Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Aristotle’s 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 Williams’s Stoner
Phillip E. Mitchell
13. Confidence without Certainty
J. Aaron Simmons
Part IV: Asian Perspectives and Cosmological Concerns
14. Heidegger and Dōgen 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
List of Contributors
Index
