The normativity of nature : essays on Kant's Critique of judgement / Hannah Ginsborg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginsborg, Hannah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft.

Kant, Immanuel.

Judgment (Logic).

Judgment (Aesthetics).

Aesthetics.

Teleology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Other Title:

Essays on Kant's Critique of judgement

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Hannah Ginsborg presents fourteen essays which establish Kant's 'Critique of Judgement' as a central contribution to the understanding of human cognition. The papers bring out the significance of Kant's philosophical notion of judgment, and use it to address interpretive issues in Kant's aesthetics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of biology.

Contents:

Notes on references and translations

Introduction

part 1. Aesthetics. Kant on subjectivity of taste

On the key to Kant's critique of taste

Lawfulness without law: Kant on the free play of imagination and understanding

Aesthetic judging and the intentionality of pleasure

The pleasure of judgement: Kant and the possibility of taste

part 2. Cognition. Reflective judgement and taste

Thinking the particular as contained under the universal

Aesthetic judgement and perceptual normativity

The appearance of spontaneity: Kant on judgement and empirical self-knowledge

part 2. Teleology. Kant on aesthetic and biological purposiveness

Kant on understanding organisms as natural purposes

Two kinds of mechanical inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle

Kant's biological teleology and its philosophical significance

Oughts without intentions: a Kantian approach to biological functions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-954798-X

0-19-178900-3

0-19-103078-3

OCLC:

905691080