Franz Knappik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1242714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franz Knappik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franz |
| FAMILY NAME | Knappik |
| SIGNATURE | KNAPPIK F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9164-9232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hegel and Colonialism
This Element offers the first comprehensive study of Hegel's views on European colonialism.In surprisingly detailed discussions scattered throughout much of his mature oeuvre, Hegel offers assessments that legitimise colonialism in the Americas, the enslavement of Africans, and British rule in India.The Element reconstructs these discussions as being held together by a systematic account of colonialism as racial domination, underpinned by central…
No need for mineness
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (DPD) is a psychopathological condition in which subjects suffer from a massive alienation from themselves and the world around them. In recent years, several philosophers have proposed accounts that explain DPD in terms of an alteration in global features of normal consciousness, such as ‘mineness’. This article criticizes such accounts and develops an alternative approach, based on the observation that m…
Introduction to the special issue ‘The phenomenology of joint action’
The contributions collected in this special issue explore the phenomenology of joint action from a broad range of different disciplinary and methodological angles, including philosophical investigation (both in the analytic and the phenomenological tradition), computational modeling, experimental study, game theory, and developmental psychology. They also vastly expand the range of discussed cases beyond the standard examples of house-painting an…
Introduction to Part 1 of the Themed Issue, ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’
It is increasingly realized today that Western modernity has not only promoted progressive ideals such as scientific thought, human rights and democratic political systems. Its history is also marked by a much darker side, one of brutal conquest, biological and cultural destruction, enslavement and exploitation of non-European peoples in the context of European colonialism. This dark side of Western modernity was legitimized by pro-colonial ideol…
Introduction to Part 2 of the Themed Issue, ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’
In the first part of our editorial introduction to the themed issue ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’ we outlined its rationale and some of its main topics. Here we address some common objections against research of this kind and formulate questions for further research
Exploring the Metaphysics of Hegel's Racism
This article interprets Hegel's hierarchical theory of race as an application of his general views about the metaphysics of classification and explanation. We begin by offering a reconstruction of Hegel's hierarchical theory of race based on the critical edition of relevant lecture transcripts: we argue that Hegel's position on race is appropriately classified as racist, that it postulates innate mental deficits of some races, and that it turns r…
Confusions about ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Voices
Both in research on Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs) and in their clinical assessment, it is common to distinguish between voices that are experienced as ‘inner’ (or ‘internal’, ‘inside the head’, ‘inside the mind’, ...) and voices that are experienced as ‘outer’ (‘external’, ‘outside the head’, ‘outside the mind’, ...). This inner/outer-contrast is treated not only as an important phenomenological variable of AVHs, it is also often seen as …
Hegel and Arguments for Natural Kind Essentialism
Natural Kind Essentialism (NKE) is the view that the objects of sciences like physics, chemistry and biology fall into natural kinds, and that such kinds have essences—sets of properties possession of which is necessary and sufficient for kind-membership. Since Putnam and Kripke brought NKE back onto the philosophical agenda, it has found many advocates. But comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of how this view can be posi…
And Yet He is a Monist
I critically discuss Kreines’s arguments against readings on which Hegel holds some version of metaphysical monism. In section 1, I address Kreines’s claim that Hegel’s revised version of Kant’s argument in the Transcendental Dialectic implies a rejection of metaphysical monism. I argue both that the argument that Kreines ascribes to Hegel does not itself rule out monism, and that there are serious exegetical problems with the way Kreines underst…
Bayes and the first person
Hegel's Essentialism. Natural Kinds and the Metaphysics of Explanation in Hegel's Theory of ‘the Concept
Several recent interpretations see Hegel's theory of the Concept as a form of conceptual realism, according to which finite reality is articulated by objectively existing concepts. More precisely, this theory has been interpreted as a version of natural kind essentialism, and it has been proposed that its function is to account for the possibility of genuine explanations. This suggests a promising way to reconstruct the argument that Hegel's theo…
Hegel’s modal argument against Spinozism. An interpretation of the chapter ‘Actuality’ in the Science of Logic
I propose a new reading of Hegel’s discussion of modality in the ‘Actuality’ chapter of the Science of Logic . On this reading, the main purpose of the chapter is a critical engagement with Spinoza’s modal metaphysics. Hegel first reconstructs a rationalist line of thought — corresponding to the cosmological argument for the existence of God — that ultimately leads to Spinozist necessitarianism. He then presents a reductio argument against necess…
Im Reich der Freiheit
According to Hegel, the capacity for freedom – understood as autonomous reason – is fundamental for thinking and knowing, and similarly, for wanting and acting. For Hegel, the “logical space of reason” constitutes a “realm of freedom.” Franz Knappik examines how Hegel developed these thoughts into a comprehensive theory that encompasses logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and practical rationality. In his discussions about the analytic approaches t…
Hegel's Essentialism. Natural Kinds and the Metaphysics of Explanation in Hegel's Theory of ‘the Concept
