Kant and the Problem of Knowledge - Rethinking the Contemporary World

This book examines Kant's contributions to the theory of knowledge and studies how his writings can be applied to address contemporary epistemological issues.

List of contents

Introduction
Luigi Caranti and Alessandro Pinzani
1. The transcendental deduction and transcendental idealism: a retrospective
Henry E. Allison
2. Kant on scientific laws
Lea Ypi
3. Normativity and reflective casual inference
Patricia Kauark Leite
4. Consciousness as representation of representation: Kant on the human and animal capacity for representation and consciousness
Silvia Altmann
5. Critique and development of the Kantian theory of space in Gerold Prauss
Bernd Dörflinger
6. Kant on communication
Luca Fonnesu
7. Kant’s space of theoretical reason and science: a perspectival reading
Lorenzo Spagnesi
8. Can physics explain physics? Anthropic principles and transcendental idealism
Robert Hanna

About the author

Luigi Caranti is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università di Catania. He focuses on Kant, human rights, peace studies and distributive justice. Principal investigator of numerous EU-funded research projects, he is currently coordinating the Marie Curie Rise project “Kant in South America”. Among his recent publications are The Kantian Federation (2022), (ed. with D. Celentano) Paradigms of Justice: Redistribution, Recognition and Beyond (2021) and Kant’s Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress (2017).
Alessandro Pinzani is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (Brazil), and, since 2006, he is a fellow researcher of CNPq (Brazilian Research Council). His publications include Jürgen Habermas (2007), An den Wurzeln moderner Demokratie (2009) and Money, Autonomy, and Citizenship (with W. Leão Rego, 2018).

Summary

This book examines Kant’s contributions to the theory of knowledge and studies how his writings can be applied to address contemporary epistemological issues.

Product details

• Authors: Luigi Pinzani Caranti
• Assisted by: Luigi Caranti (Editor), Caranti Luigi (Editor), Alessandro Pinzani (Editor), Pinzani Alessandro (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9780367506742
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50674-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Regional Studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Regional / International studies, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge