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Analytic Cognition in Kant Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Michael Yuen
Kant refers to analytic cognition in several prominent places. The prevailing wisdom, however, denies the possibility of analytic cognition within his theory of cognition. I shall argue that this is mistaken. I show that we can account for analytic cognition’s possibility by appealing to variants of the more familiar conditions on the cognition of objects. I also highlight analytic cognition’s connection
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American Reconstruction and the Abolition of Second Slavery: On Pascoe’s Intersectional Critique of Kant’s Theory of Labour Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Elvira Basevich
To highlight the promise of Jordan Pascoe’s Kant’s Theory of Labour, my comments concern the diagnostic and prescriptive dimensions of the book’s excellent intersectional critique of dependent labour relations. The diagnostic dimension of Pascoe’s critique establishes that the organisation of dependent labour relations is a neglected problem of Kantian justice. The prescriptive dimension offers solutions
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Individual Maxim Tokens, not Abstract Maxim Types Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Samuel Kahn
I argue that Kant’s Categorical Imperative should be applied to individual maxim tokens rather than abstract maxim types. The article is divided into five sections. In the first, I explain my thesis. In the second, I show that my thesis disagrees with Rawls. In the third, I argue for my thesis on the basis of the wording of the Categorical Imperative and on the basis of considerations about autonomy
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Kant on the Conceptual Possibility of Actually Infinite Tota Synthetica Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Rosalind Chaplin
Most interpreters hold that Kant rejects actually infinite tota synthetica as conceptually impossible. This view is attributed to Kant to relieve him of the charge that the first antinomy’s thesis argument presupposes transcendental idealism. I argue that important textual evidence speaks against this view, and Kant in fact affirms the conceptual possibility of actually infinite tota synthetica. While
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Replies to Critics of The Fiery Test of Critique Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Ian Proops
I reply to criticisms of my book The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant’s Dialectic from Béatrice Longuenesse and Patricia Kitcher on the paralogisms, Allen Wood on the third antinomy and freedom, Des Hogan on the resolution of the antinomies, and Anja Jauernig on the ontological argument.
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Kant’s Critique of the Ontological Argument: Comments on Ian Proops’s The Fiery Test of Critique Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Anja Jauernig
The main interpretative claims in the chapter on Kant’s critique of the ontological argument in Ian Proops’s The Fiery Test of Critique are critically discussed.
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Jordan Pascoe’s Kant’s Theory of Labour: A Kantian Engagement Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Helga Varden
This article critiques Jordan Pascoe’s Kant’s Theory of Labour (CUP 2022). After outlining some of its many distinctive contributions, I consider Pascoe’s ideas on women, marriage, method, and the challenges involved in engaging with (classical) texts that express various ‘isms’. In addition to giving readers an introduction to many of the exciting ideas presented in the book, my aim is to stimulate
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‘“I think” is the Sole Text of Rational Psychology’: Comments on Ian Proops’s The Fiery Test of Critique Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Béatrice Longuenesse
I focus on two main points in Ian Proops’s reading of Kant’s Paralogisms of Pure Reason: the structure of the paralogisms in the A edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, and the changes in Kant’s exposition of the paralogisms from A to B. I agree with Proops that there are defects in the A exposition and that Kant attempted to correct those defects in B. But I argue that Proops fails to give its due
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Followability, Necessity, and Excuse: Interpreting Kant’s Penal Theory Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Robert Campbell
Philosophers traditionally interpret Kant as a retributivist, but modern interpreters, with reference to Kant’s theory of justice and problematic passages, instead propose penal theories that mix retributive and deterrent features. Although these mixed penal theories are substantively compelling and capture the Kantian spirit, their dual aspects lead to a justificatory conflict that generates an apparent
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Response to Critics: Kant’s Theory of Labour Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Jordan Pascoe
Elvira Basevich, Martin Sticker, and Helga Varden offered generative criticism of my monograph, Kant’s Theory of Labour. In this response, I explore how the resources they offer for thinking about gender, labour, and the state’s responsibility to ensure the material conditions of freedom can deepen both our attentiveness to patterns of systemic injustice in Kant’s political philosophy, and the resources
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Proops’s ‘Nugget of Gold’ in Kant’s Dialectic Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Desmond P. Hogan
The Fiery Test of Critique describes Kant’s indirect proof of idealism from the Antinomy of Pure Reason as the ‘nugget of gold’ in the Critique of Pure Reason’s Transcendental Dialectic. Here, I offer critical reflections on Proops’s reading of Kant’s indirect proof.
