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  1. ‘The compound mass we term SELF’ – Mary Shepherd on selfhood and the difference between mind and self.Fasko Manuel - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 2023:1-15.
    In this paper I argue for a novel interpretation of Shepherd’s notion of selfhood. In distinction to Deborah Boyle’s interpretation, I contend that Shepherd differentiates between the mind and the self. The latter, for Shepherd, is an effect arising from causal interactions between mind and body – specifically those interactions that give rise to our present stream of consciousness, our memories, and that can unite these two. Thus, the body plays a constitutive role in the formation of the self. The (...)
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    Nietzsche and Friendship. By WillowVerkerk, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. pp. x + 189. £100 (hbk). ISBN 10/13: 978‐1‐3500‐47341‐1; £31.99 (pbk). ISBN 10/13: 978‐1‐3501‐7717‐8. [REVIEW]Katie Brennan - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):853-856.
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    Imagining the end: Mourning and ethical life. By JonathanLear, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2022. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐27259‐0. [REVIEW]Michael Cholbi - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):857-859.
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    Veridiction and juridiction in Confessions of the Flesh.Niki Kasumi Clements - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):809-819.
    In an archived draft at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Foucault describes two questions haunting him since 1963: “Why are we obliged to tell the truth about ourselves? Which truth?” Foucault poses these two questions in 1980 in drafts for his lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, and I see in these two questions two argumentative threads that weave through Foucault's changing History of Sexuality series over his last decade. These two threads correspond to the dimorphism Foucault frames in (...)
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    The epistemology of groups. By JenniferLackey, New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. x + 200. £61.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9780199656608. [REVIEW]Jeroen de Ridder - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):860-865.
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    Reflections on the concept of institution.Vincent Descombes - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):549-562.
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  7. Plurigenealogies: Marriage and address to women in Foucault's Confessions of the Flesh.Penelope Deutscher - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):820-835.
    How does the publication of Confessions of the Flesh impact feminist critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality project? The paper addresses this question in two ways: by asking how reflection on continuities and ruptures has, and can, be productive for feminist critique; and by revisiting the role of women in all four volumes. The terms of their inclusion have been considered an omission, particularly because the project omits same-sex eros between women. Where women appear, they are framed as spouses, or (...)
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    Can there be a feature‐placing language?Krasimira Filcheva - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):655-672.
    The aim of this article is to argue against the real possibility of languages without subject‐predicate structure, so‐called feature‐placing languages. They were first introduced by Strawson (1959/1990), later given formal expression through Quine's Predicate Functor Logic (Quine, 1960, Quine, 1971/Quine, 1976, Quine, 1992), and further elaboration in (Hawthorne & Cortens, 1995). I argue that, on the presumption that feature‐placing languages are not mere notational variants on first‐order languages, the idea of such languages is incoherent. The argument for this view rests (...)
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    The discursive form of human understanding as the source of the transcendental illusion.Florian Ganzinger - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):639-654.
    Kant famously claims that pure reason is subject to a transcendental illusion in which the subjective validity and the regulative use of a principle of reason are conflated with its objective validity and constitutive use. His doctrine of transcendental illusion is puzzling for he insists that this illusion is natural as well as necessary. The two dominant interpretation strategies cannot make sense of this puzzle because they turn out to be either too strong or too weak: they either struggle to (...)
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    The discursive form of human understanding as the source of the transcendental illusion.Florian Ganzinger - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):639-654.
    Kant famously claims that pure reason is subject to a transcendental illusion in which the subjective validity and the regulative use of a principle of reason are conflated with its objective validity and constitutive use. His doctrine of transcendental illusion is puzzling for he insists that this illusion is natural as well as necessary. The two dominant interpretation strategies cannot make sense of this puzzle because they turn out to be either too strong or too weak: they either struggle to (...)
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    Toward the “overthrow of Platonism”: Processist critical social ontology and ameliorative discourse.Paul Giladi - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):622-638.
