All Outputs (9)

Is autonomy sufficient for freedom (2023)
Book Chapter
Alderwick, C. (2023). Is autonomy sufficient for freedom. In J. Saunders (Ed.), Freedom After Kant. Bloomsbury Publishing

In this chapter I show that the Kantian notion of autonomy, understood as rational self-determination, collapses when it is taken up in a system which posits nature as rationally structured, such as those we find in the early post-Kantian idealists .... Read More about Is autonomy sufficient for freedom.

Schelling on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature: The role of the naturphilosophie in the freiheitsschrift (2022)
Book Chapter
Alderwick, C. (2023). Schelling on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature: The role of the naturphilosophie in the freiheitsschrift. In Life, Organisms, and Human Nature New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy (159-176). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41558-6

This chapter focuses on Schelling’s philosophy of nature and shows that it contains an original theory of freedom. I argue that human freedom is a potentiated form of a kind of freedom that can already be found in organic life: my claim is that human... Read More about Schelling on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature: The role of the naturphilosophie in the freiheitsschrift.

Schelling's Ontology of Powers (2021)
Book
Alderwick, C. (2021). Schelling's Ontology of Powers. Edinburgh University Press

Introduction to nineteenth-century British and American women philosophers (2021)
Journal Article
Alderwick, C., & Stone, A. (2021). Introduction to nineteenth-century British and American women philosophers. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 29(2), 193-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2020.1864282

Introduction to a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on ‘Nineteenth-century British and American women philosophers' co-edited with Alison Stone

Review of Alison Stone's 'Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism' (2020)
Journal Article
Alderwick, C. (2021). Review of Alison Stone's 'Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism'. Hegel Bulletin, 42(2), 317-321. https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2020.8

Nature's capacities: Schelling and contemporary power-based ontologies (2016)
Journal Article
Alderwick, C. (2016). Nature's capacities: Schelling and contemporary power-based ontologies. Angelaki, 21(4), 59-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2016.1229424

This paper draws a number of parallels between Schelling’s Naturphilosophie and contemporary work in the metaphysics of powers. This concept is being applied to a range of debates, however a distinct lack of work exists focusing on extending this con... Read More about Nature's capacities: Schelling and contemporary power-based ontologies.

Book review: The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
Journal Article
Alderwick, C. (in press). Book review: The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 24(4), 790-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2016.1176895

Book review

Book review: Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy (2016)
Journal Article
Alderwick, C. (in press). Book review: Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25(1), 215-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2016.1176894

Book review

Atemporal essence and existential freedom in schelling (2014)
Journal Article
Alderwick, C. (2015). Atemporal essence and existential freedom in schelling. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(1), 115-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2014.977219

© 2014 BSHP. Although it is clear in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift that he takes an agent's atemporal choice between good and evil to be central to understanding human freedom, there is no consensus in the literature and no adequate account of how to... Read More about Atemporal essence and existential freedom in schelling.