@article{Haag2017, author = {Haag, Johannes}, title = {A kantian critique of sellars transcendental realism}, series = {Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism: Understanding Psychological Nominalism}, journal = {Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism: Understanding Psychological Nominalism}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-4742-3895-3}, pages = {149 -- 171}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{FuchsKoenigGerstenberg2021, author = {Fuchs, Susanne and Koenig, Laura L. and Gerstenberg, Annette}, title = {A longitudinal study of speech acoustics in older French females}, series = {Languages : open access journal}, volume = {6}, journal = {Languages : open access journal}, number = {4}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2226-471X}, doi = {10.3390/languages6040211}, pages = {24}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Aging in speech production is a multidimensional process. Biological, cognitive, social, and communicative factors can change over time, stay relatively stable, or may even compensate for each other. In this longitudinal work, we focus on stability and change at the laryngeal and supralaryngeal levels in the discourse particle euh produced by 10 older French-speaking females at two times, 10 years apart. Recognizing the multiple discourse roles of euh, we divided out occurrences according to utterance position. We quantified the frequency of euh, and evaluated acoustic changes in formants, fundamental frequency, and voice quality across time and utterance position. Results showed that euh frequency was stable with age. The only acoustic measure that revealed an age effect was harmonics-to-noise ratio, showing less noise at older ages. Other measures mostly varied with utterance position, sometimes in interaction with age. Some voice quality changes could reflect laryngeal adjustments that provide for airflow conservation utterance-finally. The data suggest that aging effects may be evident in some prosodic positions (e.g., utterance-final position), but not others (utterance-initial position). Thus, it is essential to consider the interactions among these factors in future work and not assume that vocal aging is evident throughout the signal.}, language = {en} } @article{SalaKabeshkin2022, author = {Sala, Lorenzo and Kabeshkin, Anton}, title = {A priori philosophy of nature in Hegel and German rationalism}, series = {British journal for the history of philosophy : Bjhp}, volume = {30}, journal = {British journal for the history of philosophy : Bjhp}, number = {5}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {London}, issn = {0960-8788}, doi = {10.1080/09608788.2022.2044753}, pages = {797 -- 817}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Hegel's many remarks that seem to imply that philosophy should proceed completely a priori pose a problem for his philosophy of nature since, on this reading, Hegel offers an a priori derivation of empirical results of natural sciences. We show how this perception can be mitigated by interpreting Hegel's remarks as broadly in line with the pre-Kantian rationalist notion of a priori and offer reasons for doing so. We show that, rather than being a peculiarity of Hegel's philosophy, the practice of demonstrating a priori the results of empirical sciences was widespread in the pre-Kantian rationalist tradition. We argue that this practice was intelligible in light of the notion of a priori that was still quite prominent during Hegel's life. This notion of a priori differs from Kant's in that, while the latter's notion concerns propositions, the former concerned only their demonstration. According to it, the same proposition could be demonstrated both a posteriori and a priori. Post-Kantian idealists likewise developed projects of demonstrating specific scientific contents a priori. We then make our discussion more concrete by examining a particular case of an a priori derivation of a natural law, namely the law of fall, by both Leibniz and Hegel.}, language = {en} } @article{Haag2017, author = {Haag, Johannes}, title = {Analytic Kantianism}, series = {Con-textos kantianos : international journal of philosophy}, journal = {Con-textos kantianos : international journal of philosophy}, publisher = {Instituto de Filosof{\´i}a del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient{\´i}ficas}, address = {Madrid}, issn = {2386-7655}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1092766}, pages = {18 -- 41}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Wilfrid Sellars and John McDowell can both be read as proponents of Analytic Kantianism. However, their accounts differ in important detail. In particular, McDowell has criticized Sellars's account of sensory consciousness in a number of papers (most notably in LFI and SC), both as a reading of Kant and on its systematic merits. The present paper offers a detailed analysis of this criticism and a defense of Sellars's position against the background of a methodology of transcendental philosophy.