The Rightful Claims of Reason: A Priori Cognition, Metaphysics, and Kant’s Critique

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Complete Table of Contents Volumes 1–3 VII
4. List of Abbreviations/Siglenverzeichnis XV
5. Welcome Address 1
6. The Kant Prize
7. Laudatio auf Gerold Prauss 7
8. Worte des Dankes für den Internationalen Kant-Preis Oslo 2019 15
9. Laudation on Gabriele Gava, Winner of the 2019 Kant-Nachwuchspreis 17
10. Danksagung 21
11. Keynote Lectures
12. Kant and Dignity: Missed Connections with the United States 27
13. Transcendental Idealism as Formal Idealism: an Anti-Metaphysical Reading 49
14. Thought and Language in the Critical Philosophy 69
15. Urteilen als Tat 85
16. Why Language Matters to Kant’s Philosophy and Logic 97
17. A Court of Reason in Politics 117
18. Knowledge, Anxiety, Hope: How Kant’s First and Third Questions Relate 127
19. Selbstprüfung der Vernunft. Kants Umsturz der Metaphysik und ihr Neuaufbau 151
20. Judgment and the Reality of Freedom: The Role of Analogy in Kant’s Third Critique 169
21. The Court of Reason and its Authority 191
22. Witness for the Prosecution: Can Kant’s Treatment of Poverty Stand up to the Court of Reason? 209
23. Bringing Rights and Citizenship under Law on a Globus Terraqueus 227
24. The Structure of Normative Space: Kant’s System of Rational Principles 245
25. Metaphilosophy and Philosophical Methodology
26. Kant’s True Ambition in the Court of Reason 269
27. Metaphysica scientia prima cognitionis humanae principia continens est? Kants Kritik des “Schulbegriffs” der Metaphysik 279
28. Foundational Asymmetry in Kant’s First Critique 289
29. Kant on Wolff and Dogmatism 299
30. Imagination Schematizing in the Court of Reason 309
31. The Ambivalent Character of the Kantian Notion of Appearance: The Objective-Objectual (‘gegenständlich’) Nature of Appearances as ‘Objects of Experience’ 319
32. Why Does Kant Think Empirical Cognition Requires Systematization? 329
33. From the Kantian to the Hegelian Court of Reason 337
34. The Encyclopedic Stance of Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy 349
35. Getting High with Kant: Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Morality in the Prolegomena’s Analytic Method 359
36. Kant and the Varieties of Indifferentism 369
37. Kants Verwendung lateinischer Ausdrücke in der Tugendlehre 379
38. Philosophical Fictions: Maimon’s Methodological Criticism of Kant Two Kinds of Insight and the Critique of Pure Reason 389
39. Two Kinds of Insight and the Critique of Pure Reason 401
40. Metaphysics
41. Kant’s Amodalism about Noumena and Freedom 413
42. Defending Kant’s Antinomy of Practical Reason 423
43. The Value of Freedom 433
44. A Defense of the Conceptual Approach to Transcendental Idealism against Paul Guyer 441
45. The First Antinomy and the Indeterminate Extent of the Empirical World 449
46. Der Gerichtshof der reinen Vernunft und seine Urteilsstufen 459
47. Kant, Hume, and the Metaphysical Tradition 467
48. The Thesis Argument of Kant’s Third Antinomy 475
49. Kant and the ‘Antinomy’ of the Actually Existing Thing 485
50. Different Times Cannot Be Simultaneous. An Interpretation of the Fourth Argument from the Metaphysical Exposition of the Concept of Time 495
51. Zum Denken eines Dritten. Die richterliche Funktion des unendlichen Urteils in der kopernikanischen Wende 505
52. Kant’s Supposed Realism about Things-in-Themselves 515
53. Figurative Synthesis and Propositional Content in B-Deduction §24 525
54. Recent Literature on Bent Sticks and Transcendental Idealism 535
55. The “Fourth Paralogism” in the 1781 Critique of Pure Reason: A (Moderately) Realist Reading 545
56. On the Difference between Kant’s Intellectual Intuition and Intuitive Understanding in the First Critique 555
57. The Antinomies’ Infinity Critique 565
58. What Exactly Is Synthesized by the Sensible Syntheses? 575
59. The Rightful Claims of Reason: A Priori Cognition, Metaphysics, and Kant’s Critique 583
