Christopher Yeomans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3974336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Yeomans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeomans |
| SIGNATURE | YEOMANS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3805-3063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature constitutes the second part of his mature philosophical system presented in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of themes and issues, as Hegel considers the content and structure of how humanity approaches nature and how nature is understood by humanity. The essays in this volume bring together various perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, emphasizing its…
Taking the Teleology of History Seriously
To oversimplify quite a bit, scholars’ presentation of Hegel's teleology constitutes a continuum according to how more-or-less secured the progress towards the goal is supposed to be, which tracks roughly the nature of the end and its necessity. In this article, rather than focus on the end and progress towards it, we will focus on the means and structure of teleological relationships on Hegel's account. This focus follows from an essential featu…
Property in the tension between family and civil society
This chapter examines the work of Hegel and Gans and its applicability to inheritance in its contemporary form. Inheritance lies at the intersection of family structure, individual property rights, and the economic structure of society. Laws concerning who gets to bequeath what to whom, and who gets to inherit what from whom, play an important role in tracing the outlines of the family by giving economic structure to its multigenerational nature.…
Fairness as Equal Concession
The hidden lives of objects
Karen Ng's Hegel's Concept of Life tackles one of the hardest problems – the placement and status of the category of life within treatises on epistemology and logic—within what are already two of the most difficult texts in the history of philosophy—Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic . It does so with good attention to contemporary debates surrounding Hegel's logic and metaphysics, and manages to integrate concerns that have bee…
Hegel’s Pluralism as a Comedy of Action
Our reception of Hegel’s theory of action faces a fundamental difficulty: on the one hand, that theory is quite clearly embedded in a social theory of modern life, but on the other hand most of the features of the society that gave that embedding its specific content have become almost inscrutably strange to us (e.g., the estates and the monarchy). Thus we find ourselves in the awkward position of stressing the theory’s sociality even as we scram…
Perspective and Logical Pluralism in Hegel
In this paper, I consider the role of perspective in Hegel’s metaphysics, and in particular the role that multiple perspectives play within the ultimate structure in Hegel’s metaphysics, which Hegel calls ‘the idea [ die Idee ]’. My (somewhat anachronistic) way into this topic will be to inquire about Hegel’s stance on what Adrian Moore has called ‘absolute representations’. I argue for the claim that perspective is maintained, even in the absolu…
Hegel’s Philosophy of Action
Though Hegel has a strikingly pluralistic philosophy of action, he intends that philosophy to make good on a range of traditional commitments running from the necessity of alternate possibilities through the value of desire satisfaction to the centrality of goal-directedness. It is of course true that many of those possibilities, desires, and goals are essentially social and even collective, and that determining their nature is a public and often…
Hegel’s Expressivist Modal Realism
In attempting to understand Hegel’s basic position on the modalities, the central thing to grasp is the precise nature of his modal realism. Hegel is adamant that possibility be understood as an actuality in its own right, and furthermore endorses a convergence of the modalities in which what is actual is equally possible and necessary. But Hegel gives an interpretation to these apparently realist claims that invokes neither possible worlds nor c…
Perspectives without Privileges
For a variety of reasons, Hegel's theory of the estates remains an unexpected and unappreciated feature of his practical philosophy. In fact, it is the key element of his social philosophy, which grounds his more properly political philosophy. Most fundamentally, it plays this role because the estates provide the forms of visibility required by Hegel's distinctive theory of self-determination, and so the estates constitute conditions for the poss…
Towards an Immanent Conception of Economic Agency
When it comes to social criticism of the economy, Critical Theory has thus far failed to discover specific immanent norms in that sphere of activity. In response, we propose that what is needed is to double down on the idealism of Critical Theory by taking seriously the sophisticated structure of agency developed in Hegel’s own account of freedom as self-determination. When we do so, we will see that the anti-metaphysical gestures of recent Criti…
Power as Control and the Therapeutic Effects of Hegel’s Logic
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The Expansion of Autonomy
In one of his pieces of literary criticism Georg Lukács wrote that 'there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.' But it has always been difficult to see how rigidification can be avoided without making the boundaries of the self so malleable that its…
Talents and Interests
One of the reasons why there is no Hegelian school in contemporary ethics in the way that there are Kantian, Humean and Aristotelian schools is because Hegelians have been unable to clearly articulate the Hegelian alternative to those schools’ moral psychologies, i.e., to present a Hegelian model of the motivation to, perception of, and responsibility for moral action. Here it is argued that in its most basic terms Hegel's model can be understood…
Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics
Book Review| July 01 2012 Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics Longuenesse, Béatrice, Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics. Translated by Simek, Nicole J.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxi+ 246 pp. Christopher Yeomans Christopher Yeomans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 472–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1574499 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Freedom and ReflectionHegel and the Logic of Agency
While many interpreters hold that Hegel avoided the traditional problem of free will, Yeomans argues both that the problem is unavoidable, and that the two versions of the Logic fruitfully engage the tensions between explicability and both the control and alternate possibilities constitutive of free agency
Freedom and ReflectionHegel and the Logic of Agency
While many interpreters hold that Hegel avoided the traditional problem of free will, Yeomans argues both that the problem is unavoidable, and that the two versions of the Logic fruitfully engage the tensions between explicability and both the control and alternate possibilities constitutive of free agency
