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REASON IN THE WORLD:
THE PHILOSOPHICAL APPEAL OF HEGEL’S METAPHYSICS
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contents and more information on the book.
Publications
Kant and Hegel on Teleology and Life
from the Perspective of Debates about Free Will, HTML or
PDF, Forthcoming 2012 in
The Freedom of Life, edited by Thomas Khurana, a third volume
in the Freiheit und
Gesetz series.
"Learning From Hegel What Philosophy is All About:
For the Metaphysics of Reason; Against the Priority of Meaning" HTML
or PDF,
DRAFT, comments welcome, forthcoming in Verifiche - Rivista di Scienze Umane
Kant on the Laws of Nature and the Limitations of our Knowledge.
European Journal of Philosophy 2009 17 (4):527-558.
Free final Draft.
Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical
Monism. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57/58
2008 pp. 48-70. HTML or
PDF
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. (Note: this
paper is being superseded by a new treatment of the same material in the
book; feel free to email to check if the new treatment is currently
stable enough to solicit comments.)
Other Work in
Progress
"Kant on Unknowable Things in Themselves: A
Neglected Path through the Minefield."
(Will later
be broken up into several long papers.)
"Reason in the World: Kant, Jacobi, and the Justification for Hegel’s
Project." In progress.
Presentations
Author-Meets-Critics: Christopher Yeomans, Freedom and Reflection:
Hegel and the Logic of Agency
9:00-Noon, Thurs Mar 28, 2013, Pacific APA
Critics: James Kreines (Claremont McKenna College) and Michael Quante (Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Hegel on Holism, the
Insubstantiality of Lawful Nature, and Dialectical Metaphysics. Università degli Studi di Padova Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in
Filosofia. May 2011.
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.