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Kant’s Philosophy of Language of Philosophy: On Philosophical Terminology Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Eric Sancho-Adamson
Among the passages which are suggestive of a philosophy of language in Kant’s writings are his remarks and arguments on appropriate terminology for philosophical concepts. I ask what it is for Kant that makes some words more suitable than others. I reconstruct the arguments from the Inquiry concerning the distinctness of the principles of natural theology and morality (1764) and the Critique of Pure
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Kant on Language and the (Self‐)Development of Reason Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Huaping Lu-Adler
The origin of languages was a hotly debated topic in the eighteenth century. This paper reconstructs a distinctively Kantian account according to which the origination, progression, and diversification of languages is at bottom reason’s self-development under certain a priori constraints and external environments. The reconstruction builds on three sets of materials. The first is Herder’s famous prize
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Kant’s Transcendental Theory of Universal Grammar. The Cognitive Foundation of the Structure of Language Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Pierluigi D’Agostino
In this paper I discuss Kant’s philosophy of grammar in order to argue that: (a) the formal analysis of language implies that there is a structural correspondence between logical and grammatical form; (b) there is a distinction between the sense in which logic is formal and the sense in which grammar is formal; (c) universal grammar descends from the system of categorial functions that are investigated
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Kant on Language, Communication and Objective Judgment Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Matti Saarni
This paper explicates the role of language and communication in Kant’s account of objective judgment and objective reference. I take it that the basic units of proper objective reference for Kant are objective judgments, which according to Kant are acts of relating given cognitions to other cognitions in the unity of apperception. The question is, does language play any role in this activity, or is
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Kantian Thoughts. Towards an Alternative to Russellian and Fregean Propositions Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Till Hoeppner
What are thoughts, or propositions, exactly? I develop an answer to this question in relation to the Russellian and Fregean views – propositions as facts and propositions as contents –, defending a Kantian alternative: propositions as acts. I move from natural or naïve Russellianism and its difficulties to more sophisticated and promising Fregeanism, which can respond to these difficulties but only
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Kant on Propositional Content and Knowledge Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Lewis Wang
This paper explores Kant’s account of propositional content and its implications for the relationship between his notions of knowledge (Wissen) and cognition (Erkenntnis). While previous commentators commonly read Kant as holding a Fregean theory of propositional content, in this paper I argue that Kant’s theory of propositional content aligns more closely with Peter Hanks’ recent account. According
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Kant on First-Person Speech and Personhood Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Raphaël Ehrsam
Kant stresses the presence, in all languages, of first-person formulas. In the Anthropology, § 1, he argues (i) that the use of ‘I’ (or any other linguistic form referring to the speaker) makes the human being “a person”, and (ii) that the use of the first-person pronoun enables the child to “think herself”. In the present paper, I claim that, in order to understand those assertions, first-person linguistic
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Kant’s Semiotics and Hermeneutics in the 1760s Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Marco Costantini
In this contribution, we first discuss the aspects of the analytic method conceived by Kant in the Deutlichkeit that differentiate it from the Wolffian method and relate it to the Newtonian method. Compared to the philosophical tradition, the task of analysing concepts appears profoundly changed. Since Kant aims philosophy towards the world, he considers concepts as something given and intends to discern
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Three Rival Versions of Kantian Constructivism Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Ernesto V. Garcia
In order to make headway on the debate about whether Kant was a constructivist, nonconstructivist, or instead defends a hybrid view that somehow entirely sidesteps these categories, I attempt to clarify the terms of the debate more carefully than is usually done. First, I discuss the overall relationship between realism and constructivism. Second, I identify four main features of Kantian constructivism
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Vulnerabilities in Kantian Constructivism: Why they Matter for Objective Normativity Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Susana Cadilha, Francisco Lisboa
In section 1 we present moral constructivism as a metaphysical project which grounds moral norms in the attitude of valuing by rational agents. In section 2 we establish that Kantian Constructivism – opposed to Humean Constructivism – seeks objective and universal moral norms through a process of rational construction and ratification of norms that does not draw on any kind of subjective attitude of
