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6Table of ContentsIn Keith R. Peterson & Roberto Poli (eds.), New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, De Gruyter. 2016.
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5Subject IndexIn Keith R. Peterson & Roberto Poli (eds.), New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, De Gruyter. pp. 335-342. 2016.
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3FrontmatterIn Keith R. Peterson & Roberto Poli (eds.), New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, De Gruyter. 2016.
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4Author IndexIn Keith R. Peterson & Roberto Poli (eds.), New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, De Gruyter. pp. 333-334. 2016.
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12A world not made for us: topics in critical environmental philosophyState University of New York Press. 2020.In A World Not Made for Us, Keith R. Peterson provides a broad reassessment of the field of environmental philosophy, taking a fresh and critical look at three classical problems of environmentalism: the intrinsic value of nature, the need for an ecological worldview, and a new conception of the place of humankind in nature. Peterson makes the case that a genuinely critical environmental philosophy must adopt an ecological materialist conception of the human, a pluralistic value theory that emph…Read more
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11Nicolai Hartmanns Dialoge 1920–1950. Die "Cirkelprotokolle." ed. by Joachim Fischer and Gerald HartungJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (3): 519-520. 2022.Originally a student of Marburg Neo-Kantianism, Nicolai Hartmann departed from this tradition to become one of the leading German philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century. He wrote on all the major fields of philosophy, including the philosophy of history, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, although his central interest was ontology. He held teaching posts in Marburg, Cologne, Berlin, and Göttingen, and was president of the German Philosophical Association after the Second Worl…Read more
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33The Very Idea of an Ecological WorldviewEthics and the Environment 26 (1): 21-55. 2021.Abstract:In environmental philosophy, it has often been argued that adopting a new ecological worldview is necessary in order to generate environmentalist social change in response to ecological crisis. I introduce the analytical category of metascientific stance (tacit assumptions about the nature, practices, goals, and place of the sciences in society) in order to discuss the popular model of worldview clash in this article and contrast it with other models of science-environmentalism relation…Read more
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18Phenomenology and being-in-itself in hartmann’s ontology: Laying the foundationsHORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology 8 (1): 33-51. 2019.
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4Nicolai Hartmann: Reality, Modality, and Value: Editor’s IntroductionAxiomathes 27 (2): 129-131. 2017.
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34New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann (edited book)De Gruyter. 2016.The imposing scope and penetrating insights of German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann’s work have received renewed interest in recent years. The Neo-Kantian turned ontological realist established a philosophical approach unique among his peers, and it provides a wealth of resources for considering contemporary philosophical problems. The chapters included in this volume examine his ethics, ontology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of nature. They explore his ontology of values, auton…Read more
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58Ecosystem Services, Nonhuman Agencies, and Diffuse DependenceEnvironmental Philosophy 9 (2): 1-19. 2012.This paper is a preliminary treatment of the categories of agency and dependence in the context of ecosystem services discourse. These categories are discussed in terms of critical categorial ontology in order to articulate adequately the nature of humankind’s dependence upon the nonhuman natural world, inadequately captured by ecosystem services discourse. Following Val Plumwood, this essay takes ecosystems services discourse as an example of one type of failure to discern various forms of agen…Read more
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Problem and Construction: Kant, Schelling, DeleuzeDissertation, Depaul University. 2001.The dissertation addresses the issues of subjectivity, method, and criticism in postmodern European philosophy by tracing their roots back to a specific interpretation of the meaning of Kantian critique. It then presents an alternative line of Kant-interpretation opened up by F. W. J. Schelling and which, I argue, is prolonged in this century by Gilles Deleuze. Specifically, it engages in a historical and thematic analysis of the concepts of construction, deduction, problem and Idea as they are …Read more
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11First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2004.Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature
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166. Flat, Hierarchical, or Stratified? Determination and Dependence in Social-Natural OntologyIn Keith R. Peterson & Roberto Poli (eds.), New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, De Gruyter. pp. 109-132. 2016.
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49Nicolai Hartmann and Recent RealismsAxiomathes 27 (2): 161-174. 2017.Some contemporary philosophers have called for a “new realism” in philosophical ontology. Hartmann’s works provide some of the richest resources upon which recent realists might draw for both inspiration and argument. In this brief exploration I touch on some key concepts and arguments from a few of the players in this “ontological turn,” including Meillassoux, Brassier, and Ferraris, and show how many of them were already clearly articulated in Hartmann’s works. I’ll also describe and comment o…Read more
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68The Megarian and the Aristotelian Concept of Possibility: A Contribution to the History of the Ontological Problem of ModalityAxiomathes 27 (2): 209-223. 2017.This is a translation of Nicolai Hartmann’s article “Der Megarische und der Aristotelische Möglichkeitsbegriff: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des ontologischen Modalitätsproblems,” first published in 1937. In this article, Hartmann defends an interpretation of the Megarian conception of possibility, which found its clearest form in Diodorus Cronus’ expression of it and according to which “only what is actual is possible” or “something is possible only if it is actual.” Hartmann defends this interpr…Read more
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75An Introduction to Nicolai Hartmann’s Critical OntologyAxiomathes 22 (3). 2012.Nicolai Hartmann contributed significantly to the revitalization of the discipline of ontology in the early twentieth century. Developing a systematic, post-Kantian critical ontology ‘this side’ of idealism and realism, he subverted the widespread impression that philosophy must either exhaust itself in foundationalist epistemology or engage in system-building metaphysical excess. This essay provides an introduction to Hartmann’s approach in light of the recent translation of his early essay ‘Ho…Read more
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22All that we are: philosophical anthropology and ecophilosophyCosmos and History 6 (1): 91-113. 2010.Ecophilosophers have long argued that addressing the environmental crisis not only demands reassessing the ethical aspects of human and nature relations, but also prevailing theories of human nature. Philosophical anthropology has historically taken this as its calling, and its resources may be profitably utilized in the context of ecophilosophy. Distinguishing between conservative and emancipatory naturalism leads to a critical discussion of the Cartesian culture/nature dualism. Marjorie Grene …Read more
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51How Is Critical Ontology Possible? Toward the Foundation of the General Theory of the Categories, Part One (1923)Axiomathes 22 (3): 315-354. 2012.This is a translation of an early essay by the German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950). In this 1923 essay Hartmann presents many of the fundamental ideas of his new critical ontology. He summarizes some of the main points of his critique of neo-Kantian epistemology, and provides the point of departure for his new approach in an extensive criticism of the errors of the classical ontological tradition. Some of these errors concern the definition of an ontological category or principle, an…Read more
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