TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Definitions III. Why Rethink Affinity? IV. Nishida and the Unity of Experience V. Affinity, Sensibility and Expression VI. Conclusion This is the first of five installments, and contains section I. I. Introduction While the philosophy of Immanuel Kant deals nowhere explicitly with the concept of creativity, nevertheless he emphasizes … [continue reading]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #14–A Five-Step Argument for the Neo-Person Thesis.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #18–The Necessary Equivalence of Experience-of-Objects and Objects-of-Experience.
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #13–The Neo-Person Thesis, Neo-Persons, and Non-Persons.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #17–What is Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Metaphysics?
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #12–Hard Cases as Breckwoldtian Tests, & The Neo-Person Thesis.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #16–The Complex Question of Metaphysics.
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #11–The Lesser Evil Principle*.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 4 (2021), Featuring: Works By Arran Gare, Kristina Lebedeva, and Others, on Anti-Posthumanism, Our Sociable Sociality, Les Fleurs de Bien in London, Moral Futurology, Neo-Organicist Epistemology, What It’s Like to Be in Pain, Embodied-Enactive Philosophy of Science, Anti-Computational-Theory-of-Mind, Real Metaphysics, and Ciceronian Unhappy Consciousness.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Arran Gare (Swinburne University of Technology, AU), “Against Posthumanism: Posthumanism as the World Vision of House-Slaves,” 1-56. 2. Robert Hanna (Independent, USA), “Our Sociable Sociality: A Postscript to The Mind-Body Politic,” 57-96. 3. Emre Kazim (Kings College London, UK), “Les Fleurs du Bien All Over London,” 97-99. 4. Andreas Keller (Independent, … [continue reading]
Contemporary Studies in Kantian Philosophy 6 (2021), Featuring: A Bibliography of Kant’s Writings Listed by English Translations of Their Titles, Nora Schleich on The Aestheticity of the Sublime, and The Limits of Sense and Reason: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Part 1.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. CSKP Editorial Team, “A Bibliography of Kant’s Writings Listed By English Translations of Their Titles,” 1-10. 2. Robert Hanna (Independent, USA), The Limits of Sense and Reason: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Part 1, 11-109. 3. Nora Schleich (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz DE), “The Aestheticity of the … [continue reading]