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47Philosophie, Geschichte der Philosophie und Zukunft der PhilosophieIn Klassische Deutsche Philosophie: Wege in die Zukunft, Brill | Mentis. pp. 1-17. 2024.For Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, secondary literature on Kant, Fichte, and Hegel is not philosophy in the proper sense. It is best to think the relation between the history of philosophy, philosophy, and its future in terms of a set of virtues that should be binding both for the historians of philosophy and philosophers.
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16Klassische Deutsche Philosophie: Wege in die Zukunft (edited book)Brill | Mentis. 2024.In seiner „Kritik der reinen Vernunft“ unterscheidet Immanuel Kant zwischen rationaler und historischer philosophischer Erkenntnis. Erkenntnis ist historisch, wenn man sich nach fremder Vernunft bildet, und rational, wenn man Erkenntnisse aus eigener Vernunft schöpft. Dazwischen liegt die historisch-rationale philosophische Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Beiträge in diesem Band machen sich alle drei Perspektiven zunutze. Unter den behandelten Themen sind formale Logik, das ‚Transzendentale‘, de…Read more
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15Nietzsche Was No PerspectivistPhilosophies 9 (1): 9. 2024.There is a widespread agreement that Nietzsche has developed a kind of position or doctrine called ‘perspectivism’. Scholars go on and develop metaphysical, semantic, epistemic, and psychobiological interpretations of the supposed Nietzschean perspectivism or even ‘perspectivisms’. They engage in debates about whether this perspectivism is relativistic, realistic, or anti-realistic and what the tenets of perspectivism are. In this paper, I suggest putting an end to this practice. I examine Nietz…Read more
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332Kant on Philosophy as Conceptual AnalysisCon-Textos Kantianos 18 11-20. 2023.For Kant, philosophical investigations are inherently analytic. The proper method of philosophy is analysis, and the object of analysis are concepts. Hence, Kant’s short description of philosophy as “rational cognition […] from concepts” (KrV, A 837/B 865) can be substituted by “philosophy is conceptual analysis”. The article shows that Kant follows a representationalism about concepts and a combination of intensional and extensional feature semantics. Against the claim that Kant is a proponent …Read more
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442The First Principle in the Later Fichte : The (Not) "Surprising Insight" in the Fifteenth Lecture of the 1804 WissenschaftslehreIn Benjamin D. Crowe & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: essays on the "Science of knowing", State University of New York Press. pp. 61-78. 2024.How surprising is the insight, that being equals I in the 15th lecture of the Doctrine of Science 1804/II? It might have been indeed an unexpected turn for his contemporaries in Berlin listening to Fichte for the first time, but should it be surprising for us, having at least since 2012 (the year the last volume of [Gesamtausgabe] appeared) access to all his published and unpublished works? I want to propose a way of reading Fichte, which bypasses two popular and contradictory interpretations of…Read more
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Shan, Yafeng, ed. 2022, New Directions in Metaphilosophy. Metaphilosophy, 53 (2-3). pp. 153-361 (review)Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 16 (1). 2023.
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Daniel Minkin, Rationalität philosophischer Forschung: Grundlagen einer metaphilosophischen Positionierung, Brill/mentis: 2021 (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 77 (3): 390-393. 2023.
