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16Autonomy, Enlightenment, Justice, Peace – and the Precarities of Reasoning PublicallyConatus 8 (2): 725-758. 2023.The First World War was supposed to end all wars, though soon followed WWII. Since 1945 wars continued to abound; now we confront a real prospect of a third world war. Many armed struggles and wars arise in attempts to end repressive government; still more are fomented by repressive governments, few of which acknowledge their repressive character. It is historically and culturally naive to suppose that peace is normal, and war an aberration; war, preparations for war and threats of war belong to…Read more
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Modern moral epistemologyIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. 2018.
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8Educational Responsibilities of Philosophers – SATS Special Issue: IntroductionSATS 24 (1): 1-12. 2023.
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19Self‐Consciousness, Anti‐Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel's 1807 PhenomenologyIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Hegel's Semantics of Singular Cognitive Reference Hegel's Justification of His Semantics of Singular Cognitive Reference in “Consciousness” “Self‐Consciousness,” Thought, and the Semantics of Singular Cognitive Reference Hegel's Interim Critique of the Ego‐Centric Predicament Conclusion References.
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11This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Hegel's Introduction Sense Certainty Perception Force and Understanding Hegel's Epistemological Analysis in the Phenomenology of Spirit Conclusion References Further Reading.
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10Contemporary Epistemology: Kant, Hegel, McDowellIn Jakob Lindgaard (ed.), John McDowell, Blackwell. 2008-03-17.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Co‐extensiveness of Understanding and Sensibility Identity and Predication Objective Purport and Kant's Transcendental Deduction Proving Mental Content Externalism Transcendentally Notes References.
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3Wie beweist Kant die „Realität“ unseres äußeren Sinnes?In Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting & Udo Thiel (eds.), Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception: New Interpretations, De Gruyter. pp. 525-570. 2022.
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5Does Kant’s opus postumum Anticipate Hegel’s Absolute Idealism?In Ernst-Otto Jan Onnasch (ed.), Kants Philosophie der Natur: Ihre Entwicklung Im Opus Postumum Und Ihre Wirkung, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 357-384. 2009.
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31Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience. Three Approaches to the Mind: ASynthetic Analysis of the Varieties of Human Experience, by Edward M. Hundert (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 722-725. 1991.
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38Sense Certainty’, or Why Russell had no ‘Knowledge by AcquaintanceHegel Bulletin 23 (1-2): 110-123. 2002.
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35Is Hegel's Phenomenology Relevant to Contemporary Epistemology?Hegel Bulletin 21 (1-2): 43-85. 2000.Hegel has been widely, though erroneously, supposed to have rejected epistemology in favor of unbridled metaphysical speculation. Reputation notwithstanding, Hegel was a very sophisticated epistemologist, whose views have gone unrecognized because they are so innovative, indeed prescient. Hence I shall boldly state: Hegel's epistemology is of great contemporary importance. In part, this is because many problems now current in epistemology are problems Hegel addressed. In part, this is because of…Read more
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6Gilligan, Kohlberg and 20th-Century (C.E.) Moral Theory: Does Anglophone Ethics Rest on a Mistake?Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 30 (1): 199-234. 2022.In Erwiderung auf Kohlbergs Theorie moralischer Entwicklung betont Gilligan (1982, 2. Aufl.: 1993, S. 18 – 9), dass seine Theorie völlig von ihrem postulierten Ziel abhänge, nämlich einer prinzipien-geleiteten Urteilskraft. Hier wird nun analysiert, inwiefern Gilligans Diagnose nur die Spitze eines moralischen sowie theoretischen Eisbergs dadurch beleuchtet, dass ihre Untersuchungen der Klärung dienen, inwiefern Kohlbergs Etappen „Fünf“ und „Sechs“ eine spezifische Theorie des „moralischen Stand…Read more
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Identifying and justifying moral norms : necessary basicsIn Patrick Capps & Shaun D. Pattinson (eds.), Ethical rationalism and the law, Hart Publishing. 2017.
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64The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Pre-Critical ProjectMind 110 (439): 834-836. 2001.1 Philosophy, School of Economic & Social Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK.
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Modern moral epistemologyIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. 2018.
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Hegel's critique of theoretical spirit: Kant's functionalist cognitive psychology in contextIn Marina F. Bykova (ed.), Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2019.
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Kant, Hegel and our fate as zoôn politikonIn James Gledhill & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, Routledge. 2020.
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ContributorsIn Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms: A Realistic Assessment, Fordham University Press. pp. 341-344. 2020.
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12This book assesses and defends Kant's Critical epistemology, and the rich yet neglected resources it provides for understanding and resolving fundamental issues regarding human experience, perceptual judgment, empirical knowledge and cognitive sciences. Kenneth Westphal first examines Kant's methods and strategies for examining human sensory-perceptual experience, and then examines Kant's central, proper, and subtle attention to judgment, and so to the humanly possible valid use of concepts and …Read more
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13In this book, Westphal offers an original interpretation of Hegel's moral philosophy. Building on his previous study of the role of natural law in Hume's and Kant's accounts of justice, Westphal argues that Hegel developed and justified a robust form of civic republicanism. Westphal identifies, for the first time, the proper genre to which Hegel's Philosophical Outlines of Justice belongs and to which it so prodigiously contributes, which he calls Natural Law Constructivism, an approach develope…Read more
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102 Transcendental Reflections on Pragmatic RealismIn Kenneth Westphal (ed.), Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms: A Realistic Assessment, Fordham University Press. pp. 17-58. 2020.
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8Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms: A Realistic Assessment (edited book)Fordham University Press. 1998.This collection of essays examines the issue of norms and social practices both in epistemology and in moral and social philosophy. The contributors examine the issue across an unprecedented range of issues, including epistemology (realism, perception, testimony), logic, education, foundations of morality, philosophy of law, the pragmatic account of norms and their justification, and the pragmatic character of reason itself.
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21The scope of this study is both ambitious and modest. One of its ambitions is to reintegrate Hegel's theory of knowledge into main stream epist~ology. Hegel's views were formed in consideration of Classical Skepticism and Modern epistemology, and he frequently presupposes great familiarity with other views and the difficulties they face. Setting Hegel's discussion in the context of both traditional and contemporary epistemology is therefore necessary for correctly interpreting his issues, argume…Read more
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A Kantian Justification of PossessionIn Mark Timmons (ed.), Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays, Clarendon Press. 2002.
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10Some Observations on Realism, Science and PragmatismEsercizi Filosofici 10 (1). 2015.I first highlight a main theme of the collection I edited and issued last year, Realism, Science and Pragmatism, by contrasting classical pragmatism and neo-pragmatism in terms of the distinction between semantic externalism and semantic internalism, and exhibiting how both of these semantic views are concisely stated by Carnap, though neither he nor his followers recognised this contrast, nor its profound methodological and substantive implications – although they were highlighted at the time b…Read more
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