Research
Logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of nature.
Dissertation
Die Verwandlung der Natur. Die Einheit von Metaphysik, Logik und Naturphilosophie in Hegels philosophischer Enzyklopädie The Transformation of Nature. The Unity of Metaphysics, Logic, and the Philosophy of Nature in Hegel’s Philosophical Encyclopaedia
The dissertation reconstructs the systematic unity of metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of nature in Hegel’s encyclopaedic system. A modal-metaphysical proof of nature’s necessary existence connects philosophical logic to the philosophy of the real.
Supervisor: Christian Martin (Stuttgart). Second examiner: Anton F. Koch (Heidelberg).
Chapters
- § 0 Allgemeine Einleitung General Introduction
- § 1 Die Ersetzung der Metaphysik durch Logik The Replacement of Metaphysics by Logic
- § 2 Die Form des Logischen The Form of the Logical
- § 3 Der Beweis der Existenz der Natur The Proof of the Existence of Nature
- § 4 Das emanzipatorische Apriori The Emancipatory A Priori
- § 5 Die Form der Natur The Form of Nature
- § 6 Philosophische Mechanik Philosophical Mechanics
Current work
Preparing the dissertation for publication. My next project, a postdoc, turns to Kant’s critique and Hegel’s rehabilitation of the ontological argument.