Dr Joe Saunders' Outputs (26)

Kant and Degrees of Responsibility (2018)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2019). Kant and Degrees of Responsibility. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(1), 137-154. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12293

Kant views every human action as either entirely determined by natural necessity or entirely free. In viewing human action this way, it is unclear how he can account for degrees of responsibility. In this article, I consider three recent attempts to... Read More about Kant and Degrees of Responsibility.

Wellbeing Economics: The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity (2018)
Book
Dalziel, P., Saunders, C., & Saunders, J. (2018). Wellbeing Economics: The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93194-4

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, risi... Read More about Wellbeing Economics: The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity.

Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry (2017)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2018). Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(4), 719-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1393617

McTaggart takes love seriously. He rejects rival accounts that look to reduce love to pleasure, moral approbation or a fitting response to someone’s qualities. In addition, he thinks that love reveals something about the structure of the universe, an... Read More about Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry.

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.

Kant, Rational Psychology and Practical Reason (2014)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2014). Kant, Rational Psychology and Practical Reason. Kant Yearbook, 6(1), 115-136. https://doi.org/10.1515/kantyb-2014-0107

In his pre-critical lectures on rational psychology, Kant employs an argument from the I to the transcendental freedom of the soul. In the (A-edition of the) first Critique, he distances himself from rational psychology, and instead offers four paral... Read More about Kant, Rational Psychology and Practical Reason.