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“This is the third in a serie of companios to major philosophers that
Cambridge will be issuing in the next few years. Each volume will contain specially commossioned essays by an international
team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography and will serve as a reference work for students and
nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the
work of a difficult and challenging thinker.
The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles
of both knowledge and the action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher
has contributed more to this enterprise than has Immanuel Kant, whose Critique of Pure reason (1781) shook the
very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic principles of natural science are imposed
on teality by human sensibility and understanding, and hence human beings can also impose their own free and rational
agency on the world.
This volume is the only available systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant’s writings and
the first major overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An internationally recognized
team of Kant scholars explore Kant’s conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy science, moral
and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion. The volume also traces the historical origins
and consequences of Kant’s work.
New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Kant currently in print.
Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Kant.”
CONTENTS:
List of contributors
Method of citation
Introduction: The starry heavens and the moral law
Paul Guyer
1. Kant’s intellectual development: 1746-1781
Frederick C. Beiser
2. The Transcendental Aesthetic
Charles Parsons
3. Functions of thought and the synthesis of intuitions
J. Michael Young
4. The transcendental deduction of the categories
Paul Guyer
5. Causal laws and the foundations if natural science
Michael Friedman
6. Empirical, rational, and transcendental psychology: Psychology as science and as philosophy
Gary Hatfield
7. Reason and pratice of science
Thomas E. Wartenberg
8. The critique of metaphysics: Kant and traditional ontology
Karl Ameriks
9. Vindicating reason
Onora O’Neill
10. Autonomy, obligation, and virtue: An overview of Kant’s moral philosophy
J. B. Schneewind
11. Politics, freedom, and order: Kant’s political philosophy
Wolfgang Kersting
12. Taste, subçimity, and genius: The aesthetics of nature and art
Eva Schaper
13. Rational theology, moral faith, and religion
Allen W. Wood
14. The first twenty years of critique: The Spinoza connection
George Di Giovanni
Bibliography
Index
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