Andy works on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy with a focus on issues pertaining to responses to skepticism, philosophical methodologies, and the relation between the understanding and reason. He is currently at work on a book project on the method of Hegel’s Science of Logic, and how that method can be understood as encapsulating Hegel’s response to skepticism.
Dr. Andrew Werner
Postdoctoral Fellow
Period at the center: June - July 2022, June - July 2025
Research Project: Hegel's Analogies
Email: andrewtimothywerner@gmail.com
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Hegel's Analogies
I have recently finished the manuscript of a book in which I work out my interpretation of Hegel’s method, focusing on his Logics. This has lead me to reconceptualize Hegels’ account of reason, and while in Potsdam I hope to work on the implications of that reconceptualization for his account of the social reality of reason in the Philosophy of Right, and how it both draws on and departs rom Fichte’s conceptions of ethics and right.
Selected publications
Articles
“From Interacting Substances to Recognizing Persons: On the Logical Foundations of Hegel’s Theory of Recognition” in: The Philosophy of Recognition: Expanded Perspectives on a Fundamental Concept, ed. by M. Congdon and T. Khurana. (Routledge Press, forthcoming).
“A Hegelian Response to Disjunctivism”, in: Palgrave Handbook in German Idealist and Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming.
“Cognizing Coexistence: Perceptions and their Synthetic Unity in Kant’s 3rd Analogy” in Journal of Modern Philosophy, 5.6 (2023).
“Hegel’s Dialectical Method: A Response to the Modification View“, in: Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50:6 (2020), 767—784.
“Some Limits to Hegel’s Appeal to Life“, in: Argumenta 4:2 (2019), 143—157.
“Hegel on Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction“, in: European Journal of Philosophy 26:1 (2018), 502—524.