}, language = {en} } @article{Bruno2022, author = {Bruno, Daniele}, title = {Being fully excused for wrongdoing}, series = {Pacific philosophical quarterly}, volume = {104}, journal = {Pacific philosophical quarterly}, number = {2}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Hoboken, NJ}, issn = {0279-0750}, doi = {10.1111/papq.12425}, pages = {324 -- 347}, year = {2022}, abstract = {On the classical understanding, an agent is fully excused for an action if and only if performing this action was a case of faultless wrongdoing. A major motivation for this view is the apparent existence of paradigmatic types of excusing considerations, affecting fault but not wrongness. I show that three such considerations, ignorance, duress and compulsion, can be shown to have direct bearing on the permissibility of actions. The appeal to distinctly identifiable excusing considerations thus does not stand up to closer scrutiny, undermining the classical view and giving us reason to seek alternative ways of drawing the justification/excuse distinction.}, language = {en} } @article{Schneider2017, author = {Schneider, Hans Julius}, title = {Buddhist Meditation as a Mystical Practice}, series = {Philosophia : philosophical quarterly of Israel}, volume = {45}, journal = {Philosophia : philosophical quarterly of Israel}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {0048-3893}, doi = {10.1007/s11406-017-9925-x}, pages = {1621 -- 1622}, year = {2017}, abstract = {On the basis of many years of personal experience the paper describes Buddhist meditation (Zazen, Vipassanā) as a mystical practice. After a short discussion of the role of some central concepts (longing, suffering, and love) in Buddhism, William James' concept of religious experience is used to explain the goal of meditators as the achievement of a special kind of an experience of this kind. Systematically, its main point is to explain the difference between (on the one hand) a craving for pleasant 'mental events' in the sense of short-term moods, and (on the other) the long-term project of achieving a deep change in one's attitude to life as a whole, a change that allows the acceptance of suffering and death. The last part argues that there is no reason to call the discussed practice irrational in a negative sense. Changes of attitude of the discussed kind cannot be brought about by argument alone. Therefore, a considered use of age-old practices like meditation should be seen as an addition, not as an undermining of reason.}, language = {en} } @article{Schneider2017, author = {Schneider, Hans Julius}, title = {Buddhist Meditation as a Mystical Practice}, series = {Philosophia}, volume = {45}, journal = {Philosophia}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {0048-3893}, doi = {10.1007/s11406-016-9783-y}, pages = {773 -- 787}, year = {2017}, abstract = {On the basis of many years of personal experience the paper describes Buddhist meditation (Zazen, Vipassanā) as a mystical practice. After a short discussion of the role of some central concepts (longing, suffering, and love) in Buddhism, William James' concept of religious experience is used to explain the goal of meditators as the achievement of a special kind of an experience of this kind. Systematically, its main point is to explain the difference between (on the one hand) a craving for pleasant 'mental events' in the sense of short-term moods, and (on the other) the long-term project of achieving a deep change in one's attitude to life as a whole, a change that allows the acceptance of suffering and death. The last part argues that there is no reason to call the discussed practice irrational in a negative sense. Changes of attitude of the discussed kind cannot be brought about by argument alone. Therefore, a considered use of age-old practices like meditation should be seen as an addition, not as an undermining of reason.}, language = {en} } @article{BoeschSu2020, author = {B{\"o}sch, Frank and Su, Phi Hong}, title = {Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation}, series = {Journal of ethnic and migration studies}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of ethnic and migration studies}, number = {21}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1369-183X}, doi = {10.1080/1369183X.2020.1724418}, pages = {4853 -- 4871}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Scholars have long recognised the importance of contexts of reception in shaping the integration of immigrants and refugees in a host society. Studies of refugees, in particular, have examined groups where the different dimensions of reception (government, labour market, and ethnic community) have been largely positive. How important is this merging of positive contexts across dimensions of reception? We address this through a comparative study of Vietnamese refugees to West Germany beginning in 1979 and contract workers to East Germany beginning in 1980. These two migration streams converged when Germany reunified in 1990. Drawing on mixed qualitative methods, this paper offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shape the resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in Germany. By comparing two migration streams from the same country of origin, but with different backgrounds and contexts of reception, we suggest that ethnic networks may, in time, offset the disadvantages of a negative government reception.