Jon K. Burmeister

College of Mount Saint Vincent
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    Hegel’s Living Logic
    Research in Phenomenology 43 (2): 243-264. 2013.
    For Hegel, logic does not essentially consist of formal categories used to think about non-logical content. Rather, it consists of formal categories which are also themselves the content of logic. The idea that logic is its own form and its own content means that forms are used to think through other forms such that the same logical determination is a form in one context and a content in another. The generation of form and content out of one another—which precludes the need for the importation o…Read more
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    Getting to the Matter of Language
    Research in Phenomenology 42 (1): 138-147. 2012.
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    On language: analytic, continental and historical contributions (edited book)
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.
    Language was at the heart of philosophical inquiry for Plato and Aristotle, and in contemporary discussion it is no less central. In addition to the history of philosophy’s extensive investigations of language, analytic and continental philosophy too have focused intensively on the matter. But since most inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own methodology, terminology, and tradition, the multiplicity of approaches is often accompanied by their mutual isolation. This book shows, howe…Read more
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    We Can Automate Work
    The Philosophers' Magazine 81 70-77. 2018.