Essays
and Chapters
“Schelling’s Critique
of Hegel: Options and Responses, in the Spirit of
Highlighting Shared Insights” forthcoming in
Society for German Idealism and Romanticism Review.
“A Theory of German Idealism: Where Philosophy Turns the
PSR Upside Down”. Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Principle
of Sufficient Reason. Ed. Fatema Amijee and Michael Della
Rocca. Forthcoming.
“For a Dialectic-First Approach to Kant’s Critique
of Pure Reason”. Open Philosophy. 2022.
"The Reality
and Priority of Immanent Teleology: Hegel”. Oxford Philosophical
Concepts: Teleology 2020.
“Systematicity and Philosophical Interpretation: Hegel, Pippin, and
Changing Debates” Australasian Philosophical Review, 4:2.
2020.
Aristotelian Priority, Metaphysical Definitions of God, and Hegel on
Pure Thought as Absolute.
Hegel Bulletin 41 (1):19-39 (2020)
Spinoza, Kant and the Transition to Hegel's
Subjective Logic: On Arguing For and Against a System.
Bulletin of the Hegel
Society of Great Britain. 2018.
Kant on the Laws of Nature: Restrictive Inflationism and Its
Philosophical Advantages. The Monist 100(3) 2017.
The Limits Of Metatheory
And The Interpretation Of Hegel’s System.
DRAFT, or
Verifiche.
XLVI:1 2017.
The Metaphysics of Reason and Hegel's Logic. A Book Symposium on Kreines' Reason in the World. With Bowman, Pinkard and
Tolley.
Hegel-Studien
50. 2017.
Metaphysical Grounding
and Kant's Things in Themselves: on Allais' Manifest Reality. European Journal of Philosophy,
24:1 2016: 253–266.
Fundamentality without Metaphysical Monism: Replies to Knappik and Stern
on Reason in the World. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain
2016. (last draft)
The Idea and the Absolute Idea in Hegel's Science of Logic.
in The Oxford Handbook of Hegel.
Kant and Hegel on Teleology and Life
from the Perspective of Debates about Free Will, HTML or
PDF, 2013 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, ,Verifiche - Rivista di Scienze Umane 2012
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.
Work in
Progress
The Self-Determining Absolute: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysical
Systems in German Idealism (monograph)
"Kant and the
Principle of Sufficient Reason"
"Jacobi and Fichte: The Trap
for Idealist Systems"
"Kant against Teleological Explanation of Natural
Beings: Restrictive Inflationism"
"Spinoza's God and a
Defense of Hegel’s Criticism”. From this conference, Spinoza and Hegel.
“The
New Kant: Arguing Against Rationalist Readings”
“Unquenchable
Desire Beyond the Bounds Of Experience: Kant on the Unconditioned,
Reason and Critique”
Popular
"Hegel's Systematic Ambitions": Cambridge Core Hegel
Blog.
"Hegel's
Swimming Argument": 5minutenhegel.de
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Presentations, Upcomming and Recent
“Spinoza’s Abyss as Structuring of Hegel’s Logic” Workshop
on Hegel and Spinoza, Potsdam University, June 15, 2024.
"Philosophical Thought in Hegel’s Logic: Dynamic but Not
Historically Conditioned", Basel,
Workshop „Denken und seine Geschichtlichkeit“ (4.-5.05.24)
“Jacobi’s Leap and the Polarizing Idea of a System: For the
Importance of Leaps Before and After Hegel ”, May 10,
2024, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen.
“Don’t Worry, Being is Nothing: On Being as the
Problem of Philosophy”.
* Yale University, April 4, 2024
*
Dialectic and Contradiction Conference, University of
Valencia, June 5-7, 2024
“Nothing Halfway: System-Critique and System-Building in
German Idealism”
Loyola University, February, 2024.
“How Taking Metaphysics Seriously Structures Hegel’s Logic
and the Reasons Animating It”, Seminar Presentation,
Northwestern University, February 2024.