    In this article, I argue that, for the purpose of developing an effective critical social ontology about gender groups, it is not simply sufficient to carve gender groups at their joints: one must have in view whether the metaphysical categories we use to make sense of gender groups are prone to ideological distortion and vitiation. The norms underpinning a gender group's constitution as a type of social class and the norms involved in gender identity attributions, I propose, provide compelling reason (...)
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    Toward the “overthrow of Platonism”: Processist critical social ontology and ameliorative discourse.Paul Giladi - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):622-638.
    In this article, I argue that, for the purpose of developing an effective critical social ontology about gender groups, it is not simply sufficient to carve gender groups at their joints: one must have in view whether the metaphysical categories we use to make sense of gender groups are prone to ideological distortion and vitiation. The norms underpinning a gender group's constitution as a type of social class and the norms involved in gender identity attributions, I propose, provide compelling reason (...)
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  13. Explanation and evaluation in Foucault's genealogy of morality.Eli B. Lichtenstein - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):731-747.
    Philosophers have cataloged a range of genealogical methods by which different sorts of normative conclusions can be established. Although such methods provide diverging ways of pursuing genealogical inquiry, they typically converge in eschewing historiographic methodology, in favor of a uniquely philosophical approach. In contrast, one genealogist who drew on historiographic methodology is Michel Foucault. This article presents the motivations and advantages of Foucault's genealogical use of such a methodology. It advances two mains claims. First, that Foucault's early 1970s work employs (...)
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  14. Murdoch's Ontological Argument.Cathy Mason & Matt Dougherty - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):769-784.
    Anselm’s ontological argument is an argument for the existence of God. This paper presents Iris Murdoch’s ontological argument for the existence of the Good. It discusses her interpretation of Anselm’s argument, her distinctive appropriation of it, as well as some of the merits of her version of the argument. In doing so, it also shows how the argument integrates some key Murdochian ideas: morality’s wide scope, the basicness of vision to morality, moral realism, and Platonism.
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  15. The reactive theory of emotions.Olivier Massin - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):785-802.
    Evaluative theories of emotions purport to shed light on the nature of emotions by appealing to values. Three kinds of evaluative theories of emotions dominate the recent literature: the judgment theory equates emotions with value judgments; the perceptual theory equates emotions with perceptions of values, and the attitudinal theory equates emotions with evaluative attitudes. This paper defends a fourth kind of evaluative theory of emotions, mostly neglected so far: the reactive theory. Reactive theories claim that emotions are attitudes which arise (...)
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    From analytic pragmatism to historical materialism: Frankfurt school critical theory and the Quine‐Duhem thesis.Jacob McNulty - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):576-599.
    My aim in this paper is to explore an affinity between early critical theory and analytical philosophy. The affinity is in a fairly unexpected area: philosophy of science. I argue that early critical theory embraces a view of science which is a natural if somewhat unfamiliar extension of the pragmatist one defended by Quine. In particular, I argue that Horkheimer has a version of the Quine-Duhem thesis (“underdetermination of theory choice by the evidence”). How do the Frankfurt and analytical versions (...)
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    A Rule‐based Account of the Regulative Use of Reason in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.Lorenzo Spagnesi - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):673-688.
    The aim of this paper is to propose a novel reading of the critical legitimacy of the regulative use of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. After introducing some key terminology of the Dialectic, I analyse the shortcomings of two influential accounts of the regulative use of reason and identify their common problem in their commitment to the descriptivity of the ideas of reason. I then offer my rule‐based account of the regulative use of reason (...)
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    Schelling on freedom, evil and imputation: A puzzle.Robert Stern - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):563-575.
    This paper is focused on F. W. J. Schelling's view of freedom during the period of the Freiheitsschrift (1809) and related works. It is argued that the standard way this has been understood may be too simplistic. On this standard interpretation of his view, evil is made a matter of free choice by the agent, but where the choice does not concern individual actions, but the choice of the agent's essence in an atemporal act. As a result of this choice, (...)
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    Epistemically exploitative bullshit: A Sartrean account.Thomas Szanto - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):711-730.
