Inspirations from Kant : essays / Leslie Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Leslie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays on Immanuel Kant's theoretical philosophy, besides deriving inspiration from him, bring insights from contemporary analytical philosophy to bear in interpreting some of his most deep and difficult themes. The topics covered include representation and reality, appearances and things in themselves, the given and synthesis, transcendental idealism, the limits of scientific explanation, knowledge, belief and faith, freedom of judgment, different levels of operation within the mind, and determinism and free will.

Contents:

Objects of representation: Kant's Copernican revolution re-interpreted

Synthetic unities of experience

Three ways in which space and time might be said to be transcendentally ideal

The given, the unconditioned, the transcendental object, and the reality of the past

A theory of everything?: Kant speaks to Stephen Hawking

Opinion, belief or faith, and knowledge

Freedom of judgment in Descartes, Spinoza, Hume and Kant

Six levels of mentality

A Kantian defense of freewill.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-026762-3