A Companion to Kant

by Bird, Graham

• ISBN13: 9781405111973
• ISBN10: 1405111976
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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, it covers all aspects of Kant's philosophy and discusses all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-Critical works. The Companion comprises a series of concise guides to key topics in Kant's philosophy. Some of the essays offer lucid explanations of Kant's claims, while others take up his other contributions in issues such as history, philosophy, science, morality, aesthetics, and social-politics. This volume offers anyone with an interest in philosophy an indispensable collection of work on Kant.

Author Biography

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, Philosophical Tasks, and William James. He is a past president of the Aristotelian Society and Chair of the UK Kant Society

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	xii
References to Kant's Works	xiii
General Introduction	1	(9)
Graham Bird
Kant's Life and Works	10	(21)
Allen W. Wood
Part I: Pre-Critical Issues	31	(78)
Kant's Early Dynamics	33	(14)
Martin Schonfeld
Kant's Early Cosmology	47	(16)
Martin Schonfeld
Kant's Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s	63	(16)
Alison Laywine
Kant's Debt to Leibniz	79	(14)
Predrag Cicovacki
Kant's Debt to the British Empiricists	93	(16)
Wayne Waxman
Part II: Critique of Pure Reason	109	(140)
Kant's Transcendental Idealism	111	(14)
Henry E. Allison
Kant's Analytic Apparatus	125	(15)
Graham Bird
Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic	140	(14)
Lorne Falkenstein
Kant's Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions	154	(15)
Derk Pereboom
The Second Analogy	169	(13)
Arthur Melnick
Kant's Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant's Arguments against Skepticism	182	(10)
Wolfgang Carl
The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies	192	(15)
Michelle Grier
The Critique of Rational Psychology	207	(15)
Udo Thiel
Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics	222	(14)
Gordon Brittan
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science	236	(13)
Michael Friedman
Part III: The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied	249	(148)
Introduction	251	(8)
Graham Bird
The Primacy of Practical Reason	259	(16)
Sebastian Gardner
Kant's Critical Account of Freedom	275	(16)
Andrews Reath
Kant's Formulations of the Moral Law	291	(17)
Allen W. Wood
Deriving the Formula of Universal Law	308	(14)
Samuel J. Kerstein
Moral Motivation in Kant	322	(13)
Philip Stratton-Lake
Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals	335	(15)
Marcia Baron
Applying Kant's Ethics: The Role of Anthropology	350	(14)
Robert B. Louden
Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant's Political Philosophy	364	(19)
Howard Williams
Reason and Nature: Kant's Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace	383	(14)
Katrin Flikschuh
Part IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment	397	(74)
Introduction	399	(9)
Graham Bird
The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature	408	(15)
Paul Abela
Bridging the Gulf: Kant's Project in the Third Critique	423	(18)
Paul Guyer
Kant's Aesthetic Theory	441	(14)
Anthony Savile
Kant's Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance	455	(16)
Hannah Ginsborg
Part V: Kant's Influence	471	(56)
Hegel's Critique of Kant: An Overview	473	(13)
Sally Sedgwick
The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant	486	(14)
Graham Bird
Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl and Heidegger	500	(13)
Paul Gorner
Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth-Century Analytic Tradition	513	(14)
James O'Shea
Index	527