    This paper presents a novel conceptualization of a type of untruthful speech that is of eminent political relevance but has hitherto been unrecognized: epistemically exploitative bullshit (EEB). Speakers engaging in EEB are bullshitting: they deceive their addressee regarding their unconcern for the very difference between truth and falsity. At the same time, they exploit their discursive victims: they oblige their counterparts to perform unacknowledged and emotionally draining epistemic work to educate the speakers about the addressees' oppression, only to discredit their (...)
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    Sex, Truth, and Law: Rereading Foucault's History of Sexuality after Volume 4, The Confessions of the Flesh[REVIEW]Tuomo Tiisala - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):836-843.
  21. Practical judgment as reflective judgment: On moral salience and Kantian particularist universalism.Sabina Vaccarino Bremner - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):600-621.
    Moral particularists and generalists alike have struggled over how to incorporate the role of moral salience in ethical reasoning. In this paper, I point to neglected resources in Kant to account for the role of moral salience in maxim formation: Kant's theory of reflective judgment. Kant tasks reflective judgment with picking out salient empirical particulars for formation into maxims, associating it with purposiveness, or intentional activity (action on ends). The unexpected resources in Kantian reflective judgment suggest the possibility of a (...)
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    Theater of lies: The letter to D'Alembert and the tragedy of self‐deception.John Warner - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):689-702.
    Though Rousseau is recognized to have treated the problem of self-knowledge with great sensitivity, very little is known about a centrally important aspect of that treatment—his understanding of self-deception. I reconstruct this conception, emphasizing the importance of purposive but sub-intentional processes that work to enhance agents' self-esteem. I go on to argue that Rousseau's fundamental concern about the theater is its capacity to manipulate these processes in ways that make spectators both complicit in their own falsification and vulnerable to elite (...)
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    Is jealousy justifiable?Catherine Wesselinoff - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):703-710.
    Jealousy has been disparaged as psychologically debilitating and morally flawed since well before Shakespeare wrote Othello and is indeed represented—particularly well—as far back as in Homer's portrayal of gods and goddesses in The Iliad. According to some of these traditional views, often shared by philosophers, psychologists and the general public, jealousy is the sign, if not of an irredeemably corrupt mind, then at least of an excessively possessive and insecure character. But does jealousy always indicate some sort of flaw or (...)
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    Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt, By Dalia Nassar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, xvii +308 pp. ISBN: 9780190095437; hb: £47.99. [REVIEW]Daniel Whistler - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):849-852.
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    Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of perception: On the body informed By Timothy D. Mooney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. xx+251 pp. ISBN 9781009223430 hb. $99.99 USD. ISBN 9781009223416 epub. [REVIEW]Dimitris Apostolopoulos - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):528-533.
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    The purposes of descriptive psychology.Johannes L. Brandl - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):358-370.
    In this paper, I discuss the different views of the founders of descriptive psychology in the 19th century about the meaning and purpose of this discipline and sketch a new plan for connecting descriptive psychology with the language-critical tradition of analytic philosophy. I will show that the goals Hermann Lotze, Franz Brentano, and Wilhelm Dilthey set for descriptive psychology were too lofty for different reasons. The common problem they faced was how to reconcile the ideal of autonomous philosophical knowledge with (...)
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    Why does it matter to individuate the senses: A Brentanian approach.Guillaume Fréchette - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):413-430.
    How do we individuate the senses, what exactly do we do when we do so, and why does it matter? In the following article, I propose a general answer to these related questions based on Franz Brentano's views on the senses. After a short survey of various answers offered in the recent literature on the senses, I distinguish between two major ways of answering this question, causally and descriptively, arguing that only answers giving priority to description and to the classification (...)
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    Descriptive Psychology: Franz Brentano's Project Today.Guillaume Fréchette & Hamid Taieb - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):337-340.
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    Ressentiment and power: On Reginster's The Will to Nothingness.R. Jay Wallace - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):494-500.
