Works by Samuel Stoner
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- Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste.Samuel A. Stoner -2019 -Kant Yearbook 11 (1):81-99.Though the notion of common-sense plays an important role in Kant’s aesthetic theory, it is not immediately clear what Kant means by this term. This essay works to clarify the role that common-sense plays in the logic of Kant’s argument. My interpretive hypothesis is that a careful examination of the way common-sense functions in Kant’s account of judgments of taste can help explain what this notion means. I argue that common-sense names the capacity to discern the relation between the cognitive (...) faculties by means of a feeling, and I conclude that this understanding of common-sense lays the groundwork for an account of the unity of judgments of taste. I conclude that attending to Kant’s notion of common-sense is especially important because it highlights the anthropological significance of Kant’s account of beauty. (shrink)
- Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties.Samuel Stoner &Paul Wilford (eds.) -2021 - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.Through a reexamination of Immanuel Kant and his philosophical legacy, this volume explores the philosophic presuppositions of the possibility of progress and our belief in reason's capacity not only to improve the material well-being of humanity but also to promote our true vocation as moral beings.
- Who Is Descartes’ Evil Genius?Samuel A. Stoner -2018 -Journal of Early Modern Studies 7 (2):9-29.This essay examines René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. It argues that the evil genius is the meditator who narrates Meditations and that Descartes’ goal in Meditation One is to transform his readers into evil geniuses. This account of the evil genius is significant because it explains why the evil genius must be finite and why it cannot call mathematics or logic into doubt. Further, it highlights the need to read the Meditations on two levels—one examining the meditator’s line of (...) thinking on its own terms and the other exploring Descartes’ reasons for depicting the meditator’s progress in the way that he does. (shrink)No categories
- Reflective Judgment and Radical Evil in Kant’s Religion.Samuel A. Stoner &Paul T. Wilford -2021 -Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (2):277-303.The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 277-303, June 2022.
- Introduction. Modernity and Postmodernity: Our Temporal Orientation.Samuel A. Stoner &Paul T. Wilford -2021 - In Samuel Stoner & Paul Wilford,Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 1-16.No categories
- Kant on the Philosopher’s Proper Activity.Samuel A. Stoner -2019 -Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (1):95-113.This essay investigates Kant’s understanding of the philosopher’s proper activity. It begins by examining Kant’s well-known claim in the Critique of Pure Reason that the philosopher is the legislator of human reason. Subsequently, it explicates Kant’s oft-overlooked description of the transcendental philosopher as an admirer of nature’s logical purposiveness, in the ‘First Introduction’ to the Critique of the Power of Judgment. These two accounts suggest very different ways of thinking about the philosopher’s character and concerns. For, while Kant’s philosopher-legislator pursues (...) the practical, world-transformative task of furthering reason’s moral vocation, the transcendental philosopher’s admiration of nature’s purposiveness is a form of a contemplative openness to the contingent but wonderful orderliness of things. I conclude that Kant ultimately recognizes that the tension between legislation and admiration is characteristic of the philosopher and that it is the heart of philosophy’s vitality. (shrink)No categories
- Arendt’s Kantian Existentialism and the Political Significance of Jesus of Nazareth.Paul T. Wilford &Samuel A. Stoner -2023 -Idealistic Studies 53 (3):213-235.Despite her emphasis on politics, Hannah Arendt’s account of the existential grounds of action in The Human Condition culminates in a discussion of Jesus of Nazareth that emphasizes the significance of forgiveness for grasping the radicality of human freedom. This essay investigates Jesus’s role in Arendt’s thought by excavating and explicating the premises that undergird her account of Jesus’s political significance. It argues that Arendt’s innovative approach to politics is complemented by a comparably innovative conception of human agency and shows (...) how Arendt’s defense of the autonomy of the political rests on a novel metaphysics of action—a ‘Kantian existentialism’—that underlies and explains her account of Jesus’s political significance. (shrink)
- On the Primacy of the Spectator in Kant’s Account of Genius.Samuel A. Stoner -2016 -Review of Metaphysics 70 (1):87-116.This essay argues that §49 of Kant’s third Critique pursues the question of the nature of genius through an analysis of the spectator’s response to beautiful art. It presents and defends a spectator-centered interpretation of §49’s opening paragraphs, which clarifies Kant’s notion of aesthetic ideas and reveals that beautiful art provokes a productive imaginative activity in its spectators. This interpretation is significant because it elucidates the character of Kant’s account of genius and his understanding of art criticism. Moreover, it suggests (...) that the imagination’s productive activity may provide a certain satisfaction to theoretical reason’s natural but unrequited desire for knowledge of the transcendent. (shrink)
- The Moral Formation of Descartes’ Meditations.Samuel A. Stoner -2022 -The European Legacy 27 (3-4):321-334.Although Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy seems to be an especially theoretical work, this essay argues that reading the Meditations as a work of pure theory conceals an important dimensi...
