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Prolegomenon to any future critical responses to naturalismIn Michal Chabada & Róbert Maco (eds.), Varieties of naturalism in contemporary philosophy, Filosofia, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. 2021.
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5Scientism as Ideology; Speculative Naturalism as Qualified DecolonialityIn Luca Corti & Johannes-Georg Schuelein (eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 343-363. 2023.My aim in this chapter is argue that aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics, as an example of ‘speculative naturalism’, can and should be seen as offering a powerful conceptual resource for explicating the cognitive pathology of scientism, and for also contributing to the effort of ‘decolonizing the space of reasons’. By ‘scientism’, I mean the view that the ways in which we make sense of things are ultimately justifiable only by the methods and practices of the Naturwissenschaften. I argue that if one …Read more
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50Non-reductivism and the metaphilosophy of mindInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (5): 477-503. 2019.ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the metaphilosophical assumptions that have dominated analytic philosophy of mind, and how they gave rise to the central question that the best-known forms of non-reductivism available have sought to answer, namely: how can mind fit within nature? Its goal is to make room for forms of non-reductivism that have challenged the fruitfulness of this question, and which have taken a different approach to the so-called “placement” problem. Rather than trying to solve the p…Read more
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19Does contemporary recognition theory rest on a mistake?Philosophy and Social Criticism. forthcoming.My aim in this paper is to argue, contra Axel Honneth, that ‘the summons’ ( Aufforderung), the central pillar of Fichte’s transcendentalist account of recognition, is best made sense of not as an ‘invitation’, but rather as a second-personal demand, whose illocutionary content draws attention to the demandingness of responsibilities towards vulnerable agents. Because of this, the summons has good explanatory force in terms of disclosing the phenomenological dynamics of psychosocially and politic…Read more
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Hegelian Sittlichkeit, Deweyan democracy, and Honnethian relational institutions : beyond Kantian practical philosophyIn James Gledhill & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, Routledge. 2020.
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6Hegel and the Frankfurt school: traditions in dialogue (edited book)Routledge. 2021.This collection of original essays discusses the relationship between Hegel and the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory. The book's aim is to take stock of the complicated dialogue with Hegel in the critical theory tradition, especially as reflected in the work of Adorno, Horkheimer, Lukács, Marcuse, Habermas, and Honneth. The book is divided into the four sections. The first focuses on Adorno's Negative Dialectics, historically considered the most contentious reception of Hegel by th…Read more
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Epistemic exploitation and ideological recognitionIn Paul Giladi & Nicola McMillan (eds.), Epistemic injustice and the philosophy of recognition, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.
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Epistemic exploitation and ideological recognitionIn Paul Giladi & Nicola McMillan (eds.), Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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22Epistemic injustice and the philosophy of recognition (edited book)Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.This volume includes original essays that examine the underexplored relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology. Its aims are to explore how far certain kinds of epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, and types of ignorance can be understood as distorted varieties of recognition, and to determine whether contemporary work on epistemic injustice and critical social epistemology more generally has significant continuities with theories of recogn…Read more
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18Toward the “overthrow of Platonism”: Processist critical social ontology and ameliorative discourseEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 622-638. 2023.In this article, I argue that, for the purpose of developing an effective critical social ontology about gender groups, it is not simply sufficient to carve gender groups at their joints: one must have in view whether the metaphysical categories we use to make sense of gender groups are prone to ideological distortion and vitiation. The norms underpinning a gender group's constitution as a type of social class and the norms involved in gender identity attributions, I propose, provide compelling …Read more
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25Toward the “overthrow of Platonism”: Processist critical social ontology and ameliorative discourseEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 622-638. 2023.In this article, I argue that, for the purpose of developing an effective critical social ontology about gender groups, it is not simply sufficient to carve gender groups at their joints: one must have in view whether the metaphysical categories we use to make sense of gender groups are prone to ideological distortion and vitiation. The norms underpinning a gender group's constitution as a type of social class and the norms involved in gender identity attributions, I propose, provide compelling …Read more
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8Prolegomenon to any future critical responses to naturalismFilosoficky Casopis 69 (Special issue 3): 75-94. 2021.
