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274Transcendental deduction of predicative structure in Kant and BrandomPragmatics and Cognition 13 (1): 91-107. 2005.Fregean predicates applied to Fregean objects are merely defined by a `timeless' deductive order of sentences. They cannot provide sufficient structure in order to explain how names can refer to objects of intuition and how predicates can express properties of substances that change in time. Therefore, the accounts of Wilson and Quine, Prior and Brandom for temporal judgments fail — and a new reconstruction of Kant's transcendental logic, especially of the analogies of experience, is needed.
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241Intentional transactionPhilosophical Explorations 17 (3): 304-316. 2014.Intentional transaction. . ???aop.label???. doi: 10.1080/13869795.2014.941909
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238Logic, 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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214The force and the content of judgmentEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 506-517. 2020.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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190Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism, by Joel Smith and Peter Sullivan , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 212 pp. ISBN 978‐0199608553 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 22 (3): 483-504. 2014.
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181Good, 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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167Law as the Reality of the Free WillIn Andreas Speer, Wolfram Hogrebe & Markus Gabriel (eds.), Das Neue Bedürfnis Nach Metaphysik / the New Desire for Metaphysics, De Gruyter. pp. 207-220. 2015.
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165Education and AutonomyJournal of Philosophy of Education 50 (1): 84-97. 2016.In his book The Formation of Reason (2011), David Bakhurst asserts that the end of education is autonomy, which he explains is the power to determine what to do.
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153Joint action and recursive consciousness of consciousnessPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (4): 769-779. 2015.In a series of essays, Bratman defines a concept, which we may call the concept of Bratmanian action by many. Our discussion of this concept, in section 1, reveals that it is not the one called to mind by the usual examples of joint action. Section 2 lays alongside it a different concept of doing something together. According to it, many are doing A together if and only if the principle of the actions in which they are doing A is a joint intention to do A, an act of intending that is theirs. It …Read more
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151The Form of the WillIn Sergio Tenenbaum (ed.), Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good, Oxford University Press. pp. 138--160. 2010.
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150Freedom 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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149XI—Self-Consciousness, Negation, and DisagreementProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (3): 215-230. 2017.
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144The Self-Conscious Power of Sensory KnowledgeGrazer Philosophische Studien 81 (1): 135-151. 2010.The essay develops a disjunctive account of perception, showing that it needs to be renamed 'self-conscious power account'. For it is by reference to a self-conscious power of sensory knowledge that, on the one hand, the unity of perception and illusion and, on the other hand, the priority of perception over illusion, specifically, its priority in knowledge, is understood. The concept of a self-conscious power thus transpires as lying at the basis of a sound epistemology and response to sceptica…Read more
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127Testimony 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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126Teaching, 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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124Philosophy and Its HistoryIn Jure Simoniti & Gregor Kroupa (eds.), Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 193-208. 2023.
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118Metaphysics, 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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100Self-Consciousness and KnowledgeIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 357-370. 2013.
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93Leben HerstellenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62 (1): 74-89. 2014.It is widely believed that we might be able produce life out of nonliving substances if we possessed the relevant knowledge. Thus synthetic biology is said to be on the way towards artificial life. But this is nonsense: “artificial life” cannot be thought. The idea that biological organisms could be produced reflects a misunderstandig of the concept “life”. Life is formally characterized by the fact that that which in the case of artifacts is three distinct activities - being something, producin…Read more
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927. 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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82Das 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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