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22A companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of religious life (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.In the academic year 1920-1921 at the University of Freiburg, Martin Heidegger gave a series of extraordinary lectures on the phenomenological significance of the religious thought of St. Paul and St. Augustine. The publication of these lectures in 1995 settled a long disputed question, the decisive role played by Christian theology in the development of Heidegger’s philosophy. The lectures present a special challenge to readers of Heidegger and theology alike. Experimenting with language and dr…Read more
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The Jacobi-Schelling debateIn Alexander J. B. Hampton (ed.), Friedrich Jacobi and the end of the enlightenment: religion, philosophy, and reason at the crux of modernity, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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18Moral knowledge replies to criticsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 107 (2): 568-579. 2023.
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62Philosophical Methodology and Levels of GeneralityPhilosophical Perspectives 33 (1): 105-125. 2019.Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
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75Moral KnowledgeOxford University Press. 2019.How fragile is our knowledge of morality, compared to other kinds of knowledge? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds? Sarah McGrath offers new answers to these questions as she explores the possibilities, sources and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge.
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18The dark ground of spirit: Schelling and the unconsciousRoutledge. 2012.Introduction -- Tending the dark fire: the Boehmian notion of drive -- The night-side of nature: the early Schellingian unconscious -- The speculative psychology of dissociation: the later Schellingian unconscious -- Schellingian libido theory.
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19Heidegger’s Analytic (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (2): 411-413. 2005.Drawing an analogy with Kant, Carman argues that Being and Time is a transcendental analytic of the hermeneutic conditions of the possibility of intelligible experience. In defense of this thesis Carman makes a well-stated case for the implementation of the phenomenological attitude in the philosophy of mind. Against thinkers like Daniel Dennett, who insist on interpreting consciousness as a thing among things, Carman argues that intentionality, the defining feature of consciousness, can be prop…Read more
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132Schelling on the UnconsciousResearch in Phenomenology 40 (1): 72-91. 2010.The early Schelling and the romantics constructed the unconscious in order to overcome the modern split between subjectivity and nature, mind and body, a split legislated by Cartesian representationalism. Influenced by Boehme and Kabbalah, the later Schelling modified his notion of the unconscious to include the decision to be oneself, which must sink beneath consciousness so that it might serve as the ground of one's creative and personal acts. Slavoj Zizek has read the later Schelling's uncons…Read more
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181Boehme, Hegel, Schelling, and the Hermetic Theology of EvilPhilosophy and Theology 18 (2): 257-286. 2006.Building on recent research exposing Hegel’s debt to esoteric Christianity (both Gnostic and Hermetic traditions), the aim of this paper is to show how Hegel and Schelling resolve an ambiguity in Boehme’s theology of evil in opposing ways. Jacob Boehme’s notion of the individuation of God through the overcoming ofopposition is the central paradigm for both Hegel’s and Schelling’s understanding of the role of evil in the life of God. Boehme remains ambiguous on the question of the modality of evi…Read more
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7The Ending of Pseudo-Oppian’s CynegeticaHermes 151 (2): 210-222. 2023.While scholars have generally agreed that the Cynegetica, a didactic epic in four books from the third century CE falsely ascribed to Oppian of Cilicia, are missing their ending, the structural implications of this loss are rarely considered seriously. This article brings together all available evidence (or lack thereof) from the poem itself and the secondary tradition about the intended scope of the Cynegetica. It argues that the Cynegetica were probably never completed, with the final 29 lines…Read more
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42 The Ecstatic Realism of the Late SchellingIn Marie-Eve Morin (ed.), Continental Realism and its Discontents, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 38-58. 2017.
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6The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the PositiveEdinburgh University Press. 2021.