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8Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism (edited book)Routledge. 2019.Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism
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17The Vulnerable Dynamics of DiscourseRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 89 195-225. 2021.In this paper, we offer some compelling reasons to think that issues relating to vulnerability play a significant – albeit thus far underacknowledged – role in Jürgen Habermas’s notions of communicative action and discourse. We shall argue that the basic notions of discourse and communicative action presuppose a robust conception of vulnerability and that recognising vulnerability is essential for making sense of the social character of knowledge, on the epistemic side of things, and for making …Read more
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42Butler and Postanalytic PhilosophyHypatia 36 (2): 276-301. 2021.This article has two aims: to bring Judith Butler and Wilfrid Sellars into conversation; and to argue that Butler's poststructuralist critique of feminist identity politics has metaphilosophical potential, given her pragmatic parallel with Sellars's critique of conceptual analyses of knowledge. With regard to, I argue that Butler's objections to the definitional practice constitutive of certain ways of construing feminism is comparable to Sellars's critique of the analytical project geared towar…Read more
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18‘Here be revisionary metaphysics!’ A critique of a concern about process philosophyDialogue 60 (2): 257-275. 2021.RÉSUMÉDans cet article, je soutiens que le « manifeste du processus » de John Dupré et Daniel Nicholson est ironiquement plus sympathique à la métaphysique descriptive qu’à la métaphysique révisionniste. En me concentrant sur leur argument selon lequel toute philosophie du processus glisse automatiquement dans l'obscurantisme Whiteheadien lorsqu'elle ne se contente pas de révéler seulement les caractéristiques problématiques du langage ordinaire, je soutiens que leur position dissimule un espace…Read more
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11Introduction to Pragmatism and IdealismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 10 (2). 2018.Introduction Recent years have seen increased interest in the complex relationships between the thought of German Idealists (understood to include both transcendental and absolute idealists) and the thought of those philosophers commonly categorized as “American Pragmatists” – from Charles S. Peirce (the progenitor of this alleged tradition) to Richard Rorty and his student, Robert Brandom. This issue presents a collection of papers that, as a collection, do justice to those complex relations...
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22A Foucauldian Critique of Scientific Naturalism: “Docile Minds”Critical Horizons 21 (3): 264-286. 2020.ABSTRACT My aim in this paper is to articulate a Foucauldian critique of scientific naturalism as well as a Foucauldian critique of the nomothetic framework underlying the Placement Problem. My Foucauldian post-structuralist critique of scientific naturalism questions the relations between our society’s imbrication of economic-political power structures and knowledge in a way that also effects some constructive critical alignment between Foucault and Habermas, helping to undermine the traditiona…Read more
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378The Agent in Pain: Alienation and Discursive AbuseInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (5): 692-712. 2020.My aim in this paper is to draw attention to a currently underdeveloped notion of pain and alienation, in order to sketch an account of the harms of ‘discursive abuse’. This form of abuse comprises systemic practices of violating a person’s vulnerable integrity as a knowing agent. Discursive abuse results in, what I would like to call, ‘agential alienation’. This particular genus of alienation, whose broad conceptual origins lie in the respective works of Hegel and the early Marx, involves an ag…Read more
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18Hegel and the Frankfurt School (edited book)Routledge. 2020."This collection of original essays discusses the relationship between Hegel and the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory. The book's aim is to take stock of the complicated dialogue with Hegel in the critical theory tradition, especially as reflected in the work of Adorno, Horkheimer, Lukács, Marcuse, Habermas, and Honneth. The book is divided into the four sections. The first focuses on Adorno's Negative Dialectics, historically considered the most contentious reception of Hegel by th…Read more
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23Hegel’s social ethics: Religion, conflict, and rituals of recognitionContemporary Political Theory 18 (3): 206-209. 2017.
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41Editors’ Introduction to ‘Hegel and Sellars’: A Special Issue of International Journal of Philosophical StudiesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 27 (3): 359-362. 2019.In our Introduction to the special issue on Hegel and Sellars, we explain why there needs to be a more detailed analysis of the similarities and differences between Hegel and Sellars. Sellars is usually regarded as closer to Kant than to Hegel, but this obscures the more Hegelian features of his theoretical and practical philosophy. We briefly describe each article in the special issue.
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16Introduction: Epistemic Injustice and Recognition TheoryFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 4 (4). 2018.Introduction to the special issue
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16Sally Sedgwick Hegel's Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-969836-3 . Pp. 208. £36.00 (review)Hegel Bulletin 35 (1): 134-136. 2014.
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11The Oxford handbook of Hegel: edited by D. Moyar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 828 + xlix., £97.00 , ISBN 978–0199355228British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (5): 1060-1062. 2019.Volume 27, Issue 5, September 2019, Page 1060-1062.
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18Kenneth R. Westphal . The Blackwell Guide to Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3110-0, pbk, £24.99. Pp. 325 (review)Hegel Bulletin 36 (1): 111-115. 2015.
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16James Kreines. Reason in the World: Hegel’s Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-19-020430-3. Pp. 290. £47.99 (review)Hegel Bulletin 40 (2): 326-330. 2019.
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312Metaphysics — Low in Price, High in Value: A Critique of Global ExpressivismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 54 (1): 64. 2018.Pragmatism’s heartening recent revival (spearheaded by Richard Rorty’s bold intervention into analytic philosophy Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature) has coalesced into a distinctive philosophical movement frequently referred to as ‘neopragmatism’. This movement interprets the very meaning of pragmatism as rejection of metaphysical commitments: our words do not primarily serve to represent non-linguistic entities, but are tools to achieve a range of human purposes. A particularly thorough and …Read more
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