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    Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and its Philosophical Appeal.James Kreines - 2015 - , US: Oxford University Press USA.
    This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which Hegel's project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by taking metaphysics as fundamental to philosophy, rather than any epistemological problem about knowledge or intentionality. Hegel pursues more specifically the metaphysics of reason, concerned with grounds, reasons, or conditions in terms of which things can be explained-and ultimately with the possibility of complete reasons. There is no threat to such metaphysics in epistemological (...)
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  2. Hegel's metaphysics: Changing the debate.James Kreines - 2006 - Philosophy Compass 1 (5):466–480.
    There are two general approaches to Hegel’s theoretical philosophy which are broadly popular in recent work. Debate between them is often characterized, by both sides, as a dispute between those favoring a more traditional “metaphysical” approach and those favoring a newer “nonmetaphysical” approach. But I argue that the most important and compelling points made by both sides are actually independent of the idea of a “nonmetaphysical” interpretation of Hegel, which is itself simply unconvincing. The most promising directions for future research, (...)
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    Kant on the Laws of Nature: Laws, Necessitation, and the Limitation of Our Knowledge.James Kreines - 2008 - European Journal of Philosophy 17 (4):527-558.
    Consider the laws of nature—the laws of physics, for example. One familiar philosophical question about laws is this: what is it to be a law of nature? More specifically, is a law of nature a regularity, or a generalization stating a regularity? Or is it something else? Another philosophical question is: how, and to what extent, can we have knowledge of the laws of nature? I am interested here in Kant's answers to these questions, and their place within his broader (...)
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  4. The Inexplicability of Kant’s Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation and Biology.James Kreines - 2005 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 87 (3):270-311.
    Kant’s position on teleology and biology is neither inconsistent nor obsolete; his arguments have some surprising and enduring philosophical strengths. But Kant’s account will appear weak if we muddy the waters by reading him as aiming to defend teleology by appealing to considerations popular in contemporary philosophy. Kant argues for very different conclusions: we can neither know teleological judgments of living beings to be true, nor legitimately explain living beings in teleological terms; such teleological judgment is justified only as a (...)
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    Kant on the Laws of Nature: Restrictive Inflationism and Its Philosophical Advantages.James Kreines - 2017 - The Monist 100 (3):326-341.
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    Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism: Hegel on Lower-Level Natural Kinds and the Structure of Reality.James Kreines - 2008 - Hegel Bulletin 29 (1-2):48-70.
    Recent debates about Hegel's theoretical philosophy are marked by a surprising lack of agreement, extending all the way down to the most basic question:what is Hegel talking about?On the one hand, proponents of ‘metaphysical’ interpretations generally read Hegel as aiming to articulate the overall structure or organisation of reality itself, and the nature of a highest or most fundamental being. Particularly influential is the idea that Hegel is reviving and modifying a form of Spinoza's metaphysical monism, according to which the (...)
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  7. Between the Bounds of experience and divine intuition: Kant's epistemic limits and Hegel's ambitions.James Kreines - 2007 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (3):306 – 334.
    Hegel seeks to overturn Kant's conclusion that our knowledge is restricted, or that we cannot have knowledge of things as they are in themselves. Understanding this Hegelian ambition requires distinguishing two Kantian characterizations of our epistemic limits: First, we can have knowledge only within the "bounds of experience". Second, we cannot have knowledge of objects that would be accessible only to a divine intellectual intuition, even though the faculty of reason requires us to conceive of such objects. Hegel aims to (...)
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    Hegel's critique of pure mechanism and the philosophical appeal of the logic project.James Kreines - 2004 - European Journal of Philosophy 12 (1):38–74.
    I undertake here the challenges of clarifying and defending Hegel’s mechanism argument, and showing how it throws some much-needed light on the nature and philosophical appeal of the Logic project. I will argue that the key to all this is Hegel’s focus on a philosophical problem concerning explanation itself. Unfortunately, this problem can easily be obscured from us by contemporary tastes and assumptions. In particular, where Hegel discusses mechanism and teleology, we must not read him as if he meant to (...)
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  9. (1 other version)Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism.James Kreines - 2008 - Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57:48-70.
     
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  10. Kant and Hegel on Teleology and Life from the Perspective of Debates about Free Will.James Kreines - 2013 - In Thomas Khurana (ed.), The Freedom of Life: Hegelian Perspectives. Berlin, Germany: August Verlag. pp. 111-153.
