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Aspects of Practical Bindingness in Kant: Introduction (2023)
Journal Article

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

: 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?.

3 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-Making (2022)
Book Chapter

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

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

Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox (2020)
Book Chapter

Staying Philosophically on the Surface: Constitutivist and Naturalist Quests for Normativity (2020)
Book Chapter

Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature and Religion (2020)
Book

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.

Sartre and the transcendental tradition 1 (2020)
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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

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.

Universal Principle of Right: Metaphysics, Politics and Conflict Resolutions (2018)
Journal Article

In spite of its dominance, there are well-known problems with Rawls’s method of reflective equilibrium (MRE), as a method of justification in meta-ethics. One issue in particular has preoccupied commentators, namely, the capacity of this method to pr... Read More about Universal Principle of Right: Metaphysics, Politics and Conflict Resolutions.

Dignity, Law and Value: Enriching Sensen's Strong Priority Account (2018)
Journal Article

According to Oliver Sensen’s book, Kant on Human Dignity, the notion of dignity which can be found in the Kantian corpus is fundamentally different from the notion that gains currency in politics-related contexts today, namely, dignity as a value inh... Read More about Dignity, Law and Value: Enriching Sensen's Strong Priority Account.

Kant's Guarantee for Perpetual Peace: A Reinterpretation and Defence (2018)
Book Chapter

Kant’s Critique Of Religion: Epistemic Sources Of Secularism (2018)
Journal Article

The secular interpretation of Kant is widespread and Kant is viewed as the most prestigious founding father of liberal secularism. At the same time, however, commentators note that Kant’s position on secularism is in fact much more complex, and some... Read More about Kant’s Critique Of Religion: Epistemic Sources Of Secularism.

Political dissimulation à la Kant (2017)
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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.

Sincerity in Politics and International Relations (2017)
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This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent... Read More about Sincerity in Politics and International Relations.

Comparing Kant and Sartre (2016)
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For a long time, commentators viewed Sartre as one of Kant's significant twentieth-century critics. Recent research of their philosophies has discovered that Sartre's relation to Kant's work manifests an 'anxiety of influence', which masks more profo... Read More about Comparing Kant and Sartre.

Ethical and Politico-juridical Norms in the 'Tugendlehre' (2016)
Journal Article

Kant’s view of the relation between ethical and politico-juridical norms has been debated in the literature, especially his view in the Rechtslehre. Apart from the exegetical question about the accurate interpretation of Kant’s practical philosophy... Read More about Ethical and Politico-juridical Norms in the 'Tugendlehre'.

Kant on the Relation Between Duties of Virtue and Duties of Right: Introduction (2016)
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Toleration and pragmatism: themes from the work of John Horton (2016)
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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)
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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

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)
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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

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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays (2013)
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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

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)
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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)
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