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14Stanley Cavell and the Critique of the Linguistic Power of JudgmentIn Stefano Marino & Pietro Terzi (eds.), Kant’s ›Critique of Aesthetic Judgment‹ in the 20th Century: A Companion to its Main Interpretations, De Gruyter. pp. 301-314. 2020.
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17Jennifer Mensch. Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi+246. $45.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5 (1): 190-194. 2015.
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80The Cambridge Companion to the "Origin of Species" (review)Philosophical Inquiry 32 (3-4): 114-117. 2010.
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72What is the Problem of Teleology in Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment?SATS 12 (2): 198-236. 2011.
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10Wholes that cause their parts: Organic self-reproduction and the reality of biological teleologyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 (2): 252-260. 2009.
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150Kant's non -teleological conception of purposivenessKant Studien 102 (2): 232-252. 2011.In this paper I argue, first, that Kant's technical definition of purposiveness in § 10 of the third Critique is designed to abstract from all forward-looking considerations (teleological, intentional, normative, etc.) that accompany the conventional understanding of the term. Kant seeks to establish a strictly backward-looking, etiological conception of purposiveness in order to capture the causal link connecting artifacts with their concepts. I argue, second, that he succeeds. Kant's etiologic…Read more
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101What Does Kant Mean by ‘Power of Judgement’ in his Critique of the Power of Judgement?Kantian Review 17 (2): 297-326. 2012.The notion of ‘power of judgement’ in the title of Kant'sCritique of the Power of Judgementis commonly taken to refer to a cognitive power inclusive of both determining judgement and reflecting judgement. I argue, first, that this seemingly innocuous view is in conflict both with the textual fact that Kant attempts a Critical justification of the reflecting power of judgement – only – and with the systematic impossibility of a transcendentally grounded determining power of judgement. The convent…Read more
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104An introduction to Kant's critique of judgmentBritish Journal of Aesthetics 42 (2): 216-219. 2002.
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32Merely Mechanistic Laws – Causal Mechanism and Kant’s Antinomy of the Teleological Power of JudgmentIn 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. 261-270. 2013.
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25Das problem der subjektiven allgemeingültigkeit Des geschmacksurteils bei Kant. Christian H. WenzelBritish Journal of Aesthetics 41 (3): 345-347. 2001.
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32Review: Nathaniel J. Goldberg. Kantian Conceptual Geography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 271 + xiii pages; $74/hardcover (review)Philosophical Forum 47 (1): 79-82. 2016.
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135Wholes that cause their parts: Organic self-reproduction and the reality of biological teleologyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 (2): 252-260. 2011.A well-rehearsed move among teleological realists in the philosophy of biology is to base the idea of genuinely teleological forms of organic self-reproduction on a type of causality derived from Kant. Teleological realists have long argued for the causal possibility of this form of causality—in which a whole is considered the cause of its parts—as well as formulated a set of teleological criteria of adequacy for it. What is missing, to date, is an account of the mereological principles that gov…Read more
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