    Kant’s treatment of teleology and life in the Critique of the Power of Judgment is complicated and difficult to interpret; Hegel’s response adds considerable complexity. I propose a new way of understanding the underlying philosophical issues in this debate, allowing a better understanding of the underlying structure of the arguments in Kant and Hegel. My new way is unusual: I use for an interpretive lens some structural features of familiar debates about freedom of the will. These debates, I argue, allow (...)
     
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    Systematicity and Philosophical Interpretation: Hegel, Pippin, and Changing Debates.James Kreines - 2018 - Australasian Philosophical Review 2 (4):393-402.
    This paper argues that Robert Pippin’s work is an indispensable starting point for any engagement today with Hegel and German Idealism. His approach is unmatched when it comes to refusing to skip over or look away from the need to recover philosophical arguments, while actually finding arguments that could support the kind of unified philosophical system for which Hegel and the German Idealists aim. But the very success of Pippin’s work has also opened new possibilities for a competing kind of (...)
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    Hegel: The Reality and Priority of Immanent Teleology.James Kreines - 2020 - In Jeffrey McDonough (ed.), Philosophical Concepts: Teleology. pp. 219-248.
    Hegel defends the reality and the priority of immanent teleology. He does so by accepting Kant’s analysis of immanent teleology, but arguing against Kant’s subjectivist position. Key to Hegel’s argument is the idea that a general kind—in Hegel’s terms, a “concept” of a form of life—can be the substance or nature of the individual organism, or determine what it is to be that organism. In some ways Hegel here follows his own interpretation of Aristotle, while also trying to turn modern (...)
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    The Conclusion of Hegel’s Logic: From Objectivity to the Absolute Idea.James Kreines - 2017 - In Dean Moyar (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hegel. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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    Things in Themselves and Metaphysical Grounding: On Allais' Manifest Reality.James Kreines - 2016 - European Journal of Philosophy 24 (1):253-266.
  15. (1 other version)Fundamentality without Metaphysical Monism.James Kreines - 2018 - Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 39:138-156.
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    For a Dialectic-First Approach to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.James Kreines - 2022 - Open Philosophy 5 (1):490-509.
    To judge by the title, one would expect that interpretations of the Critique of Pure Reason would prioritize the division of the book most about reason and its critique: The Transcendental Dialectic. But the Dialectic is surprisingly secondary in the most established interpretive approaches. This article argues as follows: There is a problem that contributes to explaining the lack of popularity: The problem of how arguments really based in the Dialectic itself really promise to ground a broader project in theoretical (...)
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    Aristotelian Priority, Metaphysical Definitions of God and Hegel on Pure Thought as Absolute.James Kreines - 2020 - Hegel Bulletin 41 (1):19-39.
    This paper advances a philosophical interpretation of Hegel's Logic as defending a metaphysics, which includes an absolute, itself comparable to God in other systems of metaphysics of interest to Hegel, including Aristotle's and Spinoza's. Two problems are raised which can seem to block the prospects for such a metaphysically inflationary interpretation. The key to resolving these problems is consideration of the kinds of metaphysical priority that Hegel sees in Aristotle. This allows us to build a philosophical model of Hegel's absolute, (...)
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  18. Learning From Hegel What Philosophy is All About: For the Metaphysics of Reason; Against the Priority of Meaning.James Kreines - 2012 - Verifiche - Rivista di Scienze Umane 41 (1-3):129-173.
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    Spinoza, Kant and the Transition to Hegel’s Subjective Logic: Arguing For and Against Philosophical Systems.James Kreines - 2019 - Hegel Bulletin 40 (1):1-28.
    Hegel’sLogicargues in a manner that is supposed to support a systematic philosophy. But it is difficult to explain how such a systematic argument is supposed to work. For answers, I look to the key transition from the Doctrine of Essence to the Doctrine of the Concept. Here we find discussions of both Spinozist and Kantian systems of philosophy: both are supposed to be helpful, and yet also to be lacking in instructive ways. So the initial hope is that these comparisons (...)
