Papers by Sebastian Gardner
This reference book on philosophy brings the subject up to date with entries on new concepts, new... more This reference book on philosophy brings the subject up to date with entries on new concepts, new thinking about older themes, and entries relating to developing schools such as feminist philosophy and post-structuralism. All the entries aim to reflect the state of the art in philosophy scholarship. The encyclopedia contains than 2000 thematic, biographical and national entries ranging from 500 to 15,000 words in length, and is bound in 10 volumes consisting of over 5 million words of text, with considerable bibliographic material. It has contributions from 1200 international authors. It covers: the core of most Anglo-American philosophy - the metaphysical, epistemological and logical questions; ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy; and the philosophy of other cultures - from Chinese, Arabic and Jewish philosophy to the philosophy of Africa and Latin America
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 1993
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 1993
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 7, 2017
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 1993
European Journal of Philosophy, Mar 1, 2009
Mark Sacks, the founder of the European Journal of Philosophy and its editor from 1993 to 2000, d... more Mark Sacks, the founder of the European Journal of Philosophy and its editor from 1993 to 2000, died in the summer of last year from prostate cancer, at the age of 54. Without Sacks, the journal would not have come into existence, and with his early death the philosophical community in Britain and abroad suffers a significant and deeply regretted loss. Sacks came to Europe at a relatively late point in his life, a circumstance which played no doubt an important role in forming his perception of the situation of philosophy in Europe. Born in South Africa, his family moved to Israel when he was still very young, and Sacks was brought up in Jerusalem, where he completed his schooling and first degree, and where his father was professor of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. As a teenager he declined the option of training for the national swimming squad-which, he noted, might well have seen him included in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics-and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Philosophy occupied for him at this time, however, a secondary place in the hierarchy of his interests, and Sacks in any case did not proceed directly to a PhD, but after a semester as a visiting student at Columbia University in New York spent three years completing his national service in the Israeli army. This included service in the adjutant's office of Central Command, with responsibility for executing troop deployments in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and long stretches of night duty, which he used to write plays, and which established an enduring taste for nocturnal existence. His national service finished, Sacks resolved upon graduate work in philosophy, but did so in large part because he believed it would provide a way of pursuing in the longer term his literary ambitions, which indeed he never finally abandoned. Supported by funding from the British Council, Sacks came to King's College Cambridge in 1980 to write a PhD under the supervision of Bernard Williams. Williams' sceptical view of the ambitious project which Sacks had set himself-an account of the significance of ontological commitment in the context of transcendental idealism-resulted in a difficult relationship, but one marked by mutual respect, and Williams later supported the EJP by contributing an article on Nietzsche and moral psychology. While at Cambridge, Sacks engaged closely with the tradition of Kant interpretation deriving from P. F. Strawson's The Bounds of Sense, yet found himself in terms of his philosophical interests somewhat at the edge of Cambridge's philosophical world, which was dominated at the time by
Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 29, 2007
Routledge eBooks, Nov 16, 2022
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Jul 1, 2002
German idealism has been pictured as an unwarranted deviation from the central epistemological or... more German idealism has been pictured as an unwarranted deviation from the central epistemological orientation of modern philosophy, and its close historical association with German romanticism is adduced in support of this verdict. This paper proposes an interpretation of German idealism which seeks to grant key importance to its connection with romanticism without thereby undermining its philosophical rationality. I suggest that the fundamental motivation of German idealism is axiological, and that its augmentation of Kant’s idealism is intelligible in terms of its combined aim of consolidating the transcendental turn and legitimating the kind of (objectual) relation to value articulated in German romanticism.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 2017
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Oct 1, 2006
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 1993
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 3, 2019
1. Context 2. Overview of themes 3. Reading the text 4. Reception and Influence Bibliography &... more 1. Context 2. Overview of themes 3. Reading the text 4. Reception and Influence Bibliography & Notes for Further Reading Index.
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Jun 1, 2012
In this paper I sketch a reconstruction of the basic psychoanalytic conception of the mind in ter... more In this paper I sketch a reconstruction of the basic psychoanalytic conception of the mind in terms of two historical resources: the conception of the subject developed in post-Kantian idealism, and Spinoza's laws of the affects in Part Three of the Ethics. The former, I suggest, supplies the conceptual basis for the psychoanalytic notion of the unconscious, problem, however, is that psychoanalysis is not consistently Kantian, either, and that its ambiguity cannot be resolved in either the one direction or the other. This should not, I have urged, be made an objection to psychoanalysis. But if correct, it means that psychoanalysis does not offer a philosophically safe home for Kant's 'I ought' to the extent that Longuenesse supposes.
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 1995
The paper is concerned with philosophical reconstructions of psychoanalysis and their implication... more The paper is concerned with philosophical reconstructions of psychoanalysis and their implications for its truth. It argues that what may be called the commonsense reconstruction of psychoanalysis is preeminent and supports psychoanalysis' claim to truth, on the grounds thatgiven the ...
Religious Studies, Jul 10, 2006
It is well known that Sartre describes his form of existentialism as atheistic, and much of the r... more It is well known that Sartre describes his form of existentialism as atheistic, and much of the rhetoric of Sartrean existentialism draws off the image of God's absence from the world. There are nevertheless, I argue, deep grounds for thinking that the coherence and well-groundedness of Sartre's thought requires that his phenomenological ontology take finally the form of an onto-theology: Sartre's ontology runs into difficulties concerning the origin of the For-itself and the unity of being; an onto-theology like Schelling's, which avoids the 'ontological optimism' that Sartre objects to in Hegel, both releases Sartre's ontology from its difficulties and furthers Sartre's central philosophical purposes.
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