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    Transformativism and Expressivity in Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 106 (2): 295-312. 2024.
    According to a major trend in Hegel scholarship, Hegel advocates a McDowell-style transformativist conception of the human mind. Central to this conception is a methodological dualism, according to which phenomena belonging to the rational mind, in contrast to those belonging to non-rational nature, must be accounted for from within the ‘space of reasons.’ In this paper I argue, by contrast, that Hegel rejects methodological dualism. For Hegel, a constitutive aspect of the rational mind is the a…Read more
  •  36
    Hegels Begriff der Gewohnheit: Zwischen Philosophie des Geistes und Ästhetik
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 66 (3): 325-338. 2018.
    In his Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences, Hegel states that the essential characteristic of spirit is to exhibit the structure of manifestation. This paper argues that for Hegel the structure of manifestation is actualized in habituated bodily actions, which sheds light on Hegel’s understanding of the relation between body and soul. Furthermore, the paper shows that there is an intrinsic relation between Hegel’s theory of habit and his aesthetics. Insofar as it exemplifies the structure of …Read more
  •  32
    Hegel und der anthropologische Kontinuitätsskeptizismus
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (4): 554-564. 2023.
    According to so-called transformative theories of rationality, human nature is of a fundamentally different kind than the nature of non-human animals, because it is transformed by the possession of rational capacities. This is assumed tobe reflected in the fact that human nature and non-human nature require two fundamentally different forms of explanation: reason-based explanations on the one hand, explanations with reference to natural laws on the other. There is no continuity between these two…Read more
  •  25
    Natural Teleology and Duties to Oneself in Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue
    In Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 2029-2036. 2018.
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    Fichte’s Ethics
    Philosophical Review 128 (4): 515-519. 2019.
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    Life as ground—Variations on a theme: Comments on Karen Ng's Hegel's concept of life
    European Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 1145-1151. 2021.
    European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 1145-1151, December 2021.
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    Evaluative Standards In Art Criticism: A Defence
    Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 2 (1): 32-44. 2005.
    To a superficial consideration, art criticism might appear as a profession of a parasitic nature, nourishing itself on what is produced by others: by artists. In fact, however, the relation between artistic practice and its criticism is more adequately conceived of as a sort of symbiosis. For, while it is true that criticism depends on and presupposes the existence of its objects - that is, works of art - on the other hand nothing would prevent good art from being equated with and contaminated b…Read more
  •  41
    Beauty, Aesthetic Experience and Immanent Critique
    Hegel Bulletin 30 (1-2): 67-81. 2009.
  •  128
    Kant's Gesinnung
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 56 (3): 497-518. 2018.
    One of the most important developments in the past decades of scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy is a growing interest in his conception of moral character, especially in his conception of virtue. Focusing especially on his later works in moral philosophy, such as the Doctrine of Virtue in his Metaphysics of Morals, commentators have shown that Kant possesses a rich, elaborate account of moral virtue. This has brought partly unexpected aspects of Kantian moral philosophy to new light. We…Read more
  •  9
    Hegel on Beauty
    Routledge. 2014.
    While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel’s views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us to rethink the common assumption that Hegelian beauty is exclusive to art and argues that for Hegel beauty, like art, is subject to historical …Read more
  •  21
    Tugenden als,angemessene' Einstellungen
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (1): 108-113. 2016.
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    Denken und Selbstsein: Vorlesungen über Subjektivität by Dieter Henrich (review)
    European Journal of Philosophy 17 (3): 461-464. 2009.
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    Understanding Hegel’s Mature Critique of Kant
    In Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.), Bewusstsein/Consciousness, De Gruyter. pp. 291-295. 2016.
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    Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective (edited book)
    Routledge. 2012.
    By bringing together influential critics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and some of the strongest defenders of an Aristotelian approach, this collection provides a fresh assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotelian virtue ethics and its contemporary interpretations. Contributors critically discuss and re-assess the neo-Aristotelian paradigm which has been predominant in the philosophical discourse on virtue for the past 30 years.
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    Beauty, Aesthetic Experience and Immanent Critique
    Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 59 67-81. 2009.
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    Beauty in Hegel's Anthropology and Philosophy of Art
    Idealistic Studies 43 (1-2): 87-110. 2013.
    According to a widespread view, Hegel holds that beauty cannot be found in the creatures and objects of the natural world, but is strictly limited to works of art. I argue in this paper that Hegel’s restriction of beauty to works of art is not as straightforward as it is often taken to be, by showing that the phenomenon of beauty has anthropological roots in Hegel. Juxtaposing the Lectures on Aesthetics with sections from Hegel’s Anthropology in the Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences, I demo…Read more
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    Proust's recherche and Hegelian teleology
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (2). 2010.
    The final volume of Marcel Proust's novel _Agrave la Recherche du Temps perdu (Recherche)_ presents a striking puzzle. In this volume, the narrator Marcel proposes a literary theory which is supposed to provide the theoretical basis for the whole book, such that the _Recherche_ can be considered a novel which contains its own theory. However, the _Recherche_ as a whole does not seem to comply with this literary theory. I suggest in this paper that this puzzle can be solved by appreciating that Marcel'…Read more
  •  149
    A Theory of Tragic Experience According to Hegel
    European Journal of Philosophy 19 (1): 85-106. 2011.
    Abstract: Hegel's theory of tragedy is often considered to be primarily a theory of the objective powers involved in tragic conflicts—for Hegel, these are paradigmatically competing ethical notions—and of the rationality which underlies and drives such conflicts. Such a view follows naturally from a close reading of Hegel's discussion of classical Greek tragedy in his Lectures on Aesthetics. However, this view gives rise to the question of whether Hegel's theory of tragedy can account for the si…Read more
  •  108
    On Naturalism in Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (1): 111-131. 2016.
    In recent years, philosophers have become increasingly interested in a Hegelian approach to Aristotelian non-reductive naturalism. This paper points out a challenge faced by naturalist readings of Hegel's conception of spirit. For Hegel, spirit and nature are essentially distinct and even related in an antagonistic way. It is difficult to do full justice to this thought while at the same time reading Hegel as a naturalist. The paper also seeks to suggest a response to this challenge. Drawing on …Read more