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Zusatztext Over the last 25 years, Hannah Ginsborg has developed a systematic and highly original line of thought that connects questions about what it means to look at the natural world through the lens of teleology to puzzles about aesthetic judgments and about the ability to acquire concepts. . . . the collection's achievement is to lay out detailed answers to specific problems while revealing the systematic unity across the solutions. . . . Whether or not readers accept all of Ginsborg's many expertly crafted solutions, they will benefit from her skill at framing very basic, but intricate, philosophical puzzles in an exceptionally clear way. . . . The focus of this important collection is on advancing philosophical understanding. Informationen zum Autor Hannah Ginsborg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University. Her publications include articles on Kant's theory of knowledge, aesthetics, and philosophy of biology, as well as on contemporary issues such as rule-following, the normativity of meaning, the content of perception, and the relation between perception and belief. Klappentext Hannah Ginsborg presents fourteen essays which establish Kant's Critique of Judgment as a central contribution to the understanding of human cognition. The papers bring out the significance of Kant's philosophical notion of judgment, and use it to address interpretive issues in Kant's aesthetics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of biology. Zusammenfassung Hannah Ginsborg presents fourteen essays which establish Kant's Critique of Judgment as a central contribution to the understanding of human cognition. The papers bring out the significance of Kant's philosophical notion of judgment, and use it to address interpretive issues in Kant's aesthetics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of biology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I. Aesthetics; 1 Kant on the Subjectivity of Taste; 2 On the Key to Kant's Critique of Taste; 3 Lawfulness without a Law: Kant on the Free Play of Imagination and Understanding; 4 Aesthetic Judging and the Intentionality of Pleasure; 5 The Pleasure of Judgment: Kant and the Possibility of Taste; II. Cognition; 6 Reflective Judgment and Taste; 7 Thinking the Particular as Contained under the Universal; 8 Aesthetic Judgment and Perceptual Normativity; 9 The Appearance of Spontaneity: Kant on Judgment and Empirical Self-Knowledge; III. Teleology; 10 Kant on Aesthetic and Biological Purposiveness; 11 Kant on Understanding Organisms as Natural Purposes; 12 Two Kinds of Mechanical Inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle; 13 Kant's Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance; 14 Oughts without Intentions: A Kantian Approach to Biological Functions; Bibliography; Index...
