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HEGELIAN METAPHYSICS
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Hegelian Metaphysics
ROBERT STERN
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Acknowledgements
I am grateful for permission to reprint material from the following publica-
tions:
Chapter 1: ‘Hegel’s Idealism’, The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nine-
teenth-Century Philosophy, ed. Frederick C. Beiser (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008), 135–73.
Chapter 2: ‘Did Hegel Hold an Identity Theory of Truth?’, Mind, 102 (1993),
645–7.
Chapter 3: ‘Hegel’s Doppelsatz:ANeutralReading’,Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 44 (2006), 235–66.
Chapter 4: ‘British Hegelianism: A Non-Metaphysical View?’, European Journal
of Philosophy, 2 (1994), 293–321.
Chapter 5: ‘Hegel, British Idealism, and the Curious Case of the Concrete
Universal’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15 (2007), 115–53.
Chapter 6: ‘Coherence as a Test for Truth’, Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, 69 (2004), 296–326.
Chapter 7: ‘Hegel and Pragmatism’, The Blackwell Companion to Hegel,edited
by Michael Baur and Stephen Houlgate (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009). (This is a
slightly shortened version of the paper published in this collection.)
Chapter 8: ‘Peirce on Hegel: Nominalist or Realist?’, Transactions of the Charles
S. Peirce Society, 41 (2004), 65–99.
Chapter 9: ‘Peirce, Hegel, and the Category of Secondness’, Inquiry 50 (2007),
123–55.
Chapter 10: ‘Peirce, Hegel and the Category of Firstness’, International Yearbook
of German Idealism, 5 (2007), 276–308.
Chapter 11: ‘James and Bradley on Understanding’, Philosophy, 68 (1993),
192–209.
Chapter 12: ‘Individual Existence and the Philosophy of Difference’, The Oxford
Handbook of Continental Philosophy, ed. Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 379–408.
Material from these sources has been left largely unchanged, except to make
some minor corrections, and to standardize references and editorial style.
vi Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to the large number of people who have commented on
these papers at different times, who I hope get due acknowledgement in the
notes. More generally, I am also grateful to my colleagues at Sheffield, for their
continued intellectual support; and to my family, for their patience during the
years in which these papers were written. Thanks also go to Peter Momtchiloff
at OUP, for allowing the reprinting of this work to go forward.
Contents
Acknowledgements v
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction: How is Hegelian Metaphysics Possible? 1
PART I: HEGEL’S IDEALIST METAPHYSICS
1. Hegel’s Idealism 45
2. Did Hegel Hold an Identity Theory of Truth? 77
3. Hegel’s Doppelsatz: A Neutral Reading 81
PART II: HEGEL AND THE BRITISH IDEALISTS
4. British Hegelianism: A Non-Metaphysical View? 117
5. Hegel, British Idealism, and the Curious Case of the Concrete
Universal 143
6. Coherence as a Test For Truth 177
PART III: HEGEL, PRAGMATISM, AND PEIRCE
7. Hegel and Pragmatism 209
8. Peirce on Hegel: Nominalist or Realist? 239
9. Peirce, Hegel, and the Category of Secondness 269
10. Peirce, Hegel, and the Category of Firstness 299
11. James and Bradley on the Limits of Human Understanding 327
PART IV: THE CONTINENTAL CRITIQUE OF HEGEL’S
METAPHYSICS
12. Individual Existence and the Philosophy of Difference 345
Bibliography 371
Index 391
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List of Abbreviations
Abbreviations for frequently cited primary texts are given below; details for less
frequently cited texts are given in full in the notes.
WORKS BY KANT
Ak Kant’s Gesammelte Schriften (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1902– )
CPR CritiqueofPureReason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (London:
Macmillan, 1933). References to the Critique will be given in the
standard form, relating to the pagination of the A (first) and B
(second) editions
Prol Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, trans. and ed. Gary Hatfield
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
WORKS BY HEGEL
EL Logic: Part I of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, translated
by T. F. Geraets, W. A. Suchting and H. S. Harris (Indianapolis:
Hackett, 1991); references to the student notes are marked by a ‘Z’
after the section number
EM Philosophy of Mind: Part III of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical
Sciences, trans. William Wallace and A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1971); references to the student notes are marked
by a ‘Z’ after the section number
EN Philosophy of Nature: Part II of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical
Sciences, trans. M. J. Petry, 3 vols (London: George Allen & Unwin,
1970); references to the student notes are marked by a ‘Z’ after the
section number
EPR Elements of the Philosophy of Right, edited by Allen Wood, trans.
H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991);
references to the student notes are marked by a ‘Z’ after the section
number