Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy

Robb Dunphy, Toby Lovat, Robb Dunphy, Toby Lovat

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000913682
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original investigations into the metaphysical projects of many of the major figures in German philosophy between Wolff and Hegel.

The period of Classical German Philosophy was an extraordinarily rich one in the history of philosophy, especially for metaphysics. It includes some of the highest achievements of early modern rationalism, Kant's critical revolution, and the various significant works of German Idealism that followed in Kant's wake. The contributions to this volume critically examine certain common themes among metaphysical projects across this period, for example, the demand that metaphysics amount to a science, that it should be presented in the form of a system, or that it should proceed by means of demonstration from certain key first principles. This volume also includes material on influential criticisms of metaphysical projects of this kind.

Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy is a useful resource for contemporary metaphysicians and historians of philosophy interested in engaging with the history of the methodology and epistemology of metaphysics.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy
• 1 Wolff on Ontology as Primary Philosophy
• 2 Baumgarten on the Nature and Role of Metaphysics
• 3 Lambert on the Certainty and Generality of Metaphysics and Geometry
• 4 The Methodological Role of Intellectual Intuition in Kant's Critique
• 5 Kant's Promise of a Scientific Metaphysics
• 6 Can Metaphysics Become a Science for Kant?
• 7 Scientific Metaphysics and Metaphysical Science: The Demand for Systematicity in Kant's Transition Project
• 8 Kant, Reinhold, and the Problem of Philosophical Scientificity
• 9 Reinhold on the Deduction of the Categories
• 10 Schulze's Scepticism and the Rise and Rise of German Idealism
• 11 The I and I: The Pure and the Empirical Subject in Fichte's Science of Science
• 12 The Science of All Science and the Unity of the Faculties: Schelling on the Nature of Philosophy
• 13 Two Models of Critique of Metaphysics: Kant and Hegel
• 14 Quietism, Dialetheism, and the Three Moments of Hegel's Logic
• 15 Metaphysics on the Model of Natural Science?: A Kantian Critique of Abductivism
• Index