}, language = {en} } @article{vanBuuren2016, author = {van Buuren, Jasper}, title = {critique of neuroscience}, series = {Continental philosophy review}, volume = {49}, journal = {Continental philosophy review}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {1387-2842}, doi = {10.1007/s11007-015-9318-4}, pages = {223 -- 241}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Bennett and Hacker criticize a number of neuroscientists and philosophers for attributing capacities which belong to the human being as a whole, like perceiving or deciding, to a "part" of the human being, viz. the brain. They call this type of mistake the "mereological fallacy". Interestingly, the authors say that these capacities cannot be ascribed to the mind either. They reject not only materialistic monism but also Cartesian dualism, arguing that many predicates describing human life do not refer to physical or mental properties, nor to the sum of such properties. I agree with this important principle and with the critique of the mereological fallacy which it underpins, but I have two objections to the authors' view. Firstly, I think that the brain is not literally a part of the human being, as suggested. Secondly, Bennett and Hacker do not offer an account of body and mind which explains in a systematic way how the domain of phenomena which transcends the mental and the physical relates to the mental and the physical. I first argue that Helmuth Plessner's philosophical anthropology provides the kind of account we need. Then, drawing on Plessner, I present an alternative view of the mereological relationships between brain and human being. My criticism does not undercut Bennett and Hacker's diagnosis of the mereological fallacy but rather gives it a more solid philosophical-anthropological foundation.}, language = {en} } @article{Wallage2023, author = {Wallage, Martijn}, title = {Dotting the "I think"}, series = {Reading R{\"o}dl : On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity}, journal = {Reading R{\"o}dl : On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Milton}, isbn = {978-1-03-234951-0}, doi = {/10.4324/9781003324638}, pages = {316 -- 333}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This chapter discusses a central problem in Sebastian R{\"o}dl's Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. In a statement of the form "I think p", the words "I think" do not contribute to the content, and yet they are not redundant. In other words, a thinking subject is not something and yet not nothing. But then in what sense is a thinking subject a part of the world? The problem is intractable on a merely negative understanding of "I think", like Anscombe's merely negative thesis, endorsed by R{\"o}dl, that "I" is not a referring expression. In search of a positive understanding, this chapter proposes to understand "I think" by comparison to "hello". A speaking subject is the expression of mutual presence in conversation - in that sense a limit of the world. Such expression may be compared to facial expression, with the crucial difference that a verbal expression can be taken up - i.e., repeated - in the third person. A speaking subject, then, is potentially absent from conversation, and in that sense a part of the world.}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannBartels2018, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Bartels, Anke}, title = {Editorial - The Return of Politics}, volume = {101}, number = {1}, issn = {0171-1695}, pages = {i -- x}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Krueger2019, author = {Kr{\"u}ger, Hans-Peter}, title = {How is the Human Life-Form of Mind Really Possible in Nature?