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Ian Proops: Kant on Transcendental Freedom (The Fiery Test of Critique: Chs. 11–12) Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Allen Wood
Kant’s position on the problem of free will can be perplexing and frustrating: all the real questions about human agential capacities or even about issues of moral imputability are empirical questions, which have empirical answers. But there remains a metaphysical or transcendental problem about the possibility of freedom, which is forever insoluble. Ian Proops’ discussion in The Fiery Test of Critique
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Working Oneself Up and Universal Basic Income Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Martin Sticker
I respond to a challenge raised by Jordan Pascoe: Kant’s conception of obtaining full citizenship through working oneself up necessarily condemns some people to passive citizenship. I argue that we should not focus on work to establish universal full citizenship. Rather, a Universal Basic Income, an income paid regularly to everyone and without conditions, can secure everyone’s full citizenship. Moreover
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Understanding the First Paralogism: A Friendly Disagreement Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Patricia Kitcher
My comments focus on Proops’s treatment of the Paralogisms. I agree with many aspects of his discussion, including his views about the project of Rational Psychology and his analyses of how, exactly, the arguments of the Paralogisms are defective in form, but I disagree with his interpretation of the First Paralogism. I argue that the source of confusion that Kant diagnoses is not the grammatical distribution
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‘In Itself’: A New Investigation of Kant’s Adverbial Wording of Transcendental Idealism Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Tobias Rosefeldt
This article offers the first systematic investigation of the linguistic forms in which Kant expresses his transcendental idealism since Gerold Prauss’ seminal book Kant und das Problem der Dinge an sich. It is argued that Prauss’ own argument for the claim that ‘in itself’ is an adverbial expression that standardly modifies verbs of philosophical reflection is flawed and that there is hence very poor
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Between Faith and Judgement: Kant’s Dual Conception of Moral Certainty Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Sara Di Giulio
There are two main meanings in Kant’s concept of moral certainty (moralische Gewissheit, certitudo moralis): first, it applies to the kind of certainty embodied in rational faith in the existence of God and a future life; second, it applies to the conscientiousness (Gewissenhaftigkeit) required of an agent in the practice of moral judgement. Despite the growing attention to Kant’s theory of conscience
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Kant, the Nation-State, and Immigration Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 David Miller
Kant is invariably read by his followers as antipathetic to all forms of nationalism. Yet he was interested in differences of national character and used an organic metaphor to explain why states should not be broken up or annexed (unfortunately he never commented explicitly on the dismemberment of Poland by Prussia and its allies). He favoured a plural world in which national differences of language
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Kant’s Principia Diiudicationis and Executionis Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 John Walsh
A core feature of Kant’s Critical account of moral motivation is that pure reason can be practical by itself. I argue that Kant developed this view in the 1770s concerning the principium diiudicationis and principium executionis. These principles indicate the normative and performative aspects of moral motivation. I demonstrate that cognition of the normative principle effects the moral incentive.
