Stern, R.A. (2013) Taylor, transcendental rrguments, and Hegel on consciousness. Hegel Bulletin, 34 (1). 79 - 97. ISSN 2051-5367
Abstract
In this paper, I consider Charles Taylor's classic article ‘The Opening Arguments of the Phenomenology’, in which Taylor presents an account of the Consciousness chapter of the Phenomenology as a transcendental argument. I set Taylor's discussion in context and present its main themes. I then consider a recent objection to Taylor's approach put forward by Stephen Houlgate: namely, that to see Hegel as using transcendental arguments would be to violate Hegel's requirement that his method in the Phenomenology needs to be presuppositionless. I concede that Houlgate's criticism of Taylor has some force, but argue that nonetheless Taylor can suggest instead that although Hegel is not offering transcendental arguments here, he can plausibly be read as making transcendental claims, so that perhaps Houlgate and Taylor are not so far apart after all, notwithstanding this disagreement.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013. Cambridge University Press . This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Hegel Bulletin . Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2014 09:30 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2018 08:36 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2013.3 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/hgl.2013.3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81195 |