Kant on the Human Standpoint

Produktbeschreibung

Kant's philosophy considered under one unifying standpoint: his conception of our capacity to form judgements. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Discussions: 1. Kant's categories and capacity to judge;
2. Synthetics, logical forms, and the objects of our ordinary experience; 3.
Synthetics and givenness; Part II. The Human Standpoint in Kant's Transcendental
Analytic: 4. Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the
categories; 5. Kant's deconstruction of the principle of sufficient reason; 6.
Kant on causality: what was he trying to prove?; 7. Kant's standpoint on the
whole: disjunctive judgement, community, and the Third Analogy of Experience;
Part III. The Human Standpoint in the Critical System: 8. The transcendental
ideal, and the unity of the critical system; 9. Moral judgement as a judgement
of reason; 10. Kant's leading thread in the analytic of the beautiful. 

Autoreninfo

Béatrice Longuenesse is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Her numerous publications include Kant and the Capacity to Judge (1998).