60. Kant on Real Grounds and Grounds of Being 591
61. The Third Antinomy’s Cosmological Problem and Transcendental Idealism 599
62. Der dunkle Nachthimmel über mir. Bezugssysteme und Konstruktion in Kants Metaphysischen Anfangsgründen der Naturwissenschaft 609
63. Die geheime Dialektik der Vernunft. Eine Interpretation des Schematismus des reinen Verstandes 621
64. Kants Tafel des Nichts und sein Plan zur Transzendentalphilosophie 1781 631
65. Apperception, Objectivity, and Idealism 641
66. Mere Subjectivism? Kant’s Deduction and the Hegelian Criticism 651
67. Time and Transcendental Matter: The Sensible Role of the Thing in Itself 659
68. Volume 2
69. Epistemology and Logic
70. Existence as a Category and the Ontological Argument 669
71. In Defence of Inner Intuitions 677
72. Kant on Epistemic Autonomy 687
73. Kant and the Problem of the Criterion of Truth: A Dissolution of the Pyrrhonian Problematic 697
74. Inkongruente Gegenstücke und Ununterscheidbares: Wozu braucht es Anschauung? 707
75. How Kant Thought He Could Reach Hume 717
76. Die Logik der Wahrheit 727
77. Reason, Reflection, and Reliabilism: Kant and the Grounds of Rational and Empirical Knowledge 735
78. The Kant-Eberhard Polemic: The Deduction of the Principle of Sufficient Reason from the Principle of Non-Contradiction 743
79. Transcendental Reflection and Kant’s Division of Logic 755
80. Eine vielsagende Asymmetrie bei Kant: Existenz und durchgängige Bestimmung 765
81. Kant’s Modal Theory of Assent 775
82. Kant on Perceptions, Synthesis, and Intentionality in the Second Analogy of Experience 785
83. On Kant’s Conception of the Contradiction: A Clear Differentiation from Baumgarten 795
84. Symbolization and Formal Competence with a Concept in Kant 805
85. Kant’s “I Think” and the Subjective Deduction 813
86. On the Identity of “I Think” and “I Am” 823
87. Reason, Systematicity and Judgment 833
88. Philosophy of Science and Nature
89. Orientation and the Properties of Space: An Interpretation of the Argument from Incongruent Counterparts 843
90. Kant und die Weltmaschinenmetapher 853
91. Making an Appearance as Itself: Kant vs. Leibniz on Grounding Appearances 863
92. Die Normativität biologischer Ereignisse. Zu Kants Forschungsprogramm der Biologie als moderner Wissenschaft 873
93. Kants Adaption der Stufenleiter der Geschöpfe in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft 883
94. Kant’s Path from Systematicity to Purposiveness 891
95. Revisiting the Argument of ‘the Second Analogy’ 903
96. Kant’s Third Analogy of Experience, Space-time, and Mutual Interaction 913
97. Kant against the Cult of Genius: Epistemic and Moral Considerations 921
98. Teleology
99. Purposiveness, the Idea of God, and the Transition from Nature to Freedom in the Critique of Judgment 931
100. Kant on Observation 941
101. Kants Begriff der Kultur. Über den Zusammenhang von Natur und Freiheit 951
102. Kant on Vital Forces and the Analogy with Life 961
103. Organisms as ‘Natural Ends’ and Reflective Judgment’s Image of Externalized Freedom 973
104. Technik als Form der Freiheit. Kant über Handlungsrationalität in Kultur und Natur 985
105. Causa Efficiens, Causa Finalis: Two Unequal Principles of Science in Kant 995
106. Aesthetics
107. Imaginative Reflection in Aesthetic Judgment and Cognition 1009
108. The Normativity of Aesthetic Judgments: Kant’s Development 1017
109. Kant’s Genius and Aesthetic Responsibility 1027
110. Disgust and the Limits of Representation: The Influence of Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics on § 48 of the Critique of the Power of Judgment 1035
111. How Can Works of Fine Art “Make Sensible Rational Ideas”? 1045
112. Kantische Grenzüberschreitungen. Kant, Baruchello und die heutige Kunstwelt 1055
113. Critique of the Power of Judgment in the Context of Art’s Technological Reproducibility 1067