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The Postulate of Immortality in the Critique of Practical Reason (and Beyond) Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Lawrence Pasternack
It is widely claimed that the second Critique’s argument for the postulate of immortality is relevantly different from the first Critique’s argument for the postulate. It is also widely claimed that after the second Critique, Kant distances himself from its particular version of the argument, and even the postulate altogether. It is the purpose of this article to challenge these claims, arguing instead
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Comments on Gabriele Gava, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Thomas Land
I raise three objections for Gava’s thesis that the primary task of the Critique of Pure Reason is to develop a doctrine of method for metaphysics, understood as an account of the special kind of unity that a body of cognitions must exhibit to count as a science. First, I argue that this thesis has difficulty accommodating Kant’s concern with explaining the possibility of synthetic a priori judgements
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The Nature of the Critique of Pure Reason and the Architectonic Unity of Metaphysics: A Response to my Critics Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Gabriele Gava
I respond to Karin de Boer, Thomas Land, and Claudio La Rocca’s comments on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (CUP 2023). I first provide a quick outline of some of the main claims I make in the book. I then directly address their criticisms, which I group into three categories. The first group of comments raises doubts concerning my characterization of the central tasks
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The Method of Metaphysics and the Architectonic: Remarks on Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Claudio La Rocca
The article addresses some aspects of Gava’s book, highlighting two main points: (1) the notion of philosophy in a cosmic sense; (2) its connection with the meaning of the concept of method. Regarding (1) I show how Gava’s interpretation of the systematic concept of philosophy does not account adequately for the scholastic concept. This has consequences for the notion of philosophy in a cosmic sense
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Why Did Kant Conceive of the Critique of Pure Reason as a Critique? Comments on Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Karin de Boer
My response to Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (2023) focuses on Kant’s conception of the role of critique in the Critique of Pure Reason. On my account, Gava’s emphasis on the constructive elements of the Critique downplays the critique of former metaphysics elaborated in all three parts of the Transcendental Doctrine of Elements. After some comments on
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Kant on Free Speech: Criticism, Enlightenment, and the Exercise of Judgement in the Public Sphere Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Kristi Sweet
In this article, I offer a novel and in-depth account of how, for Kant, free speech is the mechanism that moves a society closer to justice. I argue that the criticism of the legislator preserved by free speech must also be the result of collective agreement. I further argue that structural features of judgements of taste and the sensus communis give guidance for how we should communicate publicly
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Living Freedom: The Heautonomy of the Judgement of Taste Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Zhengmi Zhouhuang
Different from the autonomy of understanding in cognition and the autonomy of practical reason in praxis, the heautonomy in the judgement of taste is reflexive. The reflexivity consists not only in the fact that the power of judgement legislates to its own usage but also, and more importantly, it legislates to itself through its own operative process. This normativity, based on the self-referential
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Maxims: Responsibility and Causal Laws Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Jon Mandle
Although maxims are central to Kant’s ethical theory, his account of them remains obscure. We can make progress towards understanding Kantian maxims by examining not only their role as the object of moral judgement but also their connection to freedom of the will and causality. This requires understanding maxims as causal laws that explain the actions that we impute to agents. In this way, they are
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Kant’s Derivation of Imperatives of Duty Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Laurenz Ramsauer
On the currently dominant reading of the Groundwork, Kant’s derivation of ‘imperatives of duty’ exemplifies a decision procedure for the derivation of concrete duties in moral deliberation. However, Kant’s response to an often-misidentified criticism of the Groundwork by G. A. Tittel suggests that Kant was remarkably unconcerned with arguing for the practicality of the categorical imperative as a decision
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Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Creation: Further Explorations of Kant’s Molinism Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Wolfgang Ertl
While Kant’s position concerning human freedom and divine foreknowledge is perhaps the least Molinist element of his multifaceted take on free will, Kant’s Molinism (minimally defined) is undeniable when it comes to the threat ensuing from the idea of creation. In line with incompatibilism and with careful qualifications in place, he ultimately suggests regarding free agents as uncreated. Given the
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Kantian Circularity: Maimon on Causal Scepticism and the Status of the Hypothetical Judgement Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Emily Fitton