“Regulative Ideas and Dialectic-First Rethinking of the
Critique: Metaphysical Content, Objects Unknowable”. At
“Kant’s Regulative Ideas”, Tel Aviv, June 2023.
“Metaphysics *is* Meta-metaphysics: German Idealism as
Polarized by Agreed Importance of the Idea of a System”.
Keynote at “Metametaphysics in German Idealism”, Freiburg,
June 2023.
“Post-Kantian Philosophy” workshop, Freie Universitaet
Berlin, June 2023.
“From Shapeless Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought”
Colloquium for Classical German Philosophy, Humboldt
University Berlin, June 2023.
At “Acosmism
and Pantheism from Spinoza to German Idealism”, University
of Toronto, May, 2023
New York German Idealism Workshop, New School for Social
Research, February 2023.
Short presentation and discussion leader on Hegel on Being,
at "Mind and Representation: Approaches in Buddhist and
German Idealist Philosophy.”
Princeton, February 2023.
“The Status of the PSR and Reason’s Principle, and the
Priority of the Dialectic, in Kant: More Metaphysical, More
Critical”. Conference, Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic,
Simon Fraser University. October, 2022.
“Essences, Powers, Dispositions, Natures, Oh My! Lessons
from New Debates on
the 3rd Way on Kant on Laws and Unknowability” Workshop:
Essences, Dispositions, and Laws in Kant, Trier University.
August 2022.
"German Idealism:
Beyond the PSR". Workshop for
Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Teleology, Yale, June 2022.
Keynote speaker,
Valencia: “Spinoza, Kant & Hegel On Perspectives,
Contradiction & Antinomies” June 6-8. 2022.
Topic: “Kantian
Antinomy and Hegel as Reviving and Extending Spinoza’s
Metaphysics”
Speaker, Padova Hegel Lecture, May 24th 2022.
Lecture: “Kantian Antinomy and Hegel as Reviving and
Extending Spinoza’s Metaphysics”
“The Poisoned Chalice of Metaphysical Grounding: German
Idealism, Jacobi, and Hegel’s Metaphysical Idealism”.
Workshop: “Hegel’s Metaphysics: Dead or Alive?”
Freie Universitaet Berlin, May
20 2022.
“Taking Kierkegaardian Leaps Seriously in Approaching
Hegel’s Absolute,”,
Hegel and Kierkegaard, Princeton, April 2022.
“The Self-Determining Absolute: Renewing the Old
Story of Hegel as Idealist Spinoza”,
-
University of Heidelberg, November, 2021
-
University of Toronto,
April 2021.
"Jacobi and the Trap for
Fichte Between Jacobi and Schelling."
Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Philosophie I Forschungszentrum
für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie / Hegel-Archiv, Feb 2021.
“German Idealism as
Engagements with the Principle of Sufficient Reason”.
Classical German
Philosophy Colloquium, Humboldt University Berlin, June 2020.
“Absolutely Teleological
Metaphysics: Hegel’s Idealism.” (Virtual)
University of Valencia, October 2020.
Kant’s (Critique of/Principle
of Sufficient) Reason: The Account of Reason in the First Critique
as Guiding. Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society,
Loyola Marymount University, January 2020.
June 3 2019:
Kant on natural Laws A Workshop with James Kreines. Universität Potsdam.
June 4 2019: "The
Principle of Sufficient Reason and Hegel's Absolute Idealism".
Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Philosophie I Forschungszentrum
für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie / Hegel-Archiv
June 8 2019: Workshop: Hegel's Wirklichkeit and
Overcoming Spinoza, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin.
June 14 2019: "The Coherence of the Metaphysics of Hegel's Absolute
Idealism".
Workshop: Method, Metaphysics, and Hegel’s Science of
Logic. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
June 15 2019: "Theistic Proofs and Hegel's Argument for the Absolute Idea
as Metaphysical Definition of God".