    A critical discussion of Bernard Reginster's book The Will to Nothingness. The contribution engages with Reginster's interpretation of Nietzschean ressentiment, arguing that it is an essentially interpersonal attitude in two different senses. It is a response to a social situation of structural deprivation, and it involves an element of antagonism toward those who are better off within this social structure. The contribution then discusses Reginster's claim that modern morality restores the sense of power of the masses by adjusting the goals (...)
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    Nietzsche and “we knowers”: Comments on Reginster's The Will to Nothingness.Claire Kirwin - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):509-515.
    Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is strikingly book‐ended by the theme of knowledge‐seeking: the Preface opens with the ominous claim that “[w]e are unknown to ourselves, we knowers”, and the Third Essay's climax is the assertion that scientific, scholarly activity does not stand in opposition to the ascetic ideal but is instead only that ideal's most recent and insidious instantiation. This feature of the text is absent from Reginster's The Will to Nothingness. Nonetheless, the interpretive machinery that Reginster develops (...)
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    On the temporality of the emotions: An essay on grief, anger, and love, by BerislavMarušić. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN: 0198851162, £55.00 (Hardcover). [REVIEW]Jonathan Mitchell - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):534-538.
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    Lydia Goehr, Red Sea, Red Square, Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 720pp., $45.00 (hbk). [REVIEW]Lydia Moland - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):539-542.
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    Brentano's theory of intentionality.Michelle Montague - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):445-454.
    Chapters Five through Nine of Book Two of Brentano's 1874 Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint were republished in 1911 with a substantive Appendix of Brentano's remarks. In the Appendix Brentano makes a significant addition to his theory of intentionality. In particular, he introduces new modes within the mode of presentation itself. These new modes are needed to account for our thinking about anything in a relational structure (in recto and in obliquo modes) and for our thoughts about time (the temporal (...)
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  34. On the Self‐Undermining Functionality Critique of Morality.Matthieu Queloz - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):501-508.
    Nietzsche’s injunction to examine “the value of values” can be heard in a pragmatic key, as inviting us to consider not whether certain values are true, but what they do for us. This oddly neglected pragmatic approach to Nietzsche now receives authoritative support from Bernard Reginster’s new book, which offers a compelling and notably cohesive interpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality. In this essay, I reconstruct Reginster's account of Nietzsche’s critique of morality as a “self-undermining functionality critique” and (...)
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    Replies to Wallace, Queloz, and Kirwin.Bernard Reginster - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):516-523.
    In this article, I reply to the comments offered by R. Jay Wallace, Matthieu Queloz, and Claire Kirwin on my book, The Will to Nothingness. An Essay on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality (OUP, 2021). These comments and my replies cover central features of the book, including my analysis of ressentiment as an expression of the will to power; the concept of self‐undermining functionality I introduce to make sense of Nietzsche's critique of the ascetic ideal; and my reasons for omitting to (...)
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    The case for rage: Why anger is essential to anti‐racist struggle. By Myisha Cherry. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 203pp. £14.99/$19.95, ISBN 978‐0‐19‐755734‐1. [REVIEW]Naomi Scheman - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):524-527.
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    Why we need descriptive psychology.Charles Siewert - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):341-357.
    This article defends the thesis that in theorizing about the mind we need to accord first-person (“introspective” or “reflective”) judgments about experience a “selective provisional trust.” Such an approach can form part of a descriptive psychology. It is here so employed to evaluate some influential interpretations of research on attention to conclude that—despite what conventional wisdom suggests—an “introspection-positive” policy actually offers us a better critical perspective than its contrary. What supposedly teaches us the worthlessness of introspection actually shows us why (...)
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    R. Matthew Shockey, The bounds of self: An essay on Heidegger's Being and Time. New York, NY: Routledge. 2021. p. 224. £130 (hbk.). [REVIEW]David Suarez - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):543-546.
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  39. Brentano on the Individuation of Mental Acts.Hamid Taieb - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):431-444.
