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18Kant’s “Categories of Freedom” as the Functions of Willing an ObjectKantian Journal 43 (2): 79-122. 2024.This paper deals with the “Table of the Categories of Freedom” in the second main chapter of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason. It provides an account of the role these categories are supposed to play and also of their conceptual content. The key to a proper understanding lies in the realisation that they are derived from the socalled table of judgements in the Critique of Pure Reason and the functions of thinking, which it compiles by means of a metaphysical deduction. I therefore interpret …Read more
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24Legalität und Moralität des Handelns: Sieben verschiedene Fassungen dieses Gegensatzes in Kants Werken und VorlesungenZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 78 (2): 210-237. 2024.
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13Vernünftige SelbstliebePhilosophisches Jahrbuch 131 (1): 55-77. 2024.Im Discours sur l’inégalité führt Rousseau den Schlüsselbegriff der Selbstliebe (amour de soi-même) ein. Diese erläutert er als einen ursprünglichen Trieb des Menschen, einen, der noch vor der Entwicklung der Vernunft da ist. Rousseau versteht sie als den Selbsterhaltungstrieb, wie ihn jedes Tier von Natur aus besitzen soll. Indem sich jedoch die menschliche Vernunft entwickelt, wird das Selbst der nunmehr möglichen Selbstliebe ein anderes. Rousseau stellt zunächst nur die negative Erscheinungsf…Read more
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20Nur um den Preis eines Selbstwiderspruchs: Kants nomologische Fassung des KausalprinzipsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (6): 833-856. 2023.In the Critique of Pure Reason Kant formulates the principle of causality both nomologically and non-nomologically. One formulation says that everything happens in accordance with laws, the other that everything that happens has a cause. Geert Keil has claimed that Kant actually holds the nomological version, but that he omits or neglects to justify it. I will argue that Keil is right with his claim, but that he wrongly accuses Kant of a lack of justification. For Kant holds something that he ca…Read more
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34In the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant explains a perfect duty as one that “admits no exception in favor of inclination”. An imperfect duty must then, in turn, be one which does admit such exceptions. However, according to Kant, all duties are valid without exception, and so there has been broad agreement among Kantians and Kant interpreters from the beginning that perfect duties cannot be characterized by exceptionless validity. I would thus like to argue in favor of a different r…Read more
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11The Moral Value of the Will. The Concepts of Good and Evil in the Second Chapter of Kant’s Critique of Practical ReasonIn Christoph Horn & Robinson dos Santos (eds.), Kant’s Theory of Value, De Gruyter. pp. 139-162. 2022.
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13‘I Obey the Rule Blindly’. Wittgenstein’s Contribution to the Ontological Conceptualization of the SocialIn Jenny Pelletier & Christian Rode (eds.), The Reality of the Social World: Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Ontology, Springer Verlag. pp. 197-217. 2023.The state of recent as well as older research on social ontology suggests a paradigmatic approach according to which it is our consciousness that must provide the framework for conceptualizing the social in one way or another. I argue, however, that Wittgenstein’s treatment of rule-following opens up a new horizon for the ontology of the social. The fact that the rules of our language are social in nature, and that we need not be aware of them in order to follow them, shifts the problem of socia…Read more
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13Dichten und Denken: Perspektiven zur Ästhetik (edited book)Universitätsverlag Winter. 2011.Das Verhaltnis von Dichten und Denken hat in seiner Geschichte viele unterschiedliche Bestimmungen erfahren. Schon immer war der Philosophie das Phanomen des Asthetischen eine eigentumliche Herausforderung, sei es, dass die Kunst als ein vorzuglicher Gegenstand galt, an dem eine ihrer selbst bereits bewusste Philosophie ihre Konzeptualisierungskraft bestatigt, sei es, dass sie als Medium diente, in dem die Philosophie sich allererst ihrer selbst zu vergewissern sucht, oder aber, dass die Philoso…Read more
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11Kants metaphysische Deduktion der Ideen in der Kritik der reinen VernunftPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 123 (1): 58-88. 2016.In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant discusses the ideas in the context of the conception of reason in terms of formal logic according to which it is the faculty of inferring mediately. By this, the impression widespread in secondary literature arises that the pure concepts of reason according to Kant have a syllogistic sense, i. e. are either based on syllogisms or stand otherwise in relation with them. This paper argues instead: that Kant derives the ideas – similar to the pure concepts of und…Read more
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11Reflexion und freies Spiel: Kants »Schlüssel zur Kritik des Geschmacks«Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 56 31-56. 2014.As the »key to the critique of taste« in §9 of his Critique of Judgement Kant offers the well-known doctrine of a »free play of the cognitive faculties«. What exactly this play consists in is still much discussed in the literature. Kant describes it as a state of harmony between imagination and understanding, for which the reflecting judgement, which mediates between the two, is responsible. This paper turns against the popular interpretation that considers »free play« as an exceptional state of…Read more