A key theme throughout Maimon’s works is a circularity he diagnoses at the heart of Kant’s response to Hume. The objective validity of Kant’s category of causality ultimately rests, Maimon argues, upon the logical status of the hypothetical judgement – on its inclusion among the forms of pure general logic. In turn, however, the inclusion of the hypothetical within pure general logic itself rests upon
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The Effect of Rousseau on Kant’s Resolution of the Antinomy of Practical Reason Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Jeremiah Alberg
I examine chapters I and II of the Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason from the Critique of Practical Reason, to show that Kant resolved the antimony of practical reason by first giving an accurate representation of the cause of a properly moral act and then recognizing that this accurate representation raised further problems, problems that were anticipated by Rousseau, especially in his Reveries of
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The Change of Heart, Moral Character and Moral Reform Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Conrad Damstra
I examine Kant’s claim in part one of Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason that moral reform requires both a ‘change of heart’ and gradual reformation of one’s sense (R, 6: 47). I argue that Kant’s conception of moral reform is neither fundamentally obscure nor is it as vulnerable to serious objections as several commentators have suggested. I defend Kant by explaining how he can maintain
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Between ‘Indubitably Certain’ and ‘Quite Detrimental’ to Philosophy: Kant on the Guise of the Good Thesis Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Vinicius Carvalho
Kant clearly endorses some version of the ‘old formula of the schools’, according to which all volition is sub ratione boni. There has been a debate whether he holds this only for morally good actions. I argue that a closer look at the distinction between the good and the agreeable does not support this conclusion. Considering Kant’s account of the detrimental and the correct use of this thesis, I
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Reflections of Reason: Kant on Practical Judgement Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Nicholas Dunn
My aim in this article is to provide an account of practical judgement, for Kant, that situates it within his theory of judgement as a whole – particularly, with regards to the distinction between the determining and reflecting use of judgement. I argue that practical judgement is a kind of determining judgement, but also one in which reflecting judgement plays a significant role. More specifically
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Kant’s Ongoing Relevance for Philosophy of Science Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Andrew Jones, Andrew Cooper
In this introductory article we reconstruct several broad developments in the scholarship on Kant’s theory of natural science with a particular focus on the Anglophone context over the past half-century. Our goal is to illuminate the co-development of Kant scholarship and the philosophy of science during this period and to identify points of influence in both directions. In section 2 we present an
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Representation and Reality in Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Damian Melamedoff-Vosters
In this article, I take on a classic objection to Kant’s arguments in the Antinomy of Pure Reason: that the arguments are question-begging, as they draw illicit inferences from claims about representation to claims about reality. While extant attempts to vindicate Kant try to show that he does not make such inferences, I attempt to vindicate Kant’s arguments in a different way: I show that, given Kant’s
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The Predicament of Practical Reason Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Jakob Huber
According to Lea Ypi, Kant’s attempt in the first Critique to unify reason via the practical route fails because his notion of purposiveness as design commits him to a dogmatic metaphysics. I challenge this claim on two grounds. First, I argue that practical reason does not have an interest in a strong modal connection that guarantees the unity of freedom and nature rather than a weak modal connection
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The Schematism of Reason from the Dialectic to the Architectonic Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Luigi Filieri
In The Architectonic of Reason Lea Ypi argues that Kant ultimately fails in his attempt at grounding the systematic unity of reason because of the lack of the practical domain of freedom in the first Critique. I aim to advance a more nuanced reading of Kant’s alleged failure by (1) distinguishing between the schematism of the ideas in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic and the schematism
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Constructing Reason Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Sofie Møller
In The Architectonic of Reason, Lea Ypi provides an illuminating and innovative interpretation of the Architectonic in the first Critique. Ypi argues that Kant’s project of uniting practical and theoretical uses of reason in a critical metaphysics ultimately fails because practical reason does not have its own domain in which to legislate. This article challenges Ypi’s objection to practical reason’s
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Relativizing the A Priori By Way of Reflective Judgement Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
An influential strand in philosophy of science claims that scientific paradigms can be understood as relativized a priori frameworks. Here, Kant’s constitutive a priori principles are no longer held to establish conditions of possibility for knowledge which are unchanging and universally true, but are restricted only to a given scientific domain. Yet it is unclear how exactly a relativized a priori
