Kant and the Human Sciences - Biology, Anthropology and History

This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences.

List of contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgment List of Tables Preface Freedom and The Human Sciences The Model of Biological Science What Is The Human Being? Pragmatic Anthropology Philosophical History Epilogue: A Pragmatic Counterpart to the Transcendental Project? Bibliography Index

About the author

Alix Cohen is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Summary

This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences.

Product details

• Authors: a Cohen, A. Cohen
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349309283
• ISBN: 978-1-349-30928-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 13 mm x 221 mm
• Weight: 283 g
• Illustrations: XV, 200 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; B, Anthropology, Philosophy, Epistemology, Social & political philosophy, History of Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Modern Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, anthropology;Immanuel Kant;Kant;liberty;philosophy