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55The Psychology of Productive Dissociation, or What Would Schellingian Psychotherapy Look Like?Comparative and Continental Philosophy 6 (1): 35-48. 2014.Schelling has been exploited for a variety of psychoanalytical projects, from Marquard’s revision of Freud, to various readings of Jung, to Žižek’s interpretation of Lacan. What we have not seen is an elaboration of the psycho-therapeutical implications of Schelling’s metaphysics on its own terms. What we find when we read Schelling as metapsychologist is a nonpathologizing theory of dissociation. Like anything that lives, the psyche dissociates for the sake of growth. The law of productive diss…Read more
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65Schelling and the History of the Dissociative SelfSymposium 19 (1): 52-66. 2015.This paper explores the possible therapeutical applications of Schellingian psychological principles. A Schellingian analysis would enable us to retrieve the largely forgotten heritage of Romantic psychiatry, in particular the dissociationist model of the psyche, which was strategically rejected by Freud and somewhat clumsily revised by Jung, but which has its own intelligibility and applicability. Schellingian analysis would be dissociationist rather than repressivist, and would depart from Fre…Read more
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54Is the late Schelling still doing nature-philosophy?Angelaki 21 (4): 121-141. 2016.I argue against current deflationary trends in Schelling scholarship that positive philosophy is not negative philosophy by other means but exceeds it in content and form. While nature-philosophy gives to positive philosophy the means to think the positive, the latter is not “natural” but revealed. I situate the turn to the positive in Schelling’s 1809 Freedom essay, which introduces the possibility of a real distinction between nature and God for the first time in Schelling’s thought, a possibi…Read more
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34In Defense of the Human DifferenceEnvironmental Philosophy 15 (1): 101-115. 2018.Against the prevalent trend in eco-criticism which is to deny the human difference, I summon a set of untimely tropes from metaphysics in the interest of advancing an ecological humanism: the difference in kind between human consciousness and animal sensibility; the uniquely human capacity for moral discernment; and the human being’s peculiar freedom from the material conditions of existence. While I agree with eco-critics who argue that anthropocenic nature is not only finite, but sick: sickene…Read more
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60Alternative confessions, conflicting faiths: A review of the influence of Augustine on Heidegger (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2): 317-335. 2008.The extent of the influence of Augustine on Heidegger, long only indicated in a few notes in Being and Time, has come into focus with the publicationof Heidegger’s earliest lectures. Far from one among many sources upon which Heidegger draws, we now know that Augustine’s Confessions is a central source of concepts for the early Heidegger. While this is further evidence of the ongoing relevance of Augustine to contemporary philosophy, it does not necessarily makeHeidegger an Augustinian thinker. …Read more
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The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology by Max Oelschlaeger (review)Isis 83 304-305. 1992.
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15A laminated, emergentist view of skills ecosystemsJournal of Critical Realism 21 (5): 571-588. 2022.In this paper we present a model of vocational education and training (VET) that can be used to guide decisions relating to VET in Africa today. This model takes the critique of the neoclassical, neoliberal model of VET as its starting point. Guided by Bhaskar's Critical Naturalism, we use immanent critique to consider the adequacy of proposed alternatives to the neoclassical approach, such as: the heterodox approach, which foregrounds explanations based on human capital and political economy; a…Read more
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81The Facticity of Being God-ForsakenAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (2): 273-290. 2005.The early Freiburg lectures have shown us the degree to which Heidegger is influenced by Luther. In Being and Time, Heidegger designs a philosophy that can co-exist with a radical Lutheran theology of revelation. Heidegger’s hermeneutics of facticity constitutes a polemic with the Scholastic idea of a natural desire for God and an accommodation of a theology of revelation. However, Heidegger’s implicit assent to the Lutheran concept of God-forsakenness is philosophically problematic. To be God-f…Read more
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7The Leibnizian breakthrough: on Rosemary Sponner Sand’s The Unconscious Without Freud, Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, 188 pp., $100. ISBN: 978-1442231733 (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 6 (2): 195-202. 2019.Volume 6, Issue 2, November 2019, Page 195-202.
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105Heidegger and Duns Scotus on Truth and LanguageReview of Metaphysics 57 (2): 339-358. 2003.In his 1916 _Habilitationsschrift Heidegger enriched Husserl's notion of categorial intuition with Scotus's theory of intellection. The individual is entirely intelligible, even if its intelligibility is never fully defined. The historically singularized thing (essence modified by _haecceitas) speaks a primal word to us, and this original verbum makes possible the inner word of understanding, the _verbum interius. Heidegger argues that if the thing is actually intelligible in its singularity, hi…Read more
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24In Defense of the Human DifferenceEnvironmental Philosophy 15 (1): 101-115. 2018.Against the prevalent trend in eco-criticism which is to deny the human difference, I summon a set of untimely tropes from metaphysics in the interest of advancing an ecological humanism: the difference in kind between human consciousness and animal sensibility; the uniquely human capacity for moral discernment; and the human being’s peculiar freedom from the material conditions of existence. While I agree with eco-critics who argue that anthropocenic nature is not only finite, but sick: sickene…Read more
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11Should Touch Screen Tablets Be Used to Improve Educational Outcomes in Primary School Children in Developing Countries?Frontiers in Psychology 7. 2016.
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