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24Aspects of Practical Bindingness in Kant: IntroductionPhilosophia 51 (2): 457-461. 2023.One of the few points of consensus in the Kantian literature is that Kant’s Moral Law is binding universally and unconditionally. Hence, the Moral Law is binding for all human agents (universally) irrespective of the agents’ particular interests (unconditionally). Whether or not we intend to act on the Moral Law, this is the law we ought to follow. Beyond this point of consensus, however, even the most important details are matters of controversy. What exactly does the Moral Law require of us? W…Read more
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12How Far Do We Self-legislate?Philosophia 51 (2): 525-544. 2023.In his early writings, Kant regarded the autonomy of the will as the supreme principle of morality, as well as the sole principle of all moral laws and of the duties conforming to them. Nevertheless, this impressively sounding principle gradually disappeared from the later Kant’s texts, and there is not much in the literature to explain why. Pauline Kleingeld’s purpose, in the two articles I consider here, is to address this lacuna and to show that there are good philosophical reasons for this p…Read more
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24Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical ProjectIn Cynthia D. Coe (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 107-128. 2021.An easily recognizable feature of Sartre’s phenomenological existentialism is his conception of freedom. According to a popular interpretation, we are absolutely free, not only from factual constraints, but also free to create and pursue our own values. In this respect, Sartre appears to continue in a radical direction the Kantian project of making room for freedom in a world colonized by scientific determinism and dogmatic moralism. This chapter challenges the popular reading. It argues that Sa…Read more
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133 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-MakingIn Hyeongjoo Kim & Dieter Schönecker (eds.), Kant and Artificial Intelligence, De Gruyter. pp. 105-128. 2022.
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46. The Realisability of Kant’s Cosmopolitan ValuesIn Garrett Wallace Brown & Áron Telegdi-Csetri (eds.), Kant's Cosmopolitics: Contemporary Issues and Global Debates, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 97-124. 2019.
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36The Kantian Mind (edited book)Routledge. 2024.The Kantian Mind is an outstanding guide and reference source to Kant's thought and essential reading for all students and scholars of Kant and contemporary Kantian thought.
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15Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian ParadoxIn Manja Kisner & Jörg Noller (eds.), The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy: Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics, De Gruyter. pp. 7-28. 2020.
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53Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory? Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of KantKantian Review 21 (3): 465-481. 2016.In his recent book,The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, Adrian W. Moore takes Kant to play a crucial role in the evolution of modern philosophy; yet, for him, Kant’s metaphysics is ultimately and profoundly unsatisfactory. In this article, I examine several of Moore’s objections and provide replies. My claim is that Moore’s reading points to fundamental issues, yet these are not issues of Kant’s transcendental idealism, but of the traditional idealism his view has often been taken to represent.
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7Kant’s Justification of WelfareLas Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (13): 225-253. 2018.Durante décadas, los teóricos interesados en la discusión de Kant sobre el bienestar han estudiado la postura de Kant sobre la cuestión de la redistribución de bienes en la sociedad. Lo han hecho tanto para aclarar su postura como para una fuente de inspiración para problemas conceptuales actuales, frente a filósofos políticos contemporáneos que intentan reconciliar el ideal de la libertad igualitaria con la necesaria interferencia asimétrica para la redistribución y la provisión social. En este…Read more
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46Universal Principle of Right: Metaphysics, Politics, and Conflict ResolutionsKantian Review 23 (4): 527-554. 2018.In spite of its dominance, there are well-known problems with Rawls’s method of reflective equilibrium (MRE), as a method of justification in meta-ethics. One issue in particular has preoccupied commentators, namely, the capacity of this method to provide a convincing account of the objectivity of our moral beliefs. Call this the Lack-of-Objectivity Charge. One aim of this article is to examine the charge within the context of Rawls’s later philosophy, and I claim that the lack-of-objectivity ch…Read more
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17Sincerity in Politics and International Relations (edited book)Routledge. 2017.This work examines concept of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters should they work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality. The collection features an international cast of authors who specialize in the topic of sincerity in politics and international relations. Each chapter will be focused on a contemporary issue in politics and international relations, including co…Read more
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14Kant's Account of Motivation: A Sartrean Response to Some Hegelian ObjectionsHegel Bulletin 31 (1): 86-106. 2010.