}, series = {Human studies}, volume = {42}, journal = {Human studies}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {0163-8548}, doi = {10.1007/s10746-017-9429-5}, pages = {47 -- 64}, year = {2019}, abstract = {J. Dewey and H. Plessner both and independently of one another treated the central question of what new task philosophy must set itself if the assumption is correct that the life-form of mind, i.e., the mental life-form of humans, arose in nature and must also sustain itself in the future within nature. If nature has to reconceived so as to make the irreducible qualities of life and mind truly possible, then it can no longer be restricted to the role of physical material. Conversely humans cannot no longer take on the role of God outside and independent of nature. Instead these philosophers distinguish between three plateaus (Dewey) or stages (Plessner), between physical (inorganic) nature, psycho-physical (living) nature and the nature that is mental life. This distinction is drawn such that a connection between the plateaus is truly possible. The third level, that of the mental form of life, answers mentally within conduct to the break with the first two levels. Hence it depends in the future as well on the continuously renewed difference (between the precarious and the stable for Dewey, between immediacy and mediation for Plessner) in our experience of nature. Within this difference nature as a whole remains an open unknown, which is why we can credit Dewey with a philosophy of diversified and negative holism, Plessner with a differential philosophy of the negativity of the absolute.}, language = {en} } @article{HustedtDanken2017, author = {Hustedt, Thurid and Danken, Thomas}, title = {Institutional logics in inter-departmental coordination: Why actors agree on a joint policy output}, series = {Public administration}, volume = {95}, journal = {Public administration}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0033-3298}, doi = {10.1111/padm.12331}, pages = {730 -- 743}, year = {2017}, abstract = {By investigating two German inter-departmental committees, this article shows that the policy output of these coordination bodies depends on the specific institutional logic evoked throughout the coordination process. While in one of the groups a policy logic prevailed and a joint coordination output was achieved, the other was dominated by a political logic and proved unable to achieve agreement. The article contributes to research on government coordination by showing that actor orientations are crucial for explaining inter-organizational coordination. The results direct attention to the behavioural implications of coordination structures.}, language = {en} } @article{Haag2021, author = {Haag, Johannes}, title = {Intuiting the Original Unity?}, series = {Kantian legacies in German idealism}, journal = {Kantian legacies in German idealism}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {New York ; London}, isbn = {978-1-032-00160-9}, pages = {161 -- 185}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{Spiegel2020, author = {Spiegel, Thomas Jussuf}, title = {Is religion natural?}, series = {International journal of philosophy and theology}, volume = {81}, journal = {International journal of philosophy and theology}, number = {4}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {2169-2327}, doi = {10.1080/21692327.2020.1749717}, pages = {351 -- 368}, year = {2020}, abstract = {In this article I argue that the kind of scientific naturalism that tends to underwrite projects of naturalizing religion operates with a tacit conception of nature which, upon closer inspection, turns out to be untenable. I first distinguish an uninteresting modest naturalism from the more ambitious and relevant scientific naturalism. Secondly I survey three different kinds of attempting to naturalize religion: naturalizing the social aspect of religion, naturalizing religious experience, and naturalizing reference to the transcendent. Thirdly I argue that these projects operate with a conception of nature which is insufficiently clear. I suggest three ways of charitably explicating that tacit conception of what is natural before arguing that neither of these three positions works. Lastly I offer an irenic proposal: we would do good in giving up the scientific naturalism that underlies projects of naturalizing religion in order to embrace Lynne Rudder Baker's recently proposed notion of near-naturalism which allows the naturalist to retain a 'science first' attitude while avoiding problematic, overly restrictive notions of what is natural.}, language = {en} } @article{Kabeshkin2022, author = {Kabeshkin, Anton}, title = {Logical and natural life in Hegel}, series = {European journal of philosophy}, volume = {30}, journal = {European journal of philosophy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0966-8373}, doi = {10.1111/ejop.12647}, pages = {129 -- 147}, year = {2022}, abstract = {In this article, I discuss the specific ways in which Hegel's account of life and organisms advances upon Kant's account of natural purposes in the third Critique. First of all, I argue that it is essential for Hegel's account that it contains two levels. The first level is that of logical life, the discussion of which does not depend on any empirical knowledge of natural organisms. I provide my reconstruction of this logical account of life that answers to the objection made by a number of Hegel scholars to the effect that Hegel does in fact rely on empirical knowledge at this place in the logic. The second level is that of natural organisms themselves. I argue that it is with the help of this separation of the logical and natural levels, as well as his doctrine of the impotence of nature, that Hegel, unlike Kant, (a) is able to claim that not everything in natural organisms is purposive, and (b) provide a philosophical, and not merely empirical, account of the distinction between plants and animals. In both of these respects, Hegel's position can be seen as a welcome advance over Kant.