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.
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"This anthology is well organized and provides the reader with a grasp of the notion indeterminacy in both continental European and Asian philosophy . . . Although the theme is one previously neglected concept and the contributions are written by experts, most chapters are highly accessible and well structured . . . It brings into focus that indeterminacy has always played an important role in philosophical thinking ever since Aristotle in the West and Daoism in the East, and thereby opens up new areas for inter-disciplinary investigation in a global context. In short: it is determined to inspire in-depth philosophical reflection on an important theme." Philosophy East & West
"This topical and diverse collection of essays extends the critical and consequential problem of indeterminacy into both Continental and Comparative traditions. Creative yet rigorous, these essays enliven our sense of philosophys powers, defending the delicate ambiguity yet resonant force of philosophical claims as well as extending it to include traditions as varied as Buddhism and climate change policy." Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University, USA
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| The Emerging Philosophical Recognition of the Significance of Indeterminacy |
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PART I The Significance of Indeterminacy in German Idealism |
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1 Overdeterminancy, Affirming Indeterminacy, and the Dearth of Ontological Astonishment |
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2 Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Contingency in German Idealism |
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3 Free Thinking in Schelling's Erlangen Lectures |
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4 Indeterminacy, Modality, Dialectics: Hegel on the Possibility Not to Be |
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PART II The Significance of Indeterminacy for Phenomenology, Natural Science, and Ethics |
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5 Determinable Indeterminacy: A Note on the Phenomenology of Horizons |
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6 Climate Science, Indeterminacy, and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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7 Genetic Phenomenology and the Indeterminacy of Racism |
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8 Indeterminacy as Key to a Phenomenological Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Intellectual Virtues |
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9 The Effability of the Normative |
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PART III The Significance of Indeterminacy for Hermeneutics and Aesthetics |
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10 Indeterminacy, Gadamer, and Jazz |
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11 Hermeneutic Priority and Phenomenological Indeterminacy of Questioning |
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12 Against the Darkness: Beauty and Indeterminacy in John Williams's Stoner |
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13 Confidence Without Certainty |
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PART IV Asian Perspectives and Cosmological Concerns |
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14 Heidegger and Dogen on the Ineffable |
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15 The Nietzschean Bodhisattva---Passionately Navigating Indeterminacy |
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16 Body and Intimate Caring in Confucian Ethics |
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17 Indeterminacy in Chinese Thought: Spontaneity and the Dao |
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18 Cosmological Questions |
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| List of Contributors |
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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 Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language and translator for Markus Gabriels Why the World Does Not Exist. His forthcoming book Hegels Foundation Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity is forthcoming with Routledge,
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