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
Research Project: Hegel's Analogies
Email: andrewtimothywerner@gmail.com
WebsiteResearch Project
Hegel's Analogies
Surprisingly, almost no one has noticed that in the Science of Logic, Hegel gives his own version of Kant’s Analogies, or his own argument for the objective validity of the categories of substance, (one way) causality, and reciprocal causality. Kant’s account of the Analogies has received extensive attention in the secondary literature and in contemporary attempts to defend the category of causality from the challenge that Hume posted to the objective validity of causality. But almost no one has written on Hegel’s treatment of this very same topic, even while most scholars agree that Hegel is worried about exactly the same issue. In Potsdam, I will begin to rectify this situation, by investigating Hegel’s account specifically of causality. I will show how his account compares to that of Kant, and also how he offers a distinctive and significant answer to Hume’s challenge.
Selected publications
Articles
“A Hegelian Response to Disjunctivism”, in: Palgrave Handbook in German Idealist and Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming.
“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.