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    In this paper, we do two things: first, we offer a metaphysical account of what it is to be an individual person through Hegel’s understanding of the concrete universal; and second, we show how this account of an individual can help in thinking about love. The aim is to show that Hegel’s distinctive account of individuality and universality can do justice to two intuitions about love which appear to be in tension: on the one hand, that love can involve a response to properties that an individual…Read more
  •  13
    Coherence as a Test for Truth
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2): 296-326. 2004.
    This paper sets out to demonstrate that a contrast can be drawn between coherentism as an account of the structure of justification, and coherentism as a method of inquiry. Whereas the former position aims to offer an answer to the ‘regress of justification’ problem, the latter position claims that coherence plays a vital and indispensable role as a criterion of truth, given the fallibility of cognitive methods such as perception and memory. It is argued that ‘early’ coherentists like Bradley an…Read more
  •  83
    Philosophers working within the pragmatist tradition have pictured their relation to Kant and Kantianism in very diverse terms: some have presented their work as an appropriation and development of Kantian ideas, some have argued that pragmatism is an approach in complete opposition to Kant. This collection investigates the relationship between pragmatism, Kant, and current Kantian approaches to transcendental arguments in a detailed and original way. Chapters highlight pragmatist aspects of Kan…Read more
  •  18
    Going Beyond the Kantian Philosophy: On McDowell's Hegelian Critique of Kant
    European Journal of Philosophy 7 (2): 247-269. 1999.
  • Western Philosophy (edited book)
    with Malcolm Seymour, Trevor Green, Audrey Healy, J. D. G. Evans, Richard Cross, James Ladyman, Katherine J. Morris, W. J. Mander, Christine Battersby, A. W. Moore, Christopher Hookway, Bob Carruthers, Gary Russell, Dennis Hedlund, Alex Ridgway, Alexander Fyfe, Paul Farrer, and Trevor Nichols
    Kultur. 2006.
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    Schelling on freedom, evil and imputation: A puzzle
    European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 563-575. 2023.
    This paper is focused on F. W. J. Schelling's view of freedom during the period of the Freiheitsschrift (1809) and related works. It is argued that the standard way this has been understood may be too simplistic. On this standard interpretation of his view, evil is made a matter of free choice by the agent, but where the choice does not concern individual actions, but the choice of the agent's essence in an atemporal act. As a result of this choice, it is argued, Schelling can then make evil imp…Read more
  •  12
    Controverting Kierkegaard (edited book)
    with Bjørn Rabjerg
    Oxford University Press. 2023.
    This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-81). It is the culmination of his critical engagement with Kierkegaardianism, which had begun almost 20 years earlier. In this text, Løgstrup focuses on four main themes in Kierkegaard: his understanding of Christ and thus of Christianity; his understanding of suffering in human existence; Christian vs. secular ethics; and Platonistic influences on Kierkegaard's position, which Løgstru…Read more
  •  5
    Notes on Contributors
    In Micha H. Werner, Robert Stern & Jens Peter Brune (eds.), Transcendental Arguments in Moral Theory, De Gruyter. pp. 349-350. 2017.
  •  10
    Index
    In Micha H. Werner, Robert Stern & Jens Peter Brune (eds.), Transcendental Arguments in Moral Theory, De Gruyter. pp. 351-358. 2017.
  •  7
    Introduction
    In Micha H. Werner, Robert Stern & Jens Peter Brune (eds.), Transcendental Arguments in Moral Theory, De Gruyter. pp. 1-6. 2017.
  •  13
    Since Barry Stroud's classic paper in 1968, the general discussion on transcendental arguments tends to focus on examples from theoretical philosophy. It also tends to be pessimistic, or at least extremely reluctant, about the potential of this kind of arguments. Nevertheless, transcendental reasoning continues to play a prominent role in some recent approaches to moral philosophy. Moreover, some authors argue that transcendental arguments may be more promising in moral philosophy than they are …Read more
  •  6
    The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics
    Oxford University Press. 2019.
    How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it? How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements, such as those of prudence, law, and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Logstrup, and in particular his key text The Ethical Demand. In The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics, Robert Stern offers a full account of that text, and situates Logstr…Read more
  •  18
    In this article, I consider how pride and anxiety can prevent us from loving the neighbour, and how Søren Kierkegaard and K.E. Løgstrup offer two different ways in which these obstacles might be overcome. For Kierkegaard, this is made possible if we stand in the right relation to God, while for Løgstrup it is made possible if we understand life as a gift. The differences and respective merits of both approaches are explored, and in particular whether Løgstrup's approach can claim to offer a secu…Read more
  •  84
    This article considers an apparent Achilles heel for Kant’s transcendental idealism, concerning his account of how synthetic a priori knowledge is possible. The problem is that while Kant’s distinctive attempt to explain synthetic a priori knowledge lies at the heart of his transcendental idealism, this explanation appears to face a dilemma: either the explanation generates a problematic regress, or the explanation it offers gives us no reason to favour transcendental idealism over transcendenta…Read more
  •  43
    In the spirit of Hegel?
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 103 (3): 734-740. 2021.
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 103, Issue 3, Page 734-740, November 2021.
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    At the heart of Levinas’s work is the apparently simple idea that through the encounter with another person, we are forced to give up our self-concern and take heed of the ethical relation between us. But, while simple on the surface, when one tries to characterize it in more detail, it can be hard to fit together the various ways in which Levinas talks about this relation and to identify precisely what he took its normative structure to be, as this is described in a number of apparently differe…Read more
  •  68
    Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2019.
    Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written.
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    Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (1): 147-179. 2019.
  •  18
    The Category and the Office of Proclamation, with Particular Reference to Luther and Kierkegaard
    with K. E. Løgstrup and Christopher Bennett
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (1): 183-209. 2019.
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    Valuing humanity: Kierkegaardian worries about Korsgaardian transcendental arguments
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 80 (4-5): 424-442. 2019.
    This paper draws out from Kierkegaard’s work a distinctive critical perspective on an influential contemporary approach in moral philosophy: namely, Christine Korsgaard’s transcendental argument for the value of humanity. From Kierkegaard’s perspective, we argue, Korsgaard argument goes too far, in attributing absolute value to humanity – but also that she is required to make this claim if her transcendental argument is to work. From a Kierkegaardian perspective, to place this sort of value in h…Read more
  •  6
    The Company of: Words: Hegel, Language, and Systematic Philosophy, by John McCumber
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 25 (2): 193-194. 1994.
  •  8
    British Hegelianism: A Non-Metaphysical View?
    Hegel Bulletin 16 (1): 17-38. 1995.
  •  5
    Pippin on Hegel
    Hegel Bulletin 10 (1): 1-4. 1989.