Kant and the early moderns / edited by Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garber, Daniel, 1949-

Longuenesse, Béatrice, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

xv, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]

Summary:

For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens-sometimes a distorting lens-between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant's writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have been so influential that it has often been difficult to see these predecessors on any terms but Kant's own. In Kant and the Early Moderns, Daniel Garber and Beatrice Longuenesse bring together some of the world's leading historians of philosophy to consider Kant in relation to these earlier thinkers.

These original essays are grouped in pairs. A first essay discusses Kant's direct engagement with the philosophical thought of Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, or Hume, while a second essay focuses more on the original ideas of these earlier philosophers, with reflections on Kant's reading from the point of view of a more direct interest in the earlier thinker in question. What emerges is a rich and complex picture of the debates that shaped the "transcendental turn" from early modern epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind to Kant's critical philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction / Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse

Kant's "I think" versus Descartes' "I am a thing that thinks" / Béatrice Longuenesse

Descartes' "I am a thing that thinks" versus Kant's "I think" / Jean-Marie Beyssade

Kant's critique of the Leibnizian philosophy : contra the Leibnizians, but pro Leibniz / Anja Jauernig

What Leibniz really said? / Daniel Garber

Kant's transcendental idealism and the limits of knowledge : Kant's alternative to Locke's physiology / Paul Guyer

The "sensible object" and the "uncertain philosophical cause" / Lisa Downing

Kant's critique of Berkeley's concept of objectivity / Dina Emundts

Berkeley and Kant / Kenneth P. Winkler

Kant's Humean solution to Hume's problem / Wayne Waxman

Should Hume have been a transcendental idealist? / Don Garrett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-247) and index.

ISBN:

9780691137001

0691137005

9780691137018

0691137013

OCLC:

226291830