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Kantian Constructivism and Kantian Constitutivism: Some Reflections Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Andrews Reath
Is moral constructivism an account of the basis of the content of morality or of its authority? In fact, different writers have understood constructivism to be addressing different issues. In this paper I argue that Kant should be understood as a constructivist about the content of morality – or better about a limited set of general substantive principles – and as a constititutivist about its authority
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Kantian Constructivism and the Sources of Normativity Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Janis David Schaab
While it is uncontroversial that Kantian constructivism has implications for normative ethics, its status as a metaethical view has been contested. In this article, I provide a characterisation of metaethical Kantian constructivism that withstands these criticisms. I start by offering a partial defence of Sharon Street’s practical standpoint characterisation. However, I argue that this characterisation
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Re-constructing Kant: Kant’s Teleological Moral Realism Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Facundo Rodriguez
It is common for constructivists to claim that Kant was the first philosopher to understand moral facts as ‘constructions of reason’. They think that Kant, just like the constructivist, proposes a procedure – the Categorical Imperative – from which the order of value can be ‘constructed’ and grounds the validity of this construction procedure not in some previous value but in its capacity to solve
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Titlepages Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06
Article Titlepages was published on September 6, 2021 in the journal Kant Yearbook (volume 13, issue 1).
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Table of Contents Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06
Article Table of Contents was published on September 6, 2021 in the journal Kant Yearbook (volume 13, issue 1).
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Dignity Beyond Price: Kant and His Revolutionary British Contemporary Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Karl Ameriks
Despite their contemporaneity and obvious similarities, Richard Price and Immanuel Kant are rarely discussed together. This essay examines the common background of their work, similarities in their methodology and principles, and their common concern with connecting rationalist philosophical systems with knowledge at the level of ordinary life and politics – all this despite their lack of reference
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Kant’s Political Philosophy as ausübende Rechtslehre Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Bo Fang
Based on Kant’s own concept of politics, it is possible to construct his political philosophy that is related to but also different from his metaphysics of right. Politics is the practice of realizing the principles of right in experience; therefore, Kant’s political philosophy must explore the general conditions that make this practice possible. These conditions, such as political judgement, publicity
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Kant’s Naturrecht Feyerabend, Achenwall and the Role of the State Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Mike L. Gregory
Kant’s Naturrecht Feyerabend has recently gained more sustained attention for its role in clarifying Kant’s published positions in political philosophy. However, too little attention has been given to the lecture’s relation to Gottfried Achenwall, whose book was the textbook for the course. In this paper, I will examine how Kant rejected and transforms Achenwall’s natural law system in the Feyerabend
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Kant on Legal Positivism and the Juridical State Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Joel T. Klein
In this paper I argue that Kant’s political and juridical philosophy justifies a type of normative legal positivism that implies specific notions of law and legal freedom which determine and restrict the sphere of action of judges and jurists. Finally, I defend that, according to Kant’s practical philosophy, the normative connection between justice and law is not supposed to be carried out at the juridical
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Becoming Pluralists: Kant on the Normative Features of Pluralistic Thinking Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Olga Lenczewska
Kant’s essays in the philosophy of history, such as Universal History and Conjectural Beginning , offer a speculative account of the gradual development of reason in our species and of the way the mature use of reason can be attained. Such mature use of reason, as Kant explains a few years later in the published Anthropology , is characterized by abandoning the standpoint of “practical egoism” and
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List of Contributors Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06
Article List of Contributors was published on September 6, 2021 in the journal Kant Yearbook (volume 13, issue 1).
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Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2022, 2023 and 2024 Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-06
Article Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2022, 2023 and 2024 was published on September 6, 2021 in the journal Kant Yearbook (volume 13, issue 1).
