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Cornell University Press Kants Rational Theology
Book SynopsisIn Kant''s Rational Theology, Allen W. Wood explores Kant''s views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God''s existence. We cannot have a full or balanced understanding of Kant''s thought on religious subjects, he writes, as long as we fail to take account of his reflections, often exceedingly abstract, obscure, and subtle, concerning the rational origin, content, and status of our concept of a supreme being.The importance of this aspect of Kantian thought, according to Wood, lies in its originality, in its historical influence, and in the insights it affords into the tradition of rational theology in medieval and modern philosophy. He believes that it also provides a means of understanding Kant''s work as a whole and of achieving a proper appreciation of the contents of Kant''s moral faith.The author focuses on Kant''s chapter on the ideal or pure reason from the Critique of Pure Reason and also discusses other Kantian writings (especially the LTrade ReviewThis splendid little book has two main sections. The first traces the origins of Kant's account of God, the ens realissimum, in the first Critique, and analyzes the very obscure introductory passage which precedes Kant's criticism of the three proofs of God's existence. The second examine that criticism in detail. Wood's prose is simple and concise, and he perfectly combines sound historical exegesis with discussion of the general philosophical issues involved. * Mind *Wood's scholarship possesses both historical insight (helping him to situate Kant in the tradition of Descartes, Leibniz, and Wolff) and analytic subtlety (enriching his discussion of such issues as modality and predication). The result is a book that is both an original contribution to Kant studies and an inquiry into the possibility of theology as a 'rational' enterprise. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Kant
Book SynopsisThis Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest. Written by an international cast of scholars Covers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical works Subjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy Trade Review“A Companion to Kant is the most recent (2010) and by far the best anthology on Kant's works. In it, Graham Bird brings together a remarkable set of essays by prominent scholars in Kant studies … .Many (if not most) essays … offer significant contributions to Kant scholarship. The2010Companion to Kant is bound to become indispensible for those who teach and for those who study Kant's philosophy (on both graduate and undergraduate levels). Its contributions remain lucid without watering Kant down; they are comprehensive without staying merely on the surface of the issues they discuss; they contain original work on Kant without skewing the interpretations of Kant toward one-sidedness; and jointly they thematically expand our knowledge and out understanding of Kant's corpus and of Kant's place within the intellectual tradition of Western philosophy.” (Metapsychology, June 2010) “This collection is what one hopes for in a ‘companion’ volume. It contains 33 essays by prominent scholars, all of whom have made substantial contributions to Kant studies. Given the essays’ brevity…they manage to achieve surprising depth, and they will help any advanced student to get oriented in Kant’s thought.” (Choice) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii References to Kant’s Works xiii General Introduction 1 Graham Bird 1 Kant’s Life and Works 10 Allen W. Wood Part I: Pre-Critical Issues 31 2 Kant’s Early Dynamics 33 Martin Schönfeld 3 Kant’s Early Cosmology 47 Martin Schönfeld 4 Kant’s Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s 63 Alison Laywine 5 Kant’s Debt to Leibniz 79 Predrag Cicovacki 6 Kant’s Debt to the British Empiricists 93 Wayne Waxman Part II: Critique of Pure Reason 109 7 Kant’s Transcendental Idealism 111 Henry E. Allison 8 Kant’s Analytic Apparatus 125 Graham Bird 9 Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic 140 Lorne Falkenstein 10 Kant’s Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions 154 Derk Pereboom 11 The Second Analogy 169 Arthur Melnick 12 Kant’s Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant’s Arguments against Skepticism 182 Wolfgang Carl 13 The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies 192 Michelle Grier 14 The Critique of Rational Psychology 207 Udo Thiel 15 Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics 222 Gordon Brittan 16 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science 236 Michael Friedman Part III: The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied 249 Introduction 251 Graham Bird 17 The Primacy of Practical Reason 259 Sebastian Gardner 18 Kant’s Critical Account of Freedom 275 Andrews Reath 19 Kant’s Formulations of the Moral Law 291 Allen W. Wood 20 Deriving the Formula of Universal Law 308 Samuel J. Kerstein 21 Moral Motivation in Kant 322 Philip