Article Titelseiten was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

This article has two aims. First, I offer a philological analysis of a key passage from Kant’s Logic : § 6. § 6 is widely regarded as the locus classicus for Kant’s theory of concept formation. However, I show that the part of this section that is most cited and discussed by scholars should not be attributed to Kant, as it is not corroborated by any of his Reflexionen . Second, I attempt to identify

According to Kant’s lectures on logic, the formation of empirical concepts consists in the logical acts of comparison, reflection, and abstraction. This paper defends the tenability of Kant’s account by solving two prominent difficulties identified by commentators. Firstly, I justify Kant’s chronological presentation of the three acts by clarifying two meanings of ‘comparison’ in his writings: while

In the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science , Kant claims that perception of force through touch is fundamental to our knowledge of substance in space. However, he also holds that perception cannot have modal content. Causation is a modal notion, so how can Kant allow perception of causal force? In response to this puzzle, I provide a new reading of Kant’s theory of touch. Touch does not involve

Wolff’s relation to Leibniz and Kant’s relation to both are notoriously vexed questions. First, this paper argues that Wolff’s most serious departure from Leibniz consists in his (so far overlooked) rejection of the latter’s infinitism. Second, it contends that the controversies that surrounded Wolff’s early acceptance of infinite causal regress and prompted his conversion to finitism played a prominent

Time and again, one finds in the literature the view that Kant held a pre-critical or semi-critical moral philosophy in the canon chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason. This is shown, firstly, by the fact that practical freedom is understood as cognized through experience and, secondly, by the fact that Kant not only allows a sensuous incentive for the observance of the moral law, but considers it

My goal in this piece is to show that there is a problem lurking in the shadows of recent attempts to derive positive duties from Kant’s so-called universalizability tests and, further, to show that the most obvious way of fixing these attempts renders them unable to fulfill their function. I shall begin by motivating and explaining such an attempt.

Article Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics. A Critical Guide. Hrsg. von Courtney D. Fugate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 251 Seiten. ISBN 978-1-107-17698-0. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article Kant und seine Kritiker – Kant and His Critics. Hrsg. von Antonino Falduto und Heiner F. Klemme. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2018. 423 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-487-15732-0 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article Tal Glezer: Kant on Reality, Cause, and Force. From the Early Modern Tradition to the Critical Philosophy. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 225 Seiten. ISBN 978-1-108-42069-3 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article Laura Papish: Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. XVII und 257 Seiten. ISBN: 978-01-9069210-0. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article … jenen süßen Traum träumen. Kants Friedensschrift zwischen objektiver Geltung und Utopie. Hrsg. von Dieter Hüning und Stefan Klingner. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. 320 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-8487-5151-8. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article Peifeng Tang: Eigentum und Staat bei Immanuel Kant. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2019. 286 S. ISBN: 978-3-428-85540-7. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article Karoline Reinhardt: Migration und Weltbürgerrecht. Zur Aktualität der politischen Philosophie Kants. Freiburg/München: Karl Alber Verlag, 2019. 336 Seiten. ISBN 9783495490549. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article Konstantin Pollok: Kant’s Theory of Normativity. Exploring the Space of Reason. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge/New York 2018. 344 Seiten. ISBN 978-1-10-756722-1. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 2).

Article Titelseiten was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Kant’s Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (1766) did not provide the sole perspective through which Emanuel Swedenborg’s work was known in Germany in the eighteenth century. Before Kant, another German philosopher was interested in Swedenborg from a completely different perspective: Christian Wolff. On the one hand, this paper analyzes the meaning of Wolff’s anonymous reviews of Swedenborg’s early writings published

In this paper, I will reconstruct Kant’s theory of illusion from the perspective of his transcendental philosophy. I argue that it is Kant’s theory of dialectic as the “logic of illusion” that grounds both theoretical and practical error and that traces them back to a common root: the operation of rationalizing by theoretical and practical reason. I analyze different kinds of theoretical and practical

The first section of Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals contains a teleological argument, the aim of which is to show that the natural purpose of human reason lies not in securing happiness but in morality. While the teleological argument is widely considered to be digressive and unconvincing in the secondary literature, in this article I attempt to show that the argument is neither digressive