Several recent interpretations see Hegel's theory of the Concept as a form of conceptual realism, according to which finite reality is articulated by objectively existing concepts. More precisely, this theory has been interpreted as a version of natural kind essentialism, and it has been proposed that its function is to account for the possibility of genuine explanations. This suggests a promising way to reconstruct the argument that Hegel's theo…
Bayes and the first person
Im Reich der Freiheit
According to Hegel, the capacity for freedom – understood as autonomous reason – is fundamental for thinking and knowing, and similarly, for wanting and acting. For Hegel, the “logical space of reason” constitutes a “realm of freedom.” Franz Knappik examines how Hegel developed these thoughts into a comprehensive theory that encompasses logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and practical rationality. In his discussions about the analytic approaches t…
Hegel’s modal argument against Spinozism. An interpretation of the chapter ‘Actuality’ in the Science of Logic
I propose a new reading of Hegel’s discussion of modality in the ‘Actuality’ chapter of the Science of Logic . On this reading, the main purpose of the chapter is a critical engagement with Spinoza’s modal metaphysics. Hegel first reconstructs a rationalist line of thought — corresponding to the cosmological argument for the existence of God — that ultimately leads to Spinozist necessitarianism. He then presents a reductio argument against necess…
Hegel's Essentialism. Natural Kinds and the Metaphysics of Explanation in Hegel's Theory of ‘the Concept
Several recent interpretations see Hegel's theory of the Concept as a form of conceptual realism, according to which finite reality is articulated by objectively existing concepts. More precisely, this theory has been interpreted as a version of natural kind essentialism, and it has been proposed that its function is to account for the possibility of genuine explanations. This suggests a promising way to reconstruct the argument that Hegel's theo…
And Yet He is a Monist
I critically discuss Kreines’s arguments against readings on which Hegel holds some version of metaphysical monism. In section 1, I address Kreines’s claim that Hegel’s revised version of Kant’s argument in the Transcendental Dialectic implies a rejection of metaphysical monism. I argue both that the argument that Kreines ascribes to Hegel does not itself rule out monism, and that there are serious exegetical problems with the way Kreines underst…
Bayes and the first person
Hegel and Arguments for Natural Kind Essentialism
Natural Kind Essentialism (NKE) is the view that the objects of sciences like physics, chemistry and biology fall into natural kinds, and that such kinds have essences—sets of properties possession of which is necessary and sufficient for kind-membership. Since Putnam and Kripke brought NKE back onto the philosophical agenda, it has found many advocates. But comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of how this view can be posi…
Confusions about ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Voices
Both in research on Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs) and in their clinical assessment, it is common to distinguish between voices that are experienced as ‘inner’ (or ‘internal’, ‘inside the head’, ‘inside the mind’, ...) and voices that are experienced as ‘outer’ (‘external’, ‘outside the head’, ‘outside the mind’, ...). This inner/outer-contrast is treated not only as an important phenomenological variable of AVHs, it is also often seen as …
Exploring the Metaphysics of Hegel's Racism
This article interprets Hegel's hierarchical theory of race as an application of his general views about the metaphysics of classification and explanation. We begin by offering a reconstruction of Hegel's hierarchical theory of race based on the critical edition of relevant lecture transcripts: we argue that Hegel's position on race is appropriately classified as racist, that it postulates innate mental deficits of some races, and that it turns r…
Introduction to the special issue ‘The phenomenology of joint action’
The contributions collected in this special issue explore the phenomenology of joint action from a broad range of different disciplinary and methodological angles, including philosophical investigation (both in the analytic and the phenomenological tradition), computational modeling, experimental study, game theory, and developmental psychology. They also vastly expand the range of discussed cases beyond the standard examples of house-painting an…
Introduction to Part 1 of the Themed Issue, ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’
It is increasingly realized today that Western modernity has not only promoted progressive ideals such as scientific thought, human rights and democratic political systems. Its history is also marked by a much darker side, one of brutal conquest, biological and cultural destruction, enslavement and exploitation of non-European peoples in the context of European colonialism. This dark side of Western modernity was legitimized by pro-colonial ideol…
Introduction to Part 2 of the Themed Issue, ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’
In the first part of our editorial introduction to the themed issue ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’ we outlined its rationale and some of its main topics. Here we address some common objections against research of this kind and formulate questions for further research
Hegel and Colonialism
This Element offers the first comprehensive study of Hegel's views on European colonialism.In surprisingly detailed discussions scattered throughout much of his mature oeuvre, Hegel offers assessments that legitimise colonialism in the Americas, the enslavement of Africans, and British rule in India.The Element reconstructs these discussions as being held together by a systematic account of colonialism as racial domination, underpinned by central…
No need for mineness
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (DPD) is a psychopathological condition in which subjects suffer from a massive alienation from themselves and the world around them. In recent years, several philosophers have proposed accounts that explain DPD in terms of an alteration in global features of normal consciousness, such as ‘mineness’. This article criticizes such accounts and develops an alternative approach, based on the observation that m…
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Hegelianism (8 works) · Metaphysics (6 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 works) · Essentialism (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)