Robb Dunphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4304348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robb Dunphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robb |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunphy |
| SIGNATURE | DUNPHY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What Does It Mean to Say, of ‘Thoughts’, That They ‘ Used to Count as Expressing the Essentialities of Things’? Hegel and the Older Metaphysics
This essay is concerned with a passage from 24 of Hegel's Encyclopaedia, in which Hegel characterises the concepts or 'thoughts' developed in the discipline of metaphysics by saying that they 'used to count as expressing the essentialities of things'.I begin by drawing attention to Hegel's use of the past tense in this passage and suggest that it looks problematic for conceptual realist interpreters of Hegel's idealism, who want, roughly, to attr…
Hegel and the Problem of Beginning
Hegel opens the first book of his Science of Logic with the statement of a problem: “The beginning of philosophy must be either something mediated or something immediate, and it is easy to show that it can be neither the one nor the other, so either way of beginning finds its rebuttal.” Despite its significant placement, exactly what Hegel means in his expression of this problem and exactly what his solution to it is, remain unclear. In this book…
Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy
peer reviewed
Hegel and the Problem of Beginning
In this article I develop an interpretation of the opening passages of Hegel's essay ‘With what must the beginning of science be made?’ I suggest firstly that Hegel is engaging there with a distinctive problem, the overcoming of which he understands to be necessary in order to guarantee the scientific character of the derivation of the fundamental categories of thought which he undertakes in the Science of Logic . I refer to this as ‘the problem …
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Hegel and the Problem of Beginning
In this article I develop an interpretation of the opening passages of Hegel's essay ‘With what must the beginning of science be made?’ I suggest firstly that Hegel is engaging there with a distinctive problem, the overcoming of which he understands to be necessary in order to guarantee the scientific character of the derivation of the fundamental categories of thought which he undertakes in the Science of Logic . I refer to this as ‘the problem …
Hegel and the Problem of Beginning
Hegel opens the first book of his Science of Logic with the statement of a problem: “The beginning of philosophy must be either something mediated or something immediate, and it is easy to show that it can be neither the one nor the other, so either way of beginning finds its rebuttal.” Despite its significant placement, exactly what Hegel means in his expression of this problem and exactly what his solution to it is, remain unclear. In this book…
Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy
peer reviewed
What Does It Mean to Say, of ‘Thoughts’, That They ‘ Used to Count as Expressing the Essentialities of Things’? Hegel and the Older Metaphysics
This essay is concerned with a passage from 24 of Hegel's Encyclopaedia, in which Hegel characterises the concepts or 'thoughts' developed in the discipline of metaphysics by saying that they 'used to count as expressing the essentialities of things'.I begin by drawing attention to Hegel's use of the past tense in this passage and suggest that it looks problematic for conceptual realist interpreters of Hegel's idealism, who want, roughly, to attr…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Hegelianism (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Arbitrariness (1 work) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 work) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 work) · German (1 work)