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Titelseiten Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09
Article Titelseiten was published on September 9, 2020 in the journal Kant Yearbook (volume 12, issue 1).
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List of Contributors Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09
Article List of Contributors was published on September 9, 2020 in the journal Kant Yearbook (volume 12, issue 1).
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Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2021, 2022 and 2023 Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09
Article Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2021, 2022 and 2023 was published on September 9, 2020 in the journal Kant Yearbook (volume 12, issue 1).
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The Problem of Schematism in Kant and its Transformation in Southwest Neo-Kantianism Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Christian Krijnen
The meaning and validity of Kant’s Kant’s doctrine of schematism remains contested until today. In neo-Kantianism and post-War transcendental philosophy, Kant’s schematism of the pure concepts of understanding is transformed drastically. Kant’s thesis of heterogeneity is overcome by taking it back into the internal relationships of the structure of cognition. The spontaneity of thought, performing
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Cassirer and Kant on the Unity of Space and the Role of Imagination Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira
The focus of this paper is Cassirer’s Neo-Kantian reading of Kant’s conception of unity of space. Cassirer’s neo-Kantian reading is largely in conformity with the mainstream of intellectualist Kant-scholars, which is unsurprising, given his own intellectualist view of space and perception and his rejection of the existence of a ‘merely sensory consciousness’ as a ‘formless mass of impression’. I argue
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Durkheim’s French Neo-Kantian Social Thought: Epistemology, Sociology of Knowledge, and Morality in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Dustin Garlitz
This article presents Durkheim as a Neo-Kantian social thinker and a source of the theory of emotional contagion. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is examined as Durkheim’s paradigm case of Neo-Kantianism. He is first considered among the intellectual context of French Neo-Kantianism and its figures Charles Renouvier, Émile Boutroux, and Octave Hamelin, all whom were influential in his formative
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On Method: The Fact of Science and the Distinction between Natural Science and the Humanities Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Brigitte Falkenburg
This article examines Cohen’s “transcendental method”, Windelband’s “critical method”, the neo-Kantian distinctions between natural science and the humanities (i. e., human or cultural sciences), and Weber’s account of ideal-typical explanations. The Marburg and the Southwest Schools of neo-Kantianism have in common that their respective philosophies of science focused on method, but they substantially
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Cohen’s Logik der reinen Erkenntnis and Cassirer’s Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Hernán Pringe
This paper compares Cohen’s Logic of Pure Knowledge and Cassirer’s Substance and Function in order to evaluate how in these works Cohen and Cassirer go beyond the limits established by Kantian philosophy. In his Logic , Cohen seeks to ground in pure thought all the elements which Kant distinguishes in empirical intuition: its matter (sensation) as well as its form (time and space). In this way, Cohen
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Eduard von Hartmann, die Postulatenlehre und die Genese des Neukantianismus im Kontext spiritistischer Debatten um 1900 Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Hauke Heidenreich
Most scholars dealing with neo-Kantianism emphasize the existence of an explicit origin that characterizes neo-Kantianism as a clearly defined ‘movement’ with certain objects. In spite of the fact that differences between various neo-Kantian authors are mentioned in the current discourse (e. g. ‘Südwestdeutsche’ and ‘Marburger Schule’) scholars claim a singular unity of all neo-Kantian debates represented
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Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Samuel A. Stoner
Abstract Though the notion of common-sense (Gemeinsinn) plays an important role in Kant’s aesthetic theory, it is not immediately clear what Kant means by this term. This essay works to clarify the role that common-sense plays in the logic of Kant’s argument. My interpretive hypothesis is that a careful examination of the way common-sense functions in Kant’s account of judgments of taste can help explain
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Aesthetic Judgment as Parasitic on Cognition Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Aaron Halper
Abstract When we judge something to be beautiful, do we identify an inherent feature of the object, or only our subjective response to it? This paper argues that, for Kant, pure aesthetic judgment occupies a middle ground. Such judgments are based upon affective responses to our own cognitive faculties. Thus, pure aesthetic judgment is subjective insofar as it concerns our feeling ourselves to be engaged