Stratton-Lake 22 Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals 335 Marcia Baron 23 Applying Kant’s Ethics: The Role of Anthropology 350 Robert B. Louden 24 Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant’s Political Philosophy 364 Howard Williams 25 Reason and Nature: Kant’s Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace 383 Katrin Flikschuh Part IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment 397 Introduction 399 Graham Bird 26 The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature 408 Paul Abela 27 Bridging the Gulf: Kant’s Project in the Third Critique 423 Paul Guyer 28 Kant’s Aesthetic Theory 441 Anthony Savile 29 Kant’s Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance 455 Hannah Ginsborg Part V: Kant’s Influence 471 30 Hegel’s Critique of Kant: An Overview 473 Sally Sedgwick 31 The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant 486 Graham Bird 32 Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl and Heidegger 500 Paul Gorner 33 Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth-Century Analytic Tradition 513 James O’Shea Index 527
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern
Book SynopsisThe philosophy of Kant is the watershed moment of modern thought, irrevocably changing the landscape of the field and preparing the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and modern philosophy.Trade Review"For its comprehensiveness and quality, this volume should find a place in the library of every historian." --Scott Stapleford, University of Witwatersrand: Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: the starry heavens and the moral law Paul Guyer; 1. 'A priori' Philip Kitcher; 2. Kant on the perception of space (and time) Gary Hatfield; 3. Kant's philosophy of mathematics Lisa Shabel; 4. Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the categories Beatrice Longuenesse; 5. Kant's philosophy of cognitive mind Patricia Kitcher; 6. Kant's proofs of substance and causation Arthur Melnick; 7. Kant and transcendental arguments Ralph C. S. Walker; 8. The critique of metaphysics: the structure and fate of Kant's dialectic Karl Ameriks; 9. Philosophy of natural science Michael Friedman; 10. The supreme principle of morality Allen W. Wood; 11. Kant on freedom of the will Henry E. Allison; 12. Mine and thine? The Kantian state Robert B. Pippin; 13. Kant on sex and marriage right Jane Kneller; 14. Kant's theory of peace Pauline Kleingeld; 15. Kant's conception of virtue Lara Denis; 16. Kant's ambitions in the third Critique Paul Guyer; 17. Moral faith and the highest food Frederick C. Beiser; 18. Kant's critical philosophy and its reception - the first five years (1781–6) Manfred Kuehn.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Palgrave Kant Handbook Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism
Trade ReviewSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018“A new generation of Kant scholars is on the rise, and this beautifully printed and consummately edited scholarly collection announces their ascendancy with distinctive fanfare. … The essays are extremely readable, impeccably annotated, and abundantly resourceful, so they will be useful both for novice readers finding their way through Kant’s notoriously difficult thicket of concepts and for established scholars seeking reference points sure to spark renewed debate. … Researchers in particular will find this book a critical touchstone.” (J. G. Moore, Choice, Vol. 55 (12), August, 2018)Table of ContentsContents Series Editor’s Preface Preface Notes on Contributors Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations Introduction: Kant the Revolutionary: Matthew C. Altman Part I. Biographical and Historical Background 1. Kant’s Life: Steve Naragon 2. Kant and His Philosophical Context: The Reception and Critical Transformation of the Leibnizian-Wolffian Philosophy: Manuel Sánchez-Rodríguez Part II. Metaphysics and Epistemology 3. Transcendental Idealism: What and Why?: Paul Guyer 4. Noumenal Ignorance: Why, for Kant, Can’t We Know Things in Themselves?: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval and Andrew Chignell 5. Kant’s Concept of Cognition and the Key to the Whole Secret of Metaphysics: Chong-Fuk Lau 6. Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in Kant: Dennis Schulting Part III. Logic 7. The Place of Logic within Kant’s Philosophy: Clinton Tolley Part IV. Relation between Theoretical and Practical Reason 8. The Primacy of Practical Reason: Ralph C. S. Walker 9. A Practical Account of Kantian Freedom: Matthew C. Altman 10. Moral Skepticism and the Critique of Practical Reason: David Zapero Part V. Ethics 11. How a Kantian Decides What to Do: Allen W. Wood 12. Duties to Oneself: Oliver Sensen 13. Demandingness, Indebtedness, and Charity: Kant on Imperfect Duties to Others: Kate Moran 14. Kant and Sexuality: Helga Varden 15. Kant in Metaethics: The Paradox of Autonomy, Solved by Publicity: Carla Bagnoli Part VI. Aesthetics 16. Feeling the Life of the Mind: Mere Judging, Feeling, and Judgment: Fiona