James Kreines
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Kreines |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Kreines |
| SIGNATURE | KREINES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont McKenna College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Poison Chalice of Metaphysical Grounding: Jacobi and Hegel as Reversing Contemporary Expectations
Today issues about ‘metaphysical grounding’ have come to the centre of philosophical discussion. In the case of Schaffer’s widely influential work, this comes with a defence of monism, according to which everything is grounded in one comprehensive whole. He cites as predecessors Hegel and Spinoza. Part of Schaffer’s case runs through a claim that issues about grounding are unavoidable in philosophy. It is natural to expect that an unavoidability …
Reasons for the Importance of the Post-Kantian Idea of a System: Nothing Halfway, Jacobi and Schelling
The post–Kantian idea of a system demands complete intelligibility, taking systematicity all the way. Many would prefer more moderate or balanced forms of philosophy, indifferent to this ‘nothing–halfway’ idea of a system. But I argue that post–Kantian reasons for the importance of their idea are surprisingly strong. Some at the time advance what I call ‘system–critique’: defending the idea’s importance while yet rejecting systems. Jacobi is a pa…
Aristotelian Priority, Metaphysical Definitions of God and Hegel on Pure Thought as Absolute
This paper advances a philosophical interpretation of Hegel's Logic as defending a metaphysics, which includes an absolute, itself comparable to God in other systems of metaphysics of interest to Hegel, including Aristotle's and Spinoza's. Two problems are raised which can seem to block the prospects for such a metaphysically inflationary interpretation. The key to resolving these problems is consideration of the kinds of metaphysical priority th…
Spinoza, Kant and the Transition to Hegel’s Subjective Logic: Arguing For and Against Philosophical Systems
Hegel’s Logic argues in a manner that is supposed to support a systematic philosophy. But it is difficult to explain how such a systematic argument is supposed to work. For answers, I look to the key transition from the Doctrine of Essence to the Doctrine of the Concept. Here we find discussions of both Spinozist and Kantian systems of philosophy: both are supposed to be helpful, and yet also to be lacking in instructive ways. So the initial hope…
Fundamentality without Metaphysical Monism: Response to Critics of Reason in the World
This article is a reply to comments by Franz Knappik and Robert Stern on my book, Reason in the World: Hegel’s Metaphysics and its Philosophical Appeal . Issues addressed include the systematicity of Hegel’s philosophy, the prioritizing of metaphysical over epistemological questions in his arguments, Hegel’s response to Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason, and my conclusion that there are senses in which Hegel’s own position is both ambitiously metaph…
Hegel on Philosophy in History
Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in ac…
Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal
This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel’s theoretical philosophy. It is argued that Hegel’s project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by the metaphilosophical commitment that metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy. Hegel pursues more specifically the metaphysics of reason, concerned with the reasons, or conditions in terms of which things can be explained. Straightforward epistemological or skeptica…
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team of Hegel scholars. The volume begins with Terry P…
Kant on the Laws of Nature: Laws, Necessitation, and the Limitation of Our Knowledge
Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism: Hegel on Lower-Level Natural Kinds and the Structure of Reality
Recent debates about Hegel's theoretical philosophy are marked by a surprising lack of agreement, extending all the way down to the most basic question: what is Hegel talking about? On the one hand, proponents of ‘metaphysical’ interpretations generally read Hegel as aiming to articulate the overall structure or organisation of reality itself, and the nature of a highest or most fundamental being. Particularly influential is the idea that Hegel i…
Between the Bounds of Experience and Divine Intuition: Kant's Epistemic Limits and Hegel's Ambitions
Hegel seeks to overturn Kant's conclusion that our knowledge is restricted, or that we cannot have knowledge of things as they are in themselves. Understanding this Hegelian ambition requires distinguishing two Kantian characterizations of our epistemic limits: First, we can have knowledge only within the “bounds of experience”. Second, we cannot have knowledge of objects that would be accessible only to a divine intellectual intuition, even thou…
Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism
Book Review| January 01 2006 Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism Dieter Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism, edited by David Pacini. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. liv + 341 pp. James Kreines James Kreines Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 112–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Hegel's Metaphysics: Changing the Debate
There are two general approaches to Hegel's theoretical philosophy which are broadly popular in recent work. Debate between them is often characterized, by both sides, as a dispute between those favoring a more traditional "metaphysical" approach and those favoring a newer "non-metaphysical" approach. But I argue that the most important and compelling points made by both sides are actually independent of the idea of a "non-metaphysical" interpret…
Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal
This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel’s theoretical philosophy. It is argued that Hegel’s project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by the metaphilosophical commitment that metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy. Hegel pursues more specifically the metaphysics of reason, concerned with the reasons, or conditions in terms of which things can be explained. Straightforward epistemological or skeptica…
Kant on the Laws of Nature: Laws, Necessitation, and the Limitation of Our Knowledge
Hegel's Metaphysics: Changing the Debate
There are two general approaches to Hegel's theoretical philosophy which are broadly popular in recent work. Debate between them is often characterized, by both sides, as a dispute between those favoring a more traditional "metaphysical" approach and those favoring a newer "non-metaphysical" approach. But I argue that the most important and compelling points made by both sides are actually independent of the idea of a "non-metaphysical" interpret…
Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism: Hegel on Lower-Level Natural Kinds and the Structure of Reality
Recent debates about Hegel's theoretical philosophy are marked by a surprising lack of agreement, extending all the way down to the most basic question: what is Hegel talking about? On the one hand, proponents of ‘metaphysical’ interpretations generally read Hegel as aiming to articulate the overall structure or organisation of reality itself, and the nature of a highest or most fundamental being. Particularly influential is the idea that Hegel i…
Between the Bounds of Experience and Divine Intuition: Kant's Epistemic Limits and Hegel's Ambitions
Hegel seeks to overturn Kant's conclusion that our knowledge is restricted, or that we cannot have knowledge of things as they are in themselves. Understanding this Hegelian ambition requires distinguishing two Kantian characterizations of our epistemic limits: First, we can have knowledge only within the “bounds of experience”. Second, we cannot have knowledge of objects that would be accessible only to a divine intellectual intuition, even thou…
Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism
Book Review| January 01 2006 Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism Dieter Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism, edited by David Pacini. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. liv + 341 pp. James Kreines James Kreines Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 112–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Hegel's Metaphysics: Changing the Debate
There are two general approaches to Hegel's theoretical philosophy which are broadly popular in recent work. Debate between them is often characterized, by both sides, as a dispute between those favoring a more traditional "metaphysical" approach and those favoring a newer "non-metaphysical" approach. But I argue that the most important and compelling points made by both sides are actually independent of the idea of a "non-metaphysical" interpret…
Between the Bounds of Experience and Divine Intuition: Kant's Epistemic Limits and Hegel's Ambitions
Hegel seeks to overturn Kant's conclusion that our knowledge is restricted, or that we cannot have knowledge of things as they are in themselves. Understanding this Hegelian ambition requires distinguishing two Kantian characterizations of our epistemic limits: First, we can have knowledge only within the “bounds of experience”. Second, we cannot have knowledge of objects that would be accessible only to a divine intellectual intuition, even thou…
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team of Hegel scholars. The volume begins with Terry P…
Kant on the Laws of Nature: Laws, Necessitation, and the Limitation of Our Knowledge
Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism: Hegel on Lower-Level Natural Kinds and the Structure of Reality
Recent debates about Hegel's theoretical philosophy are marked by a surprising lack of agreement, extending all the way down to the most basic question: what is Hegel talking about? On the one hand, proponents of ‘metaphysical’ interpretations generally read Hegel as aiming to articulate the overall structure or organisation of reality itself, and the nature of a highest or most fundamental being. Particularly influential is the idea that Hegel i…
Reason in the World: Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal
This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel’s theoretical philosophy. It is argued that Hegel’s project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by the metaphilosophical commitment that metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy. Hegel pursues more specifically the metaphysics of reason, concerned with the reasons, or conditions in terms of which things can be explained. Straightforward epistemological or skeptica…
Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in ac…
Hegel on Philosophy in History
Fundamentality without Metaphysical Monism: Response to Critics of Reason in the World
This article is a reply to comments by Franz Knappik and Robert Stern on my book, Reason in the World: Hegel’s Metaphysics and its Philosophical Appeal . Issues addressed include the systematicity of Hegel’s philosophy, the prioritizing of metaphysical over epistemological questions in his arguments, Hegel’s response to Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason, and my conclusion that there are senses in which Hegel’s own position is both ambitiously metaph…
Spinoza, Kant and the Transition to Hegel’s Subjective Logic: Arguing For and Against Philosophical Systems
Hegel’s Logic argues in a manner that is supposed to support a systematic philosophy. But it is difficult to explain how such a systematic argument is supposed to work. For answers, I look to the key transition from the Doctrine of Essence to the Doctrine of the Concept. Here we find discussions of both Spinozist and Kantian systems of philosophy: both are supposed to be helpful, and yet also to be lacking in instructive ways. So the initial hope…
Aristotelian Priority, Metaphysical Definitions of God and Hegel on Pure Thought as Absolute
This paper advances a philosophical interpretation of Hegel's Logic as defending a metaphysics, which includes an absolute, itself comparable to God in other systems of metaphysics of interest to Hegel, including Aristotle's and Spinoza's. Two problems are raised which can seem to block the prospects for such a metaphysically inflationary interpretation. The key to resolving these problems is consideration of the kinds of metaphysical priority th…
Reasons for the Importance of the Post-Kantian Idea of a System: Nothing Halfway, Jacobi and Schelling
The post–Kantian idea of a system demands complete intelligibility, taking systematicity all the way. Many would prefer more moderate or balanced forms of philosophy, indifferent to this ‘nothing–halfway’ idea of a system. But I argue that post–Kantian reasons for the importance of their idea are surprisingly strong. Some at the time advance what I call ‘system–critique’: defending the idea’s importance while yet rejecting systems. Jacobi is a pa…
The Poison Chalice of Metaphysical Grounding: Jacobi and Hegel as Reversing Contemporary Expectations
Today issues about ‘metaphysical grounding’ have come to the centre of philosophical discussion. In the case of Schaffer’s widely influential work, this comes with a defence of monism, according to which everything is grounded in one comprehensive whole. He cites as predecessors Hegel and Spinoza. Part of Schaffer’s case runs through a claim that issues about grounding are unavoidable in philosophy. It is natural to expect that an unavoidability …
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