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The ‘Whole’ Truth about Biological Individuality in Kant’s Account of Living Nature Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Anna Frammartino Wilks
Given the central place organisms occupy in Kant’s account of living nature, it might seem unlikely that his claims about biological wholes could be relevant to current debates over the problem of biological individuality. These debates acknowledge the multiple realizability of biological individuality in vastly different forms, including parts of organisms and complex groups of organisms at various
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The Necessity of Empirical Laws of Nature through the Lens of Kant’s Dialectic Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Lorenzo Spagnesi
This article analyses a sceptical challenge resulting from metaphysical approaches to the problem of the necessity of empirical laws of nature in Kant’s critical philosophy (what I shall call ‘essentialist’ readings). I argue that this challenge may jeopardize the purpose of empirical enquiry (and therefore the plausibility of essentialist readings), but that Kant has internal resources to address
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What Mathematics and Metaphysics of Corporeal Nature Offer to Each Other: Kant on the Foundations of Natural Science Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Michael Bennett McNulty
Kant famously distinguishes between the methods of mathematics and of metaphysics, holding that metaphysicians err when they avail themselves of the mathematical method. Nonetheless, in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, he insists that mathematics and metaphysics must jointly ground ‘proper natural science’. This article examines the distinctive contributions and unity of mathematics
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Normative Foundations of Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right: The Overlooked Legacy of Kant’s Metaphysics of Nature Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Michela Massimi
Kant’s philosophy of natural science has traditionally concentrated on a host of issues including the role of laws of nature and teleological judgements. However, so far, the literature has made virtually no contact with the no less important tradition in Kant’s legal and political philosophy. This article explores one aspect of such connection in relation to the normative foundations of Kant’s notion
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The Unicity, Infinity and Unity of Space Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Christian Onof
The article proposes an interpretation of Kant’s notions of form of, and formal intuition of space to explain and justify the claim that representing space as object requires a synthesis. This involves identifying the transcendental conditions of the analytic unity of consciousness of this formal intuition and distinguishing between it and its content. On this reading which builds upon recent proposals
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Property and the Will: Kant and Achenwall on Ownership Rights Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Fiorella Tomassini
This article examines Kant’s theory of property through a comparative analysis of Gottfried Achenwall’s justification of ownership rights. I argue that at the core of Achenwall’s and Kant’s understanding of ownership rights lies the idea that rights are to be acquired through a juridical act (factum iuridicum, rechtlichen Act) of the will. However, while Achenwall thinks of this act as emerging from
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Kant on Mind-Dependence: Possible or Actual Experience? Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Markus Kohl
In Kant’s idealism, all spatiotemporal objects depend on the human mind in a certain way. A central issue here is whether the existence of spatiotemporal things requires that these things are, at least at some point, objects of some actual experience or of a merely possible experience. In this essay, I argue (on textual and philosophical grounds) for the latter view: spatiotemporal things exist (or
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Self-Knowledge and the Opacity Thesis in Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Aaron Halper
Kant’s moral philosophy both enjoins the acquisition of self-knowledge as a duty, and precludes certain forms of its acquisition via what has become known as the Opacity Thesis. This article looks at several recent attempts to solve this difficulty and argues that they are inadequate. I argue instead that the Opacity Thesis rules out only the knowledge that one has acted from genuine moral principles
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A Kantian Account of Political Hopes as Fundamental Hopes Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Qiannan Li
In this article, I argue that the current literature on political hope overlooks its non-instrumental value. By proposing a Kant-inspired account of treating reasonable hopes as fundamental hopes, I argue that it is rational for people to hold certain political hopes not only because such hopes promote particular ends but also because they are constitutive of a person’s practical identity as a responsible
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Why does Kant Think that Democracy is Necessarily Despotic? Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Luigi Caranti
Kant’s criticism of democracy has been traditionally defused with the consideration that Kant’s aversion is not to democracy per se, but to direct democracy. However, what Kant says – ‘to prevent the republican constitution from being confused with the democratic one, as commonly happens’ (ZeF, 8: 351) – appears to count not only against direct democracy, but also against conceptions of democracy closer
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Physicotheology in Kant’s Transition from Nature to Freedom Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Nabeel Hamid
