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    Moral Fanaticism and the Holocaust
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 1 (1): 21-25. 1994.
    I defend Kant’s moral psychology against John R. Silber’s argument that Kant cannot account for the radical evil of Hitler. Silber’s argument cannot be maintained, I argue, if Kant’s account of theological and moral fanaticism, and the personality of the moral fanatic, are taken into account. I contend that Kant’s writings support an analogy between the fanatical pursuit of religious and moral ideals and Hitler’s fanatical pursuit of an ideal of racial purity. I conclude that Kant’s account of m…Read more
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    Democracy and Technology (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 21 (3): 283-285. 1998.
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    An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker: The Perfect Nihilist
    International Studies in Philosophy 31 (3): 143-144. 1999.
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    Emancipatory Social Science and Genealogy
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 2 (1): 19-26. 1995.
    I argue that Habermas’ critique of Nietzsche overlooks the similarities between his conception of an emancipatory social science and Nietzsche’s conception of genealogy. I conclude that it is necessary to disagree with Habermas’ contention that with Nietzsche the critique of modernity abandons its emancipatory content.
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    The Crisis of Judgment in Kant's Three Critiques: In Search of a Science of Aesthetics (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 50 (4): 917-917. 1997.
    The Crisis of Judgment in Kant's Three Critiques is intended as an analysis and reconstruction of the role of the faculty of judgment as it evolves through the course of Kant's critical philosophy. It offers an analysis of the mental power of judgment and systematically develops its links to feeling, cognition, and the will. In the introductory chapter, Scherer spells out the two guiding questions of her study: How does judgment relate systematically to understanding, reason, and the will? Is ju…Read more
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    Nietzsche's Critique of Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Study in Revaluation
    Dissertation, Loyola University of Chicago. 1996.
    The primary thesis that I argue for in this study is that the eternal recurrence represents Nietzsche's attempt to ground a conception of autonomy on a naturalistic basis. Nietzsche's eternal recurrence offers a transformation of human autonomy in light of the experience of modern physics. The eternal recurrence represents the lesson of modern physics that we can find no laws within nature and that, consequently, we must give ourselves laws in the face of the experience of total, recurring meani…Read more
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    An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker: The Perfect Nihilist (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 31 (3): 143-144. 1999.