    This paper aims to present and evaluate Brentano’s account of the individuation of mental acts. In his early works, Brentano assimilated mental acts to tropes; however, he encountered difficulties in explaining their individuation, since the usual solutions for the individuation of tropes were not readily applicable to his theory of mental acts. In a later period, Brentano introduced into his psychology what he called the “soul”, and this allowed him to explain the individuation of mental acts. Finally, after his “reistic” (...)
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    Attitudinal evaluation, emotion, and the will.Mark Textor - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):468-478.
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    Is conferralism descriptively adequate?Linda Martín Alcoff - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):289-296.
    This paper will develop a set of concerns about a central feature of Ásta's account of social categories that she calls “conferralism.” I argue that generalist approaches to social categories such as Ásta provides are inadequate as a way of understanding the diverse formations of diverse categories, and that conferralism overemphasizes the power of top-down forces (what she calls “persons with standing”) to confer social identities. This approach then underplays the horizontal and bottom-up influences on category formation as well as (...)
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    Categories We Live By: Reply to Alcoff, Butler, and Roth. Ásta - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):310-318.
    The author of Categories We Live By replies to critics Linda Martín Alcoff, Judith Butler, and Abraham Sesshu Roth.
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  43. Who cares about winning?Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):248-265.
    Why do we so often care about the outcomes of games when nothing is at stake? There is a paradox here, much like the paradox of fiction, which concerns why we care about the fates and threats of merely fictional beings. I argue that the paradox threatens to overturn a great deal of what philosophers have thought about caring, severing its connection to value and undermining its moral weight. I defend a solution to the paradox that draws on Kendall Walton's (...)
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    The moral relevance of social categories: Analysing the case of childhood.Nico Brando - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):195-208.
    What makes the categorisation of a human collective morally relevant? How does the categorisation of individuals into groups affect their social status and treatment? This article provides an account of the moral relevance of social categories and assesses the status of “childhood” within this framework. It distinguishes morally relevant social categories (labelled as social groups) through three conditions: first, individuals are externally ascribed to the social category; second, the properties of the social category are reified through the social construction of (...)
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    Kant and the determinacy of intuition.Jacob Browning - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):65-79.
    A central issue in debates about Kant and nonconceptualism concerns the nature of intuition. There is sharp disagreement among Kant scholars about both whether, prior to conceptualization, mere intuition can be considered conscious and, if so, how determinate this consciousness is. In this article, I argue that Kant regards pre-synthesized intuition as conscious but indeterminate. To make this case, I contextualize Kant's position through the work of H.S. Reimarus, a predecessor of Kant who influenced his views on animals, infants, and (...)
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    Categories by which we try to live.Judith Butler - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):283-288.
    Categories We Live By makes several claims about Judith Butler's Gender Trouble which Butler seeks to contest, while remaining in fundamental agreement with most of the conclusions in Asta Sveinsdottir's book. At issue is whether or not performativity can rightly be restricted to what is called an exercitive in J. L. Austin's sense, whether Butler is a radical constructivist or a qualified one, and whether unauthorized speech acts have a power to bring a reality into being that is different from (...)
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    The Genealogy as a contribution to a natural history of morals.Marie Kerguelen Feldblyum Le Blevennec - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):97-117.
    Nietzsche's readers are often tempted to look for his critique of morality in On the Genealogy of Morality. However, I will argue that the Genealogy does not contain Nietzsche's critique of morality, nor was it intended by Nietzsche to contain his critique. Rather, the Genealogy is Nietzsche's attempt to develop crucial parts of what he calls a natural history or typology of morals, which he considers to be a descriptive project meant to serve as preparation for a critique of values. (...)
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    From Rechtsphilosophie_ to _Staatsökonomie: Hegel and the philosophical foundations of political economy.Bernardo Ferro - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):80-96.
    Although Hegel is increasingly recognized as an important figure in the history of political economy, his economic views are never strictly economic. In contrast to other modern thinkers, his primary concern is not the economic efficacy of different practices or institutions but the extent to which they enable and promote the development of human freedom. In this article, I argue that Hegel's pioneering critique of modern liberal economy plays out simultaneously at a more empirical level, corresponding to the properly economic (...)