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7Kant über »moralische Argumente«: Worin besteht die Objektivität eines Postulats der reinen praktischen Vernunft?Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 58 131-157. 2016.At the end of the Critique of Judgement, Kant returns to his discussion of the doctrine of the postulates of pure practical reason. He there describes the justification for these judgements of faith as ›moral arguments‹. In the course of this, he resolves a hitherto unanswered question, namely what exactly the ›increment‹, as it is already mentioned in the Critique of Practical Reason, consists in, when the immortality of the human soul, the freedom of our will and the existence of God are postu…Read more
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18Wert und moralischer Wert bei KantZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 75 (3): 406-432. 2021.Talk of value can be documented in various of Kant's writings. It sometimes appears frequently, and some of the basic concepts of Kant's moral philosophy are even sometimes explained with the help of the concept of a moral value. The paper examines the question what this talk means. Kant himself does not make this an issue, and even the secondary literature has so far hardly investi- gated what he understands by a valueas such. From there, it is then possible to develop the meaning that talk of …Read more
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36Hinter das Bewusstsein zurück: Implizites Wissen als Ansatzpunkt der SozialontologieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (6): 848-866. 2020.The state of recent as well as older research on social ontology suggests a paradigmatic approach, according to which it is our consciousness that must provide the framework for conceptualising the social. I, however, argue that Wittgenstein’s treatment of rule-following opens up a new horizon for the ontology of the social. The fact that the rules of our language are social in nature and that we need not be aware of them in order to follow them shifts the problem to what lies behind consciousne…Read more
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25Kant über die Vollständigkeit der „Tafel der Kategorien der Freiheit“Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 102 (3): 426-452. 2020.Kant’s repeated statement in the Critique of Pure Reason that the so-called table of judgements and, as a consequence, the table of pure concepts of the understanding or categories, is fully exhaustive is well-known. This ambitious assertion has worried and challenged generations of authors. However, thus far the entire discussion has completely disregarded the fact that in his Critique of Practical Reason Kant undertakes a coordinate venture. For the “Table of the Categories of Freedom”, which …Read more
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24Kants "Kategorien der Freiheit"De Gruyter. 2011.Only recently have researchers gradually begun to consider the categories of freedom developed by Kant in his Critique of Practical Reason. This treatise is the first to examine the topic comprehensively and systematically. Far from being the result of unimaginative systems thinking, a closer inspection reveals thedoctrine of practical categories to be a secret focal point of Kant s practical philosophy."
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14In sozialontologischer Absicht: Kants Weltbegriff des Menschen und seine Zuschärfung bei HeideggerIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. pp. 41-74. 2018.
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20FrontmatterIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. 2018.
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16NamenregisterIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. pp. 247-248. 2018.
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17InhaltIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. 2018.
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17Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme (edited book)De Gruyter. 2018.Die Ontologie des Sozialen fragt nach der irreduziblen Verfassung der gesellschaftlichen Dimension menschlichen Daseins. Vor das Problem ihrer begrifflichen Bestimmung sahen sich im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert naturgemäß schon die theoretischen Grundlegungsversuche zur Soziologie als einer eigenständigen wissenschaftlichen Disziplin gestellt. Die gegenwärtige Debatte kommt jedoch über weite Strecken hinweg ohne jede historische Bezugnahme aus. Die mangelnde Berücksichtigung geschichtlicher Zu…Read more
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13AutoreninformationenIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. pp. 243-246. 2018.
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15EinleitungIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. 2018.
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68Heidegger über den Streit von Welt und Erde in der Kunstwerk-AbhandlungHeidegger Studies 33 199-230. 2017.
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10© CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2011.We present first measurements of charged and neutral particle-flow correlations in pp collisions using the ATLAS calorimeters.Data were collected in 2009 and 2010 at centre-of-mass energies of 900 GeV and 7 TeV.Events were selected using a minimum-bias trigger which required a charged particle in scintillation counters on either side of the interaction point.Particle flows, sensitive to the underlying event, are measured using clusters of en…Read more
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12PersonenregisterIn Die „Kategorien der Freiheit“ in Kants Praktischer Philosophie: Historisch-Systematische Beiträge, De Gruyter. pp. 337-340. 2016.
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15AutoreninformationenIn Die „Kategorien der Freiheit“ in Kants Praktischer Philosophie: Historisch-Systematische Beiträge, De Gruyter. pp. 333-336. 2016.