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86Kant’s Critique of Religion: Epistemic Sources of SecularismDiametros 54 7-29. 2017.The secular interpretation of Kant is widespread and Kant is viewed as the most prestigious founding father of liberal secularism. At the same time, however, commentators note that Kant’s position on secularism is in fact much more complex, and some go as far as to talk about an ambiguous secularism in his work. This paper defends a refined version of the secular interpretation. According to this refined version, Kant can offer a limited, political secularism on the basis of a simple argument wh…Read more
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16The Anxiety of Influence: Sartre's Search for an Ethics and Kant's Moral TheorySartre Studies International 9 (1): 21-53. 2003.
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1Kant's Guarantee for Perpetual Peace: A Reinterpretation and DefenceIn Larry Krasnoff, Nuria Sánchez Madrid & Paula Satne (eds.), Kant's Doctrine of Right in the 21st Century, University of Wales Press. pp. 181-200. 2018.
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28Kant's Highest Political GoodIn Valentin Muresan & Shunzo Majima (eds.), Applied Ethics, Hokkaido University. pp. 15-35. 2013.
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49Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature, and Religion (edited book)Routledge. 2020.Immanuel Kant's work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant's work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book includes eight chapters, a substantial introduction and a postscript, all newly written by an international cast of well-known authors. Each chapter focuses on particular aspects of a fundamental problem in Kant's and post-Kantian philosophy, the pr…Read more
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12EditorialKant Studien 107 (1): 1. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 107 Heft: 1 Seiten: 1-1.
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15The Kantian Mind (edited book)Routledge. 2024.The Kantian Mind is an outstanding guide and reference source to Kant's thought and essential reading for all students and scholars of Kant and contemporary Kantian thought.
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Phenomenology and the ethical possibility of differences: Critical remarks on a recent answer to an old questionsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (2). 2004.
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15Introduction: Kantian Aspects of Practical NormativityJournal of International Political Theory 3 1-7. 2007.
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8Comparing Kant and Sartre (edited book)Palgrave MacMillan. 2015.This is the first edited collection comparing the philosophies of Kant and Sartre, an area which has received considerable attention of late. Including 10 newly written comparative essays and an introduction, focusing on metaphysics, metaethics and metaphilosophy; chapters are written by an international cast of authors specialising in the topic.
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11Politics and Metaphysics in Kant (edited book)University of Wales Press. 2011.The past three decades have witnessed the emergence, at the forefront of political thought, of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant's writings. Yet much of what is Kantian in contemporary theory is formulated with more or less strict caveats concerning Kant's metaphysics. These range from…Read more
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94The anxiety of influence: Sartre's search for an ethics and Kant's moral theorySartre Studies International 9 (1): 21-53. 2003.
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42Kant's Justification of WelfareDiametros 39 1-28. 2014.For several decades, theorists interested in Kant’s discussion of welfare have puzzled over Kant’s position on the issue of the redistribution of goods in society. They have done this both in order to clarify his position and as a source of inspiration for current conceptual problems faced by contemporary political philosophers who attempt to reconcile the ideal of equal freedom with the asymmetric interference necessary for redistribution and social provision. In this paper, I start with Kant’s…Read more
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60Institutions and the Normativity of DesertContemporary Political Theory 6 (2): 175-195. 2007.The question of whether desert depends on institutions or institutions on desert continues to divide politicians and political theorists, particularly in disputes over the justification of the welfare state. Even though it is a significant question with direct relevance for issues of economic justice, little has been done so far to evaluate the various positions in dispute and to make explicit the concepts involved. In this paper, I first present the main senses in which the concepts of desert, …Read more
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75Constitutivism and Kantian Constructivism in Ethical Theory: Editorial IntroductionPhilosophia 44 (4): 1125-1128. 2016.The introduction summarizes the main arguments formulated in the six papers of this special issue on Constitutivism and Kantian Constructivism in Ethical Theory. We highlight the unifying theme addressed in the essays, i.e., the question of whether constitutivism is able to fulfill the promise of providing an account of normativity starting from relatively slender assumptions, including the avoidance of realist presuppositions.
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30Right’s Complex Relation to Ethics in Kant: The Limits of IndependentismKant Studien 107 (1): 2-33. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 107 Heft: 1 Seiten: 2-33.
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Kant’s Account of Motivation: A Sartrean Response to Some Hegelian ObjectionsBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 61 86-106. 2010.
Sorin Baiasu
Keele University
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University
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