Workshop: Hegel’s
Metaphysics of Absolute and Non-Absolute Ideas. Freie Universität
Berlin
"Absolute Idealism and the Metaphysical Definitions of God",
University of Chicago and Northwestern University, October, 2018.
"The Coherence and yet Unknowability of Natural Teleology:
Seeking Strength in Kant‘s Argument".
Workshop:
Kants Teleologiekonzeption, Free University,
Berlin, July 14.
"Hegel's Absolute Idealism: Metaphysical Definitions of God and
Self-Determining Thought"
Conference: Aristotle's God and German Idealism,
speaker and co-organizer.
Humboldt University, Berlin, July 12
Internationale Tagung: Hegels Theorie des absoluten Geistes.
Free University, Berlin. June 14-16. „Hegel on Self-Determining
Thought: Arguing for an Unusual Metaphysical Idealism”.
32nd International Hegel Conference, Tampere,
Finland. June 5-9.
Keynote Speaker
New Work on Kant and German Idealism, University of Bergen, June
1
Workshop,
University of Potsdam, May 25:
"Kant and the Metametaphysics of Reason and Critique"
"Hegel on the Reality and Priority of Immanent Teleology"
"The Metaphysical Infinite as Self-Determining Thought: Hegel's
Idealism"
History of Metaphysics: Infinity
University of Toronto, May 5-6
“Hegel's Idealism: The Metaphysics of Insubstantiality and
Self-Determination”.
At Idealism: The
Fourteenth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy.
NYU, November 2017.
"Spinoza on God and a Defense of Hegel's Criticism: The Shapeless
Abyss". New School for Social Research, November 2017.
"Immanent Teleology: Defending the Divergent Arguments of Kant and
Hegel" (tentative) Columbia University, October 2017
“The Concept as the Substance of Life: The Key to Hegel’s Defense of
Natural Teleology”. Workshop for the Oxford Philosophical Concepts:
Teleology, Radcliffe, September 2017.
“Against the Principle of Sufficient Reason, but For Complete
Causes: Hegel’s Metaphysics of Causality”, keynote speaker,
Causality in Hegel/Kausalität bei Hegel conference, LMU Munich, May
2017.
“Unquenchable Desire Beyond the Bounds Of Experience: Kant on the
Unconditioned, Reason and Critique” Department talks in Potsdam and
Bonn, May 2017.
“Kant, Hegel, and Metaphysical Grounding” University of
Valencia, June 2017.
"Kant, Spinoza and Hegel's Subjective Logic", Reconsidering Hegel's
Logic, University of Pittsburgh, April 14-16.
"Spinoza on God and the Finite, the Philosophical Force of Hegel’s
Criticisms, and the Influence of Jacobi", workshop, Konstanz.
"Hegel's Response to Kant's Antinomies", Disunity of Reason
conference, Freie Universität Berlin.
"Hegel's Philosophy is no Metatheory", Hegel's Philosophy as
Meta-Theory conference, Verona, Italy.
“Kant’s
Restrictive Inflationism: The Laws of Nature and the Critical
Philosophy”,
Seminar discussion, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Author meets critics on my
Reason in the World. Central APA, March 2016.
"The
Dialectic of Kant and Hegel"
- Universität Tübingen, June 2015.
- University
of
California,
Riverside, March 2015.
“The New
Kant: Arguing Against Rationalist Readings.”
- Seminar discussion, Universität Tübingen, June 2015.
- Seminar discussion, Humboldt University, Berlin, November,
2014.
Buchsymposium am
Lehrstuhl für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie, Humboldt Universität,
November 11, 2014
James Kreines, "Reason in the World.
Hegel's Metaphysics and its
Philosophical Appeal" Precis, and responses to papers on the
book by Robert Stern, Sheffield University, and Franz Knappik,
Humboldt University
“Hegel’s
Metaphysical Project: Neither Scientifically Outdated, Nor Vulnerable
to Antirealist Critiques“. Tuesday, October 28th, at the University of
Padua.
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.
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