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Phenomenology, idealism, and the legacy of KantBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (3): 593-614. 2019.Martin Heidegger closes his Winter Semester 1927–28 lectures by claiming that Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, read through the lens of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, confirmed the accuracy of his philosophical path culminating in Being and Time. A notable interpretation of Heidegger’s debt to Kant, advanced by William Blattner, presents Heidegger as a temporal idealist. I argue that attention to Husserl’s adaptation of Kant’s critical philosophy shows that both Husserl and Heidegger are realist…Read more
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Husserl’s Philosophy of the Categories and His Development toward Absolute IdealismGrazer Philosophische Studien 94 (3): 460-493. 2017.In recent work, Amie Thomasson has sought to develop a new approach to the philosophy of the categories which is metaphysically neutral between traditional realist and conceptualist approaches, and which has its roots in the ‘correlationalist’ approach to categories put forward in Husserl’s writings in the 1900s–1910s and systematically charted over the past few decades by David Woodruff Smith in his studies of Husserl’s philosophy. Here the author aims to provide a recontextualization and criti…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Phenomenology |
20th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Classical Chinese Philosophy |