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26Objective imperatives. By RalphWalker (review)European Journal of Philosophy 32 (1): 292-295. 2024.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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22Barbara Herman (2022) The Moral Habitat. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 272. ISBN 9780192896353 (hbk) $41.99Kantian Review. forthcoming.
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29Forgiveness and Memory: Opportunities for Reconciliation. An IntroductionRevista de Estudios Sociales 86 3-12. 2023.In this introduction, we argue for a basic idea. Community-based spaces for promoting forgiveness and memory-making bear the promise of promoting some of the cultural transformations needed for thick, structural reconciliation. As we show by discussing some recent examples taken from the Colombian context of the past decade, these spaces do not compete, but actually complement a pragmatic, thin institutional design for reconciliation. This idea, as we discuss here, serves as the common thread co…Read more
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36Notes on theIn Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
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569What Properly Belongs to MeJournal of Moral Philosophy 12 (6): 754-771. 2015.Kant has a number of harsh-sounding things to say about beggars and giving to beggars. He describes begging as “closely akin to robbery”, and says that it exhibits self-contempt. In this paper I argue that on a particular interpretation of his political philosophy his critique of giving to beggars can be seen as part of a concern with social justice, and that his analysis makes sense of some troubling aspects of the phenomenology of being confronted with beggars. On Kant's view, without absolute…Read more
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743Problematising Western philosophy as one part of Africanising the curriculumSouth African Journal of Philosophy 35 (4): 537-545. 2016.This paper argues that one part of the picture of thinking about decolonising the philosophy curriculum should include problematising the notion of Western philosophy. I argue that there are many problems with the idea of Western philosophy, and with the idea that decolonising the curriculum should involve rejecting so-called Western philosophy. Doing this could include granting the West a false narrative about its origins, influences and interactions, perpetuating exclusions within contemporary…Read more
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672Kant’s RacismPhilosophical Papers 45 (1-2): 1-36. 2016.After a long period of comparative neglect, in the last few decades growing numbers of philosophers have been paying attention to the startling contrast presented between Kant’s universal moral theory, with its inspiring enlightenment ideas of human autonomy, equality and dignity and Kant’s racism. Against Charles Mills, who argues that the way to make Kant consistent is by attributing to him a threshold notion of moral personhood, according to which some races do not qualify for consideration u…Read more
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144Dissolving reactive attitudes: Forgiving and UnderstandingSouth African Journal of Philosophy 27 (3): 197-201. 2008.In ‘Freedom and Resentment,' Strawson argues that we cannot separate holding people morally responsible for their actions from specific emotional responses, which he calls reactive attitudes, which we are disposed towards in response to people's actions. Strawson's view might pose problems for forgiveness, in which we choose to overcome reactive attitudes like resentment without altering the judgments that make them appropriate. I present a detailed analysis of reactive attitudes, which I use bo…Read more
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15Kontseptualizm i non-kontseptualizm u Kanta: obzor nedavnikh diskussiyStudies in Transcendental Philosophy 2 (2). 2021.A lively debate has been taking place among Kant interpreters as to whether Kant’s position in the First Critique and other Critical works contains something like the contemporary notion of non-conceptual mental content. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of central moves in this debate.
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Transcendental idealism in the ProlegomenaIn Peter Thielke (ed.), Kant's Prolegomena: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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58Humanness and Harmony: Thad Metz on UbuntuPhilosophical Papers 51 (2): 203-237. 2022.In this paper I present a critique of some aspects of Thad Metz’s attempt to develop an African moral theory grounded on the value of ubuntu. I question the sense in which this theory is African, as well as his attempt to ground human rights on his single value theory of ubuntu. In a number of publications Thad Metz has given a clear, analytic account of what ubuntu is. Metz’s work on ubuntu does two things: 1) explains the content of ubuntu: what the value/virtue is; 2) presents a moral theory …Read more
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12The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonRoutledge. 1966.Previously published: London: Methuen, 1975.
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42The Priority of Gifted Forgiveness: A Response to FrickerAustralasian Philosophical Review 3 (3): 261-273. 2019.ABSTRACT In this paper I respond to Fricker’s paradigm-based account of forgiveness, which aims to integrate two seemingly different versions of responses to wrongdoing—conditional forgiveness (what Fricker calls ‘Moral Justice Forgiveness’) and unconditional forgiveness (what Fricker calls ‘Gifted Forgiveness’)—into one explanatory order, as well as, she argues, showing the second to be derivative and parasitic on the basic functioning of the first, and more contingent. My aim is to endorse and…Read more
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29The Compatibility of Kantian Determinism with an Open FutureIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 713-728. 2018.
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54Précis of manifest reality: Kant’s idealism and his realismPhilosophical Studies 174 (7): 1655-1659. 2017.
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Immanuel Kant: Theoretical Philosophy after 1781British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2): 358-360. 2004.
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298Restorative Justice, Retributive Justice, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionPhilosophy and Public Affairs 39 (4): 331-363. 2011.
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556Kant's one world: Interpreting 'transcendental idealism'British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (4). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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188Intrinsic natures: A critique of Langton on KantPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1). 2006.This paper argues that there is an important respect in which Rae Langton's recent interpretation of Kant is correct: Kant's claim that we cannot know things in themselves should be understood as the claim that we cannot know the intrinsic nature of things. However, I dispute Langton's account of intrinsic properties, and therefore her version of what this claim amounts to. Langton's distinction between intrinsic, causally inert properties and causal powers is problematic, both as an interpretat…Read more
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147What Properly Belongs to MeJournal of Moral Philosophy 11 (4): 754-771. 2014.Kant has a number of harsh-sounding things to say about beggars and giving to beggars. He describes begging as “closely akin to robbery” , and says that it exhibits self-contempt. In this paper I argue that on a particular interpretation of his political philosophy his critique of giving to beggars can be seen as part of a concern with social justice, and that his analysis makes sense of some troubling aspects of the phenomenology of being confronted with beggars. On Kant's view, without absolut…Read more
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94Langton, Kant, and Things in ThemselvesIn Stewart Duncan & Antonia LoLordo (eds.), Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses, Routledge. pp. 331. 2013.
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620Kant, non-conceptual content and the representation of spaceJournal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3). 2009.:Space is not an empirical concept that has been drawn from outer experiences. For in order for certain sensations to be related to something outside me , thus in order for me to represent them as outside and next to one another, thus not merely different but as in different places, the representation of space must already be their ground. Thus the representation of space cannot be obtained from the relations of outer appearance through experience, but this outer experience is itself first possi…Read more
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68Forgiveness and MercySouth African Journal of Philosophy 27 (1): 1-9. 2008.This paper argues that forgiveness is not best understood in terms of waiving a requirement of justice, and, specifically, that forgiveness is distinct from mercy. I question some reasons philosophers have given for distinguishing forgiveness and mercy, but argue that the difference between the two notions can be clearly shown by considering the standard grounds for which they are granted. I argue that while mercy involves leniency in the infliction of punishment that is due in accordance with j…Read more
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1Kant: the possibility of metaphysicsIn Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
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25Intrinsic Natures: A Critique of Langton on KantPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1): 143-169. 2006.This paper argues that there is an important respect in which Rae Langton's recent interpretation of Kant is correct: Kant's claim that we cannot know things in themselves should be understood as the claim that we cannot know the intrinsic nature of things. However, I dispute Langton's account of intrinsic properties, and therefore her version of what this claim amounts to. Langton's distinction between intrinsic, causally inert properties and causal powers is problematic, both as an interpretat…Read more