A companion to Kant / edited by Graham H. Bird.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bird, Graham, 1930-

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy,

Blackwell companions to philosophy, ; v.36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (548 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest.Written by an international cast of scholarsCovers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical worksSubjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy

Contents:

A Companion to Kant; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; References to Kant's Works; General Introduction; 1 Kant's Life and Works; Part I: Pre-Critical Issues; 2 Kant's Early Dynamics; 3 Kant's Early Cosmology; 4 Kant's Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s; 5 Kant's Debt to Leibniz; 6 Kant's Debt to the British Empiricists; Part II: Critique of Pure Reason; 7 Kant's Transcendental Idealism; 8 Kant's Analytic Apparatus; 9 Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic; 10 Kant's Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions; 11 The Second Analogy

12 Kant's Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant's Arguments against Skepticism13 The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies; 14 The Critique of Rational Psychology; 15 Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics; 16 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science; Part III: The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied; Introduction; 17 The Primacy of Practical Reason; 18 Kant's Critical Account of Freedom; 19 Kant's Formulations of the Moral Law; 20 Deriving the Formula of Universal Law; 21 Moral Motivation in Kant; 22 Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals

23 Applying Kant's Ethics: The Role of Anthropology24 Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant's Political Philosophy; 25 Reason and Nature: Kant's Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace; Part IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment; Introduction; 26 The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature; 27 Bridging the Gulf: Kant's Project in the Third Critique; 28 Kant's Aesthetic Theory; 29 Kant's Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance; Part V: Kant's Influence; 30 Hegel's Critique of Kant: An Overview

31 The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant32 Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl and Heidegger; 33 Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth-Century Analytic Tradition; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610850891

9781782686002

1782686002

9781280850899

1280850892

9781405164115

1405164115

9780470996287

0470996285

9781405178372

140517837X

OCLC:

437178898