The Idea of Freedom New Essays on the Kantian Theory of Freedom

by Heide, Dai; Tiffany, Evan

• ISBN13: 9780198860563
• ISBN10: 0198860560
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Kant describes the concept of freedom as "the keystone of the whole structure of a system of pure reason, even of speculative reason." Kant's theory of freedom thus plays a foundational and unifying role in all aspects of his philosophy and is thus of significant interest to historians of Kant's philosophy. Kant's theory of freedom has also played a significant role in contemporary debates in metaphysics, normative ethics, and metaethics. This volume brings historians of Kant's philosophy into conversation with contemporary metaphysicians and ethicists with the aim of representing the current state of scholarship on Kant's and Kantian accounts of freedom while at the same time opening new avenues of exploration. The Idea of Freedom includes papers by leading scholars on a range of historical and contemporary topics centrally related to the Kantian theory of freedom, including transcendental idealism, determinism, Kant's normative ethical theory, Kant's conception of cognition, Kant's theory of beauty, Kant's conception of logic, and many others.

Author Biography

Dai Heide, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University,Evan Tiffany, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University

Dai Heide earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Northwestern University and his PhD in Philosophy from The Ohio State University in 2010. His primary area of research interest is Kant's theoretical philosophy. He is also interested in a range of metaphysical and epistemological questions in early modern philosophy. He has written about Kant's transcendental idealism, Kant's theory of space and time, Kant's conceptions of existence and predication, and other related topics.

Evan Tiffany is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. He works primarily on topics in free will and moral responsibility, with interests in metaethics and the history of ethics.

Table of Contents

1. The Idea of Freedom: An Introduction, Dai Heide and Evan Tiffany
2. Kantian Determinism and Contemporary Determinism, Lucy Allais
3. Kant on Transcendental Freedom, Priority Monism, and the Structure of Intuition, Colin McLear, and Derek Pereboom
4. Kant on Cognition of Freedom, Eric Watkins
5. Practical Cognition and Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves, Karl Schafer
6. Kant's Practical Proof of the Fact of Freedom, Patricia Kitcher
7. An Asymmetrical Approach to Kant's Theory of Freedom, Benjamin Vilhauer
8. Bad Debt: The Kantian Inheritance of Empiricist Desire, Kyla Ebels-Duggan
9. A Kantian Conception of Kantian Freedom, Kelin Emmett
10. Kant on Freedom and Practical Irrationality, Ralf Bader
11. Imagining Freedom: Kant on Symbols of Sublimity, Samantha Matherne
12. Bread as Freedom: Kant on the State's Duties to the Poor, Ariel Zylberman
13. Constitutivity, Freedom, and Normativity - The Case of Logic, Huaping Lu-Adler