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Game between Arch-enemies: An Interpretation of the Free and Harmonious Play of Faculties Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Hin-Fung Fung
Abstract The aim of this paper is to give an interpretation of the free and harmonious play of faculties. The dominant interpretations focus on how the imagination is free from the determination of understanding, but say little about the harmony that can exist between imagination and understanding; thus, in this paper an attempt is made to account for the free and harmonious relationship between these
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Kant’s Account of the Sublime as Critique Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Rachel Zuckert
Abstract Kant’s account of the sublime in the Critique of Judgment has been extremely influential, prompting extensive discussion of the psychology, affect, moral significance, and relevance to artistic representation of the sublime on his provocative view. I focus instead on Kant’s account of the mathematical sublime in connection to his theoretical critical project, namely his attempt to characterize
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Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime? Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Sacha Golob
Abstract Kant’s account of the sublime makes frequent appeals to infinity, appeals which have been extensively criticised by commentators such as Budd and Crowther. This paper examines the costs and benefits of reconstructing the account in finitist terms. On the one hand, drawing ona detailed comparison of the first and third Critiques, I argue that the underlying logic of Kant’s position is essentially
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The Internality of Moral Faith in Kant’s Religion Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Addison Ellis
Abstract Wood (1970) convincingly argues that Kant’s notion of moral faith is a response to a “dialectical perplexity” or antinomy. Specifically, moral faith is a response to the threat of moral despair. In line with this suggestion, I make the case that moral faith is the resolution of a crisis about how to go on with one’s life in the face of the threat of moral despair. If this is right, then we
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Evil, the Laws of Nature, and Miracles Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 George Huxford
Abstract This paper takes a less trodden path in its approach to Kant’s philosophy of religion. Rather than a detailed study of his mature works on the subject, some of his pre-Critical works are examined. These reveal what I hold to be four foundations which remain unchanged through Kant’s philosophical career and thus act to hold up his later work on the subject. The main body of the paper is presented
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God, Hypostasis, and the Threat of Paradox: Exploring Kantian And Non-Kantian Reasons for Circumspection Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Damián Bravo Zamora
Abstract In this paper, I present an interpretation of Kant’s view that reason’s hypostasis of the idea of a sum-total of reality is dogmatic and illegitimate. In the section on the ‘Transcendental Ideal’, the second section of the Ideal of Pure Reason chapter in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant starts by describing reason’s procedure from the affirmation of the principle of thoroughgoing determination
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The Ideal of the Highest Good and the Objectivity of Moral Judgment Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Nataliya Palatnik
Abstract Many Kantians dismiss Kant’s claim that we have a duty to promote the highest good – an ideal world that combines complete virtue with complete happiness – as incompatible with the core of his moral philosophy. This dismissal, I argue, raises doubts about Kant’s ability to justify the moral law, yet it is a mistake. A duty to promote the highest good plays an important role in the justificatory
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Kant’s Debt to Baumgarten in His Religious (Un‐)Grounding of Ethics Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Toshiro Osawa
Abstract Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s ethics had a significant influence on the formation of Kant’s ethics. The extent of this influence, however, has not been sufficiently investigated by existing Kant scholarship. Filling this gap, this paper aims to reveal Baumgarten’s substantial influence on the formation of Kant’s ethics, particularly the complex ways in which Kant’s ethics retains the concept
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Kant’s Critical Argument(s) for Immortality Reassessed Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Andree Hahmann
Abstract Kant’s postulate of the immortality of the soul has received strikingly little attention among Kant scholars, and only very few have regarded it positively. This is not surprising given the numerous problems associated with his argument. However, it is not the only argument for immortality that Kant offers in his critical philosophy. There is also a second argument that differs from the one
