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28Maria Borges, Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 Pp. 209 ISBN: 978-1-3500-7836-9 (hbk) $114.00 (review)Kantian Review 25 (3): 504-508. 2020.
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21Kant’s Conception of Moral StrengthCanadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (4): 539-553. 2020.Most scholars assume that Kantian moral strength is needed only when it comes to following maxims. However, accounts based on this assumption can be challenged by Kant’s claim that virtue, as moral strength of the human will, can never become a habit because its maxims must be freely adopted in new situations. Even some accounts that are not based on this assumption fail to meet this challenge. By drawing on my interpretation of the Kantian capacity for self-control, I propose a twofold account …Read more
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25Kant's account of moral weaknessEuropean Journal of Philosophy (1): 40-54. 2018.On the one hand, Kant seems to suggest that moral weakness is merely expressed at the level of following maxims. On the other hand, he addresses moral weakness as the first grade of our propensity to evil, which implies that moral weakness is also expressed at the level of adopting maxims. There is still a lack of clarity in the literature concerning how the relationship between these two aspects is to be understood, and a proper account of the nature of the maxims of the morally weak has yet to…Read more
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18Disfunctioneel geweten en morele incompetentie bij psychopatenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (3): 273-288. 2017.Psychopaths’ Dysfunctional Conscience and their Moral Incompetence1I develop here a Kantian framework for understanding conscience in order to examine whether moral flaws of psychopaths are traceable to their dysfunctional conscience. When understood as the reflective capacity for moral self-assessment that triggers certain emotional reactions, conscience proves to be a fruitful tool for explaining psychopathic moral incompetence. First, I show how the unrealistic moral self-assessment of psycho…Read more
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14The Kantian Capacity for Moral Self-Control: Abstraction at Two LevelsArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 102 (1): 102-130. 2020.As a rule, the Kantian capacity for self-control is interpreted as a kind of tool for compelling ourselves to act on the basis of the maxims we have adopted. To the extent that we merely acknowledge its role in following already-adopted maxims, however, we fail to capture the distinctive aspect of moral self-control identified by Kant. In this paper, I propose a fuller account of the Kantian capacity for moral self-control; I do so mainly by analyzing this capacity as our ability to “abstract fr…Read more
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56Conscience as the rational deficit of psychopathsPhilosophical Psychology 28 (8): 1219-1240. 2015.I develop here a Kantian framework for understanding conscience in order to examine whether moral flaws of psychopaths are traceable to their dysfunctional conscience. When understood as the reflective capacity for moral self-assessment that triggers certain emotional reactions, conscience proves to be a fruitful tool for explaining psychopathic moral incompetence. First, I show how the unrealistic moral self-assessment of psychopaths affects their competence in judging moral issues and in being…Read more
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114The Judge in the Mirror: Kant on ConscienceKantian Review 19 (3): 449-474. 2014.Kant's conception of conscience has been relatively neglected by Kant scholars and the secondary literature offers no explanation of whether (and if so, how) his treatments of conscience fit together. To achieve a fuller understanding of Kant's general position on conscience, I question the widespread assumption that conscience is a feeling and account for the nature of conscience and its multiple functions. On my reading, conscience is ‘the internal judge’ whose verdict triggers certain emotion…Read more
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