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Research
Hegel's philosophy of nature, with related work on Kant.
Dissertation
Die Verwandlung der Natur. Die Einheit von Metaphysik, Logik und Naturphilosophie in Hegels philosophischer Enzyklopädie
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 bridges philosophical logic and the philosophy of the real.
Supervisor: Christian Martin (Stuttgart). Second examiner: Anton F. Koch (Heidelberg).
Chapters
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Allgemeine Einleitung
General Introduction
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Die Ersetzung der Metaphysik durch Logik
The Replacement of Metaphysics by Logic
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Die Form des Logischen
The Form of the Logical
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Der Beweis der Existenz der Natur
The Proof of the Existence of Nature
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Das emanzipatorische Apriori
The Emancipatory A Priori
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Die Form der Natur
The Form of Nature
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Philosophische Mechanik
Philosophical Mechanics
Current work
Preparing the dissertation for publication and developing related papers on Kant's critique of the ontological argument and a category-theoretic formalisation of Hegel's logic.