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Toleration and pragmatism: themes from the work of John Horton (2016)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2016). Toleration and pragmatism: themes from the work of John Horton. Philosophia, 397-413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9767-y

John Horton’s work has been particularly influential in debates on specific topics related to toleration, political obligation, modus vivendi and political realism. More recently, he has synthesised these views in the form of a distinctive position i... Read More about Toleration and pragmatism: themes from the work of John Horton.

Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant (2016)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2016). Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant. Kantian Review, 21(3), 465 -481. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000194

In his recent book, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, Adrian W. Moore takes Kant to play a crucial role in the evolution of modern philosophy; yet, for him, Kant’s metaphysics is ultimately and profoundly unsatisfactory. In this article, I examine... Read More about Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant.

Constitutivism and Transcendental Practical Philosophy: How to Pull the Rabbit Out of the Hat (2016)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2016). Constitutivism and Transcendental Practical Philosophy: How to Pull the Rabbit Out of the Hat. Philosophia, 44, 1185-1208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9746-3

Constitutivism aims to justify substantial normative standards as constitutive of practical reason. In this way, it can defend the constructivist commitment to avoiding realism and anti-realism in normative disciplines. This metaphysical debate is th... Read More about Constitutivism and Transcendental Practical Philosophy: How to Pull the Rabbit Out of the Hat.

Right's Complex Relation to Ethics in Kant: the limits of Independentism (2016)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2016). Right's Complex Relation to Ethics in Kant: the limits of Independentism. Kant-Studien: Philosophische Zeitschrift der Kant-Gesellschaft, 107(1), 2 -33. https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2016-0002

The recent literature on the relation in Kant between duties of right and duties of virtue is dominated by a debate on whether duties of right can be derived from duties of virtue. According to one important argument, there is a tension or even a par... Read More about Right's Complex Relation to Ethics in Kant: the limits of Independentism.

Transcendental Unity of Apperception and Non-reflective Consciousness of Self (2015)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2015). Transcendental Unity of Apperception and Non-reflective Consciousness of Self. In Comparing Kant and Sartre (21-44). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454539_2

In this chapter, I would like to defend the claim of a deep similarity between Kant’s transcendental unity of apperception and Sartre’s non-reflective consciousness of self.2 The claim is not simply of historical interest, although this by itself I t... Read More about Transcendental Unity of Apperception and Non-reflective Consciousness of Self.

Existentialist Freedom, Distorted Normativity and Emancipation (2014)
Journal Article
Baiasu, S. Existentialist Freedom, Distorted Normativity and Emancipation. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 5(3), 874 -894

Usually associated with a view of freedom as absolute, Sartre’s philosophy seems particularly able to account for the indeterminacy that we experience today in most areas of human experience that have a normative dimension. Without denying that this... Read More about Existentialist Freedom, Distorted Normativity and Emancipation.

Normative Theory (2014)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2014). Normative Theory. In The Encyclopaedia of Political Thought. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118474396.wbept0716

Imagine a group of persons that form a society or a political community. It is most likely these persons relate to each other in their everyday dealings on the basis of certain common standards. A descriptive, as opposed to a normative, theory of the... Read More about Normative Theory.

Kant’s Justification of Welfare (2014)
Journal Article
Baiasu, S. (2014). Kant’s Justification of Welfare. Diametros: A Journal of Philosophy, 39, https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.39.2014.563

For several decades, theorists interested in Kant’s discussion of welfare have puzzled over Kant’s position on the issue of the redistribution of goods in society. They have done this both in order to clarify his position and as a source of inspirati... Read More about Kant’s Justification of Welfare.

The Deontic Force of the Formula of Universal Law (2013)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2013). The Deontic Force of the Formula of Universal Law. In Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht (41-50). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246490.1925

Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays (2013)
Book
Timmons, M., & Baiasu, S. (Eds.). (2013). Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780195395686.001.0001

The literature on Kantian accounts of practical justification has been growing of late. This is not surprising given that Kant’s approach seems so promising: he claims to be able to justify unconditional normative claims without recourse to assumptio... Read More about Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays.

Kant’s Rechtfertigung and the Epistemic Character of Practical Justification (2013)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2013). Kant’s Rechtfertigung and the Epistemic Character of Practical Justification. In Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays (22-41). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780195395686.003.0002

Although an examination of Kant's justification of various (especially practical) norms is under way in the literature and most of the Kantians have something to say about this topic, yet not much has been written on Kant's view of justification [Rec... Read More about Kant’s Rechtfertigung and the Epistemic Character of Practical Justification.

Caird on Kant’s Idealism: Revolutionary or Traditionalist? (2013)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2013). Caird on Kant’s Idealism: Revolutionary or Traditionalist?. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 19(1), 19 - 45

The traditionalist interpretation of Kant's idealism reads his Critical philosophy as a version of traditional idealism, à la Berkeley. By contrast, a revolutionary account of Kant will assert the threefold distinction between states of mind, externa... Read More about Caird on Kant’s Idealism: Revolutionary or Traditionalist?.

Kant and the British Idealists (2013)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2013). Kant and the British Idealists. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 19(1), 1 - 18