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925Subsuming ‘determining’ under ‘reflecting’: Kant’s power of judgment, reconsideredInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2021.Kant’s distinction between the determining and reflecting power of judgment in the third Critique is not well understood in the literature. A mainstream view unifies these by making determination the telos of all acts of judgment (Longuenesse 1998). On this view, all reflection is primarily in the business of producing empirical concepts for cognition, and thus has what I call a determinative ideal. I argue that this view fails to take seriously the independence and autonomy of the ‘power of jud…Read more
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865Courtney D. Fugate (ed.), Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics: A Critical Guide Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 Pp. 251 ISBN 9781107176980 (hbk), $120.95 (review)Kantian Review 25 (1): 153-158. 2020.
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443Reflections of Reason: Kant on Practical JudgmentKantian Review (4): 1-22. 2023.My aim in this paper is to provide an account of practical judgement, for Kant, that situates it within his theory of judgement as a whole—particularly, with regards to the distinction between the determining and reflecting use of judgement. I argue that practical judgement is a kind of determining judgement, but also one in which reflecting judgement plays a significant role. More specifically, I claim that practical judgement arises from the cooperation of the reflecting power of judgement wit…Read more
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403Kant on Judgment and FeelingKant Studien 115 (1): 46-70. 2024.It is well known that Kant connects judgment and feeling in the third Critique. However, the precise relationship between these two faculties remains virtually unexplored, in large part due to the unpopularity of Kant’s faculty psychology. This paper considers why, for Kant, judgment and feeling go together, arguing that he had good philosophical reasons for forging this connection. The discussion begins by situating these faculties within Kant’s mature faculty psychology. While the ‘power of ju…Read more
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349Kant on Moral Feeling and Practical JudgmentIn Edgar Valdez (ed.), Rethinking Kant Volume 7, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 72-96. 2024.Commentators have shown a steady interest in the role of feeling in Kant’s moral and practical philosophy over the last few decades. Much attention has been given to the notion of ‘moral feeling’ in general, as well as to what Kant calls the ‘feeling of respect’ for the moral law. My focus in this essay is on the role of feeling in practical judgment. My claim in what follows is that the act of judging in the practical domain—i.e., determining what one ought to do, or what action one ought to pe…Read more
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255Kant’s lectures on ethics: A critical guide Lara Denis and Oliver sensen (eds.) Cambridge university press, 2015; 289 pp.; $113.95 (review)Dialogue 57 (4): 940-942. 2018.
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233A Lawful Freedom: Kant’s Practical Refutation of Noumenal ChanceKant Studies Online (1): 149-177. 2015.This paper asks how Kant’s mature theory of freedom handles an objection pertaining to chance. This question is significant given that Kant raises this criticism against libertarianism in his early writings on freedom before coming to adopt a libertarian view of freedom in the Critical period. After motivating the problem of how Kant can hold that the free actions of human beings lack determining grounds while at the same maintain that these are not the result of ‘blind chance,’ I argue that Kan…Read more
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154Preparing the Particular: Kant on the Imagination’s Role in JudgmentSouthern Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.That Kant sees the faculties of imagination and judgment as closely related is not controversial. Yet precisely how they relate to each other, especially across his Critical philosophy, is less clear. In this paper, I consider the relationship between what Kant calls the ‘power of imagination’ [Einbildungskraft] and the ‘power of judgment’ [Urteilskraft]. I argue for the following claim: insofar as the power of judgment is the faculty of thinking particulars under universals, the power of imagin…Read more
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77What is orientation in judgment?: an essay on Kant’s theory of UrteilskraftDissertation, McGill University. 2020.In this thesis I provide an account of the faculty of the mind that Kant calls ‘the power of judgment’ [Urteilskraft]. While there is an abundance of literature on various aspects of Kant’s theory of judgment in the Critical philosophy, there has been no sustained treatment of the nature of the faculty that is the subject of the third Critique (1790). I argue that the power of judgment is a fundamentally reflective, affective, and orientational capacity that occupies a central place within Kant’…Read more
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35Kant and the Demands of Normativity: Response to HarbinDialogue 59 (4): 613-619. 2020.RÉSUMÉJe conteste l'affirmation de Harbin selon laquelle les jugements esthétiques, pour Kant, ne sont pas normatifs. En me concentrant sur la nature systématique de la philosophie critique de Kant, je montre que les jugements esthétiques, comme les jugements dans les domaines théorique et pratique, doivent être normatifs, bien que de tels jugements affichent un type distinct de normativité, qui s'exprime dans leur subjectivité, leur indétermination et leur affectivité.
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34Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy (edited book)De Gruyter. 2024.Part of 'Works of Philosophy and Their Reception' series / Contributors include: Ronald Beiner, Linda Zerilli, D.N. Rodowick, Cecilia Sjöholm, Martin Blumenthal-Barby, Helga Varden, Roger Berkowitz
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4Reflections of Reason: Kant on Practical JudgementKantian Review 28 (4): 575-596. 2023.My aim in this article is to provide an account of practical judgement, for Kant, that situates it within his theory of judgement as a whole – particularly, with regards to the distinction between the determining and reflecting use of judgement. I argue that practical judgement is a kind of determining judgement, but also one in which reflecting judgement plays a significant role. More specifically, I claim that practical judgement arises from the cooperation of the reflecting power of judgement…Read more
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