This article examines Kant’s treatment of the design argument for the existence of God, or physicotheology. It criticizes the interpretation that, for Kant, the assumption of intelligent design satisfies an internal demand of inquiry. It argues that Kant’s positive appraisal of physicotheology is instead better understood in terms of its polemical utility for rebutting objections to practical belief
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Dignity, Dementia and Death Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Samuel J. Kerstein
According to Kant’s ethics, at least on one common interpretation, persons have a special worth or dignity that demands respect. But personhood is not coextensive with human life; for example, individuals can live in severe dementia after losing the capacities constitutive of personhood. Some philosophers, including David Velleman and Dennis Cooley, have suggested that individuals living after the
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Kant on Despondent Moral Failure Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Kate Moran
Typically, Kant describes maxims that violate the moral law as engaging in a kind of comparative judgement: the person who makes a false promise judges it best – at least subjectively – to deceive her friend. I argue that this is not the only possible account of moral failure for Kant. In particular, when we examine maxims of so-called despondency (Verzagtheit) we find that some maxims are resistant
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Perfect and Imperfect Duty: Unpacking Kant’s Complex Distinction Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Simon Hope
I attempt first to disentangle three aspects of Kant’s distinction between perfect and imperfect duty. There is the central distinction between principles of duty contrary to that which is contradictory in conception/consistent in conception but contradictory in will. There is also a distinction between essential and non-essential duties: those which cannot, or occasionally can, be passed over consistent
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Never Merely as a Means: Rethinking the Role and Relevance of Consent Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Melissa Seymour Fahmy
For several decades, Kant scholars, inspired by the Groundwork false-promising example, have constructed consent-based criteria for using another merely as a means. Unfortunately, these consent-based accounts produce assessments that are both counter-intuitive and un-Kantian in relatively simple cases. This article investigates why these consent-based accounts fail and offers an alternative. The Groundwork
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Did Rousseau Teach Kant Discipline? Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Jeremiah Alberg
Both Rousseau and Kant wrote their works with the intention of contributing to the well-being of humans. The ways in which Kant followed Rousseau to achieve this aim were many and go beyond those easily recognized. This article presents evidence for Rousseau’s influence in the Discipline of Pure Reason chapter of the Doctrine of Method in the First Critique. Both Rousseau and Kant emphasized discipline
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Kant on Moral Feeling and Respect Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Vojtěch Kolomý
Although in his earlier ethical writings Kant explains the concept of moral feeling, inherited from the British sentimentalists, as a peculiar feeling of respect for the moral law that functions as an incentive for moral actions, the Doctrine of Virtue seems to add complexity to the issue. There, Kant discusses two similar aesthetic predispositions, moral feeling and respect, whose relationship to
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Synthetic Attributes and the Schematized Categories Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Maximilian Edwards
Within Kant scholarship, there is an entrenched tendency to distinguish, on Kant’s behalf, between pure and ‘schematized’ categories. There is also a widespread tendency to view the schematized categories as conceptually richer than the pure categories. I argue that this reading of the distinction, which I call the standard view, should be rejected. In its place, I draw on a neglected part of Kant’s
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Revisiting the Proof-Structure of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Hyoung Sung Kim
There is no consensus concerning how to understand the ‘two-step proof structure’ (§§15–20, 21–7) of the Transcendental Deduction in the B-edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. This disagreement invites a closer examination of what Kant might have meant by a ‘transcendental deduction’. I argue that the transcendental deduction consists of three tasks that parallel Kant’s broader project of a ‘critique’
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Things in Themselves and the Inner/Outer Dichotomy in Kant’s Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Rodrigo Zanette de Araujo
Langton’s (1998) and Allais’ (2015) metaphysical interpretations of Kant’s idealism have given special relevance to Kant’s analysis of the inner/outer dichotomy in the Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, for they agree that this dichotomy is key to correctly grasping Kant’s distinction between appearances and things in themselves. In this article I argue that Langton’s and Allais’ accounts of
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Kant on Moral Dilemmas Kantian Review (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Carol Hay
The standard attribution of ought implies can rules out the possibility of Kantianism permitting the existence of moral dilemmas. Against this, I argue that Kantianism both can and should permit the existence of moral dilemmas. This new take on moral dilemmas should be of particular urgency to those hoping to radicalize Kant, I argue, because the work of oppression theorists shows that moral dilemmas