- Critical Philosophy as Artistic Endeavor.Samuel A. Stoner -2010 -Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (1):181-187.
- Chapter 6. Realizing the Ethical Community: Kant’s Religion and the Reformation of Culture.Samuel A. Stoner &Paul T. Wilford -2021 - In Samuel Stoner & Paul Wilford,Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 94-114.
- J. Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason. Reviewed by.Samuel A. Stoner -2017 -Philosophy in Review 37 (1):22-24.No categories
- Kant and His German Contemporaries. Edited by Daniel O. Dahlstrom.Samuel A. Stoner -2019 -International Philosophical Quarterly 59 (3):373-375.No categories
- Kant and Theodicy: A Search for an Answer to the Problem of Evil by George Huxford.Samuel A. Stoner -2020 -Review of Metaphysics 74 (1):153-155.
- Kant and the Divine: From Contemplation to the Moral Law by Christopher J. Insole.Samuel A. Stoner -2020 -Review of Metaphysics 74 (2):389-391.
- Kant on the Power and Limits of Pathos: Toward a "Critique of Poetic Rhetoric".Samuel Stoner -2017 -Philosophy and Rhetoric 50 (1):73-95.Upon first encountering Immanuel Kant’s 1766 essay Dreams of a Spirit-Seer Elucidated by Dreams of Metaphysics, one is immediately struck by its literary style. Indeed, Dreams constitutes a unique moment in Kant’s literary development—never before had he thrown himself with such fervor into the attempt to express his thoughts in a provocative manner, and never again would he indulge his poetic tendencies with such reckless abandon. Unsurprisingly, then, Kant’s poetic rhetoric in Dreams has long puzzled readers. Immediately following the essay’s (...) publication, Moses Mendelssohn voiced his perplexity about Kant’s mode of writing in it. In the early twentieth century, Ernst Cassirer noted this essay’s unorthodox... (shrink)No categories
- Lessing and the Art of History.Samuel A. Stoner -2021 -Journal of the History of Philosophy 59 (1):93-112.
- The problem of knowledge in Rousseau's Second discourse.Samuel A. Stoner -2025 - In Will R. Jordan,Natural man, citizen, philosopher: the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press.Export citation
Bookmark - Thinking Through Kant’s Conception of Pedagogy.Samuel A. Stoner -2018 -Studies in Philosophy and Education 38 (3):339-342.
- Kant on freedom, nature, and judgment: The territory of the third critique, By KristiSweet, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. x + 222. $99.99 (hbk). ISBN : 9781316511121. [REVIEW]Samuel A. Stoner -2023 -European Journal of Philosophy 31 (4):1135-1138.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
- Munzel, G. Felicitas., Kant’s Conception of Pedagogy: Toward Education for Freedom. [REVIEW]Samuel A. Stoner -2014 -Review of Metaphysics 67 (3):654-656.
- Bradley Murray, The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant’s Aesthetics Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 Pp. 160 9781118950654 $99.95. [REVIEW]Samuel Stoner -2016 -Kantian Review 21 (2):340-342.
- CHAOULI, MICHEL. Thinking with Kant's Critique of Judgment, Harvard University Press, 2017, xv + 312 pp., $45.00 cloth. [REVIEW]Samuel Stoner -2018 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (2):246-249.
- Scott R. Stroud,Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014 Pp. 288 ISBN 9780271064192 $79.95. [REVIEW]Samuel Stoner -2015 -Kantian Review 20 (3):497-501.
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