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Butler and Post-Analytic Philosophy

This article has two aims: (i) to bring Judith Butler and Wilfrid Sellars into conversation; and (ii) to argue that Butler’s poststructuralist critique of feminist identity politics has metaphilosophical potential, given her pragmatic parallel with Sellars’s critique of conceptual analyses of knowledge. With regard to (i), I argue that Butler’s objections to the definitional practice constitutive of certain ways of construing feminism is comparable to Sellars’s critique of the analytical project geared toward providing definitions of knowledge. Specifically, I propose that moving away from a definition of woman to what one may call poststructuralist sites of woman parallels moving away from a definition of knowledge to a pragmatic account of knowledge as a recognizable standing in the normative space of reasons. With regard to (ii), I argue that the important parallels between Butler’s poststructuralist feminism and Sellars’s antirepresentationalist normative pragmatism about knowledge enable one to think of her poststructuralist feminism as mapping out pragmatic cognitive strategies and visions for doing philosophy. This article starts a conversation between two philosophers whom the literature has yet to fully introduce to each other

Idealism and the metaphysics of individuality

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. What is arguably the central criticism of Hegel’s philosophical system by the Continental tradition, a criticism which represents a unifying thread in the diverse work of Schelling, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Adorno, is that Hegel fails to do justice to the notion of individuality. My aim in this article is to counter the claim that Hegel’s idea of the concrete universal fails to properly explain the real uniqueness of individuals. In what follows, I argue that while the Continental critique (as it is particularly expressed by Adorno) is prima facie attractive, it is ultimately misguided.This is because the critics of Hegel fail to correctly understand (1) his principal argument in ‘Sense-Certainty’; (2) crucial features of his logico-metaphysics; and (3) his notion of wholeness. I contend that carefully explicating these important parts of the Hegelian system not only shows that Hegel’s metaphysical commitments are not those that do not leave meaningful room for or make adequate sense of individuality, but that they also reveal a sophisticated treatment of the interdependency between the categories of individuality, particularity and universality in a way which conceives of individuality robustly

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The philosophical radicals, and other essays : with chapters reprinted on the philosophy of religion in Kant and Hegel /

Includes bibliographical references.The philosophical radicals.--Mr. Kidd on western civilisation.--Martineau's philosophy.--Herbert Spencer: the man and his work.--Reviews: Jones's ʻPhilosophy of Lotze ̓(1893) Dewey's ʻStudies in logical theory ̓(1904) M'Taggart's ʻSome dogmas of religion ̓(1906)--Reprints: The philosophy of religion in Kant and Hegel (1882) Philosophy as criticism of categories (1883)Mode of access: Internet

The development from Kant to Hegel with chapters on the philosophy of religion /

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Scottish philosophy : a comparison of the Scottish and German answers to Hume /

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Scottish philosophy : a comparison of the Scottish and German answers to Hume /

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