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    Problems in Kant's vindication of pure reason
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (4): 559-580. 2001.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 39.4 (2001) 559-580 [Access article in PDF] Problems in Kant's Vindication of Pure Reason Ted Kinnaman One of the most important questions in interpreting the Critique of Pure Reason concerns the proper way of characterizing Kant's view of the faculty of reason. Clearly, one of Kant's intentions is to show that reason is incapable of cognition of objects such as God or the soul, because such cogni…Read more
  •  72
    Epistemology and Ontology In Kant’s Critique of Berkeley
    Idealistic Studies 32 (3): 203-220. 2002.
    Despite apparent similarities between them, in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics and in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason Kant makes several attempts to distinguish his idealism from Berkeley’s. I argue that Kant’s arguments in three of the four places where he explicitly distances himself from Berkeley are insufficient to their task because they attack only Berkeley’s empiricism rather than his immaterialism. Although a close reading of the Refutation of Idealism lies be…Read more
  •  71
    Kant on the Cognitive Significance of Genius
    In Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. 2018.
    In this paper I defend two closely related claims. The first claim, to which the first section of the paper is devoted, is that for Kant taste is a sort of cognition, that is, a form of awareness of reality for which questions of justification are appropriate. Nevertheless, In our appreciation of natural beauty we are aware of the suitability of appearances for inclusion in a rational system, albeit in a way that is subject to important limitations in comparison with scientific cognition. In…Read more
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    Johann Georg Hamann's "Metakritik über den Purismum der Vernunft" begins with an allusion to Hume's endorsement of Berkeley's rejection of abstract ideas. On the basis of a close examination of the text of the Metakritik, I show that Hamann's overall point is that Kant cannot, or anyway does not, justify the relation of his own linguistic framework to natural language. Thus the Critique cannot meet its own standard for critical self-examination.
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    Review of Johann Georg Hamann, Writings on Philosophy and Language (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8). 2008.
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    Human Engineering: An Ethical Obligation?
    Ethics, Policy and Environment 15 (2). 2012.
    Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 237-240, June 2012
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    Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment: Critical Essays (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (4): 499-500. 2004.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment: Critical EssaysTed KinnamanPaul Guyer, editor. Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment: Critical Essays. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xxiii + 253. Cloth, $75.95. Paper, $27.95.The volume under review is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment. All the papers included here have been published previously, a…Read more
  •  19
    Symbolism and Cognition in General in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 82 (3): 266-296. 2000.
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    The Task of the Critique of Judgment
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 75 (2): 243-269. 2001.
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    Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Ideas of Pure Reason
    Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 303-309. 1995.
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    Johann Georg Hamann
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2001.
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    The Task of the Critique of Judgment
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 75 (2): 243-269. 2001.
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    Aesthetics before Kant
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.
    This chapter contains section titled: Neo‐classical French Theory: Boileau and Batteux The German Enlightenment: Gottsched and Lessing Baumgarten Hamann and the German Counterenlightenment.
  • The Origins of Kant's "Critique of Judgment"
    Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1995.
    In this dissertation I argue that Kant intended the Critique of Judgment to offer a transcendental deduction for the ideas of pure reason. The structure of my argument is as follows: In the first two chapters I look at Kant's account of understanding and reason in the Critique of Pure Reason. Here I make two claims: First, I argue that Kant wanted not only to limit but also to defend an important positive role for reason, namely the role of constructing a system organized around ideas. Second, I…Read more