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Zusatztext There is much to admire in this book, and much to learn from it. On interpretive, philosophical, and meta-philosophical levels, it is a major accomplishment and richly deserves the attention it will no doubt receive for many years to come. Informationen zum Autor R. Lanier Anderson is Associate Professor of Philosophy (and by courtesy, of German Studies) at Stanford University, where he currently chairs the Philosophy Department. He works in the history of late modern philosophy with primary focus on Kant and nineteenth century philosophy, and is the author of a numerous articles about Kant, Nietzsche, and the neo-Kantian movement. His other research interests include Nietzsche's moral psychology and various topics in the philosophy of Montaigne. Klappentext R. Lanier Anderson presents a new account of Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, and provides it with a clear basis within traditional logic. He reconstructs compelling claims about the syntheticity of elementary mathematics, and re-animates Kant's arguments against traditional metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason. Zusammenfassung R. Lanier Anderson presents a new account of Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, and provides it with a clear basis within traditional logic. He reconstructs compelling claims about the syntheticity of elementary mathematics, and re-animates Kant's arguments against traditional metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Containment Analyticity and Kant's Problem of Synthetic Judgment Part I--The Traditional Logic of Concept Containment and its (alleged) Metaphysical Implications 2: Containment and the Traditional Logic of Concepts 3: The Wolffian Paradigm 4: Narrowness and Trade-offs: Conceptual Truth in the 'Leibnizian-Wolffian' Philosophy Part II--A Difficult Birth: the Emergence of Kant's Analytic/Synthetic Distinction 5: Three Versions of Analyticity 6: Methodological Beginnings: Analysis and Synthesis in the Published pre-Critical Works 7: Making Synthetic Judgments Analytic: Kant's Long Road toward Logical Analyticity in the Reflexionen Part III--Ineliminable Synthetic Truth in Elementary Mathematics 8: The Logic of Concepts and a 'Two Step' Syntheticity Argument 9: Kant on the Syntheticity of Elementary Mathematics Part IV--The Poverty of Conceptual Truth and the Master Argument of the 'Transcendental Dialectic' 10: The Master Argument 11: The Soul and the World: the Master Argument in Kant's 'Paralogisms' and 'Antinomy' 12: The Master Argument in the Critique of Rational Theology Epilogue 13: Empirical Concept Formation and the Systematic Role of Logical Division Appendix 1: Kant's Criticisms of the Ontological Argument in 1763 Four Strands of Reflexionen on the Emerging Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Friedman and the Phenomenological Reading ...