This paper argues that the political adage “ Be ye prudent as serpents and guileless as doves ” involves three different types of relation between prudence and morality, namely: unification ( Vereinigung ), subordination ( Unterordnung ), and association ( Beigesellung ). I maintain that these relations are set up according to the same principle that determines the relationship between mechanical and

Kant makes and elaborates upon a distinction between active citizenship and passive citizenship. Active citizens enjoy the right to vote and rights of political participation generally. Passive citizens do not, though they still enjoy the protection of the law as citizens. Kant’s examples have left commentators puzzling over how these distinctions follow from his stated rationale or justification for

Recently (2019/20), a new autograph written by Immanuel Kant in October 1786 was found and identified. It is a quotation from Horace’s Epistles I. 1, 60 dedicated to Johann Friedrich Lange (1760–1826), a preacher and former student of Kant’s at the Albertina University: “Let this be a man’s brazen wall (rule of life), to be conscious of no ill, to turn pale with no guilt.” Kant quoted the passage several

Article Neuaufgefundene Exemplare des Erstdrucks der Nova dilucidatio was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Karl Leonhard Reinhold: Gesammelte Schriften. Kommentierte Ausgabe. Bd. 5/2: Auswahl vermischter Schriften. Zweyter Theil. Hrsg. von Martin Bondeli und Silvan Imhof. Basel: Schwabe, 2017. C + 289 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7965-3494-2. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Handbuch Christian Wolff. Hrsg. von Robert Theis und Alexander Aichele. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2018. X, 519 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-658-14736-5. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Burkhard Nonnenmacher: Vernunft und Glaube bei Kant. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. 425 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-16-155716-3. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Hendrik Klinge: Die moralische Stufenleiter. Kant über Teufel, Menschen, Engel und Gott. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2018. 266 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-11-057565-1. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Abstract In Schillerʼs On Grace and Dignity of 1794, his critique of the alleged ‘rigorism’ of Kantian ethics is particularly harsh: Kant has developed an ethic for “servants” that suppresses human nature for fear of it and does not reconcile it. The essay attempts to show that this critique is based on Schillerʼs double misunderstanding: a misunderstanding of the Kantian conception and a misunderstanding

Abstract In the Briefe über die Ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen, the focus of this article, Schiller’s ostensible aim – to complete Kant’s aesthetic theory – is progressively abandoned. The article examines the reasons for this abandonment. On the one hand, Schiller’s original purpose was overtaken by events in France. Schiller found that he could no longer sustain confidence in reason’s capacity

Abstract The paper examines Schiller’s argument concerning the subjective experience of adopting a morality based on Kantian principles. On Schiller’s view, such experience must be marked by a continuous struggle to suppress nature, because the moral law is a purely rational and categorically commanding law that addresses beings who are natural as well as rational. Essential for Schiller’s conclusion

Abstract In my contribution, I discuss the important role of moral anthropological questions in the development of Schiller’s theoretical thought. I underline the fact that Schiller’s philosophical questions in Jena are much closer to those he confronted in Stuttgart – much closer than is considered to be the case in contemporary Schiller scholarship. I show how this continuity becomes evident when

Abstract In his treatment of a Kantian concept of moral freedom, Schiller argues for two kinds of freedom: freedom in the spirit of autonomous practical reason and freedom in which man is considered a mixed (sensual and rational) being. It is apparent that Schiller is on a Reinholdian path. He follows Reinhold’s theory of free will in conceiving of moral freedom primarily as the capacity to decide

Abstract The concept of human freedom developed by Schelling in the Freiheitsschrift (1809) prompted him to explore a new concept of time in his Weltalter project. Schelling proposes the ‘generic subjectivity of time’: Time must be understood not as a precondition of dynamism, but rather as an effect of dynamic agency. The articulation of time into its moments, ‘presence’, ‘past’, and ‘future’, is

Abstract The relation between Kant’s conception of modalities in the Postulates of Empirical Thought and Hegel’s conception in the Logic of Essence has not been addressed in the current scholarship. I argue that there is in fact a close connection that becomes visible if the desideratum which is implied by Kant’s conceptions is understood. Thus, after an analysis of the Kantian modal postulates, the

Abstract This study reflects upon the fundamental justification of the radicality of Kant’s affirmation according to which religion is “a matter of reason alone”. To this end, this paper bores in two directions: In a first direction, the premises as well as the context of the Critique of Practical Reason’s thesis, according to which the moral law leads to religion, are reconstructed. The question that

Abstract As is well known, § 6 of Kant’s Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right contains five paragraphs that do not belong there. The article shows that their correct location is at the end of § 16. This sheds some new light on Kant’s theory of property and its significance for Kant’s doctrine of cosmopolitan right.

Abstract Kant speaks repeatedly about the relations between ends or aims and scientific research, but the topic has mostly been ignored. What is the role of ends, especially (though not exclusively) practical ones, in his views on science? I will show that while Kant leaves ample space for recognizing a function of ends both in the definition and the pursuit of inquiry, and in the further practical

Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) und Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) stehen, so arbeitet Bienenstock in ihrer breit angelegten Studie heraus, in einem direkten und indirekten Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnis, das sich gerade auch durch die Gegensätzlichkeit ihres philosophischen Standpunkts und Denkens bestätige. Der Lehrer Cohen, zugehörig zur Generation der preußischen Juden, die im Kaiserreich eine bürgerliche Karriere

Die Bibliothek Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels I, Abteilungen I–III. In: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke (GW) 31,1. Supplement in zwei Teilbänden (Teilband I). Hrsg. von Manuela Koeppe. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2017. VI, 971 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7873-2900-7. Die Bibliothek Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels II, Abteilungen IV–IX, Anhang. In: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke

Abstract Metaphysical readings of Kant’s theoretical philosophy in the Critical period are ascendant. But their possibility assumes the possibility of existence- and real-possibility-judgments about things in themselves. I argue that Kant denies the latter possibility, so metaphysical readings have dubious prospects. First, I show that Kant takes existence- and real-possibility-judgments, as necessarily

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Abstract Kant’s early work The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures is typically considered a narrow, technical work still embedded in the tradition of Wolffian logic. I argue instead that it needs to be considered in light of Kant’s developing theory of cognition and his corresponding criticism of the Wolffian single faculty theory. Whereas the mature Kant criticizes the rationalists for

Bekanntlich hat sich Kant zeit seines Lebens intensiv mit Fragen der Anthropologie auseinandergesetzt. Dennoch wurde die Erörterung der Relevanz, die dieser Auseinandersetzung und deren Ergebnisse zukommt, in der Zeit des Neukantianismus, aber auch nach der Entstehung einer institutionalisierten KantForschung eindeutig vernachlässigt. Freilich gab es auch markante Ausnahmen, wie etwa der 1966 in der

Abstract Recent literature on Kant’s Opus postumum has typically focused on two parts of the drafts: the ether proofs and the Selbstsetzungslehre. Eckart Förster’s interpretation is representative of this tendency and, moreover, presents the Selbstsetzungslehre as the culmination of Kant’s late project. By contrast, I argue that the drafts of fascicles X/XI, written in between the ether proofs and

Gegen Ende des ersten Kapitels von Kant’s Modal Metaphysics schreibt Nicholas Stang: „Some readers may feel that they began reading a book on eighteenth-century metaphysics and are now reading a book on contemporary analytic philosophy“ (35). In der Tat wird sich manche/r Kantforscher/in bei der Lektüre fragen, inwiefern die Symbolik der mathematischen Modallogik und die Terminologie der analytischen

Abstract This paper is a novel attempt at reconstructing Kant’s account of self-consciousness in the first Critique by making evident its gradual expository progression, and at identifying the epistemic status of the two modes of self-consciousness: pure and empirical. I trace the gradual exposition of theoretical self-consciousness across three crucial parts of the book: the Transcendental Deduction

Abstract The theory of space-time developed in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and his (1786) Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is connected to Leonhard Euler’s proof of invariance under Galilean transformations in the “On Motion in General” of the latter’s 1736 Analytical Mechanics. It is argued that Kant, by using the Principle of Relativity that is the output of Euler’s proof as an input

