A Companion to Kant

Copyright © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Kant

Editor(s): Graham Bird

Published Online: 30 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9781405111973

Online ISBN: 9780470996287

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996287

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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 scholars
  • Covers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical works
  • Subjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xv)

    1. General Introduction (pages 1–9)

      Graham Bird

  3. Part I: Pre-Critical Issues

    1. Chapter 1

      Kant's Life and Works (pages 10–29)

      Allen W. Wood

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      Pre-Critical Issues (page 32)

    3. Chapter 2

      Kant's Early Dynamics (pages 33–46)

      Martin Schönfeld

    4. Chapter 3

      Kant's Early Cosmology (pages 47–62)

      Martin Schönfeld

    5. Chapter 4

      Kant's Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s (pages 63–78)

      Alison Laywine

    6. Chapter 5

      Kant's Debt to Leibniz (pages 79–92)

      Predrag Cicovacki

    7. Chapter 6

      Kant's Debt to the British Empiricists (pages 93–107)

      Wayne Waxman

  4. Part II: Critique of Pure Reason

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      Critique of Pure Reason (page 109)

    2. Chapter 7

      Kant's Transcendental Idealism (pages 111–124)

      Henry E. Allison

    3. Chapter 8

      Kant's Analytic Apparatus (pages 125–139)

      Graham Bird

    4. Chapter 9

      Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic (pages 140–153)

      Lorne Falkenstein

    5. Chapter 10

      Kant's Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions (pages 154–168)

      Derk Pereboom

    6. Chapter 11

      The Second Analogy (pages 169–181)

      Arthur Melnick

    7. Chapter 12

      Kant's Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant's Arguments against Skepticism (pages 182–191)

      Wolfgang Carl

    8. Chapter 13

      The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies (pages 192–206)

      Michelle Grier

    9. Chapter 14

      The Critique of Rational Psychology (pages 207–221)

      Udo Thiel

    10. Chapter 15

      Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics (pages 222–235)

      Gordon Brittan

    11. Chapter 16

      Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (pages 236–248)

      Michael Friedman

  5. Part III: The Moral Philosophy - Pure and Applied

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      The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied (pages 250–258)

    2. Chapter 17

      The Primacy of Practical Reason (pages 259–274)

      Sebastian Gardner

    3. Chapter 18

      Kant's Critical Account of Freedom (pages 275–290)

      Andrews Reath

    4. Chapter 19

      Kant's Formulations of the Moral Law (pages 291–307)

      Allen W. Wood

    5. Chapter 20

      Deriving the Formula of Universal Law (pages 308–321)

      Samuel J. Kerstein

    6. Chapter 21

      Moral Motivation in Kant (pages 322–334)

      Philip Stratton-Lake

    7. Chapter 22

      Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals (pages 335–349)

      Marcia Baron

    8. Chapter 23

      Applying Kant's Ethics: The Role of Anthropology (pages 350–363)

      Robert B. Louden

    9. Chapter 24

      Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant's Political Philosophy (pages 364–382)

      Howard Williams

    10. Chapter 25

      Reason and Nature: Kant's Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace (pages 383–396)

      Katrin Flikschuh

  6. Part IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment

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      The Critique of the Power of Judgment (pages 398–407)

    2. Chapter 26

      The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature (pages 408–422)

      Paul Abela

    3. Chapter 27

      Bridging the Gulf: Kant's Project in the Third Critique (pages 423–440)

      Paul Guyer

    4. Chapter 28

      Kant's Aesthetic Theory (pages 441–454)

      Anthony Savile

    5. Chapter 29

      Kant's Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance (pages 455–469)

      Hannah Ginsborg

  7. Part V: Kant's Influence

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      Kant's Influence (page 471)

    2. Chapter 30

      Hegel's Critique of Kant: An Overview (pages 473–485)

      Sally Sedgwick

    3. Chapter 31

      The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant (pages 486–499)

      Graham Bird

    4. Chapter 32

      Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl and Heidegger (pages 500–512)

      Paul Gorner

    5. Chapter 33

      Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth-Century Analytic Tradition (pages 513–526)

      James O'shea

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      Index (pages 527–530)

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