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IntroductionIn Mahdi Ranaee & Luz Christopher Seiberth (eds.), Reading Kant with Sellars: Reconceiving Kantian Themes, Routledge. forthcoming.
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Why Wilfrid Sellars Does Not Have a Transcendental Deduction; or How Deeply Un-Kantian Sellars’s Kantianism IsIn Mahdi Ranaee & Luz Christopher Seiberth (eds.), Reading Kant with Sellars: Reconceiving Kantian Themes, Routledge. forthcoming.In his engagement with Kantian philosophy, Wilfrid Sellars offers both exegetical readings of Kant and suggestions for refining or adapting Kantian ideas. Two interrelated proposals include reconsidering categories not as a priori and innate concepts but as evolutionary inheritances, and introducing sense impressions as intermediaries between physical objects and our conceptualisations. Sellars sees these proposals as consistent with Kantian philosophy, although Kant himself does not take these …Read more
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177Al-Ġazālī, Descartes, and Their Sceptical ProblemsMaimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion. forthcoming.This paper will offer a systematic reconstruction of al-Ġazālī’s Sceptical Argument in his celebrated Deliverer/Delivered from Going Astray (al-Munqiḏ/al-Munqaḏ min al-Ḍalāl). Based on textual evidence, I will argue that the concept of certainty (yaqīn) in play in this argument is that of the philosophers—most notably Ibn Sīnā—and that it is firmly tied to demonstration (burhān) and hence to the materials of syllogism (mawwād al-qiyās). This will show that contrary to what many scholars believe,…Read more
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36Robert Pasnau, After Certainty: A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 384pp (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (1): 189-192. 2021.
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46Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics: the Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered: by Karin de Boer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 290 pp., £ 75.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781108897983 (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (1): 121-126. 2021.The very title of Karin de Boer’s latest book Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered makes her position clear: Kant is a reformist not a revolutionary and this refor...
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50Non-Accidentally Factive Mental StatesDialogue 55 (3): 493-510. 2016.I offer a counterexample to Timothy Williamson’s conjecture that knowledge is the most general factive mental state; i.e., that every factive mental state entails knowledge. I describe two counterexamples (Ernest Sosa’s and Baron Reed’s) that I find unpersuasive, and argue that they fail due to a specific feature they have in common. I then argue that there is a primitive mental state that is factive but does not entail knowledge, and that constitutes a counterexample to Williamson’s conjecture …Read more
Mahdi Ranaee
Universität Siegen
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Universität SiegenWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Areas of Specialization
Immanuel Kant |
Arabic and Islamic Philosophy |
Wilfrid Sellars |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |