Synthesis and Being

I had planned to write a new book with the title Synthesis and Being. From Kant to Hegel, which was to be based on material that I had written between 2018 and 2023 and which hadn't found its way in either Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism (2021) or The Bounds of Transcendental Logic (2022). Some of it is material that concerns discussion of work of others (e.g. a review essay on Caimi's 2014 book on the Deduction), replies to critique of my own work, and a discussion of both Houlgate's and Pippin's reading of Hegel. Some of it concerns more substantial reflections, and expansions, on topics from my first monograph Kant's Deduction From Apperception (2012, 2019). The plan was to refashion all of this in such a way that a decent publishable monograph would result, where the themes and discussions could be fleshed out some more, and the particularities of the context in which some of the discussion had taken place could be trimmed. But personal circumstances no longer permit me to dedicate the time needed to such a project.

Instead, I have collated the existing material as a compilation of essays, but still as chapters in some way constituting a book with an introduction (still to be written). Chapter 5 is not yet finished, but will be added later. Chapters 7 and 8 are based on the essays that appeared on my Substack (see here and here respectively), but they will be amended with newer material that resulted from my reading of Stephen Houlgate's latest two-volume tome Hegel on Being (to follow later).

Here is the Table of Contents with links to the most current versions in PDF of the chapters provided.

Note that this is very much a work in progress, which might at some point, in some alternate form, be published as a proper book after all.

Beware that all of this material is copyrighted, so you still need to cite and/or quote in the proper way.