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Kant's Right as Normatively Independent: One Strategy Considered and Rejected (2024)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (in press). Kant's Right as Normatively Independent: One Strategy Considered and Rejected. In Law and Morality in Kant (1-15). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

The question of how politics and ethics are supposed to connect, if at all, in our societies is an important one, especially in the context of today’s socio-economic and geo-political challenges. Not surprisingly, commentators have tried to find an a... Read More about Kant's Right as Normatively Independent: One Strategy Considered and Rejected.

Aspects of Practical Bindingness in Kant: Introduction (2023)
Journal Article
Gläser, M., & Baiasu, S. (2023). Aspects of Practical Bindingness in Kant: Introduction. Philosophia, 51(2), 457-461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-023-00646-9

One of the few points of consensus in the Kantian literature is that Kant's Moral Law is binding universally and unconditionally. Hence, the Moral Law is binding for all human agents (universally) irrespective of the agents' particular interests (unc... Read More about Aspects of Practical Bindingness in Kant: Introduction.

How Far Do We Self-legislate? (2023)
Journal Article
Baiasu, S. (2023). How Far Do We Self-legislate?. Philosophia, 51(2), 525-544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-023-00613-4

: In his early writings, Kant regarded the autonomy of the will as the supreme principle of morality, as well as the sole principle of all moral laws and of the duties conforming to them. Nevertheless, this impressively sounding principle gradually d... Read More about How Far Do We Self-legislate?.

Is Boris Johnson lying? A philosopher on why it’s so hard to tell (2022)
Digital Artefact
Baiasu, S. (2022). Is Boris Johnson lying? A philosopher on why it’s so hard to tell. [Blog Style Article]

3 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-Making (2022)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2022). 3 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-Making. In Kant and Artificial Intelligence (105-128). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110706611-003

How do we make sense of the countless pieces of information flowing to us from the environment? This question, sometimes called the Problem of Representation, is one of the most significant problems in cognitive science. Some pioneering and important... Read More about 3 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-Making.

Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project (2021)
Book Chapter
Baiasu. (2021). Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project. In Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66857-0_6

An easily recognizable feature of Sartre’s phenomenological existentialism is his conception of freedom. According to a popular interpretation, we are absolutely free, not only from factual constraints, but also free to create and pursue our own valu... Read More about Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project.

Distributive justice and the epistemological argument against desert (2021)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2021). Distributive justice and the epistemological argument against desert. Academia Letters, https://doi.org/10.20935/al127

Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox (2020)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2020). Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox. In The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy (7-28). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654639-002

Staying Philosophically on the Surface: Constitutivist and Naturalist Quests for Normativity (2020)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2020). Staying Philosophically on the Surface: Constitutivist and Naturalist Quests for Normativity. In Reason, Normativity and Law. University of Wales Press

Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature and Religion (2020)
Book
Baiasu, S., & Vanzo, A. (Eds.). (2020). Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature and Religion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145501

Immanuel Kant’s work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant’s work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book... Read More about Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature and Religion.