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40A Draft of Kant’s Reply to Hufeland: Autograph, Transcription (Wolfgang G. Bayerer), and English TranslationKant Studien 103 (1): 1-24. 2012.
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43A Draft of Kant’s Reply to Hufeland: Key Questions of Kant’s Dietetics and the Problem of Its Systematic Place in His PhilosophyKant Studien 103 (3): 271-291. 2012.: The article provides an introduction to an autograph draft of a letter on dietetics Kant wrote to the physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland and uses it as a springboard for the critical discussion of Kant’s dietetics as well as its systematic place in his philosophy. The final draft of Kant’s letter to Hufeland became the third part of The Conflict of the Faculties. The article argues that Kant assigns dietetics, understood as the regulation of the traditional nonnaturals, to philosophy and not…Read more
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8On the Essence of Language: The Metaphysics of Language and the Essencing of the Word Concerning Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2004._This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language._
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1Kant's Argument Against Self-Murder and its Relation to the Principle of Self-Preservation of ReasonDissertation, Boston University. 1998.The goal of this dissertation is two-fold. It is, first, to reconstruct Kant's argument against self-murder, and, second, to analyze the function of the principle of self-preservation of reason with regard to the prohibition of self-murder. I argue that self-murder is contrary to the principle of self-preservation of reason and violates the trustee-relationship between the homo phaenomenon and the homo noumenon. The analysis shows that moral self-preservation in Kant is a rational principle whic…Read more
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77Kants answers to the casuistical questions concerning self-disembodimentKant Studien 94 (4): 454-473. 2003.
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4Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2009._Aims to transform logic into a reflection on the nature of language._
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8The Philosopher’s and the Physician’s Business: Kant and Gaub on Matters of HealthIn 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. 529-902. 2013.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |