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Physicotheology in Kant’s Transition from Nature to Freedom Open
This article examines Kant’s treatment of the design argument for the existence of God, or physicotheology. It criticizes the interpretation that, for Kant, the assumption of intelligent design satisfies an internal demand of inquiry. It a…
Johann Friedrich Herbart: Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Beiser Open
Reviewed by: Johann Friedrich Herbart: Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Beiser Nabeel Hamid BEISER, Frederick C. Johann Friedrich Herbart: Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii +…
Reason in Kant’s Theory of Cognition Open
This paper reconstructs and defends Kant’s argument for the transcendental status of reason’s principles of the systematic unity of nature in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic. On the present account, these principles neither co…
One True Cause: Causal Powers, Divine Concurrence, and the Seventeenth-Century Revival of Occasionalism by Andrew R. Platt Open
Reviewed by: One True Cause: Causal Powers, Divine Concurrence, and the Seventeenth-Century Revival of Occasionalism by Andrew R. Platt Nabeel Hamid Andrew R. Platt. One True Cause: Causal Powers, Divine Concurrence, and the Seventeenth-Ce…
Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg Open
This paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011). On this account, internal developments in the scholasti…
Being And The Good: Natural Teleology In Early Modern German Philosophy Open
This dissertation examines the problem of teleology in early modern German philosophy. The problem, briefly, is to account for the proper sources and conditions of the use of teleological concepts such as design, purpose, function, or end …