Kevin Schäfer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 150884 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin Schäfer |
| NOMBRES | Kevin |
| APELLIDO | Schäfer |
| FIRMA | SCHÄFER K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6491-2207 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Kant's Reason
Kant’s Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant’s conception of reason and its philosophical significance, focusing on two claims. First, it argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or “comprehension”). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and p…
Kant's Justification of Ethics
Owen Ware's excellent new monograph brings together several recent papers to construct a systematic picture of Kant's aims and methods in his two most foundational works of practical philosophy: The Groundwork and the second Critique. In doing so, Ware argues (convincingly to my mind) that the transition between the Groundwork and the second Critique does not represent the dramatic reversal in Kant's thought that many scholars have found in these…
Kant on Reason as the Capacity for Comprehension
This essay develops an interpretation of Kant’s conception of the faculty of reason as the capacity for what he calls ‘comprehension’ (Begreifen). In doing so, it first discusses Kant's characterizations of reason in relation to what he describes as the two highest grades of cognition—insight and comprehension. Then it discusses how the resulting conception of reason relates to more familiar characterizations as the faculty for inference and the …
Examining the relationship between vowel quality and voice quality
The majority of studies on phonation types have focused on low vowels due to the minimal effects of their first formant on harmonic amplitude. In studies of multiple vowel qualities, reports on the relationship between vowel and voice quality are mixed: some show similar formant frequencies across phonation types (e.g. Abramson, Nye & Luangthongkum 2007, Khan 2012), while others show different formant frequencies depending on voice quality (e.g. …
A Kantian virtue epistemology
Transcendental Philosophy As Capacities‐First Philosophy
In this essay, I propose a novel way of thinking about Kant’s philosophical methodology during the critical period. According to this interpretation, the critical Kant can generally be understood as operating within a “capacities‐first” philosophical framework – that is, within a framework in which our basic rational or cognitive capacities play both an explanatorily and epistemically fundamental role in philosophy – or, at least, in the sort of …
The Scenic Route? On Errol Lord’s The Importance of Being Rational
A system of rational faculties
In this essay, I focus on two questions. First, what is Kant's understanding of the sense in which our faculties form a unified system? And, second, what are the implications of this for the metaphysical relationships between the faculties within this system? To consider these questions, I begin with a brief discussion of Longuenesse's groundbreaking work on the teleological unity of the understanding as the faculty for judgment. In doing so, I a…
Kant
Over the last two decades, Kant’s name has become closely associated with the “constitutivist” program within metaethics.11 The association of Kant and constitutivism is due above all to the work of Korsgaard – see for example Korsgaard (1996 Korsgaard, Christine. 1996. The Sources of Normativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2008 Korsgaard, Christine. 2008. The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical R…
Constitutivism about Reasons
Contemporary forms of Kantian constitutivism generally begin with a conception of agency on which the constitutive aim of agency is some form of autonomy or self-unification. This chapter argues for a re-orientation of the Kantian constitutivist project towards views that begin with a conception of rationality on which both theoretical and practical rationality aim at forms of understanding. In a slogan, then, understanding-first as opposed to au…
Hard Problems Between Minds and Bodies
Intuitions and objects in Allais’s manifest reality
How Common is Peer Disagreement? On Self‐Trust and Rational Symmetry
In this paper I offer an argument for a view about the epistemology of peer disagreement, which I call the “Rational Symmetry View”. I argue that this view follows from a natural (if controversial) conception of the epistemology of testimony, together with a basic entitlement to trust our own faculties for belief formation. I then discuss some objections to this view, focusing on its relationship to other well‐known views in the literature. The u…
Realism and Constructivism in Kantian Metaethics (2)
In the second half of this essay, I discuss the robust conception of rationality that lies at the heart of the Kantian version of Rationalist Constructivism - offering some reasons to prefer this conception to the more minimal accounts of rationality associated with Humean views. I then go on to discuss some of the potential metaethical advantages of the resulting form of constructivism
Realism and Constructivism in Kantian Metaethics (1)
Metaethical constructivism is one of the main movements within contemporary metaethics - especially among those with Kantian inclinations. But both the philosophical coherence and the Kantian pedigree of constructivism are hotly contested. In the first half of this article, I first explore the sense in which Kant's own views might be described as constructivist and then use the resulting understanding as a guide to how we might think about Kantia…
Doxastic planning and epistemic internalism
Knowledge and Two Forms of Non‐Accidental Truth