Hughes 17. On Common Sense, Communicability, and Community: Eli Friedlander 18. Immediate Judgment and Non-Cognitive Ideas: The Pervasive and Persistent in the Misreading of Kant’s Aesthetic Formalism: Jennifer A. McMahon 19. Sublimity and Joy: Kant on the Aesthetic Constitution of Virtue: Melissa McBay Merritt Part VII. Philosophy of Science 20. “Proper Science” and Empirical Laws: Kant’s Sense of Science in the Critical Philosophy: John H. Zammito 21. From General to Special Metaphysics of Nature: Michael Bennett McNulty (with Marius Stan) Part VIII. Philosophy of Religion 22. Kant on Faith: Religious Assent and the Limits to Knowledge: Lawrence Pasternack 23. The Fate of Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: Martin Moors Part IX. Political Philosophy 24. The Critical Legal and Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant: 25. A Cosmopolitan Law Created by Cosmopolitan Citizens: The Kantian Project Today: Soraya Nour Sckell 26. Kant’s Mature Theory of Punishment, and a First Critique Ideal Abolitionist Alternative: Benjamin Vilhauer Part X. Anthropology, History, and Education 27. Denkungsart in Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View: Patrick R. Frierson 28. Kant on Emotions, Feelings, and Affectivity: Alix Cohen 29. The Philosopher as Legislator: Kant on History: Katerina Deligiorgi 30. Becoming Human: Kant’s Philosophy of Education and Human Nature: Robert B. Louden Part XI. The Kantian Aftermath, and Kant’s Contemporary Relevance 31. Kant after Kant: The Indispensable Philosopher: Michael Vater 32. Kant, the Copernican Devolution, and Real Metaphysics: Robert Hanna 33. Contemporary Kantian Moral Philosophy: Michael Rohlf Conclusion: Kant the Philosopher: Matthew C. Altman Index
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De Gruyter The Bounds of Freedom: Kant’s Causal Theory of Action
Book SynopsisThis monograph is a new interpretation of Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant’s primary conception of an action, viz., as a causal consequence of the will. The analysis in turn is based on H. P. Grice’s causal theory of perception and on P. F. Strawson’s modification of the theory. The monograph rejects the customary assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. It assumes instead that the maxim is definitive of the action, and since its main thesis is that an action for Kant is to be primarily understood as an effect of the will, it concludes that the maxim of an action can only be its logical determination. Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of free will is confronted not only by contemporary philosophical conceptions of causality, but by Kant’s own complementary theory of causality, in the Second Analogy of Experience. According to this latter conception, causality is a natural relation among physical and psychological objects, and is therefore a temporal relation among them. Faced with this conflict, Kant scholars like Allen W. Wood either reject Kant’s àtemporal conception of causality or like Henry E. Allison accept it, but only in an anodyne form. Both camps, however, make the aforementioned assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. The monograph, rejecting the assumption, belongs to neither camp.
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle Kant and the Stoics
Book SynopsisThis major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so, it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics.Trade Review'Importantly, old stereotypes, or conventional wisdom, about the differences between ancient and modern ethics, especially between Aristotle and Kant, are challenged, exposing possible unities (and historical influences) that tradition has overlooked. However, superficial similarities are also probed and sometimes shown to mask deep remaining differences. The papers call attention to, as well as represent, a quite remarkable contemporary revival of important philosophical/scholarly treatment of the history of ethics, and the authors are, without exception, major players in this movement.' Thomas E. Hill, Jr, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTable of ContentsPart I. Deliberation and Moral Development: 1. Deliberation and moral development in Aristotle's ethics John McDowell; 2. Making room for character Barbara Herman; Part II. Eudaimonism: 3. Kant's criticisms of Eudaimonism T. H. Irwin; 4. Happiness and the highest good in Aristotle and Kant Stephen Engstrom; Part III. Self-Love and Self-Worth: 5. Self-love, self-benevolence, and self-conceit Allen W. Wood; 6. Self-love and authoritative virtue: Prolegomenon to a Kantian reading of Eudemian Ethics VIII 3 Jennifer Whiting; Part IV. Practical Reason and Moral Psychology: 7. From duty and for the sake of the noble: Kant and Aristotle on morally good action Christine M. Korsgaard; 8. Aristotle and Kant on morality and practical reasoning Julia Annas; Part V. Stoicism: 9. Eudaimonism, the appeal to nature, and 'Moral Duty' in Stoicism John M. Cooper; 10. Kant and Stoic ethics J. B. Schneewind.