Abstract This article concerns the unsolved riddle of the continuum of the extension of time and space. It becomes solvable if one takes the two different relationships that can exist between extension and point as a basis: the primary relationship in the synthetic continuum and the secondary relationship in the analytical continuum. Time and space can then be deduced from the primary relationship

Abstract When interpreters orient Kant’s philosophy of time in relation to McTaggart’s distinction among different ways of characterizing a temporal order, they claim that he is best described as endorsing an A series position according to which there is a metaphysically privileged present that determines the past and the future. Whether Kant might also be understood as a proponent of the B series

Abstract I defend what I take to be a genuinely Kantian view on temporal extension: time is not an object but a human horizon of concrete particulars. As such, time depends on the existence of embodied human subjects. It does not, however, depend on those subjects determined as spatial objects. Starting with a realist notion of “apperception” as applied to indexical space (1), I proceed with the need

Abstract Kant’s emphasis on the immorality of lying even to a murderer at the door who is asking about a victim hidden inside has drawn criticism ever since. The example originally given by Constant has been read as the thread of morality by totalitarian ruthlessness. In order to defend the importance of Kant’s moral philosophy, many critics have tried to update his position by taking into account

Abstract Wolff advocates the mathematical method, which consists in chains of syllogisms that proceed from axioms and definitions to theorems, for achieving scientific certainty in branches of philosophy like ontology and physics. By contrast, in ‘The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Dogmatic Use’ Kant significantly limits the efficacy of this method in philosophy. In this paper I investigate an under-examined

Abstract In this paper, I focus on Kant’s doctrine of figurative synthesis. Figurative synthesis is the result of the activity of productive transcendental imagination. This is the chief problem of the so-called “second proof step” in Kant’s deduction of the categories according to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. The pure original synthetic apperception forms in the inner and outer

Abstract The empiricist needs to explain the origin, in perception, of the idea of time. Kant believed the only answer was a kind of idealism about time. This essay examines Hume’s extensionalism as a possible answer to Kant. Extensionalism allegedly accounts for the experience of time via the manner of presentation of experiences, rather than the content of experience.

Abstract In this essay, I examine the motive of inner truthfulness in the moral philosophy of Kant, which came to the fore in his work in the 1790s. Truthfulness and sincerity are interpreted as the roots of all morality. In the first chapter, I present two interpretations of inner honesty from two different perspectives: in relation to a duty to oneself and to the issue of conscience. The second chapter

Abstract I discuss the problem that Kant’s ethics seems to be incapable of capturing our strong intuition that emergencies create a context for actions that is very different from other cases of helping and from other opportunities to further obligatory ends. I argue that if we pay attention to how Kant grounds beneficence we see that distress and emergency function as constitutive concerns. They are

Abstract The antinomy of teleological judgment has increasingly been understood as a conflict between regulative principles. But it is not clear why regulative principles can be in conflict at all, since Kant otherwise takes the realization that two conflicting principles are regulative to be sufficient to resolve an antinomy. I argue that in Kant’s view regulative principles do not conflict with one

Abstract This article provides a transcription and analysis of a newly located fragment of Kant’s autograph fair copy of his essay on Perpetual Peace. The 4-page manuscript is part of the John Wild Autograph Collection at Princeton University (USA) and constitutes the immediate sequel to a similar fragment preserved in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg and published in Kant-Studien 77 (1986). The Princeton

Abstract Salomon Maïmon argues that the formal determination of experience in Kant’s first Kritik insufficiently answers the question ‘quid juris?’. As an alternative to Kant’s theory, he develops a genetic transcendentalism in which experience is completely determined a priori. Discussing this genetic approach, I focus on how the spatiotemporal determinations of conscious experience are traced back

Schon die ersten Seiten, dann aber auch der ganze Rest des Buches zeigen, wie vorteilhaft sich dieses Werk von der üblichen englischsprachigen Kantliteratur unterscheidet. So bedient sich der Autor (= JE) nicht etwa der Cambridge Edition für Verweise auf die Akademie-Ausgabe von Kants Schriften, sondern er arbeitet mit eben dieser Ausgabe und übersetzt selber den im Apparat abgedruckten Originaltext