114. The Philosopher and the Map. Reflections on the Carticity of Kant’s Philosophical Writing 1075
115. Die Erweckung aus dem dogmatischen Schlummer der Ästhetik: Francis Hutcheson und Immanuel Kant 1085
116. Kant’s Antinomy of Taste and the Supersensible 1095
117. Anthropology and Psychology
118. „[I]m Laboratorio des Cörpers“ – Kant zur Rolle des Körpers 1105
119. Kant über das sich selbst affizierende Subjekt. Zur Funktion der Selbstaffektion in Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft 1115
120. Taking Something to Heart – A New Look at Kant’s Criticism of Sympathy 1125
121. Kant on Intoxication 1135
122. Kant über Zufriedenheit 1143
123. The Puzzle of the Empirical Self and the Regulative Principles of Reason 1151
124. Kant über Selbstaffektion – Eine Verteidigung der einstufigen Theorie des inneren Sinnes 1161
125. Kant on the Unity of the Human Species 1171
126. Tugendlehre § 13. Kant über das Bewusstsein eines inneren Gerichtshofes im Menschen 1181
127. Aufrichtigkeit als Anspruch der Vernunft 1191
128. Kant and Maimon on the Quid Juris: Competing Conceptions of Experience and Animals 1201
129. The Concept of Passion in Kant’s Anthropology: Reconsidering the Relationship between Anthropology and Critical Ethics 1209
130. Kant′s Pre-Critical Philosophy
131. Emmanuel Kant, Alexander Pope et la physico-théologie 1219
132. Der junge Kant – ein Universalienrealist? 1229
133. Kant and the Mereology of the Perceiver’s Body 1237
134. Kant and Neo-Kantianism
135. Kant in Early Russian Neo-Kantianism: The Case of Vvedensky 1247
136. Der Wiener Pathologe Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878) als Neukantianer: Rokitansky und die Kant-Rezeption in der Wiener Medizin 1255
137. Kant’s Copernican Turn: Emil Lask’s Interpretation and Its Criticism in Russia 1265
138. Kant and Phenomenology
139. Heidegger on ‘Thing in Itself’ and ‘Appearance’: A Promising Interpretation of Kant? 1277
140. A Case for Heidegger’s Interpretation of the Kantian Imagination 1287
141. The Synthetic A Priori in Kant and Husserl 1297
142. Was ist eine transzendentale Apperzeption in phänomenologischer Sicht? Husserl über Kant 1305
143. Kant and Non-Western Philosophy
144. Kant in East Asia: Introduction 1317
145. Recent Developments and Challenges of Kant Studies in Japan 1325
146. The Reception and Development of Kant’s Philosophy in China 1335
147. The Reception and Development of Kant’s Philosophy in South Korea 1345
148. Kant and the Compound Yijing 1353
149. Volume 3
150. Ethics and Moral Philosophy
151. Könnte es aus Kantischer Perspektive Pflichten gegenüber Robotern geben? 1365
152. Kant’s Moral Psychology: Resolving Conflict between Happiness and Morality 1375
153. When Communication Breaks Down: Reasoning Across Principia 1387
154. From Aesthetic Pleasures to Morality 1395
155. What’s Wrong with a Kantian Foundation of Human Rights? A Reply to the Independence Thesis 1403
156. Kant’s Moral Justification of the Duties of Law and the Immanuel-Kant-Problem 1413
157. The Problem of the Highest Good: An Aesthetic Outlook 1423
158. Deontological Eudaemonism 1431
159. Kant on the Rationality of Morality 1439
160. Kant on Love and Law – Including a Glance at St. Paul 1447
161. Von Rechtspflichten zu vollkommenen Tugendpflichten? Kants ungelöstes Problem der Pflichtensystematik 1457
162. Kant on Moral Conscience and Feeling 1467
163. Kant on the Freedom of Instrumental Actions 1475
164. Can Love Be Excessive? Baumgarten and Kant on Love, Respect, and Friendship 1483
165. Moralität als Ausdruck der Selbstreflexivität reiner praktischer Vernunft 1493
166. Remarks on Kant’s Conception of Love of Delight 1503
167. Kantian Guilt 1511
168. Blaming Exceptions on Contingent Circumstances? Against Kantian Pro Tanto Duties 1521
169. Why Universalization Works 1533
170. Some Puzzles about Kantian Beneficence 1543
171. Conscience as One of the “Aesthetical Preliminary Concepts” 1551
172. Maxims and the Role of Moral Principles 1561