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Hidden Antinomies of Practical Reason, and Kant’s Religion of Hope Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Rachel Zuckert
Abstract In the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant argues that morality obliges us to believe in the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. I argue, however, that in two late essays – “The End of All Things” and “On the Miscarriage of all Philosophical Trials in Theodicy” – Kant provides moral counterarguments to that position: these beliefs undermine moral agency by giving rise to fanaticism
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Predication and Modality in Kant’s Critique of the Ontological Argument Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Lawrence Pasternack
Abstract There is perhaps no more famous objection to the Ontological Argument (OA) than Kant’s contention that existence is not a predicate (E~P). However, this is not his only objection against the Ontological Argument. It is rather part of a more comprehensive attack on the OA, one that contains at least four distinct arguments, only one of which involves (E~P). It is the purpose of this paper to
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Kant on Contradiction, Conceptual Content, and the Ens Realissimum Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Michael Oberst
Abstract Kant assents to Leibniz’s claim that purely positive concepts cannot contradict each other. Albeit counter-intuitive, this claim is well-grounded in Kant’s views on contradiction and conceptual content. First, according to Kant, a contradiction only occurs if a predicate is affirmed and negated; second, all concepts except of those that pertain to God covertly contain negative marks. Although
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Kant’s post-1800 Disavowal of the Highest Good Argument for the Existence of God Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-10-04 Samuel Kahn
Abstract I have two main goals in this paper. The first is to argue for the thesis that Kant gave up on his highest good argument for the existence of God around 1800. The second is to revive a dialogue about this thesis that died out in the 1960s. The paper is divided into three sections. In the first, I reconstruct Kant’s highest good argument. In the second, I turn to the post-1800 convolutes of
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What is Chemistry, for Kant? Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 Michael Bennett McNulty
Abstract Kant’s preoccupation with architectonics is a characteristic and noteworthy aspect of his thought. Various features of Kant’s argumentation and philosophical system are founded on the precise definitions of the various subdomains of human knowledge and the derivative borders among them. One science conspicuously absent from Kant’s routine discussions of the organization of knowledge is chemistry
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Kant on the Analytic-Synthetic or Mechanistic Model of Causal Explanation Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 Ido Geiger
Abstract In the Critique of Teleological Judgment, Kant endorses a distinct model of causal explanation. He claims that we explain natural wholes as the causal effect of their parts and the forces governing them, i. e., we explain mechanistically or following the analytic-synthetic method of modern science. According to McLaughlin’s influential interpretation, Kant endorses in this, without argument
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How the Understanding Prescribes Form without Prescribing Content – Kant on Empirical Laws in the Second Analogy of Experience Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 Ansgar Seide
Abstract Kant claims that the understanding prescribes the existence and necessity of empirical laws to nature, while it does not prescribe which particular empirical laws hold. That is to say, the understanding prescribes the general form of nature (lawfulness) and the form of the empirical laws (necessity) without prescribing the material content. But how is this possible? How can the understanding
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Kant’s Rejection of Leibniz’s Principle and the Individuality of Quantum Objects Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 Cord Friebe
Abstract Kant rejects Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII). In quantum mechanics, Leibniz’s principle is also apparently violated. However, both ways of rejecting the PII differ significantly. In particular, Kant denies that spatiotemporal objects are unique individuals and establishes appearances as merely singular ones. The distinction between ‘unique’ and ‘singular’ individuals
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Kant on the Science of Aesthetics and the Critique of Taste Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 J. Colin McQuillan
Abstract This article considers the reasons Kant rejects the possibility of a science of aesthetics throughout his career. It begins by surveying the background of Kant’s denial, focusing first on the introduction of aesthetics as a new science in the works of Alexander Baumgarten and Georg Friedrich Meier. After showing that there are numerous ambiguities in the way Baumgarten and Meier present their