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150History of Perspectivism and the Status of Perspectivist Concepts / История перспективизма и статус перспективистских понятийVestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 39 (2): 249-260. 2023.In recent decades, perspectivism has developed into an epistemological research program claiming its independence. This autonomy stems from Perspectivism’s potential ability to resolve the contradictions between realist and constructivist programs. Perspectivism is based on the idea that the object depends on perspective, which constitutes any subjective attempt to cognize it. Perspectivists reconstruct and explain the factors involved in the formation of perspective, identifying the conditional…Read more
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104What is Perspectivism? Что такое перспективизм?Research Result. Social Studies and Humanities 9 (3): 5-14. 2023.Since Nietzsche, the term “perspectivism” has been used as the name for an ill-defined epistemological position. Some have tried to find an adequate meaning for the word “perspectivism,” tacitly investing it with a set of different predicates, such as “the dependence of cognition on position,” “pluralism,” “anti-universalism,” “epistemic humility,” etc. This approach is related to two contestable attitudes: the monolateral linguistic paradigm and the metaepistemological position of multiplicity …Read more
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98Kant and AnalysisKantian Journal 42 (3): 49-73. 2023.In the current dialogue between two authors with different views on analysis, philosophy, and the use of labels, the leading question is: How should one understand the expression ‘analytic philosophy’? Lewin argues that as there are no generally agreed tenets and methods of what is being called ‘analytic philosophy’, the name is to be replaced by a more specific one or abandoned. Williamson defends the use of this phrase, claiming that it is quite serviceable, as it relates to a broad tradition …Read more
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20Introduction to ‘Kant and Metaphilosophy’Kantian Journal 42 (3): 7-16. 2023.There is a growing interest in both Kant’s conception of philosophy and contemporary metaphilosophy, understood as philosophical inquiry into philosophy, its aims, purpose, subjects, structure, practice and methods. Kant has not contributed to metaphilosophy qua contemporary discipline, but his direct analyses of what philosophy is and how it is to be done can be identified with general subjects and problems constituting the research field of metaphilosophy. Several aspects of Kant’s conception …Read more
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15Metaphilosophie als einheitliche DisziplinSpringer/Metzler. 2023.Die sich seit den 1960ern entwickelnde Disziplin der Metaphilosophie ist mit dem Problem der philosophischen Vorbelastetheit metaphilosophischer Theorien behaftet. Diesem Problem wird mit dem erkenntnistheoretischen Programm des Perspektivismus begegnet. Es wird gezeigt, dass tiefgreifendes Verständnis der Perspektivität sich positiv auf die Qualität metaphilosophischer Forschung auswirken kann, deren Einheit nur unter der Idee eines im Vorhinein perspektivenübergreifend ausgerichteten Diskurses…Read more
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16Introduction to the Topical Issue “Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic: A Re-Evaluation”Open Philosophy 5 (1): 758-759. 2022.
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33The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower SenseOpen Philosophy 5 (1): 340-359. 2022.In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles”. I will argue that this is only one and not the most pertinent and general mark of the concept of reason. There are more compelling short expressions in Kant’s Reflexionen, the third Critique and/or in the reception of Kant’s works: “the faculty of ideas” or reason in the narrower sense. The latter narrows down the logical sph…Read more
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453Transcendental Philosophy as a Scientific Research ProgrammeKantian Journal 40 (3): 93-126. 2021.Transcendental philosophy was not born like Athena out of Zeus’s head, mature and in full armour from the very beginning. That is why in both prefaces to the Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787) Kant introduces the concept of transcendental philosophy as an “idea.” The idea understood architectonically develops slowly and only gradually acquires a definite form. As witnessed by the works of Kant himself and of his predecessors and followers, the idea of transcendental philosophy has undergone…Read more
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48Kant’s MetaphilosophyOpen Philosophy 4 (1): 292-310. 2021.While the term “metaphilosophy” enjoys increasing popularity in Kant scholarship, it is neither clear what distinguishes a metaphilosophical theory from a philosophical one nor to what extent Kant’s philosophy contains metaphilosophical views. In the first part of the article, I will introduce a demarcation criterion and show how scholars fall prey to the fallacy of extension confusing Kant’s philosophical theories with his theories about philosophy. In the second part, I will analyze eight elem…Read more
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13Hartmut von Sass (Hg.): Perspektivismus. Neue Beiträge aus der Erkenntnistheorie, Hermeneutik und Ethik, Meiner: 2019. (review)Philosophische Rundschau 68 (1): 63-69. 2021.
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13Rudolf Meer, Der transzendentale Grundsatz der Vernunft. Funktion und Struktur des Anhangs zur Transzendentalen Dialektik der Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte Band 207, Berlin/boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019, 314 pp.Der transzendentale Grundsatz der Vernunft. Funktion und Struktur des Anhangs zur Transzendentalen Dialektik der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (3): 562-570. 2021.
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270Michael Lewin geht es in seinem Buch um die Vernunft als ein wohlbegründetes und in zeitgenössischen Kontexten fortführbares Forschungsprogramm. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Theorienreihe zu vielfältigen Arten und Funktionen der Ideen, mit deren Hilfe die Vernunft das Verstehen und Wollen steuert und selbstreflexiv wird. Dazu entwickelt der Autor unter dem Stichpunkt „reflektierter Perspektivismus“ das Programm einer perspektivistischen Metaphilosophie, die den Hintergrundparametern forschungsp…Read more
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372Marcus Willaschek, Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason (review)Idealistic Studies 50 (3): 315-320. 2020.
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294Rezension zu Brendan Theunissen: Hegels Phänomenologie als metaphilosophische Theorie. Hegel und das Problem der Vielfalt der philosophischen Theorien. Eine Studie zur systemexternen Rechtfertigungsfunktion der Phänomenologie des Geistes. Hegel-Studien, Beiheft 61. Meiner: Hamburg 2014, 356 S., ISBN: 978-3-7873-2527-6. (review)Coincidentia. Zeitschrift für Europäische Geistesgeschichte 11 (1): 292-301. 2020.[The review is in German] Theunissen has developed an interesting account of metaphilosophy that–as a discipline–does not start in 1960s, but already and especially with Kant, Fichte and Hegel. The constant growth of philosophical theories around 1800 (what Koselleck called “Sattelzeit”) made metaphilosophical constructions necessary. He reads–and is not the first author who does so–Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as a metaphilosophical theory. Although I like and share many ideas with Theunisse…Read more
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548The Universe of Science. The Architectonic Ideas of Science, Sciences and Their Parts in KantKantian Journal 39 (2): 26-45. 2020.I argue that Kant has developed a broad systematic account of the architectonic functionality of pure reason that can be used and advanced in contemporary contexts. Reason, in the narrow sense, is responsible for the picture of a well-ordered universe of science consisting of architectonic ideas of science, sciences and parts of sciences. In the first section (I), I show what Kant means by the architectonic ideas by explaining and interrelating the concepts of (a) the faculty of reason, (b) idea…Read more
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1882Reason, ideas and their functions in classical German philosophy [in Russian] | Разум, идеи и их функции в классической немецкой философииVestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 36 (1): 4-23. 2020.Over the last two decades there has been a growing interest in the transcendental dialectic of Critique of Pure Reason in Germany. Authors, however, often do not pay enough attention to the fact that Kant’s theory of reason (in the narrow sense) and the concept of ideas derived from it is not limited to this text. The purpose of this article is to compare and analyze the functionality of mind as a subjective ability developed by Kant and Fichte with the Hegelian expansion of the mind to the idea…Read more
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756Hegel’s critique of Kant’s concept of reason: the problem of different demandsHegel Jahrbuch 2019 (1): 146-153. 2020.
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522Der Stachel der Selbsttätigkeit und das Ausschöpfen der Freiheit. Zur Vollständigkeit der fünf Weltansichten beim späten FichteFichte-Studien 48 204-219. 2020.In the later Fichte the reflection splits the world into a fivefoldness of its possible view. To get through all the a priori arranged levels from sensuality to the Doctrine of Science means to use up all the possibilities of the views of the world. I will examine whether Fichte can offer us a direct proof of completeness of the standpoints or at least show indirectly that there must be exactly five of them. Which answer would he give us if we argued that history, skepticism and nonentity could …Read more
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46Ist die theoretische Vernunft selbst eine Idee?Fichte-Studien 46 288-307. 2018.The object of this study is to examine the way in which the later Fichte handles Kantian ideas. In the first part Kant’s theory of principles will be investigated in order to find out how many types of ideas he uses. In the second part the ideas will be assigned to the basic moments of Fichte’s Outlines 1810. Not only the transcendental concepts and postulates play a key role in the Science of Knowledge, but also the methodological ideas of a theoretical and practical reason. While the latter ar…Read more
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568Psychologischer Skeptizismus. Nietzsches Kritik am Deutschen IdealismusCoincidentia. Zeitschrift für Europäische Geistesgeschichte 8 383-406. 2017.Eine Untersuchung zu Nietzsches Kritik am Deutschen Idealismus im Rahmen seiner allgemeinen Idealismuskritik und seiner Lehre vom Willen zur Macht.
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