173. Freedom and Human Dignity – a Kantian Defence 1571
174. Two Conceptions of Kantian Autonomy 1579
175. The Possibility of Kantian Moral Weakness 1587
176. The Dispute over Universal Competences during a Pandemic 1595
177. Remarks on Kant’s Post-Critical Conception of the Autonomy of Reason 1605
178. Kant on the Moral Worth of Actions and Persons 1615
179. Kant’s Ethics in Latin America: From Universalizable Maxims to Symmetric Norms 1625
180. Formulae of the Moral Law as the Same Limiting Condition of the Will 1633
181. Two Rationales for the Duty of Veracity in “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy” 1641
182. The Material Condition for the Duty of Virtue 1651
183. Kant on Teaching Philosophy and Education in a Cosmopolitan Manner 1661
184. Grace and Self-Righteousness in Kant’s Moral Philosophy 1667
185. Legal and Political Philosophy
186. Kant’s Compatibilism and the Two-Tiered Model of Punishment 1679
187. The Criterion of Right Action in Kant’s Rechtslehre 1689
188. On Progress: The Role of Race in Kant’s Philosophy of History 1697
189. Eine Art von Verbotsgesetz: Zur normenlogischen Stellung des Erlaubnisgesetzes in Kants Schrift Zum ewigen Frieden 1707
190. ‘Political and Metaphysical’: the World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason 1717
191. A Youthful Tone in Philosophy? On Schlosser’s Critique of Kant 1727
192. I’ve Seen the Salvation of the World: Kant’s Reappraisal of the French Revolution 1737
193. A Contractual Account of Kant’s Federalism of Free States with an Assurance Condition 1747
194. Enlightenment and the Historical Dimension of Public Reason 1755
195. Political Reflection in Kant: Judgment and Communication in the 1790s 1765
196. Justice, Beneficence and Global Poverty: Kantian Insights 1775
197. „Alle wahre Republik … kann nichts anderes sein, als ein repräsentatives System des Volks“ (Rechtslehre, § 52). Über die Notwendigkeit einer repräsentativen Staatsverfassung 1785
198. The Logic of Permissive Laws of Reason 1797
199. Supreme Power: A Neglected Source of Tension in Kant’s Views on Political Resistance 1807
200. The ‘Principle of Equality Governing the Actions and Counter-Actions’ in Kant’s Practical Philosophy 1817
201. Kant against Legal Paternalism: A Conditional Defense 1827
202. Quid juris and Judicial Imputation 1835
203. The Unity of Kant’s Practical Philosophy 1845
204. On the Relation between Private and Public Right 1855
205. Does Climate Change Present a Case of Kant’s Right of Necessity? 1867
206. The Court of Reason and the Court of History: Kant and Political Realism 1879
207. Kant on the State of Nature 1891
208. Das menschliche Geschlecht im beständigen Fortschreiten zum Besseren? Überlegungen zu Kants Argumentation im Streit der Fakultäten 1899
209. The Basis of Kant’s Theory of Political Change 1905
210. Hannah Arendt on Kant’s Political Philosophy 1913
211. The Schematism of Possession in the Early Rechtslehre Drafts 1923
212. Revisiting the “Difficult Passage” from Toward Perpetual Peace 1931
213. Religion and Theology
214. ‘Sure Hope’ of Attaining Happiness and Its Relation to ‘Wish’ and ‘Faith’ 1941
215. Die Befangenheit des Gerichts. Die Selbsterhaltung des Menschen als Selbsterhaltung der Vernunft 1951
216. Faith and Freedom: At the Boundary of Reason 1959
217. Kant’s Epistemology of Faith in the Critique of Pure Reason 1969
218. Kant’s Post-Critical Theology 1977
219. Wofür eine „Religionsschrift“? Kant über die Menschen und ihre moralische Kultur durch Religion 1985
220. Philosophy and Theology in the Conflict of the Faculties 1995
221. Vernunftglaube und Architektonik der reinen Vernunft 2007
222. Kant’s Herder Review: Analogical Inference, Indirect Cognition, and Philosophical Style 2015
223. The Ethical Commonwealth, the “Son of God,” and the Social Empowerment of Human Freedom 2023
224. Kant and the Radical Critique of Religion 2031
225. Contributors 2041