On research leave Fall 2009-Spring 2010 with American Philosophical Society
sabbatical fellowship
Book in Progress
REASON IN THE WORLD:
THE PHILOSOPHICAL APPEAL OF HEGEL’S METAPHYSICS
PART ONE: INTO HEGELIAN METAPHYSICS
1.
Reason in the World and the Laws of Nature
2.
Beloved Metaphysics: Reason, the Concept, and the Structure of Reality
3. Teleology, Life and the
Levels of Reality
PART TWO: DIALECTIC AS THE THREAT TO METAPHYSICS
4.
Kant’s Dialectic and the Inescapability of Problems about Complete or
Absolute Reason
5.
Hegel’s Aims: Between the Bounds of Sense and Divine Intuition
PART THREE: DIALECTICAL METAPHYSICS AND THE IDEA AS ABSOLUTE
6.
Mechanism and the Defense of Immanent Concepts
7.
The Being of One is the Being of the Other: Holism and the
Insubstantiality of Lawful Nature
8.The Idea and the Priority of Inner Purposiveness
9.
Real Contradiction and the Idea as the Absolute
Papers
Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical
Monism. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57/58
2008 pp. 48-70. HTML or
PDF
Kant on Unknowable Things in Themselves: A
Neglected Path through the Minefield.
Draft under review 9/13/2009.
Reason in the World: Kant, Jacobi, and the Justification for Hegel’s
Project. In progress.
Kant on the Laws of Nature and the Limitations of our Knowledge.
European Journal
of Philosophy.
Free final Draft.
The Logic of Life:
Hegel’s Philosophical Defense of Teleological Explanation in Biology.
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy,
edited by F. Beiser. 2008. Free final draft.
Between The Bounds of
Experience and Divine Intuition: Kant’s Epistemic Limits and Hegel’s
Ambitions. Inquiry 50:3 2007 306 - 334.
Free final draft.
Hegel’s Metaphysics: Changing the Debate.
Philosophy Compass. 1:5 (2006): 466-480.
Free final draft.
The Inexplicability
of Kant's Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation and Biology.
Archiv für Geschichte der
Philosophie 87:3 (2005): 270-311. Free final
draft.
Hegel’s Critique of
Pure Mechanism and the Philosophical Appeal of the
Logic Project.
European Journal of Philosophy
12:1 (2004): 38-74. Free final draft.
Presentations
My paper on Redding:
Analytic Philosophy and
the Return of Hegelian Thought;
Pacific APA, Vancouver, April 2009. Also see: Redding's
response to Brandom and Kreines.
"Kant on the Laws of Nature and the Limitations of our Knowledge."
Abstract. Presented at the
Pacific Study Group of the North
American Kant Society, UCLA.
"Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical
Monism." Presented at the
Hegel Society of Great Britain conference, St Edmund's
Hall, Oxford: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit. Sept 2007.