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The Idea of Freedom brings historians of Kant's philosophy into conversation with contemporary metaphysicians and ethicists with the aim of representing the current state of scholarship on Kant's and Kantian accounts of freedom, while at the same time opening new avenues of exploration
List of contents
- 1: Dai Heide and Evan Tiffany: The Idea of Freedom: An Introduction
- 2: Lucy Allais: Kantian Determinism and Contemporary Determinism
- 3: Colin McLear, and Derek Pereboom: Kant on Transcendental Freedom, Priority Monism, and the Structure of Intuition
- 4: Eric Watkins: Kant on Cognition of Freedom
- 5: Karl Schafer: Practical Cognition and Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves
- 6: Patricia Kitcher: Kant's Practical Proof of the Fact of Freedom
- 7: Benjamin Vilhauer: An Asymmetrical Approach to Kant's Theory of Freedom
- 8: Kyla Ebels-Duggan: Bad Debt: The Kantian Inheritance of Empiricist Desire
- 9: Kelin Emmett: A Kantian Conception of Kantian Freedom
- 10: Ralf Bader: Kant on Freedom and Practical Irrationality
- 11: Samantha Matherne: Imagining Freedom: Kant on Symbols of Sublimity
- 12: Ariel Zylberman: Bread as Freedom: Kant on the State's Duties to the Poor
- 13: Huaping Lu-Adler: Constitutivity, Freedom, and Normativity - The Case of Logic
About the author
Dai Heide earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Northwestern University and his PhD in Philosophy from The Ohio State University in 2010. His primary area of research interest is Kant's theoretical philosophy. He is also interested in a range of metaphysical and epistemological questions in early modern philosophy. He has written about Kant's transcendental idealism, Kant's theory of space and time, Kant's conceptions of existence and predication, and other related topics.
Evan Tiffany is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. He works primarily on topics in free will and moral responsibility, with interests in metaethics and the history of ethics.
Summary
The Idea of Freedom brings historians of Kant's philosophy into conversation with contemporary metaphysicians and ethicists with the aim of representing the current state of scholarship on Kant's and Kantian accounts of freedom, while at the same time opening new avenues of exploration
