernard Williams has recently taken Kant to task for his apparent inability to account for the moral import of emotions. Rigid adherence to Kant's austere "motive of duty," says Williams, undermines any possibility of integrity of character, since it demands that an agent's moral life be alienated from her emotional life. ;Providing an adequate response to Williams' critiques on these issues will require a revision of our understanding of Kant's conceptions of action and of freedom. The "Incorpo…Read more
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33Précis of Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and VirtuePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3): 622-623. 2007.
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18Humility in Kant's Account of VirtueIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 360-367. 2001.
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48Anthropology, History, and Education (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3): 474-475. 2009.We are told in the introduction to this volume that what holds together such an apparently diverse collection of essays under a single rubric is the theme of "human nature." And this is fair enough: themes ranging from Kant's reflections on physiology, to his investigation of the vexed notion of what it is that constitutes a race, to his reflections on philosophy of history, to his lectures on pedagogy all fit reasonably enough under the rubric of "human nature." All point us, that is, toward a …Read more
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21Patrick R. Frierson, Kant’s Empirical Psychology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 Pp. 288 ISBN 9781107032651 $95.00 (review)Kantian Review 21 (1): 130-137. 2016.
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26Review: Hudson, Kant's CompatibilismJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (3): 466-468. 1996.466 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34:3 JULY 1996 offered in Rameau's Nephew called into question his long-held conviction that "even in a society as poorly ordered as ours.., there is no better path to happiness than to be a good man," Hulliung tends to assume too quickly that the Nephew's attacks on this belief carry the day . Diderot did, after all, eventually provide the Nephew's antago- nist with some responses and, while these may not always convince us, it is somewhat rash to assume…Read more
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36John W. Yolton: The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke (review)Faith and Philosophy 24 (1): 107-109. 2007.
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20Kant’s Questions: What is the Human Being? by Patrick R. Frierson (review)Mind 123 (490): 592-598. 2014.
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3Social dimensions of Kant's conception of radical evilIn Sharon Anderson-Gold & Pablo Muchnik (eds.), Kant's Anatomy of Evil, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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65Making Sense of the Relationship of Reason and Sensibility in Kant's EthicsKantian Review 16 (3): 461-472. 2011.In this essay, I look at some claims Anne Margaret Baxley makes, in her recent book Kant's Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy, about the relationship between reason and sensibility in Kant's theory of virtue. I then reflect on tensions I find in these claims as compared to the overall goal of her book: an account of Kant's conception of virtue as autocracy. Ultimately, I argue that interpreters like Baxley who want to welcome a more robust role for feeling in Kantian ethics must, in order …Read more
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17Kant's Compatibilism (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (3): 466-468. 1996.466 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34:3 JULY 1996 offered in Rameau's Nephew called into question his long-held conviction that "even in a society as poorly ordered as ours.., there is no better path to happiness than to be a good man," Hulliung tends to assume too quickly that the Nephew's attacks on this belief carry the day. Diderot did, after all, eventually provide the Nephew's antago- nist with some responses and, while these may not always convince us, it is somewhat rash to assume …Read more
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1Humility, Kantian styleIn S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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26Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience: A Phenomenological AccountCambridge University Press. 2013.In this book, Jeanine Grenberg argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from careful reflection upon the common human moral experience of the conflict between happiness and morality. Through careful readings of both the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason, Grenberg shows that Kant, typically thought to be an overly technical moral philosopher, in fact is a vigorous defender of the common person's first-personal encounter with moral demands. Grenberg unco…Read more
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15John W. Yolton: The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke (review)Faith and Philosophy 24 (1): 107-109. 2007.
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19Review: Kneller, and Axinn, Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social PhilosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 37 (3): 538-540. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy ed. by Jane Kneller and Sidney AxinnJeanine GrenbergJane Kneller and Sidney Axinn, editors, Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 334. Paper, $21.95.The intent of this volume is not narrow textual exegesis but the application of Kantian themes to “probl…Read more
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