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Cambridge University Press Kants Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Book SynopsisIn Religion, Kant addresses the relationship between faith and reason, framed largely in terms of the relationship between religion and morality. This volume provides a synoptic view of Kant's major work of religious thought. This collection of essays will be useful for those studying Kant and the philosophy of religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction Gordon Michalson; 1. Holy scriptures within the boundaries of mere reason: Kant's reflections Otfried Höffe; 2. The evil in human nature Allen W. Wood; 3. Radical evil and human freedom Ingolf Dalferth; 4. Gesinnung: responsibility, moral worth and character Alison Hills; 5. Hope, possibility, and divine action Andrew Chignell; 6. Kant on grace Leslie Stevenson; 7. Kant, miracles, and Religion, Parts One and Two Karl Ameriks; 8. Kant's Jesus Manfred Kuehn; 9. Pluralism in the ethical community Nicholas Tampio; 10. Kant's religious constructivism Pablo Muchnik; 11. What does his Religion contribute to Kant's conception of Practical Reason? G. Felicitas Munzel; 12. Culture and the limits of Practical Reason in Kant's Religion Richard Velkley.
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Cambridge University Press Kant Critique of Pure Reason The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
Book SynopsisThis entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Its simple, direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, however the translation displays a sophistication that will enlighten Kant scholars as well.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood; Bibliography; Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason translated by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood; Editorial notes; Glossary; Index.
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Harvard University Press Immanuel Kants Groundwork for the Metaphysics of
Book SynopsisA defining work of moral philosophy, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been highly influential and famously difficult. Dieter Schönecker and Allen Wood make clear the ways this work forms the basis of our modern moral outlook and how moral law relates to freedom and free will within Kant’s overall philosophy.Trade ReviewDieter Schönecker and Allen W. Wood highlight in this book Kant’s most important and moving ideas, above all his idea of the incomparable worth of human autonomy, while pulling no punches about the shortcomings of Kant’s arguments. They carefully explicate and disambiguate Kant’s central concepts and discuss in detail the most notorious problems of interpretation. Kant’s little book is dense and obscure at some of the most crucial points. Students always need a commentary, and this one is very welcome indeed. -- Paul Guyer, Brown University
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Rowman & Littlefield Kants Critique of the Power of Judgment Critical
Book SynopsisIncludes twelve of the most important modern critical discussions of the Critique of the Power of Judgment, written by the leading Kant scholars and aestheticians of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewThis well-balanced collection of essays is the foremost, and for a time will certainly be the defnitive, anthology on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment." -- Allen W. Wood, Stanford UniversityAn indispensable collection of essays for every reader of Kant's third Critique. -- Frederick Beiser, Syracuse UniversityThis collection gives an excellent overview of English-language work on the Critique of the Power of Judgement in recent decades. -- Abraham Anderson, St. John's College, Santa Fe * Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online *This volume is an excellent collection of already classic articles from the past 25 years. It covers the entire spectrum of topics discussed in the Critique of the Power of Judgment with an even mix of helpful explanations of its fundamental issues and provocative suggestions about how best to understand Kant's original insights. -- Eric Watkins, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsChapter 1 Kant's Principles of Reflecting Judgment Chapter 2 Unkantian Notions of Disinterest Chapter 3 Kant's Aesthetics and the "Empty Cognitive Stock" Chapter 4 The Idealism of Purposiveness Chapter 5 Free and Dependent Beauty Chapter 6 The Sublime in Nature Chapter 7 Kant's Theory of Creative Nature Chapter 8 Artistic Genius and the Question of Creativity Chapter 9 "Aesthetic Ideas" and the Role of Art in Kant's Ethical Hermeneutics Chapter 10 Imaginative Freedom and the German Enlightenment Chapter 11 Newtonian Biology and Kant's Mechanistic Concept of Causality Chapter 12 Kant's Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
