Description
Kant describes the concept of freedom as "the keystone of the whole structure of a system of pure reason, even of speculative reason." Kant's theory of freedom thus plays a foundational and unifying role in all aspects of his philosophy and is thus of significant interest to historians of Kant's philosophy. Kant's theory of freedom has also played a significant role in contemporary debates in metaphysics, normative ethics, and metaethics. This volume brings historians of Kant's philosophy into conversation with contemporary metaphysicians and ethicists with the aim of representing the current state of scholarship on Kant's and Kantian accounts of freedom while at the same time opening new avenues of exploration. The Idea of Freedom includes papers by leading scholars on a range of historical and contemporary topics centrally related to the Kantian theory of freedom, including transcendental idealism, determinism, Kant's normative ethical theory, Kant's conception of cognition, Kant's theory of beauty, Kant's conception of logic, and many others.
Table of Contents
- 1: Dai Heide and Evan Tiffany: The Idea of Freedom: An Introduction
- 2: Lucy Allais: Kantian Determinism and Contemporary Determinism
- 3: Colin McLear, and Derek Pereboom: Kant on Transcendental Freedom, Priority Monism, and the Structure of Intuition
- 4: Eric Watkins: Kant on Cognition of Freedom
- 5: Karl Schafer: Practical Cognition and Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves
- 6: Patricia Kitcher: Kant's Practical Proof of the Fact of Freedom
- 7: Benjamin Vilhauer: An Asymmetrical Approach to Kant's Theory of Freedom
- 8: Kyla Ebels-Duggan: Bad Debt: The Kantian Inheritance of Empiricist Desire
- 9: Kelin Emmett: A Kantian Conception of Kantian Freedom
- 10: Ralf Bader: Kant on Freedom and Practical Irrationality
- 11: Samantha Matherne: Imagining Freedom: Kant on Symbols of Sublimity
- 12: Ariel Zylberman: Bread as Freedom: Kant on the State's Duties to the Poor
- 13: Huaping Lu-Adler: Constitutivity, Freedom, and Normativity - The Case of Logic
