Kant's Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy

by Edited and translated by Brigitte Sassen

• ISBN13: 9780521037648
• ISBN10: 0521037646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book offers translations of the initial (1781-89) critical reactions to Kant's philosophy. Also included is a selection of writings by Kant's contemporaries who took on the task of defending the critical philosophy against early attacks. The first aim of this collection is to show in detail how Kant was understood and misunderstood by his contemporaries. The second aim is to reveal the sorts of arguments that Kant and his first disciples mounted in their defense of the theoretical philosophy. The third aim of the book is to contribute to an understanding of the development of Kant's critical philosophy after its initial formulation in the Critique of Pure Reason, and in particular why Kant made the changes he did in the second edition of the work in 1787. This collection, which includes a glossary of key terms and biographical sketches of the critics on both sides of the debate, is a major addition to Kant scholarship and should be seen as a companion volume to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Frequently cited texts and abbreviations

Introduction: major trends in the early empiricist reception of Kant-s critical philosophy

Feder/Garve and Garve

The G+ ttingen review

The Garve review: Christian Garve, -Critique of Pure Reason

The Transcendental Aesthetic

-On the Nature of Metaphysics: An Examination of Professor Kant-s Principles - Against the Aesthetic-

[Hermann Andreas Pistorius], -Elucidations of Professor Kant-s 'Critique of Pure Reason,'

On Space and Causality: An Examination of the Kantian Philosophy, 1-64, 84*-91*

[Anonymous], -On Space and Causality: An Examination of the Kantian Philosophy

Investigation into the First Grounds of the Doctrine of the Senses, 87-92

Idealism

On Space and Causality: An Examination of the Kantian Philosophy, 61-83*, 114-118

On the Transcendental Aesthetic: A Critical Attempt, 131-175

'On Transcendental Idealism'

[Hermann Andreas Pistorius], -Critique of Pure Reason

Investigation into the First Grounds of the Doctrine of the Senses, 117-120, 141-153

The Categories

-Attempt at a Proof that there are no Pure Concepts of Reason that are Independent of Experience-

-Continuation of the Examination of Professor Kant-s Thoughts about the Nature of Metaphysics - Against the Analytic-

[Johann Schultz], -Institutiones Logicae et Metaphysica

Gottlob August Tittle, On Kantian Forms of Thought or Categories, 3-41, 103-11

Empiricism vs. Purism

Some Remarks about Empiricism and Purism in Philosophy Occasioned by Selle-s Principles of Pure Philosophy-

[Hermann Andreas Pistorius], -On Carl Christian Erhard Schmid-s essay about Kant-s Purism and Selle-s Empiricism

About the authors

Biographical sketches of figures in early Kant reception

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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