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The contributors to this volume share a commitment to the idea that Kant's philosophy cannot be properly understood without careful attention to its metaphysical presuppositions. Topics discussed include modal metaphysics, the continuum, the epistemology of the a priori, and the foundations of Kant's "metaethical" views.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Tobias Rosefeldt: Being Realistic about Kant's Idealism
- 2: Desmond Hogan: Schopenhauer's Transcendental Aesthetic
- 3: Lucy Allais: Relation to an Object: the Role of the Categories
- 4: Stefanie Grüne: Kant on Concepts, Intuitions, and Sensible Synthesis
- 5: Jessica Leech: A Transcendental Argument for the Principle of Possibility
- 6: Timothy Rosenkoetter: Kant on the Epistemology of the Obvious
- 7: Dina Emundts: How Does Kant Conceive of Self-Consciousness?
- 8: Anja Jauernig: The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Leibniz, the Wolffians, and Kant on Matter and Monads
- 9: Clinton Tolley: Kantian Appearances as Object-Dependent Senses
- 10: Karl Schafer: Kant's Conception of Cognition and Our Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves
- 11: Ralf Bader: Noumena as Grounds of Phenomena
- 12: Nicholas F. Stang: Thing and Object
- 13: Andrew Chignell: 12. Kant's One-World Phenomenalism: How the Moral Features Appear
- 14: Uygar Abaci: 12. Kant's Enigmatic Transition: Practical Cognition of the Supersensible
- 15: Colin Marshall: 12. Kant's Derivation of the Moral 'Ought' From a Metaphysical 'Is'
About the author
Karl Schafer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously he was Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Irvine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous articles on Kant and Hume, as well as related issues in contemporary ethics or epistemology.
Nicholas F. Stang is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Kant's Modal Metaphysics (Oxford 2016), and numerous articles on Kant's theoretical philosophy.
Summary
The contributors to this volume share a commitment to the idea that Kant's philosophy cannot be properly understood without careful attention to its metaphysical presuppositions. Topics discussed include modal metaphysics, the continuum, the epistemology of the a priori, and the foundations of Kant's “metaethical” views.
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This collection sets the stage, and perhaps future volumes will extend the arguments for metaphysical interpretations of transcendental idealism and keep Kant scholarship as dynamic as ever.
