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Irrational Love: Taking Romeo and Juliet Seriously (2022)
Journal Article
McKeever, N., & Saunders, J. (2022). Irrational Love: Taking Romeo and Juliet Seriously. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 30(3), 254-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2022.2121895

This paper argues that there are important irrational elements to love. In the philosophical literature, we typically find that love is either thought of as rational or arational and that any irrational elements are thought to be defective, or extran... Read More about Irrational Love: Taking Romeo and Juliet Seriously.

Timeless Freedom in Kant: Transcendental Freedom and Things-in-Themselves (2022)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2022). Timeless Freedom in Kant: Transcendental Freedom and Things-in-Themselves. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 39(3), 275-292. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521026.39.3.05

This paper draws attention to two problems with Kant's claim that transcendental freedom is timeless. The problems are that this causes conceptual difficulties and fails to vindicate important parts of our moral practices. I then put forward three wa... Read More about Timeless Freedom in Kant: Transcendental Freedom and Things-in-Themselves.

Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love (2022)
Journal Article
Sticker, M., & Saunders, J. (online). Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2022.2075457

Kant holds that whenever we fail to act from duty, we are driven by self-love. In this paper, we argue that there are a variety of different ways in which people go wrong, and we show why it is unsatisfying to reduce all of these to self-love. In doi... Read More about Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love.