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The Value of Practical Knowledge: Against Engstrom’s Constructivism (2016)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2016). The Value of Practical Knowledge: Against Engstrom’s Constructivism. Hegel Bulletin, 37(01), 117-136. https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2016.6

Stephen Engstrom has recently offered an excellent account of morality as practical cognition. He emphasizes the formal conditions of practical knowledge, which he finds in Kant. Engstrom also aligns his account with constructivism, claiming that val... Read More about The Value of Practical Knowledge: Against Engstrom’s Constructivism.

Kant and the Problem of Recognition: Freedom, Transcendental Idealism, and the Third-Person (2016)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2016). Kant and the Problem of Recognition: Freedom, Transcendental Idealism, and the Third-Person. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 24(2), 164-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2016.1152286

Kant wants to show that freedom is possible in the face of natural necessity. Transcendental idealism is his solution, which locates freedom outside of nature. I accept that this makes freedom possible, but object that it precludes the recognition of... Read More about Kant and the Problem of Recognition: Freedom, Transcendental Idealism, and the Third-Person.