Bird A Companion to Kant

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7837-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the wholerange of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immensescope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability togenerate philosophical interest.
* Written by an international cast of scholars
* Covers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as wellas the pre-critical works
* Subjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy ofscience, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral andpolitical philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bird, Graham

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 Deductions154
Derk Pereboom
11 The Second Analogy 169
Arthur Melnick
12 Kant's Refutation of Problematic Idealism: KantianArguments 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 Anthropology350
Robert B. Louden
24 Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts inKant's Political Philosophy 364
Howard Williams
25 Reason and Nature: Kant's Teleological Argument inPerpetual 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 theStructure of Nature 408
Paul Abela
27 Bridging the Gulf: Kant's Project in the Third Critique423
Paul Guyer
28 Kant's Aesthetic Theory 441
Anthony Savile
29 Kant's Biological Teleology and its PhilosophicalSignificance 455
Hannah Ginsborg
Part V: Kant's Influence 471
30 Hegel's Critique of Kant: An Overview 473
Sally Sedgwick
31 The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant486
Graham Bird
32 Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl andHeidegger 500
Paul Gorner
33 Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth-CenturyAnalytic Tradition 513
James O'Shea
Index 527

Über Autor(innen)

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.