While indeterminacy is a recurrent theme in philosophy, less progress has been made in clarifying its significance for various philosophical and interdisciplinary contexts. This collection brings together early-career and well-known philosophers—including Graham Priest, Trish Glazebrook, Steven Crowell, Robert Neville, Todd May, and William Desmond—to explore indeterminacy in greater detail. The volume is unique in that its essays demonstrate the positive significance of indeterminacy, insofar as indeterminacy opens up new fields of discourse and illuminates neglected aspects of various concepts and phenomena. The essays are organized thematically around indeterminacy’s impact on various areas of philosophy, including post-Kantian idealism, phenomenology, ethics, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and East Asian philosophy. They also take an interdisciplinary approach by elaborating the conceptual connections between indeterminacy and literature, music, religion, and science.
Introduction: The Emerging Philosophical Recognition of the Significance
of Indeterminacy
Gregory S. Moss and Robert H. Scott
Part I: The Significance of Indeterminacy in German Idealism
1. Overdeterminacy, Affirming Indeterminacy, and the Dearth of Ontological
Astonishment
William Desmond
2. Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Contingency in German Idealism
G. Anthony Bruno
3. Free Thinking in Schelling's Erlangen Lectures
Gregory S. Moss
4. Indeterminacy, Modality, Dialectics: Hegel on the Possibility Not to Be
Nahum Brown
Part II: The Significance of Indeterminacy for Phenomenology, Natural
Science, and Ethics
5. Determinable Indeterminacy: A Note on the Phenomenology of Horizons
Steven G. Crowell
6. Climate Science, Indeterminacy, and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Trish Glazebrook and Michael Goldsby
7. Genetic Phenomenology and the Indeterminacy of Racism
Janet Donohoe
8. Indeterminacy as Key to a Phenomenological Reinterpretation of Aristotles
Intellectual Virtues
Robert H. Scott
9. The Effability of the Normative
Todd May
Part III: The Significance of Indeterminacy for Hermeneutics and Aesthetics
10. Indeterminacy, Gadamer, and Jazz
Bruce E. Benson
11. Hermeneutic Priority and Phenomenological Indeterminacy of Questioning
Nathan Eric Dickman
12. Against the Darkness: Beauty and Indeterminacy in John Williamss Stoner
Phillip E. Mitchell
13. Confidence without Certainty
J. Aaron Simmons
Part IV: Asian Perspectives and Cosmological Concerns
14. Heidegger and Dgen on the Ineffable
Graham Priest and Filippo Casati
15. The Nietzschean Bodhisattva--Passionately Navigating Indeterminacy
George Wrisley
16. Body and Intimate Caring in Confucian Ethics
Qingjie James Wang
17. Indeterminacy in Chinese Thought: Spontaneity and the Dao
Robert Neville
18. Cosmological Questions
Ricki Bliss and Filippo Casati
Robert H. Scott is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. His research focuses on phenomenology and environmental ethics, and in his recent published work he has developed a phenomenological theory of ecological responsibility. Dr. Scott currently serves as the President of the Georgia Philosophical Society.
Gregory S. Moss is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in Post-Kantian German philosophy, and has published in a variety of philosophical journals, such as Idealistic Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and the Northern European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming). Before completing his PhD on Hegels Logic of the Concept under Richard Winfield, he was a Fulbright Fellow with Markus Gabriel at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He is author of Hegels Foundation Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity (Routledge, 2020), Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language, and translator for Markus Gabriels Why the World Does Not Exist.
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