Idealistic Studies

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  1. Circumventing the Metaphysical Deduction.Berker Basmaci - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (3):241-261.
    Kant’s derivation of the table of categories from logical functions of judgments in the metaphysical deduction remains one of the least convincing arguments of the Critique of Pure Reason. This article presents an alternative approach to the question of the a priori origin of the table of categories. By circumventing the metaphysical deduction, I show the possibility of demonstrating the exact functions and necessity of the twelve categorial forms as emerging from the interaction of the synthetic unity of apperception with (...)
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    Bowne on Self and Substance.Michael Futch - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (3):263-282.
    This article is an examination of Borden Parker Bowne’s account of diachronic personal identity. Specifically, it addresses the question of whether the kind of permanence that Bowne ascribes to persons in his analyses of memory and thought is consistent with his more general views about diachronic identity when framed within the context of his accounts of being and substance. The first section provides an examination of how Bowne understands the permanence of selves, with an emphasis on his repeated insistence that (...)
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    H. B. Nisbet. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His Life, Works, & Thought.Penelope Haulotte - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (3):329-336.
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    Necro-Ecology in Günderrode’s “The Idea of the Earth”.Benjamin Norris - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (3):283-303.
    In addition to foregrounding the intimate interconnectedness between the human and the non-human world necro-ecology also undermines the absolute separation between life and death. The purpose of this paper is to deploy these central tenets of necro-ecology to provide a reading of Karoline von Günderrode’s 1805 “The Idea of the Earth.” After discussing a shift that takes place in Schelling’s theory of the relationship between nature, life, and death (Section 1) I turn to the role of corporeal decomposition in relation (...)
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    Mary C. Rawlinson. The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.Michael-Francis Polios - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (3):337-342.
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    On the Historiography of Philosophy and the Formation of the Canon.Daniel James Smith - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (3):305-327.
    This paper examines the formation of the philosophical canon in the period immediately after Kant. After a general introduction to the “historiography of philosophy,” it brings together three strands of contemporary scholarship in this area: a historical criticism of the empiricism/rationalism distinction that is often still used to understand early modern philosophy (Vanzo), histories of the exclusion of women from the history of philosophy in the late eighteenth century (O’Neill), and histories of the exclusion of non-European philosophy (Park). Though these (...)
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    Hegel’s Estimation of Evolution.Sean Douglas & Marina F. Bykova - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (2):191-212.
    This paper explores Hegel’s perspective on development within nature, his supposed rejection of evolution, and his concept of nature as a “system of stages.” It argues that interpreting Hegel through the lens of emergentist thinking provides a more accurate understanding of his conception of nature and its development, as well as his critique of evolution. The paper is structured in three parts. First, we introduce emergentist theory, exploring its contemporary and historical meanings to establish where Hegel fits within this framework. (...)
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    Kant and Hegel on Individuating Organisms.Elise Frketich - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (2):169-189.
    This paper discusses what I call “biological individuation” in the works of Kant and Hegel. Biological individuation is what makes one organism numerically distinct from another. Following a common distinction in metaphysics today, I separate this discussion into what I call “epistemic” and “metaphysical biological individuation”. The former is how we distinguish one organism from another, and the latter is how one organism distinguishes itself from another. Metaphysicians today convincingly hold that epistemic individuation presupposes metaphysical individuation. I apply this to (...)
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    Understanding Things by Knowing How to Use Them.Ansgar Lyssy - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (2):213-240.
    In this paper, I argue that Hegel’s account of causality as developed in the Science of Logic can be described as a ‘manipulationist’ account of causality. First, some conceptual clarifications will help set our sights on the goal of the paper. What is a theory of causality comprised of? And what is a manipulationist account of causality? Next, I sketch the development of those concepts in the SL that are relevant to the present topic (e.g., causality, objectivity, and the idea). (...)
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    A Naturalist Taming of Supernatural Subjectivity? The Kantian and Fichtean Origins of Hegel’s Idealist Account of Cognition.Sebastian Stein - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (2):137-168.
    Against recent naturalist critiques of Kant and interpretations of Hegel, it can be shown that Hegel’s accounts of consciousness and mind (Geist) commit him to a distinctly supernatural, post-Kantian idealist concept of subjectivity. While Kant describes this subjectivity as independent, unconditioned and self-positing, he relies on the notion of an interplay of two distinct realms — labelled the ‘natural’-phenomenal and the ‘supernatural’-noumenal — to justify it. While Fichte accepts Kant’s description of the structure of supernatural subjectivity, he rejects the two-realms-doctrine (...)
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    Guest Editors' Introduction.Sebastian Stein & Ansgar Lyssy - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (2):99-105.
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    Hegel on the Relation Between Logos and the Science of Logic.Clinton Tolley - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (2):107-135.
    I begin by distinguishing, in Hegel’s writings, between the subject-matter of the science of logic, and the science of logic itself. I then argue for an interpretation of the subject-matter of logic in terms drawn from the ancient Greek discussions of logos, discussions which Hegel himself exposits at length and applauds in his lectures on the history of philosophy, and which Hegel directly alludes to, at key moments, in the course of presenting the subject-matter of logic in his own voice. (...)
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  13. Spirit Tactics, Exorcising Dances.Joshua M. Hall - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (1):27-48.
    In Michel de Certeau’s Invention of the Everyday, improvisational community dance function as a catalyst for the subversive art of the oppressed, via its ancient Greek virtue/power of mētis, being “foxlike.” And in de Certeau’s The Possession of Loudun, this foxlike dance moves to the stage, as an improv chorus that disrupts the events at Loudon when reimagined as a tetralogy of plays at City Dionysia. More precisely, Loudun’s tetralogy could be interpreted as a series of three tragedies and one (...)
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    Consciousness and the Self, No Self Disagreement.David H. Lund - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (1):49-69.
    My primary aim in this paper is to show that the structure of experience must include a subject (or self). I argue that the subjectless (No-Self) views of our experience must be rejected, primarily because without the consciousness-unifying function of a subject they are unable to account for the unities of consciousness present in our experience. In addition, I contend that such views fail in another respect. They emphasize the streaming of experience, the ever-changing flow of conscious events, but have (...)
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    Extensive Clarity in Baumgarten’s Poetics and Aesthetics.J. Colin McQuillan - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (1):71-93.
    Anglophone philosophers have shown a surprising interest in Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s aesthetics in recent years. At the same time, new approaches to aesthetics have been proposed that come very close to the original conception of aesthetics that Baumgarten introduced in the middle of the eighteenth century. In light of these developments, this article undertakes a critical examination of a central concept in Baumgarten’s poetics and aesthetics—extensive clarity. It argues that historians of philosophy and contemporary aestheticians should be wary of this (...)
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    Herder’s Transformative Account of the Linguistic Being.Marvin Tritschler - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (1):1-26.
    This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic expression and human reason in Herder’s Treatise on the Origin of Language. I argue that additive theories of human language, which contend that the linguistic capacity is in principle separable from the other cognitive faculties of the linguistic being, cannot be brought into agreement with Herder’s distinctly transformative account of human language and reason. For Herder, the transformation of our sensible faculties through language is required in order to guarantee the unity of human (...)
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    Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent: From Philosophy of Nature to Environmental Ethics, by Daniele Fulvi.Tyler Tritten - 2024 - Idealistic Studies 54 (1):95-98.
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