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    From Rechtsphilosophie to Staatsökonomie : Hegel and the philosophical foundations of political economy.Bernardo Ferro - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):80-96.
    Although Hegel is increasingly recognized as an important figure in the history of political economy, his economic views are never strictly economic. In contrast to other modern thinkers, his primary concern is not the economic efficacy of different practices or institutions but the extent to which they enable and promote the development of human freedom. In this article, I argue that Hegel's pioneering critique of modern liberal economy plays out simultaneously at a more empirical level, corresponding to the properly economic (...)
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    From Rechtsphilosophie to Staatsökonomie : Hegel and the philosophical foundations of political economy.Bernardo Ferro - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):80-96.
    Although Hegel is increasingly recognized as an important figure in the history of political economy, his economic views are never strictly economic. In contrast to other modern thinkers, his primary concern is not the economic efficacy of different practices or institutions but the extent to which they enable and promote the development of human freedom. In this article, I argue that Hegel's pioneering critique of modern liberal economy plays out simultaneously at a more empirical level, corresponding to the properly economic (...)
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    Value in modernity: The philosophy of existential modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil. By Peter Poellner, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. 384. £80 (hbk). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐284973‐1. [REVIEW]Christopher Fowles - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):330-333.
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    Knowing things and going places.Quill R. Kukla - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):266-282.
    When I say “I know Sarah,” or “I know Berlin,” what sort of knowledge am I claiming? Such knowledge of a particular is, I claim, not reducible to either propositional knowledge-that or to traditional physical know-how. Mere, bare knowledge by acquaintance also does not capture the kind of knowledge being claimed here. Using knowledge of a place as my central example, I argue that this kind of knowledge-of, or “objectual knowledge” as it is sometimes called, is of a distinctive epistemological (...)
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    Knowing things and going places.Quill R. Kukla - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):266-282.
    When I say “I know Sarah,” or “I know Berlin,” what sort of knowledge am I claiming? Such knowledge of a particular is, I claim, not reducible to either propositional knowledge-that or to traditional physical know-how. Mere, bare knowledge by acquaintance also does not capture the kind of knowledge being claimed here. Using knowledge of a place as my central example, I argue that this kind of knowledge-of, or “objectual knowledge” as it is sometimes called, is of a distinctive epistemological (...)
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    Pragmatist quietism: A meta‐ethical system. By Andrew Sepielli, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2022. vi + 231 pp. £55 (Hbk). [REVIEW]Hallvard Lillehammer - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):327-329.
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    Morality, politics, and contingency.Johnny Lyons - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):179-194.
    The influential realist thesis that politics and morals are distinct and mutually exclusive spheres of interest is one that has been challenged within the tradition of analytic moral and political theory. Over the last 50 years, several notable liberal analytic philosophers, including Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, and Thomas Nagel, have argued that not only is politics not separate from and inimical to ethics but that there exists such a thing as political morality. This article contends that while the notion of (...)
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    Concerning the psychological type of the redeemer: Nietzsche on the methods of philosophy.Allison Merrick - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):151-162.
    In section 24 of The Antichrist, Nietzsche notes a problem namely “the origin of Christianity.” He offers two propositions toward its solution: the first is that “Christianity can only be understood on the soil where it grew:” and the second is that “the psychological type of the Galilean is still recognizable, but it had to assume a completely degenerate form (simultaneously mutilated and full of alien features) before it came to be used as a redeemer of humanity” (A 24). Significantly (...)
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    Temporal experience as metaphysically lightweight.Daniel Morgan - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):209-225.
    Experience is the most primitive kind of intentional contact with reality. Metaphysical inquiry is one of the heights of human thought. It would not be surprising if experience was often silent on metaphysics, failing to offer support to one metaphysical disputant over the other, forcing them to fall back on nonexperiential considerations. I argue that the dispute between A- and B-theorists about time is a dispute about which experience is silent. B-theorists have typically conceded that the manifest image of time (...)