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What Was Kant’s Contribution to the Understanding of Biology? Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 Idan Shimony
Abstract Kant’s theory of biology in the Critique of the Power of Judgment may be rejected as obsolete and attacked from two opposite perspectives. In light of recent advances in biology one can claim contra Kant, on the one hand, that biological phenomena, which Kant held could only be explicated with the help of teleological principles, can in fact be explained in an entirely mechanical manner, or
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What is this Thing Called ‘Scientific Knowledge’? – Kant on Imaginary Standpoints And the Regulative Role of Reason Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 Michela Massimi
Abstract In this essay I analyse Kant’s view on the regulative role of reason, and in particular on what he describes as the ‘indispensably necessary’ role of ideas qua foci imaginarii in the Appendix. I review two influential readings of what has become known as the ‘transcendental illusion’ and I offer a novel reading that builds on some of the insights of these earlier readings. I argue that ideas
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Kant on Demarcation and Discovery Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-01-26 Nathaniel Goldberg
Abstract Kant makes two claims in the Critique of Pure Reason that anticipate concerns of twentieth-century philosophy of science. The first, that the understanding and sensibility are constitutive of knowledge, while reason is responsible for transcendental illusion, amounts to his solution to Karl Popper’s “problem” of demarcating science from pseudoscience. The second, that besides these constitutive
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Hegel, Kant and the Antinomies of Pure Reason Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-01-08 Stephen Houlgate
Abstract Hegel argues that Kant’s antinomies of pure reason are important because they implicitly show the categories of thought to be contradictory. In so doing Hegel disregards much of what interests Kant about the antinomies and interprets the latter “against Kant’s intention”. He also gets Kant wrong when he claims that Kant’s “trivial” resolution of the antinomies simply shifts contradiction from
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Creating the Absolute: Kant’s Conception of Genial Creation in Schlegel, Novalis and Schelling Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-01-08 Lara Ostaric
Abstract In contrast to the current tendencies in secondary literature to interpret the notion of the Absolute of the Early Romantics and Schelling from either an epistemological or an ontological perspective, I argue that these philosophers found in Kant’s notion of genius in the third Critique a model for the Absolute that combines both perspectives in the act of the artist’s free creation. However
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Reinhold’s Elementarphilosophie: A Scholastic or Critical Philosophical System? Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-01-08 Elise Frketich
Abstract Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823) is hailed as one of the most influential thinkers of early post-Kantian philosophy. He is best known for popularising critical philosophy through his Letters on the Kantian Philosophy, first published in the Teutsche Merkur (1786), and for restructuring it into a kind of axiomatic-deductive system in the Elementarphilosophie (1789–1794). An axiomatic-deductive
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The Unconditioned and the Absolute in Kant and Early German Romanticism Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-01-08 Eric Watkins
Abstract This paper argues not only that Schelling, Novalis, and Friedrich Schlegel are reacting directly to Kant (rather than simply to each other and to other post-Kantian figures), but also that they are responding in complex ways to one particularly prominent and distinctive line of thought in Kant, namely his account of reason, conditions, and the unconditioned. Though Kant argues that we cannot
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In Defence of Reinhold’s Kantian Representationalism: Aspects of Idealism in Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-01-08 Dennis Schulting
Abstract In this paper, I want to zero in on the Kantian idea that,whilst things in themselves must logically be presupposed as the ground underlying appearances and things are not reducible to their representations, (1) objects as appearances are not properties of things in themselves, and (2) things in themselves or the thing in itself cannot properly be represented or even thought. To do this, I
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Reason in Kant and Hegel Kant Yearbook (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-01-08 Alfredo Ferrarin
Abstract In this paper I want to compare and contrast Kant and Hegel on reason. While both emphasize the close connection between reason and its ends, motivations and needs, and denounce a futile understanding of reason as a formal, instrumental, or simply logical reasoning, they diverge on how to interpret reason’s restlessness, teleology and life. After a section illustrating some uncritical assumptions