Paul Guyer

Kant's System of Nature and Freedom

Selected Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul Guyer is acknowledged as one of the world's foremost Kant specialists, and he collects here some of his most celebrated essays from the past decade and a half. The governing theme of the volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Featuring two brand-new papers and an introduction to orient the reader, Kant's System of Nature and Freedom will be an essential purchase for anyone working on the history of philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780199273461
• ISBN-10: 0199273464
• Artikelnr.: 22311422

Autorenporträt

Paul Guyer, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: The System of Nature
* 1: Reason and Reflective Judgement: Kant on the Significance of
Systematicity
* 2: Kant's Conception of Empirical Law
* 3: Kant on the Systematicity of Nature: Two Puzzles
* 4: Kant's Ether Deduction and the Possibility of Experience
* 5: Organisms and the Unity of Science
* Part II: The System of Freedom
* 6: Kant on the Theory and Practice of Autonomy
* 7: The Form and Matter of the Categorical Imperative
* 8: Ends of Reason and Ends of Nature: The Place of Teleology in
Kant's Ethics
* 9: Kant's Deductions of the Principles of Right
* 10: Kant's System of Duties
* Part III: The System of Nature and Freedom
* 11: The Unity of Nature and Freedom: Kant's Conception of the System
of Philosophy
* 12: From Nature to Morality: Kant's New Argument in the 'Critique of
Teleological Judgement'
* 13: Purpose in Nature: What is Living and What is Dead in Kant's
Teleology