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    The method of critical phenomenology: Simone de Beauvoir as a phenomenologist.Johanna Oksala - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):137-150.
    The paper aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation on critical phenomenology with reflections on its method. The key argument is that critical phenomenology should be understood as a form of historico-transcendental inquiry and therefore it cannot forgo the phenomenological reduction. Rather, this methodological step should be centered in critical phenomenology, and appropriated in problematized and rethought forms. The methodological assessment of critical phenomenology has implications also for how we read its canon. The paper shows that while Simone de Beauvoir (...)
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    The method of critical phenomenology: Simone de Beauvoir as a phenomenologist.Johanna Oksala - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):137-150.
    The paper aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation on critical phenomenology with reflections on its method. The key argument is that critical phenomenology should be understood as a form of historico-transcendental inquiry and therefore it cannot forgo the phenomenological reduction. Rather, this methodological step should be centered in critical phenomenology, and appropriated in problematized and rethought forms. The methodological assessment of critical phenomenology has implications also for how we read its canon. The paper shows that while Simone de Beauvoir (...)
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    In search of unity: Twardowski, Husserl, and Ingarden on the unity of the object.Marek Piwowarczyk - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):118-136.
    This paper is devoted to Kazimierz Twardowski's thesis that the unity of a compound object (a whole) can be ensured only by the relations between its parts and the object itself. Twardowski's idea of unity raises many difficulties, especially the threat of petitio principii: the whole is presupposed as furnishing the ground for the unification of its parts, and yet it also seems to be the result of this unification. To avoid these problems, Edmund Husserl sought to refute Twardowski's thesis, (...)
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  61. Absence experience in grief.Louise Richardson - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):163-178.
    In this paper, I consider the implications of grief for philosophical theorising about absence experience. I argue that whilst some absence experiences that occur in grief might be explained by extant philosophical accounts of absence experience, others need different treatment. I propose that grieving subjects' descriptions of feeling as if the world seems empty or a part of them seems missing can be understood as referring to a distinctive type of absence experience. In these profound absence experiences, I will argue, (...)
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  62. The stability of social categories.Abraham Sesshu Roth - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):297-309.
    One important thesis Ásta defends in Categories We Live By is that social properties and categories are somehow dependent on our thoughts, attitudes, or practices—that they are inventions of the mind, projected onto the world. Another important aspect of her view is that the social properties are related to certain base properties; an individual is placed in a category when the relevant base properties are thought to hold of them. I see the relationship between the social and the base as (...)
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  63. Kant's Schematism of the categories: An interpretation and defence.Nicholas F. Stang - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):30-64.
    The aim of the Schematism chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason is to solve the problem posed by the “inhomogeneity” of intuitions and categories: the sensible properties of objects represented in intuition are of a different kind than the properties represented by categories. Kant's solution is to introduce what he calls “transcendental schemata,” which mediate the subsumption of objects under categories. I reconstruct Kant's solution in terms of two substantive premises, which I call Subsumption Sufficiency (i.e., that subsuming an (...)
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    Understanding Hegel's Logic: On Houlgate's Hegel on Being.Robert Stern - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):319-326.
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    "Kant's Will at the Crossroads: An essay on the failings of practical rationality." By Jens Timmermann, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. 192. $70.00 (hb). ISBN: 9780192896032. [REVIEW]Alexander T. Englert - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy (3):1-5.
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    How hard is it?: On Kieran Setiya's Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way[REVIEW]Vida Yao - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy (3):1-6.
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    The Architectonic of Foucault's Critique.Daniele Lorenzini & Tuomo Tiisala - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy.
    This paper presents a new interpretation of Michel Foucault’s critical project. It is well known that Foucault’s genealogical critique does not focus on issues of justification, but instead tackles “aspectival captivity,” that is, apparently inevitable limits of thought that constrain the agent’s freedom but that, in fact, can be transformed. However, it has not been recognized that, according to Foucault, critique can proceed along two distinct paths. In a key passage of “What Is Critique?,” Foucault states that critique is tasked (...)
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