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Rowman & Littlefield Kants Critique of the Power of Judgment
Book SynopsisKant''s Critique of the Power of Judgment, first published in 1790, was the last of the great philosopher''s three critiques, following on the heels of Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788). In the first two, Kant dealt with metaphysics and morality; in the third, Kant turns to the aesthetic dimension of human experience, showing how our experiences of natural and artistic beauty, the sublime magnitude and might of nature, and of purposive organisms and ecological systems gives us palpable evidece that it is possible for us not only to form moral intentions, but also to realize our freely chosen moral goals within nature as we experience it. The present volume collects twelve of the most important critical discussions on the Critique of the Power of Judgment written by leading Kant scholars and aestheticians from the United States and Great Britain. In addition to a substantive introduction by the editor, the book includes an extensive, annotated bibliography of the most important work on Kant and on the background and arguments of his third Critique published throughout the twentieth century.Trade ReviewThis well-balanced collection of essays is the foremost, and for a time will certainly be the defnitive, anthology on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment." -- Allen W. Wood, Stanford UniversityAn indispensable collection of essays for every reader of Kant's third Critique. -- Frederick Beiser, Syracuse UniversityThis collection gives an excellent overview of English-language work on the Critique of the Power of Judgement in recent decades. -- Abraham Anderson, St. John's College, Santa Fe * Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online *This volume is an excellent collection of already classic articles from the past 25 years. It covers the entire spectrum of topics discussed in the Critique of the Power of Judgment with an even mix of helpful explanations of its fundamental issues and provocative suggestions about how best to understand Kant's original insights. -- Eric Watkins, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsChapter 1 Kant's Principles of Reflecting Judgment Chapter 2 Unkantian Notions of Disinterest Chapter 3 Kant's Aesthetics and the "Empty Cognitive Stock" Chapter 4 The Idealism of Purposiveness Chapter 5 Free and Dependent Beauty Chapter 6 The Sublime in Nature Chapter 7 Kant's Theory of Creative Nature Chapter 8 Artistic Genius and the Question of Creativity Chapter 9 "Aesthetic Ideas" and the Role of Art in Kant's Ethical Hermeneutics Chapter 10 Imaginative Freedom and the German Enlightenment Chapter 11 Newtonian Biology and Kant's Mechanistic Concept of Causality Chapter 12 Kant's Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
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State University of New York Press Autonomy and Community Readings in Contemporary
Book SynopsisShows how Kant's basic position applies to and clarifies present-day problems of war, race, abortion, capital punishment, labor relations, the environment, and marriage. In Autonomy and Community, contemporary Kant scholars apply Kant's moral and political views to current social issues, examining contemporary topics through the lenses of various recent Kantian approaches to issues in ethical, political, and social philosophy. The articles, written with a minimum of technical language, engage current social problems directly, demonstrating the possibility of diverse applications of Kant's views. The authors, reaching well beyond the realm of academic philosophy, apply Kant's moral and political views to contemporary social concerns both general and specific. Under the first heading are chapters presenting readings of Kant's social theory and theory of human history, the relationship of moral practice to the social contract, Kant's theory of civic duty, and the relevance of Kantian philosophy to contemporary feminist theory. In Part II, more specific issues of contemporary interest are explored: war, international relations, race and ethnicity questions, abortion, capital punishment, environmental ethics, labor relations, and the nature of the institution of marriage. Taken as a whole, Autonomy and Community shows that Kantianism offers a social vision that goes far beyond Kant's well-known abstract theory. [Contributors to the book include Sharon Anderson-Gold, Thomas Auxter, Susan Feldman, Gerald F. Gaus, Charles W. Mills, Nelson Potter, Philip Rossi, Robin May Schott, Harry van der Linden, Hollyn L. Wilson, Robert Paul Wolff, and Allen W. Wood.]
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