This paper explains the empirical markers by which Kant thinks that one can identify moral responsibility. After explaining the problem of discerning such markers within a Kantian framework I briefly explain Kant's empirical psychology. I then argue that Kant's empirical markers for moral responsibility--linked to higher faculties of cognition--are not sufficient conditions for moral responsibi...

Abstract With the publication of Husserliana series and Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe both nearing completion, a strikingly different picture their work than was available to earlier generations is emerging. It has become quite clear that phenomenological philosophy not fixed “system” but an ongoing philosophical practice much contribute debates in contemporary generally. would be impossible here c...

Despite being dwarfed by “The Transcendental Doctrine of Elements” in both size and influence, “The Transcendental Doctrine of Method” is officially the second main part of the Critique of Pure Reason. It starts with an architectural metaphor: in the first part of the book, Kant says, we “made an estimate of the building materials and determined for what sort of edifice, with what height and st...

This article deals with Jacques Derrida’s critique of the phenomenological concepts spirituality and spirit, particularly in context his 1987 book Of Spirit. As shows, interpretation these was based on a seemingly minor, yet extremely important misreading Edmund Husserl’s key passages relationship between Europe. Unlike Derrida claims, Husserl did not equate Europe universal teleology humankind...

Abstract In Scientific Ontology , Chakravartty diagnoses a “dramatic conflict” between empiricism and metaphysics aims to overcome that conflict by opting for modern-day variant of Pyrrhonism, i.e. appreciating the equal strength ( isostheneia ) arguments against empiricist metaphysical positions, achieving tranquility ataraxia suspending judgment or remaining speechless in face . this paper, I...

3.1. The Underlying Problem of Moral Philosophy: Decoupling from the Life-Ground 3.2. The Conventional Tendency: Prescribing and Punishing Without Good Reason 3.3. The Professional Tendency: Moral Philosophy without Life Substance 3.4. Evaluating Social Value Systems: Off-Limits Even to Marxian Thought 3.5. What the Organism Wants: Desire Theory and its Fatal Flaw 3.6. The Paradox of Market Suc...