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31Arendt’s Kantian Existentialism and the Political Significance of Jesus of NazarethIdealistic Studies 53 (3): 213-235. 2023.Despite her emphasis on politics, Hannah Arendt’s account of the existential grounds of action in The Human Condition culminates in a discussion of Jesus of Nazareth that emphasizes the significance of forgiveness for grasping the radicality of human freedom. This essay investigates Jesus’s role in Arendt’s thought by excavating and explicating the premises that undergird her account of Jesus’s political significance. It argues that Arendt’s innovative approach to politics is complemented by a c…Read more
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14Kant on freedom, nature, and judgment: The territory of the third critique, By KristiSweet, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. x + 222. $99.99 (hbk). ISBN : 9781316511121 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 31 (4): 1135-1138. 2023.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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6Chapter 6. Realizing the Ethical Community: Kant’s Religion and the Reformation of CultureIn Samuel Stoner & Paul Wilford (eds.), Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 94-114. 2021.
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9Introduction. Modernity and Postmodernity: Our Temporal OrientationIn Samuel Stoner & Paul Wilford (eds.), Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 1-16. 2021.
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5Kant and the Divine: From Contemplation to the Moral Law by Christopher J. InsoleReview of Metaphysics 74 (2): 389-391. 2020.
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11Kant and Theodicy: A Search for an Answer to the Problem of Evil by George HuxfordReview of Metaphysics 74 (1): 153-155. 2020.
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24The Moral Formation of Descartes’ MeditationsThe European Legacy 27 (3-4): 321-334. 2022.Although Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy seems to be an especially theoretical work, this essay argues that reading the Meditations as a work of pure theory conceals an important dimensi...
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38Reflective Judgment and Radical Evil in Kant’s ReligionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 60 (2): 277-303. 2021.The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 277-303, June 2022.
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21Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties (edited book)University of Pennsylvania Press. 2021.Through a reexamination of Immanuel Kant and his philosophical legacy, this volume explores the philosophic presuppositions of the possibility of progress and our belief in reason's capacity not only to improve the material well-being of humanity but also to promote our true vocation as moral beings.
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19Thinking Through Kant’s Conception of PedagogyStudies in Philosophy and Education 38 (3): 339-342. 2018.
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16Kant on the Philosopher’s Proper ActivityEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (1): 95-113. 2019.This essay investigates Kant’s understanding of the philosopher’s proper activity. It begins by examining Kant’s well-known claim in the Critique of Pure Reason that the philosopher is the legislator of human reason. Subsequently, it explicates Kant’s oft-overlooked description of the transcendental philosopher as an admirer of nature’s logical purposiveness, in the ‘First Introduction’ to the Critique of the Power of Judgment. These two accounts suggest very different ways of thinking about the…Read more
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70Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of TasteKant Yearbook 11 (1): 81-99. 2019.Though the notion of common-sense plays an important role in Kant’s aesthetic theory, it is not immediately clear what Kant means by this term. This essay works to clarify the role that common-sense plays in the logic of Kant’s argument. My interpretive hypothesis is that a careful examination of the way common-sense functions in Kant’s account of judgments of taste can help explain what this notion means. I argue that common-sense names the capacity to discern the relation between the cognitive…Read more
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5Kant and His German Contemporaries. Edited by Daniel O. DahlstromInternational Philosophical Quarterly 59 (3): 373-375. 2019.
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68Who Is Descartes’ Evil Genius?Journal of Early Modern Studies 7 (2): 9-29. 2018.This essay examines René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. It argues that the evil genius is the meditator who narrates Meditations and that Descartes’ goal in Meditation One is to transform his readers into evil geniuses. This account of the evil genius is significant because it explains why the evil genius must be finite and why it cannot call mathematics or logic into doubt. Further, it highlights the need to read the Meditations on two levels—one examining the meditator’s line of t…Read more
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22Kant's Philosophy of Communication by G. L. ErcoliniPhilosophy and Rhetoric 51 (3): 315-320. 2018.The Enlightenment can be described as an attempt to make reason more worldly in order to make the world more reasonable, and the Enlightenment project is characterized by an unflagging confidence in reason's ability to ensure humanity's progress toward a more peaceful, civilized, and moral social and political order. However, the luminaries of the Enlightenment did not succumb to the naive belief that disembodied reason was capable of exercising an immediate influence on human history. To the co…Read more
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5CHAOULI, MICHEL. Thinking with Kant's Critique of Judgment, Harvard University Press, 2017, xv + 312 pp., $45.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (2): 246-249. 2018.
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27Kant on the Power and Limits of Pathos: Toward a "Critique of Poetic Rhetoric"Philosophy and Rhetoric 50 (1): 73-95. 2017.Upon first encountering Immanuel Kant’s 1766 essay Dreams of a Spirit-Seer Elucidated by Dreams of Metaphysics, one is immediately struck by its literary style. Indeed, Dreams constitutes a unique moment in Kant’s literary development—never before had he thrown himself with such fervor into the attempt to express his thoughts in a provocative manner, and never again would he indulge his poetic tendencies with such reckless abandon. Unsurprisingly, then, Kant’s poetic rhetoric in Dreams has long …Read more
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17On the Primacy of the Spectator in Kant’s Account of GeniusReview of Metaphysics 70 (1): 87-116. 2016.This essay argues that §49 of Kant’s third Critique pursues the question of the nature of genius through an analysis of the spectator’s response to beautiful art. It presents and defends a spectator-centered interpretation of §49’s opening paragraphs, which clarifies Kant’s notion of aesthetic ideas and reveals that beautiful art provokes a productive imaginative activity in its spectators. This interpretation is significant because it elucidates the character of Kant’s account of genius and his…Read more
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19J. Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (1): 22-24. 2017.
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23Munzel, G. Felicitas., Kant’s Conception of Pedagogy: Toward Education for Freedom (review)Review of Metaphysics 67 (3): 654-656. 2014.
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30Scott R. Stroud, Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014 Pp. 288 ISBN 9780271064192 $79.95 (review)Kantian Review 20 (3): 497-501. 2015.