A Companion to Kant

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, it covers all aspects of Kant’s philosophy and discusses all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre–Critical works. The Companion comprises a series of concise guides to key topics in Kant’s philosophy. Some of the essays offer lucid explanations of Kant’s claims, while others take up his other contributions in issues such as history, philosophy, science, morality, aesthetics, and social–politics. This volume offers anyone with an interest in philosophy an indispensable collection of work on Kant.  

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii References to Kant’s Works xiii General Introduction 1 Graham Bird 1 Kant’s Life and Works 10 Allen W. Wood Part I: Pre–Critical Issues 31 2 Kant’s Early Dynamics 33 Martin Schönfeld 3 Kant’s Early Cosmology 47 Martin Schönfeld 4 Kant’s Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s 63 Alison Laywine 5 Kant’s Debt to Leibniz 79 Predrag Cicovacki 6 Kant’s Debt to the British Empiricists 93 Wayne Waxman Part II: Critique of Pure Reason 109 7 Kant’s Transcendental Idealism 111 Henry E. Allison 8 Kant’s Analytic Apparatus 125 Graham Bird 9 Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic 140 Lorne Falkenstein 10 Kant’s Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions 154 Derk Pereboom 11 The Second Analogy 169 Arthur Melnick 12 Kant’s Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant’s Arguments against Skepticism 182 Wolfgang Carl 13 The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies 192 Michelle Grier 14 The Critique of Rational Psychology 207 Udo Thiel 15 Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics 222 Gordon Brittan 16 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science 236 Michael Friedman Part III: The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied 249 Introduction 251 Graham Bird 17 The Primacy of Practical Reason 259 Sebastian Gardner 18 Kant’s Critical Account of Freedom 275 Andrews Reath 19 Kant’s Formulations of the Moral Law 291 Allen W. Wood 20 Deriving the Formula of Universal Law 308 Samuel J. Kerstein 21 Moral Motivation in Kant 322 Philip Stratton–Lake 22 Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals 335 Marcia Baron 23 Applying Kant’s Ethics: The Role of Anthropology 350 Robert B. Louden 24 Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant’s Political Philosophy 364 Howard Williams 25 Reason and Nature: Kant’s Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace 383 Katrin Flikschuh Part IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment 397 Introduction 399 Graham Bird 26 The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature 408 Paul Abela 27 Bridging the Gulf: Kant’s Project in the Third Critique 423 Paul Guyer 28 Kant’s Aesthetic Theory 441 Anthony Savile 29 Kant’s Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance 455 Hannah Ginsborg Part V: Kant’s Influence 471 30 Hegel’s Critique of Kant: An Overview 473 Sally Sedgwick 31 The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant 486 Graham Bird 32 Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl and Heidegger 500 Paul Gorner 33 Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth–Century Analytic Tradition 513 James O’Shea Index 527

Graham Bird is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has been a leading Kant scholar for nearly 40 years, and is the author of Kant’s Theory of Knowledge , Philosophical Tasks , and William James. He is a past president of the Aristotelian Society and Chair of the UK Kant Society

“A Companion to Kant is the most recent (2010) and by far the best anthology on Kant′s works.  In it, Graham Bird brings together a remarkable set of essays by prominent scholars in Kant studies … .Many (if not most) essays … offer significant contributions to Kant scholarship. The2010 Companion to Kant is bound to become indispensible for those who teach and for those who study Kant′s philosophy (on both graduate and undergraduate levels).  Its contributions remain lucid without watering Kant down; they are comprehensive without staying merely on the surface of the issues they discuss; they contain original work on Kant without skewing the interpretations of Kant toward one–sidedness; and jointly they thematically expand our knowledge and out understanding of Kant′s corpus and of Kant′s place within the intellectual tradition of Western philosophy.” ( Metapsychology , June 2010) “This collection is what one hopes for in a ‘companion’ volume. It contains 33 essays by prominent scholars, all of whom have made substantial contributions to Kant studies. Given the essays’ brevity…they manage to achieve surprising depth, and they will help any advanced student to get oriented in Kant’s thought.” ( Choice)