Constructivism and Three Forms of Perspective‐Dependence in Metaethics 1
Faultless Disagreement and Aesthetic Realism
It has recently been argued that certain areas of discourse, such as discourse about matters of taste, involve a phenomenon of ‘‘faultless disagreement’’ that rules out giving a standard realist or contextualist semantics for them. Thus, it is argued, we are left with no choice but to consider more adventurous semantic alternatives for these areas, such as a semantic account that involves relativizing truth to perspectives or contexts of assessme…
Kant
Over the last two decades, Kant’s name has become closely associated with the “constitutivist” program within metaethics.11 The association of Kant and constitutivism is due above all to the work of Korsgaard – see for example Korsgaard (1996 Korsgaard, Christine. 1996. The Sources of Normativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2008 Korsgaard, Christine. 2008. The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical R…
Realism and Constructivism in Kantian Metaethics (1)
Metaethical constructivism is one of the main movements within contemporary metaethics - especially among those with Kantian inclinations. But both the philosophical coherence and the Kantian pedigree of constructivism are hotly contested. In the first half of this article, I first explore the sense in which Kant's own views might be described as constructivist and then use the resulting understanding as a guide to how we might think about Kantia…
Faultless Disagreement and Aesthetic Realism
It has recently been argued that certain areas of discourse, such as discourse about matters of taste, involve a phenomenon of ‘‘faultless disagreement’’ that rules out giving a standard realist or contextualist semantics for them. Thus, it is argued, we are left with no choice but to consider more adventurous semantic alternatives for these areas, such as a semantic account that involves relativizing truth to perspectives or contexts of assessme…
Transcendental Philosophy As Capacities‐First Philosophy
In this essay, I propose a novel way of thinking about Kant’s philosophical methodology during the critical period. According to this interpretation, the critical Kant can generally be understood as operating within a “capacities‐first” philosophical framework – that is, within a framework in which our basic rational or cognitive capacities play both an explanatorily and epistemically fundamental role in philosophy – or, at least, in the sort of …
A system of rational faculties
In this essay, I focus on two questions. First, what is Kant's understanding of the sense in which our faculties form a unified system? And, second, what are the implications of this for the metaphysical relationships between the faculties within this system? To consider these questions, I begin with a brief discussion of Longuenesse's groundbreaking work on the teleological unity of the understanding as the faculty for judgment. In doing so, I a…
How Common is Peer Disagreement? On Self‐Trust and Rational Symmetry
In this paper I offer an argument for a view about the epistemology of peer disagreement, which I call the “Rational Symmetry View”. I argue that this view follows from a natural (if controversial) conception of the epistemology of testimony, together with a basic entitlement to trust our own faculties for belief formation. I then discuss some objections to this view, focusing on its relationship to other well‐known views in the literature. The u…
Kant's Reason
Kant’s Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant’s conception of reason and its philosophical significance, focusing on two claims. First, it argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or “comprehension”). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and p…
Constructivism and Three Forms of Perspective‐Dependence in Metaethics 1
Intuitions and objects in Allais’s manifest reality
Doxastic planning and epistemic internalism
Knowledge and Two Forms of Non‐Accidental Truth
Kant's Justification of Ethics
Owen Ware's excellent new monograph brings together several recent papers to construct a systematic picture of Kant's aims and methods in his two most foundational works of practical philosophy: The Groundwork and the second Critique. In doing so, Ware argues (convincingly to my mind) that the transition between the Groundwork and the second Critique does not represent the dramatic reversal in Kant's thought that many scholars have found in these…
Kant on Reason as the Capacity for Comprehension
This essay develops an interpretation of Kant’s conception of the faculty of reason as the capacity for what he calls ‘comprehension’ (Begreifen). In doing so, it first discusses Kant's characterizations of reason in relation to what he describes as the two highest grades of cognition—insight and comprehension. Then it discusses how the resulting conception of reason relates to more familiar characterizations as the faculty for inference and the …
A Kantian virtue epistemology
The Scenic Route? On Errol Lord’s The Importance of Being Rational
Realism and Constructivism in Kantian Metaethics (2)
In the second half of this essay, I discuss the robust conception of rationality that lies at the heart of the Kantian version of Rationalist Constructivism - offering some reasons to prefer this conception to the more minimal accounts of rationality associated with Humean views. I then go on to discuss some of the potential metaethical advantages of the resulting form of constructivism
Faultless Disagreement and Aesthetic Realism
It has recently been argued that certain areas of discourse, such as discourse about matters of taste, involve a phenomenon of ‘‘faultless disagreement’’ that rules out giving a standard realist or contextualist semantics for them. Thus, it is argued, we are left with no choice but to consider more adventurous semantic alternatives for these areas, such as a semantic account that involves relativizing truth to perspectives or contexts of assessme…
