Essays on Kant

by Allison, Henry E.

• ISBN13: 9780199647033
• ISBN10: 0199647038
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Essays on Kant contains a collection of seventeen essays written by Henry E. Allison, one of the world's leading scholars on Kant. Although these essays cover virtually the full spectrum of Allison's work on Kant, most of them revolve around three basic themes: the nature of transcendental idealism and its relation to other aspects of Kant's thought; freedom of the will; and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. The first two themes are intended asclarifications, elaborations, and further developments of Allison's previous work on Kant, while the essays on the third theme demonstrate the central place of Kant's 'critical' philosophy in his thought. Allison places Kant's views in their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance topresent day philosophers.

Author Biography

Henry E. Allison is Emeritus Professor of the University of California, San Diego, and Boston University. He is the author of many books, including Custom and Reason in Hume (OUP, 2008), and over seventy-five scholarly articles and reviews.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note on sources and key to abbreviations and translations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Commentary on Section Nine of the Antinomy of Pure Reason	p. 15
Where Have all the Categories Gone? Reflections on Longuenesse's Reading of Kant's Transcendental Deduction	p. 31
A Response to a Response: An Addendum to "Where Have all the Categories Gone?"	p. 43
Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism	p. 49
Transcendental Realism, Empirical Realism, and Transcendental Idealism	p. 67
We Can Act Only Under the Idea of Freedom	p. 87
On the Very Idea of a Propensity to Evil	p. 99
Kant's Practical Justification of Freedom	p. 110
The Singleness of the Categorical Imperative	p. 124
Kant on Freedom of the Will	p. 137
Is the Critique of Judgment "Post-Critical"?	p. 165
Reflective Judgment and the Application of Logic to Nature: Kant's Deduction of the Principle of Purposiveness as an Answer to Hume	p. 177
The Critique of Judgment as a "True Apology" for Leibniz	p. 189
Kant's Antinomy of Teleological Judgment	p. 201
The Gulf between Nature and Freedom and Nature's Guarantee of Perpetual Peace	p. 217
Kant's Conception of Aufklärung	p. 229
Teleology and History in Kant: The Critical Foundations of Kant's Philosophy of History	p. 236
Reason, Revelation, and History in Lessing and Kant	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 274
Index	p. 283
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