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  20. Kant on our unquenchable desire for unknowable things in themselves: A path through the minefield.James Kreines - unknown
    (i) There are things in themselves. (ii) We can have no knowledge of things in themselves. An obvious worry is that the denial of knowledge should undercut Kant’s own assertion that there are things in themselves.1 Thus Jacobi quips, referring to the thing in itself as a presupposition of Kant’s system: “without that presupposition I could not enter into the system, but with it I could not stay within” (1787, 336).
     
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    THE METAPHYSICS OF REASON AND HEGEL's LOGIC.James Kreines - 2017 - Hegel-Studien 1 (50):129-173.
    In Reason in the World: Hegel’s Metaphysics and its Philosophical Appeal legt Kreines eine Interpretation vor, die Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik als eine systematisch um metaphysischeProbleme herum organisierte Theorie ausweist. Im Ausgang von Kants Nachweis in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft, die Metaphysik verstricke sich in unvermeidliche Widersprüche, zeigt Kreines die Gründe auf, die Hegel dazu bewegen, den metaphysischen Fundamentalismus in jedweder Form zurückzuweisen – einschließlich eines oft mit Hegel in Verbindung gebrachten metaphysischen Monismus. Bowman, Pinkard und Tolley diskutieren in (...)
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  22. Hegel on Mind, Action and Social Life: The Theory of Geist as a Theory of Explanation.James Kreines - 2001 - Dissertation, The University of Chicago
    This dissertation develops an interpretation of Hegel's answer to the question of who or what we ourselves are, or his theory of Geist . The theory of Geist is perhaps most familiar when read as an appeal to a romantic metaphysical or theological view on which we are all part of "cosmic spirit", a self-creating collective agent identical to reality itself. I argue that the theory of Geist cannot be understood apart from Hegel's core concerns, but that these are not (...)
     
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    Hegel on Philosophy in History.James Kreines & Rachel Zuckert (eds.) - 2016 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom, and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in action. Hegel scholars Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Sally Sedgwick, Terry Pinkard, and Paul Redding attempt to vindicate some of Hegel's (...)
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    Paul Redding, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying so much about Meaning and Love Hegel's Metaphysics and Kant's Epistemic Modesty.James Kreines - unknown
    In this interest of time, I’ll just say something directly: this is an incredible book. Reading it, thinking it through, is extremely rewarding. I haven’t read a work of philosophy that had as much impact on me since being in school myself. The book presents you with new ideas and connections and it forces you to see philosophy and its history in new ways, even if you (like me) had been quite attached to your old ways. The book got into (...)
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    (1 other version)The Logic of Life: Hegel's Philosophical Defense of Teleological Explanation of Living Beings.James Kreines - 2008 - In Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Hegel accords great philosophical importance to Kant’s discussions of teleology and biology in the Critique of the Power of Judgment, and yet also disagrees with Kant’s central conclusions there. More specifically, Kant argues for a generally skeptical view of teleological explanation of living beings; Hegel responds that Kant should instead defend such explanation—and that the defense of teleology should lead Kant to different conclusions throughout his theoretical philosophy. I aim to avoid the sort of interpretive charity that would begin with (...)
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    The Limit of Metatheory and the Interpretation of Hegel’s System.James Kreines - 2017 - Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 1 (xlvi):39-61.
    Hegel aims to defend a system of philosophy. So interpreters should consider what is required to interpret this specifically as a system. Once we are clear about this, I argue, we can see what would be involved in reading Hegel’s philosophy as a kind of metatheory. This allows discerning the strongest way of developing a reading of Hegel’s philosophy as a metatheory. But it also brings out reasons to avoid even the strongest version of that approach, or reasons to read (...)
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  27. Kreines Comment on Redding.James Kreines - unknown
    In this interest of time, I’ll just say something directly: this is an incredible book. Reading it, thinking it through, is extremely rewarding. I haven’t read a work of philosophy that had as much impact on me since being in school myself. The book presents you with new ideas and connections and it forces you to see philosophy and its history in new ways, even if you (like me) had been quite attached to your old ways. The book got into (...)
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    (2 other versions)Dieter Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism, ed. David Pacini. [REVIEW]James Kreines - 2006 - Philosophical Review 115 (1):112-115.
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    Robert Stern, Hegelian Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 397. H/b ISBN 978-0199239108, £55.00, P/b ISBN 019923910X, £25.00. [REVIEW]James Kreines - 2012 - Hegel Bulletin 33 (2):117-121.
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