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    Kant on wonder as the motive to learn
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 55 (6): 921-934. 2021.
    Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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    Reason, Systematicity and Judgment
    In Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 833-840. 2021.
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    Kantian Constructivism, Respect, and Moral Depth
    In Elke Elisabeth Schmidt & Robinson dos Santos (eds.), Realism and Antirealism in Kant's Moral Philosophy: New Essays, De Gruyter. pp. 21-42. 2017.
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    Kant on Negative Magnitudes
    Kant Studien 103 (4): 397-414. 2012.
    : Kant’s 1763 essay, Attempt to Introduce the Concept of Negative Magnitudes into Philosophy, is one of the least discussed of all his pre-critical writings. When it is referred to, it is usually just to note a few passages that anticipate Kant’s later, Critical philosophy. I argue that instead of understanding these early anticipations of the Critical philosophy as separable from Kant’s discussion of negative magnitudes, we should take their origin in Kant’s investigation of negative magnitudes…Read more
  •  51
    The unity of a theme: The subject of judgements of taste
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (3). 2006.
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    Kant’s Supersensible Substratum of Humanity
    In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 333-342. 2013.
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    Review: Paul Crowther: Defining Art, Creating the Canon (review)
    Mind 118 (470): 462-465. 2009.
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    Kant's Concept of Force
    Dissertation, Northwestern University. 1999.
    This dissertation examines Kant's transcendental idealism with respect to his account of natural forces. Although force plays a crucial role in Kant's pre-critical writings, especially in his argument against Leibniz's pre-established harmony, it is conspicuously absent in the Critique of Pure Reason . I argue that force has to be excluded once Kant's philosophy takes its "critical turn" in order for his transcendental argument to be able to prove that the categories of thought apply to objects …Read more
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    Making the Ideal Real: Publicity and Morality in Kant
    Kantian Review 21 (2): 237-259. 2016.
    This article discusses the concept of publicity in Kant’s moral philosophy. Insofar as the concepts of ‘public’ and ‘private’ can describe our relations with others, they can be considered to be moral concepts. I argue that we can find in Kant a moral duty not to keep our maxims of action private, or secret. Whereas Korsgaard argues that sometimes in the face of evil it is permissible to sidestep the moral law, I argue that it is rather through publicity that we can deal with evil in the non-ide…Read more
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    Habermas on Intelligibility
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 36 (3): 453-472. 1998.
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    Kant’s Concept of Force: Empiricist or Rationalist?
    NTU Philosophical Review 34 175-206. 2007.
    This paper explores Kant's account of force, a topic that was of central philosophical concern in his day, but which he does not explicitly address in any of his Critiques. Just as with the nature of space and time and the nature of the human will, the nature of force was under dispute by the philosophers and natural scientists to whose legacy Kant was responding. Yet, Kant does not make force an explicit topic of his Critiques, and thus provides no explicit transcendental account of force. Neve…Read more
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    Respect for the law and the use of dynamical terms in Kant's theory of moral motivation
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 88 (1): 31-53. 2006.
    Kant's discussion of the feeling of respect presents a puzzle regarding both the precise nature of this feeling and its role in his moral theory as an incentive that motivates us to follow the moral law. If it is a feeling that motivates us to follow the law, this would contradict Kant's view that moral obligation is based on reason alone. I argue that Kant has an account of respect as feeling that is nevertheless not separate from the use of reason, but is intrinsic to willing. I demonstrate th…Read more
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    Two Kinds of Feminist Philosophy
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 2016.
    This article makes a distinction between two kinds of feminist philosophy. One looks ‘up’ to the realm of philosophy and aims to intervene in this realm in order to make it feminist. The other looks ‘down’ to the world of human experience and aims to make it feminist. This article argues that feminist philosophers’ efforts are better spent on the second kind of feminist philosophy. Feminist philosophy can better achieve its aims by applying philosophy to the critical analysis of women's lives an…Read more
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    Kant’s Idealism (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 225-226. 2004.
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    Kant and the Pleasure of “Mere Reflection”
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (5): 433-453. 2012.
    Abstract In the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Kant refers to the pleasure that we feel when judging that an object is beautiful as the pleasure of "mere reflection". Yet Kant never makes explicit what exactly is the relationship between the activity of "mere reflection" and the feeling of pleasure. I discuss several contemporary accounts of the pleasure of taste and argue that none of them is fully accurate, since, in each case, they leave open the possibility that one can reflect without h…Read more