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19Eliminating ExternalityIn Jürgen Stolzenberg & Karl P. Ameriks (eds.), 2007: Metaphysik / Metaphysics, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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65Acting from knowledgeEuropean Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This essay explores the idea of acting from knowledge. This idea is a thought of ourselves: the distinctive way in which we act, in which we live, resides in this, that our actions, our life, may rest on knowledge. Yet the idea of action resting on knowledge is puzzling, even mysterious. The difficulty springs from the character of judgment that is knowledge: its objectivity. The objectivity of a judgment is a character of its validity: it is objectively valid. Yet it is equally, and therefore, …Read more
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98Das LebenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (4): 469-489. 2023.Life and “good” are interchangeable, I think. Life is good, goodness life. Michael Thompson has recovered the understanding of life as goodness for contemporary philosophy. However, he errs in thinking that our life, human life, is a certain kind of life. And so he errs in conceiving the idea of the good by which we live as that of a certain kind of life. The idea of the good by which we live is not an idea, but the idea. This shows that our life is not a life, but the life. This essay develops …Read more
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9Praktisches Wissen um die menschliche Lebensform: ein Widerspruch?In Thomas Hoffmann & Michael Reuter (eds.), Natürlich gut: Aufsätze zur Philosophie von Philippa Foot, De Gruyter. pp. 207-222. 2010.
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8Handeln als innerer Zweck des HandelnsIn Sebastian Rödl & Henning Tegtmeyer (eds.), Sinnkritisches Philosophieren, De Gruyter. pp. 83-100. 2012.
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20Sinnkritisches Philosophieren (edited book)De Gruyter. 2012.Sowohl in der analytischen Philosophie als auch im verwandten Projekt einer erneuerten Praxisphilosophie gewinnt sinnkritisches Philosophieren derzeit eine neue Dringlichkeit. Beide begreifen die menschliche, vernünftige Praxis als primäre Quelle von Sinn und als privilegierten Gegenstand philosophischer Analyse. Der Band vereint Beiträge zu zentralen Aspekten sinnkritischer, praxisformanalytischer Philosophie: von der Frage nach dem Sinn religiöser Rede und Praxis über das Problem der Struktur …Read more
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143Philosophy and Its HistoryIn Jure Simoniti & Gregor Kroupa (eds.), Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 193-208. 2023.
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14Vernunft und Registratur. Zu Markus Gabriels »Neutralem Realismus«Philosophisches Jahrbuch 122 (1): 173-176. 2015.
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32Der Leib und das RechtIn Michael Frey, Florian Priesemuth & Berger Christian (eds.), Rechte des Körpers: Juristische, Philosophische Und Theologische Perspektiven, De Gruyter. pp. 23-44. 2022.
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997. Perceiving the WorldIn Matthew Boyle & Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes From John Mcdowell, Harvard University Press. pp. 193-216. 2022.
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157Freedom as rightEuropean Journal of Philosophy 29 (3): 624-633. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 624-633, September 2021.
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123Metaphysics, Thinking, and BeingIn Dominik Finkelde & Paul M. Livingston (eds.), Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, De Gruyter. pp. 17-34. 2020.
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132Teaching, Freedom and the Human IndividualJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (2): 290-304. 2020.The essay represents teaching as the coming to be of the human individual. In order to do so, it reflects on the character of human life by which it is knowledge of itself. Being knowledge of itself, human life is self-determining or free. Therefore generality and particularity come together in the human being in a distinctive way: a human being is not an exemplar, instance or specimen of a species, nature or life-form. Rather, she is her own principle. This is captured in the idea of the human …Read more
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225The force and the content of judgmentEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 506-517. 2020.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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1Die innere Negativität des DenkensIn Thomas Khurana, Dirk Quadflieg, Juliane Rebentisch, Dirk Setton & Francesca Raimondi (eds.), Negativität: Kunst - Recht - Politik, Suhrkamp. pp. 401-423. 2018.
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66Das metaphysische UnternehmenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (1): 98-117. 2019.In Barry Stroud’s book Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction, the eponymous dissatisfaction is said to be due to our inability to obtain certainty about the correspondence between the world and our ways of thinking it. In Stroud’s terms, this dissatisfaction is caused by the failure of the metaphysical enterprise. Beginning with Aristotle’s metaphysics, this paper discusses Stroud’s misunderstanding which stems from his particular construal of the object of metaphysics: There is no metaphy…Read more
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246Logic, Being and NothingHegel Bulletin 40 (1): 92-120. 2019.The first part of this essay develops the idea of logic as the science of thought, articulating, and thus being, the self-consciousness of thought. It explains that logic, so understood, is nothing other than metaphysics, the science of what is in so far as it is. Self-consciousness, then, thought itself, is not empty, but the source of all content. The second part of the essay discusses the opening paragraphs of Hegel’sScience of Logic; it shows how, in these paragraphs, thought is revealed to …Read more
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191Good, Evil, and the Necessity of an ActEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (1): 91-102. 2018.Kant asserts that the formula of the schools “nihil appetimus, nisi sub ratione boni” is undoubtedly certain when clearly expressed. Conversely, doubt reflects a failure clearly to express it. Once we comprehend the concepts of the formula, of the good and of desire, there is no doubting it. In recent times, the formula has fallen into doubt. If Kant is right, then this shows a lack of clarity with respect to the concepts the formula conjoins. I want to suggest that Kant is right: the formula of…Read more
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157XI—Self-Consciousness, Negation, and DisagreementProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (3): 215-230. 2017.
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90The Science of Logic as the Self-Constitution of the Power of KnowledgeIn Anders Moe Rasmussen & Markus Gabriel (eds.), German Idealism Today, De Gruyter. pp. 151-158. 2017.
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135Testimony and GeneralityPhilosophical Topics 42 (1): 291-302. 2014.The essay argues that there is no such thing as the epistemology of testimony as it is currently conceived: a subfield of epistemology that concerns itself with a special form of acquiring knowledge, a special kind of justification, a special sort of reason for belief. Rather, the concept of knowledge contains an account of the possibility of knowing from others. We cannot find ourselves in this predicament: we comprehend what knowledge is all right, and yet have difficulty seeing how one may, f…Read more
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87Finite KnowledgeIn James Conant & Andrea Kern (eds.), Varieties of Skepticism: Essays After Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell, De Gruyter. pp. 123-142. 2014.
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43Buchkritik Subjektivität. Ein Blick von außenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (6): 1005-1010. 2010.
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