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Philosophical fictions: Maimon's methodological criticism of KantIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress: The Court of Reason (Oslo, 6–9 August 2019), De Gruyter. 2021.In this paper, I show how Maimon’s method of fic- tions deals with the specific problems raised by one of his skeptical arguments, namely the quid facti. This argument leads Maimon to adopt what is sometimes called a ‘system interpretation’ of the necessity of empirical laws. Since Maimon thinks that transcendental philosophy cannot prove the fact that the categories have objective validity, he infers that hence systematization, and not the catego- ries, is what constitutes the source of necessi…Read more
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From Kant to Maimon to FichteIn Jeffery Kinlaw (ed.), Fichte’s Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. forthcoming.
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7Buchbesprechung: Andreas Heinz: Der Begriff der psychischen Krankheit (review)Zeitschrift Für Philosophische Literatur. 2015.
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52The methods of metaphilosophy: Kant, Maimon, and Schelling on how to philosophize about philosophyVittorio Klostermann. 2022.On the basis of an examination of Kant's, Maimon's and Schelling's metaphilosophies, this book investigates how, starting from Kant's diagnosis of a "groping metaphysics", a philosophical research program, whose goal is to elucidate the nature and method of philosophy itself, develops. What unites theirprojects is the thesis that philosophy must begin with an investigation of its own nature, and that this investigation, because of its special object, must be accompanied by a reflection on its me…Read more
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18Philosophical Fictions: Maimon’s Methodological Criticism of Kant Two Kinds of Insight and the Critique of Pure ReasonIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 389-400. 2021.In this paper, I show how Maimon’s method of fic- tions deals with the specific problems raised by one of his skeptical arguments, namely the quid facti. This argument leads Maimon to adopt what is sometimes called a ‘system interpretation’ of the necessity of empirical laws. Since Maimon thinks that transcendental philosophy cannot prove the fact that the categories have objective validity, he infers that hence systematization, and not the catego- ries, is what constitutes the source of necessi…Read more
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63Fictions of Systematicity: Maimon's Quest for a Scientific Method in PhilosophyPhilosophers' Imprint 21 (36). 2021.This paper argues that Maimon’s metaphilosophy presents a distinctive view on what the scientific role and method of philosophy should consist in: in the production of fictions of systematicity. It shows how Maimon’s philosophy of science links to metaphilosophical views, and ultimately leads him to adopt the so-called “method of fictions” to transform philosophy into a proper science. By connecting his remarks on scientific fictions and their methodological role with Kant’s doctrine of regulati…Read more
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93»Es ist so, weil ich es so mache.« Fichtes Methode der KonstruktionFichte-Studien 48 (2): 389-412. 2020.In this paper I develop an account of Fichte’s conception of philosophical construction. Following the latter’s definition of philosophy as the ‘science of science’, philosophy is to be understood as a normative theory of what should qualify as science. In order to ground scientific knowledge-production as such, philosophy itself has to acquire a scientific method, through the application of which the constitution of scientific knowledge is secured. In systematic continuity to Kant’s account of …Read more
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59Schelling's method of Darstellung: Presenting nature through experimentStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 69 12-22. 2018.Philosophies after Kant maybe more than ever, were confronted with a particular epistemic problem: how can representations correspond with the objects they refer to, that is, how is knowledge possible? Against Kant’s negative solution of the problem, proponents of German idealisms sought to establish a philosophical method that would close the gulf between what our concepts and the world they try to grasp. In his writings on a philosophy of nature, the young Schelling put forward methodological …Read more
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67Disordered existentiality: Mental illness and Heidegger’s philosophy of DaseinPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (3): 485-502. 2018.In this paper, I propose an existentialist-phenomenological model that conceives of mental illness through the terminology of Heidegger’s Being and Time. In particular, the concepts of existentiality, disturbance and the relation between ‘being-with’ and ‘the one’, will be implemented in order to reconstruct the experience of mental illness. The proposed model understands mental illness as a disturbance of a person’s existentiality. More precisely, mental illness is conceptualized as the disturb…Read more