}, language = {en} } @article{ScholzAhrensAhrensBarth2020, author = {Scholz-Ahrens, Katharina Elisabeth and Ahrens, Frank and Barth, Christian A.}, title = {Nutritional and health attributes of milk and milk imitations}, series = {European journal of nutrition}, volume = {59}, journal = {European journal of nutrition}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {1436-6207}, doi = {10.1007/s00394-019-01936-3}, pages = {19 -- 34}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Purpose: Modern food technology allows designing products aiming to simulate and replace traditional food. In affluent societies there is a rising tendency to consume foods derived from plants including milk imitations or plant drinks based on cereals, nuts, legumes, oil seeds or other plant families. Herein we review production and composition of such drinks, summarize consumers' motivations to change from milk to plant drinks and highlight nutritional and health implications of consuming plant drinks instead of milk, in particular if non-fortified and if consumed by infants, children, adolescents and the elderly. Results: Whereas the macronutrient concentrations of some plant drinks (soy) may approach in some cases (protein) that of cow's milk, the nutritional quality of most plant drinks, e.g., the biological value of protein and the presence and amount of vitamins and essential minerals with high bioavailability does not. If cow's milk is exchanged for non-fortified and non-supplemented plant drinks consumers may risk deficiencies of calcium, zinc, iodine, vitamins B2, B12, D, A, and indispensable amino acids, particularly in infants and toddlers who traditionally consume significant portions of milk. The vegetable nature, appearance and taste of such plant drinks may be appealing to adult consumers and be chosen for adding variety to the menu. However, in young children fed exclusively such plant drinks severe metabolic disturbances may occur. Conclusion: Parents, dietitians, physicians and consumers should be aware of such potential risks, if non-fortified plant drinks are consumed instead of milk.}, language = {en} } @article{Montemayor2019, author = {Montemayor, Carlos}, title = {On the human uniqueness of the temporal reasoning system}, series = {Behavioral and brain sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary}, volume = {42}, journal = {Behavioral and brain sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {0140-525X}, doi = {10.1017/S0140525X19000335}, pages = {69}, year = {2019}, abstract = {A central claim by Hoerl \& McCormack is that the temporal reasoning system is uniquely human. But why exactly? This commentary evaluates two possible options to justify the thesis that temporal reasoning is uniquely human, one based on considerations regarding agency and the other based on language. The commentary raises problems for both of these options.}, language = {en} } @article{Schoellner2017, author = {Sch{\"o}llner, Karsten}, title = {Practical Philosophy}, series = {Philosophical investigations}, volume = {40}, journal = {Philosophical investigations}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0190-0536}, doi = {10.1111/phin.12134}, pages = {121 -- 138}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{Pirwitz2019, author = {Pirwitz, Anne}, title = {Romanian Migrants in Western Europe}, series = {Philologica Jassyensia}, volume = {15}, journal = {Philologica Jassyensia}, number = {1}, publisher = {Editura Tracus Arte}, address = {Bucharest}, issn = {1841-5377}, pages = {221 -- 230}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This article aims to sum up the main results of a research project made in 2016 and 2017 about the situation of 1190 Romanian migrants in Western Europe and to give an overview about the push and pull factors, transnational family structures, as well as the challenges and difficulties of the Romanian survey respondents living in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy. It also considers the role of personal networks which represent an important motor of migration and constitute the main motive for the choice of a certain destination region. These migration networks lead to the construction of transnational social spaces between Romania and the destination country and have high influence in the search for housing or jobs but can also influence the integration process abroad.}, language = {en} }