Companion to Kant

Informationen zum Autor Graham Bird is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has been a leading Kant scholar for nearly 40 years, and is the author of Kant's Theory of Knowledge (1962), Philosophical Tasks (1972) , and William James  (1986),  and Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason  (2006) . He is a past president of the Aristotelian Society and Chair of the UK Kant Society. Klappentext This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest.* Written by an international cast of scholars* Covers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical works* Subjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy Zusammenfassung This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest. Written by an international cast of scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii References to Kant's Works xiii General Introduction 1 Graham Bird 1 Kant's Life and Works 10 Allen W. Wood Part I: Pre-Critical Issues 31 2 Kant's Early Dynamics 33 Martin Schönfeld 3 Kant's Early Cosmology 47 Martin Schönfeld 4 Kant's Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s 63 Alison Laywine 5 Kant's Debt to Leibniz 79 Predrag Cicovacki 6 Kant's Debt to the British Empiricists 93 Wayne Waxman Part II: Critique of Pure Reason 109 7 Kant's Transcendental Idealism 111 Henry E. Allison 8 Kant's Analytic Apparatus 125 Graham Bird 9 Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic 140 Lorne Falkenstein 10 Kant's Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions 154 Derk Pereboom 11 The Second Analogy 169 Arthur Melnick 12 Kant's Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant's Arguments against Skepticism 182 Wolfgang Carl 13 The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies 192 Michelle Grier 14 The Critique of Rational Psychology 207 Udo Thiel 15 Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics 222 Gordon Brittan 16 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science 236 Michael Friedman Part III: The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied 249 Introduction 251 Graham Bird 17 The Primacy of Practical Reason 259 Sebastian Gardner 18 Kant's Critical Account of Freedom 275 Andrews Reath 19 Kant's Formulations of the Moral Law 291 Allen W. Wood 20 Deriving the Formula of Universal Law 308 Samuel J. Kerstein 21 Moral Motivation in Kant 322 Philip Stratton-Lake 22 Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals 335 Marcia Baron 23 Applying Kant's Ethics: The Role of Anthropology 350 Robert B. Louden 24 Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant's Political Philosophy 364 Howard Williams 25 Reason and Nature: Kant's Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace 383 Katrin Flikschuh Part IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment 397 Introduction 399 Graham Bird 26 The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature 4...

List of contents

Notes on Contributors.
 
Acknowledgments.
 
References to Kant's Works.
 
General Introduction (Graham Bird).
 
1 Kant's Life and Works (Allen W. Wood).
 
Part I: Pre-Critical Issues.
 
2 Kant's Early Dynamics (Martin Schönfeld).
 
3 Kant's Early Cosmology (Martin Schönfeld).
 
4 Kant's Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s (Alison Laywine).
 
5 Kant's Debt to Leibniz (Predrag Cicovacki).
 
6 Kant's Debt to the British Empiricists (Wayne Waxman).
 
Part II: Critique of Pure Reason.
 
7 Kant's Transcendental Idealism (Henry E. Allison).
 
8 Kant's Analytic Apparatus (Graham Bird).
 
9 Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic (Lorne Falkenstein).
 
10 Kant's Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions (Derk Pereboom).
 
11 The Second Analogy (Arthur Melnick).
 
12 Kant's Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant's Arguments against Skepticism (Wolfgang Carl).
 
13 The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies (Michelle Grier).
 
14 The Critique of Rational Psychology (Udo Thiel).
 
15 Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics (Gordon Brittan).
 
16 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Michael Friedman).
 
Part III: The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied.
 
Introduction (Graham Bird).
 
17 The Primacy of Practical Reason (Sebastian Gardner).
 
18 Kant's Critical Account of Freedom (Andrews Reath).
 
19 Kant's Formulations of the Moral Law (Allen W. Wood).
 
20 Deriving the Formula of Universal Law (Samuel J. Kerstein).
 
21 Moral Motivation in Kant (Philip Stratton-Lake).
 
22 Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals (Marcia Baron).
 
23 Applying Kant's Ethics: The Role of Anthropology (Robert B. Louden).
 
24 Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant's Political Philosophy (Howard Williams).
 
25 Reason and Nature: Kant's Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace (Katrin Flikschuh).
 
Part IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment.
 
Introduction (Graham Bird).
 
26 The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature (Paul Abela).
 
27 Bridging the Gulf: Kant's Project in the Third Critique (Paul Guyer).
 
28 Kant's Aesthetic Theory (Anthony Savile).
 
29 Kant's Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance (Hannah Ginsborg).
 
Part V: Kant's Influence.
 
30 Hegel's Critique of Kant: An Overview (Sally Sedgwick).
 
31 The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant (Graham Bird).
 
32 Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl and Heidegger (Paul Gorner).
 
33 Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth-Century Analytic Tradition (James O'Shea).
 
Index.

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"A Companion to Kant is the most recent (2010) and byfar the best anthology on Kant s works. In it, Graham Birdbrings together a remarkable set of essays by prominent scholars inKant studies ... .Many (if not most) essays ... offersignificant contributions to Kant scholarship. The2010 Companionto Kant is bound to become indispensible for those who teachand for those who study Kant s philosophy (on both graduate andundergraduate levels). Its contributions remain lucid withoutwatering Kant down; they are comprehensive without staying merelyon the surface of the issues they discuss; they contain originalwork on Kant without skewing the interpretations of Kant towardone-sidedness; and jointly they thematically expand our knowledgeand out understanding of Kant s corpus and of Kant s place withinthe intellectual tradition of Western philosophy."( Metapsychology , June 2010)
"This collection is what one hopes for in a'companion' volume. It contains 33 essays by prominentscholars, all of whom have made substantial contributions to Kantstudies. Given the essays' brevity...they manage toachieve surprising depth, and they will help any advanced studentto get oriented in Kant's thought."( Choice)

Product details

• Authors: G Bird, Graham Bird, Graham (University of Manchester Bird
• Assisted by: Graha Bird (Editor), Graham Bird (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2009
• EAN: 9781405197595
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9759-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy; Blackwell Companions to Philos; Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophie, Kant, Immanuel, Philosophy, Philosophie des 17. u. 18. Jhd., 17th & 18th Century Philosophy