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36Suffering and Schadenfreude in sportJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 50 (1): 133-147. 2023.We argue that some sports test athletes’ capacities to endure specific types of suffering, and in such cases the suffering is constitutive of the sport: the sporting contest would not be a good sporting contest if that capacity were not tested. We then argue that it is morally acceptable for athletes to experience pleasure (Schadenfreude) in response to the constitutive suffering of competitors insofar as that pleasure is compatible with pity or sympathy for non-constitutive suffering. We use th…Read more
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4The modern turn (edited book)The Catholic University of America Press. 2017.What is the modern turn in philosophy? In other words, what are the features that make modern philosophy distinctively ""modern"" in contrast with the pre-modern philosophy from which it emerged? The twelve essays in this volume seek to address this question, and in doing so, exemplify and contribute to a rich debate about the nature and value of modern philosophy.
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6Affinity and Systematicity in the First CritiqueIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 1527-1534. 2018.
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6Book ReviewsBéatrice Longuenesse,. Kant on the Human Standpoint.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 304. $80.00 (review)Ethics 118 (2): 345-349. 2008.
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23The Transition from Nature to Freedom in Kant's Third CritiqueKant Studien 99 (3): 339-360. 2008.
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50Emotion and Evil in KantReview of Metaphysics 66 (4): 749-773. 2013.On one common reading of Kant, emotional states that he calls feelings, desires, and inclinations are thoroughly non-cognitive and play no positive role in the moral life, which is instead about subduing our sensible nature through a discipline of reason. Against this common reading, this paper argues that Kant actually holds a weak cognitivist view of at least some emotions, according to which emotions are responses to judgments – or to what Kant calls maxims – that are about what makes an acti…Read more
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26Kant on Determining One's Duty: A Middle Course Between Rawls and HermanKant Studien 100 (3): 346-368. 2009.This paper develops an interpretation of the relationship between Kant's various formulations of the categorical imperative in the Groundwork that steers a middle course between the formal and substantive poles of the interpretive spectrum, represented by John Rawls and Barbara Herman, respectively. Accepting and rejecting key aspects of both Rawls's and Herman's interpretations, I argue that the first formulation, understood correctly, does suffice to determine all Kantian moral duties, but onl…Read more
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1The ideas of pure reasonIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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10Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (3): 371-372. 2006.
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40Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace—Otfried Höffe (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (1): 115-116. 2007.
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12Promissory Notes – Kant’s Argument for Transcendental IdealismIn 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. 371-382. 2013.
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12Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace—Otfried Höffe (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (1): 115-116. 2007.