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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.

Sartre and the transcendental tradition 1 (2020)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2020). Sartre and the transcendental tradition 1. In S. Baiasu (Ed.), The Sartrean Mind (38-51). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315100500-2

This chapter focuses on the extent to which J. P. Sartre endorses significant claim in the context of several interpretations in the literature. An evaluation of those interpretations will enable us to determine more precisely Sartre’s place within t... Read More about Sartre and the transcendental tradition 1.

The Realisability of Kant's Cosmopolitan Values (2019)
Book Chapter
Baisasu, S. (2019). The Realisability of Kant's Cosmopolitan Values. In Kant's Cosmopolitics: Contemporary Issues and Global Debates. Edinburgh University Press

As noted by Martha Nussbaum, ‘Kant’s “Toward Perpetual Peace” is a profound defense of cosmopolitan values’ (1997: 28). Kant states, in fact, that ‘essential to the purpose of perpetual peace’ is doing what we ‘ought to do in accordance with laws of... Read More about The Realisability of Kant's Cosmopolitan Values.

Political dissimulation à la Kant (2017)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2017). Political dissimulation à la Kant. In Sincerity in Politics and International Relations (139-155). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203762257-10

According to a standard objection, 1 Kant holds an unacceptably strict view on lying and deception, and an unreasonably demanding requirement of sincerity. Especially in his late essay ‘On a supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy’, 2 Kant seems to e... Read More about Political dissimulation à la Kant.

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.

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.