Constructivism and Three Forms of Perspective‐Dependence in Metaethics 1
Knowledge and Two Forms of Non‐Accidental Truth
Doxastic planning and epistemic internalism
How Common is Peer Disagreement? On Self‐Trust and Rational Symmetry
In this paper I offer an argument for a view about the epistemology of peer disagreement, which I call the “Rational Symmetry View”. I argue that this view follows from a natural (if controversial) conception of the epistemology of testimony, together with a basic entitlement to trust our own faculties for belief formation. I then discuss some objections to this view, focusing on its relationship to other well‐known views in the literature. The u…
Realism and Constructivism in Kantian Metaethics (2)
In the second half of this essay, I discuss the robust conception of rationality that lies at the heart of the Kantian version of Rationalist Constructivism - offering some reasons to prefer this conception to the more minimal accounts of rationality associated with Humean views. I then go on to discuss some of the potential metaethical advantages of the resulting form of constructivism
Realism and Constructivism in Kantian Metaethics (1)
Metaethical constructivism is one of the main movements within contemporary metaethics - especially among those with Kantian inclinations. But both the philosophical coherence and the Kantian pedigree of constructivism are hotly contested. In the first half of this article, I first explore the sense in which Kant's own views might be described as constructivist and then use the resulting understanding as a guide to how we might think about Kantia…
Intuitions and objects in Allais’s manifest reality
Constitutivism about Reasons
Contemporary forms of Kantian constitutivism generally begin with a conception of agency on which the constitutive aim of agency is some form of autonomy or self-unification. This chapter argues for a re-orientation of the Kantian constitutivist project towards views that begin with a conception of rationality on which both theoretical and practical rationality aim at forms of understanding. In a slogan, then, understanding-first as opposed to au…
Hard Problems Between Minds and Bodies
Kant
Over the last two decades, Kant’s name has become closely associated with the “constitutivist” program within metaethics.11 The association of Kant and constitutivism is due above all to the work of Korsgaard – see for example Korsgaard (1996 Korsgaard, Christine. 1996. The Sources of Normativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2008 Korsgaard, Christine. 2008. The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical R…
Transcendental Philosophy As Capacities‐First Philosophy
In this essay, I propose a novel way of thinking about Kant’s philosophical methodology during the critical period. According to this interpretation, the critical Kant can generally be understood as operating within a “capacities‐first” philosophical framework – that is, within a framework in which our basic rational or cognitive capacities play both an explanatorily and epistemically fundamental role in philosophy – or, at least, in the sort of …
The Scenic Route? On Errol Lord’s The Importance of Being Rational
A system of rational faculties
In this essay, I focus on two questions. First, what is Kant's understanding of the sense in which our faculties form a unified system? And, second, what are the implications of this for the metaphysical relationships between the faculties within this system? To consider these questions, I begin with a brief discussion of Longuenesse's groundbreaking work on the teleological unity of the understanding as the faculty for judgment. In doing so, I a…
Examining the relationship between vowel quality and voice quality
The majority of studies on phonation types have focused on low vowels due to the minimal effects of their first formant on harmonic amplitude. In studies of multiple vowel qualities, reports on the relationship between vowel and voice quality are mixed: some show similar formant frequencies across phonation types (e.g. Abramson, Nye & Luangthongkum 2007, Khan 2012), while others show different formant frequencies depending on voice quality (e.g. …
A Kantian virtue epistemology
Kant on Reason as the Capacity for Comprehension
This essay develops an interpretation of Kant’s conception of the faculty of reason as the capacity for what he calls ‘comprehension’ (Begreifen). In doing so, it first discusses Kant's characterizations of reason in relation to what he describes as the two highest grades of cognition—insight and comprehension. Then it discusses how the resulting conception of reason relates to more familiar characterizations as the faculty for inference and the …
Kant's Reason
Kant’s Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant’s conception of reason and its philosophical significance, focusing on two claims. First, it argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or “comprehension”). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and p…
Kant's Justification of Ethics
Owen Ware's excellent new monograph brings together several recent papers to construct a systematic picture of Kant's aims and methods in his two most foundational works of practical philosophy: The Groundwork and the second Critique. In doing so, Ware argues (convincingly to my mind) that the transition between the Groundwork and the second Critique does not represent the dramatic reversal in Kant's thought that many scholars have found in these…
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