Contemporary Kantian Metaphysics New Essays on Space and Time

by Baiasu, Roxana; Bird, Graham; Moore, Adrian W.

• ISBN13: 9780230284760
• ISBN10: 0230284760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection responds to two needs in the literature. First, the Kantian tradition of thought about space and time represents a rich philosophical resource, insufficiently explored in Anglo-American philosophy. The volume explores this resource. More precisely, it questions a basic assumption of a powerful trend in contemporary metaphysics: the assumption that reality is spatio-temporally organised independently of us. Kant's revolutionary contribution to metaphysics was likewise to question this assumption. The volume draws attention to Kant's distinctive approach to metaphysics and breaks new ground by radically broadening the scope of recent discussions on space and time, in particular by examining certain connections which metaphysics and science have to epistemic agency. Second, contemporary Kantian philosophy is currently pursued along two lines of thinking developed in Anglo-American literature and European philosophy. This work brings their distinct claims into a productive dialogue on topical issues such as action, perception, the body, and cognition and its limits.

Author Biography

ROXANA BAIASU works in the area of post-Kantian philosophy (Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty), epistemology (objectivity, points of view and embodiment), and philosophy of religion. She has published on these topics, including articles in Research in Phenomenology, European Journal of Philosophy, and International Journal of Philosophical Studies. She is the founder of the Forum for European Philosophy in Oxford, UK, where she teaches.
GRAHAM BIRD is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK, and Honorary Professor of the University of Wales. He founded the UK Kant Society in 1996 and has worked as a co-editor of the journal Kantian Review since it began. His books include Kant's Theory of Knowledge, William James, and The Revolutionary Kant. He is the editor of A Companion to Kant (2006).
ADRIAN W.MOORE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. His publications include The Infinite; Points of View; Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy, and The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things. He has also edited the following anthologies: Meaning and Reference; Infinity; and Bernard Williams' posthumously published Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
PART I: PERCEPTION
Kant on Receptivity and Representation; P.Abela
Perceiving Distinct Particulars; L.Allais
Is Spatial Awareness Required for Object Perception?; J.Campbell
The Normative in Perception; S.Crowell
PART II: SCIENCES
Is There Any Value in Kant's Account of Mathematics?; G.Bird
Kant Speaks to Stephen Hawking; L.Stevenson
Reading Kant Topographically: From Critical Philosophy to Empirical Geography; J.Malpas& G.Zöller
PART III: LIMITS OF EXPERIENCE
Kant's Metaphors for Spatial Locations: Understanding Post-Kantian Space; P.S.Anderson
Bird on Kant's Mathematical Antinomies; A.W.Moore
Space and the Limits of Objectivity: Could There Be a Disembodied Thinking of Reality?; R.Baiasu
PART IV: TIME
Heidegger on Time; M.Inwood
Heidegger's Interpretation of the Kantian Notion of Time; F.Dastur
Time, Space and Body in Bergson, Heidegger and Husserl; D.Zahavi& S.Overgaard
Index