The Expansion of Autonomy
In one of his pieces of literary criticism Georg Lukács wrote that 'there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.' But it has always been difficult to see how rigidification can be avoided without making the boundaries of the self so malleable that its…
Freedom and ReflectionHegel and the Logic of Agency
While many interpreters hold that Hegel avoided the traditional problem of free will, Yeomans argues both that the problem is unavoidable, and that the two versions of the Logic fruitfully engage the tensions between explicability and both the control and alternate possibilities constitutive of free agency
Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics
Book Review| July 01 2012 Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics Longuenesse, Béatrice, Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics. Translated by Simek, Nicole J.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxi+ 246 pp. Christopher Yeomans Christopher Yeomans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 472–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1574499 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Talents and Interests
One of the reasons why there is no Hegelian school in contemporary ethics in the way that there are Kantian, Humean and Aristotelian schools is because Hegelians have been unable to clearly articulate the Hegelian alternative to those schools’ moral psychologies, i.e., to present a Hegelian model of the motivation to, perception of, and responsibility for moral action. Here it is argued that in its most basic terms Hegel's model can be understood…
Power as Control and the Therapeutic Effects of Hegel’s Logic
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Expansion of Autonomy
In one of his pieces of literary criticism Georg Lukács wrote that 'there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.' But it has always been difficult to see how rigidification can be avoided without making the boundaries of the self so malleable that its…
Hegel’s Philosophy of Action
Though Hegel has a strikingly pluralistic philosophy of action, he intends that philosophy to make good on a range of traditional commitments running from the necessity of alternate possibilities through the value of desire satisfaction to the centrality of goal-directedness. It is of course true that many of those possibilities, desires, and goals are essentially social and even collective, and that determining their nature is a public and often…
Hegel’s Expressivist Modal Realism
In attempting to understand Hegel’s basic position on the modalities, the central thing to grasp is the precise nature of his modal realism. Hegel is adamant that possibility be understood as an actuality in its own right, and furthermore endorses a convergence of the modalities in which what is actual is equally possible and necessary. But Hegel gives an interpretation to these apparently realist claims that invokes neither possible worlds nor c…
Perspectives without Privileges
For a variety of reasons, Hegel's theory of the estates remains an unexpected and unappreciated feature of his practical philosophy. In fact, it is the key element of his social philosophy, which grounds his more properly political philosophy. Most fundamentally, it plays this role because the estates provide the forms of visibility required by Hegel's distinctive theory of self-determination, and so the estates constitute conditions for the poss…
Towards an Immanent Conception of Economic Agency
When it comes to social criticism of the economy, Critical Theory has thus far failed to discover specific immanent norms in that sphere of activity. In response, we propose that what is needed is to double down on the idealism of Critical Theory by taking seriously the sophisticated structure of agency developed in Hegel’s own account of freedom as self-determination. When we do so, we will see that the anti-metaphysical gestures of recent Criti…
Hegel’s Pluralism as a Comedy of Action
Our reception of Hegel’s theory of action faces a fundamental difficulty: on the one hand, that theory is quite clearly embedded in a social theory of modern life, but on the other hand most of the features of the society that gave that embedding its specific content have become almost inscrutably strange to us (e.g., the estates and the monarchy). Thus we find ourselves in the awkward position of stressing the theory’s sociality even as we scram…
Perspective and Logical Pluralism in Hegel
In this paper, I consider the role of perspective in Hegel’s metaphysics, and in particular the role that multiple perspectives play within the ultimate structure in Hegel’s metaphysics, which Hegel calls ‘the idea [ die Idee ]’. My (somewhat anachronistic) way into this topic will be to inquire about Hegel’s stance on what Adrian Moore has called ‘absolute representations’. I argue for the claim that perspective is maintained, even in the absolu…
Fairness as Equal Concession
The hidden lives of objects
Karen Ng's Hegel's Concept of Life tackles one of the hardest problems – the placement and status of the category of life within treatises on epistemology and logic—within what are already two of the most difficult texts in the history of philosophy—Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic . It does so with good attention to contemporary debates surrounding Hegel's logic and metaphysics, and manages to integrate concerns that have bee…
Property in the tension between family and civil society
This chapter examines the work of Hegel and Gans and its applicability to inheritance in its contemporary form. Inheritance lies at the intersection of family structure, individual property rights, and the economic structure of society. Laws concerning who gets to bequeath what to whom, and who gets to inherit what from whom, play an important role in tracing the outlines of the family by giving economic structure to its multigenerational nature.…
Taking the Teleology of History Seriously
To oversimplify quite a bit, scholars’ presentation of Hegel's teleology constitutes a continuum according to how more-or-less secured the progress towards the goal is supposed to be, which tracks roughly the nature of the end and its necessity. In this article, rather than focus on the end and progress towards it, we will focus on the means and structure of teleological relationships on Hegel's account. This focus follows from an essential featu…
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature constitutes the second part of his mature philosophical system presented in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of themes and issues, as Hegel considers the content and structure of how humanity approaches nature and how nature is understood by humanity. The essays in this volume bring together various perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, emphasizing its…
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