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8Theology and the Enlightenment: A Critical Enquiry into Enlightenment Theology and Its Reception. By PaulAvis. London: T&T Clark, 2023. Pp. xii, 402. £90.00( HB )/£28.99 ( PB ) (review)Heythrop Journal 64 (5): 739-741. 2023.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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36Fichte's moral philosophy and Kant's justification of ethics, by Owen Ware. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020, xv + 244 pp. ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐19‐008659‐6 hb $43.78 and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021, xiii + 176 pp. ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐19‐884993‐3 hb $61.02 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 30 (3): 1217-1225. 2022.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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34Thinking Outside the Circle: The Place of Kierkegaard in Stern's Understanding Moral ObligationInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (6): 606-621. 2012.In Understanding Moral Obligation, Robert Stern presents an interesting account of the history of ethics from Kant through Hegel and Kierkegaard. I argue that Stern in this account misinterprets Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Works of Love by reading them as presenting a Divine Command Theory of moral obligation, as a philosophical account meant to compete with those of Kant and Hegel. It mistakes, indeed subverts, Kierkegaard's purposes to read him as engaging in a philosophical dialectic…Read more
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19Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness (review)Philosophical Review 110 (2): 272-275. 2001.In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant makes the interesting, but obscure claim that the normative constraints that constitute the objectivity of our representations have their source ultimately in transcendental apperception. Keller focuses on this claim. He interprets Kant’s condition of transcendental apperception as the claim that I must represent myself in an impersonal way, and he argues that impersonal self-consciousness is a necessary condition under which I can distinguish my particular t…Read more
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26Rousseau and German Idealism: Freedom, Dependence and NecessityIn Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.), Bewusstsein/Consciousness, De Gruyter. pp. 275-280. 2016.
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94Hegel and the transformation of philosophical critiqueOxford University Press. 2007.Hegel's objection -- Is Kant's idealism subjective? -- An ambiguity in 'subjectivism' -- The epistemological problem -- The transcendental deduction of the categories and subjectivism -- Are Kant's categories subjective? -- Hegel's suspicion : Kantian critique and subjectivism -- What is kantian philosophical criticism? -- Hegel's suspicion : initial formulation -- A shallow suspicion? -- Deepening the suspicion : criticism, autonomy, and subjectivism -- Directions of response -- Critique and s…Read more
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9Ludwig Siep: Aktualität und Grenzen der Praktischen Philosophie Hegels. Aufsätze 1997–2009In Jürgen Stolzenberg & Fred Rush (eds.), Geschichte/History, De Gruyter. pp. 291-298. 2014.
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94Self‐Consciousness, Normativity and Abysmal FreedomInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 49 (6). 2006.This article critically examines Christine Korsgaard's claim in her Tanner Lectures to find in self-consciousness itself the norms that would answer our need for practical reasons, insofar as that need is constituted through our capacity for reflection. It shows that the way in which Korsgaard sees “the need for a reason” as arising out of self-consciousness implies a dilemma: on the one hand, we want as the ultimate source of our reasons an authority of which we cannot coherently demand legitim…Read more
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63Review: Keller, Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness (review)Philosophical Review 110 (2): 272-275. 2001.In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant makes the interesting, but obscure claim that the normative constraints that constitute the objectivity of our representations have their source ultimately in transcendental apperception. Keller focuses on this claim. He interprets Kant’s condition of transcendental apperception as the claim that I must represent myself in an impersonal way, and he argues that impersonal self-consciousness is a necessary condition under which I can distinguish my particular t…Read more
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3Bildung and the Critique of Modern Skepticism in McDowell and HegelInternationales Jahrbuck des Deutschen Idealismus/International Yearbook of German Idealism 3 179-207. 2005.
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96Kant and the Demands of Self-ConsciousnessPhilosophical Review 110 (2): 272. 2001.In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant makes the interesting, but obscure claim that the normative constraints that constitute the objectivity of our representations have their source ultimately in transcendental apperception. Keller focuses on this claim. He interprets Kant’s condition of transcendental apperception as the claim that I must represent myself in an impersonal way, and he argues that impersonal self-consciousness is a necessary condition under which I can distinguish my particular t…Read more
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156Are Kant’s Categories Subjective?Review of Metaphysics 55 (3): 551-580. 2002.Argues that there is a significant respect in which Kant's categories are to be understood as subjective, namely, in the sense that they are to be understood as the self-legislated rules of our understanding. Argues that the subjectivism of Kant's idealism, by which is meant the relativization of knowledge of objects to our standpoint, is a consequence of the subjectivity of the categories, on this interpretation of their subjectivity. On the reading opposed here, Kant's subjectivism is strictly…Read more
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