1st Edition

Reading Rödl On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity

Edited By James F. Conant, Jesse M. Mulder Copyright 2024
442 Pages
by Routledge

442 Pages
by Routledge

442 Pages
by Routledge

Sebastian Rödl's Self-Consciousness and Objectivity is one of the most original and thought-provoking books in analytic philosophy for the last several years. An ambitious defence of absolute idealism, Rödl rejects the idea that we as thinking beings can position ourselves within a given, mind-independent reality, and instead advances the position that the very idea of an ‘objective reality’... Read more

Introduction Jesse M. Mulder

Part 1: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Naturalism

1. One Act of Mind Lucy O'Brien

2. How is Thinking Possible? Ram Neta

3. Rödl on Judgment, the First Person, and Perception Christopher Peacocke

Part 2: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Formal Idealism

4. Idealism, Absolute and Formal Stephen Engstrom

5. Idealism, Subjects and Science Patricia Kitcher

Part 3: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Quietism

6. Real Austerity Jocelyn Benoist

7. Knowledge, Persons, and the Fact of Reason Glenda Satne

8. The Possibility of Absolute Representations A.W. Moore

9. The Linguistic Turn Away from Absolute Idealism Irad Kimhi

10. Elective Affinities of a Guest from Elea J.M. van Ophuijsen

Part 4: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Absolute Idealism

11. Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Nature, on the Speculative Character of Their Identity Thomas Khurana

12. Absolute Idealism, A Hegelian Critique of Sebastian Rödl’s Self-Consciousness and Objectivity Wolfram Gobsch

Part 5: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and the Power of Judgment

13. The Explanation of Judgment Dawa Ometto

14. Not So Simple Powers Jesse M. Mulder

15. Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Practical Knowledge Niels van Miltenburg

Part 6: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and the Determinacy of the Individual

16. Reflections on Self-Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness and Objectivity Adrian Haddock

17. Dotting the I Think Martijn Wallage

Replies Sebastian Rödl.

Index

Biography

James F. Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago.

Jesse M. Mulder is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Sebastian Rödl is Professor of Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy, Leipzig University, Germany.