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23Kant's Response to Hume on Natural Theology: Dogmatic Anthropomorphism, Analogical Inference, and Symbolic RepresentationJournal of the History of Philosophy 61 (1): 77-101. 2023.Abstractabstract:This article examines Kant's response to the criticisms of natural theology that Hume articulates in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Though Kant was in agreement with the Dialogues' rejection of dogmatic theism, he equally viewed many of its arguments as a threat to his aim of constructing a critical theology. Kant is often taken to have successfully diffused this skeptical threat on the basis of a symbolic anthropomorphism articulated in the Prolegomena. However, I a…Read more
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26Leopoldo Zea, “Is a Latin American philosophy possible?”British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (5): 874-896. 2022.Leopoldo Zea was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Though in English-language scholarship Zea is known primarily as a historian of ideas, his philosophical producti...
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36Kant's a priori history of metaphysics: Systematicity, progress, and the ends of reasonEuropean Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 811-826. 2020.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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19Kant’s Herder Review: Analogical Inference, Indirect Cognition, and Philosophical StyleIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 2015-2022. 2021.
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23The Role of First Principles in Fichte’s Philosophy of HistoryFichte-Studien 49 288-308. 2021.In this article, I explore the role of the first principle in Fichte’s philosophy of history and assess the extent to which its introduction is able to resolve problems in the philosophies of history of his predecessors. Particularly, I focus on Fichte’s response to the question of how history can be grasped in a systematic manner for the purposes of theoretical cognition. I argue that while Fichte is able to resolve the tension between Herder’s pluralism and Kant’s chiliasm in an innovative man…Read more
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31Making history philosophical: Kant, Maimon, and the evolution of the historiography of philosophy in the critical periodBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 463-482. 2020.In this article I explore Maimon’s role in the evolution of Kant’s understanding of the function of the history of philosophy in philosophical enquiry. Kant is often viewed as holding an ambivalent...
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47Leaving the Enchanted World Behind: Kant on the Order of Nature, Empirical Space and the Possibility of MiraclesKantian Review 24 (1): 103-125. 2019.Despite relative neglect in the literature, Kant’s published and unpublished writings in theoretical philosophy reveal a sustained and at times ambivalent effort to come to terms with the problem of miracles. Because they entail a form of supernatural causation that undermines the law-governedness of the order of nature, miracles pose a significant problem for Kant’s metaphysics. I explore in detail Kant’s account of miracles in conjunction with the relevant aspects of his metaphysics of nature …Read more
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17Rachel Zuckert and James Kreines (eds.). Hegel on Philosophy in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-1070-9341-6 (hbk). Pp 260. £75.00 (review)Hegel Bulletin 41 (1): 147-151. 2020.
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30Heidegger’s Reassessment of Metaphysica Specialis and the Status of Metontological Inquiry in the Late Marburg PeriodResearch in Phenomenology 48 (2): 265-285. 2018._ Source: _Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 265 - 285 This article examines the development of Heidegger’s thought directly following _Being and Time_, a period that is significant both in its own right and in its capacity to shed light on the problems driving Heidegger’s later works. I assess Crowell’s thesis that Heidegger’s aim was to develop a metontology along the lines of a pre-critical _metaphysica specialis_ based on a reassessment of Kant’s transcendental dialectic. I show that such a reading mis…Read more