Problems of Reason: Kant in Context

Antonino Falduto

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9783111502601
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

This volume aims to make a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the renaissance of Kant studies in the last few decades, with a particular emphasis upon some 'problems of reason'. Like no other, Kant covered the entire breadth of the modern debate concerning the concept of reason and its forms. Accordingly, despite the range of topics this volume inevitably deals with, Immanuel Kant remains the common point of reference for all contributions.

The volume is divided into two sections. The first section is dedicated to Kant's philosophy in particular and its relationship with the philosophies of Kant's predecessors. From the perspective of the history of philosophy, interpretations of the significance of different philosophical traditions concerning Kant's thought will be given, and of the relationship of Kant's thought to the problems of reason with which Kant and his predecessors dealt. The second section is dedicated to the legacy of Kant's philosophy. The relevance of the concept of rationality for the genesis and systematics of post-Kantian ideas of rationality will be discussed, and the potential of Kant's critical philosophy – for contemporary thought as well – will be examined.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations of Kant’s Works
• Section I: Problems of Reason – Kant’s Philosophy and His Predecessors
• Reason and Experience in Kant: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too vs. Splitting the Difference
• Our Difficult Relationship with Truth: Critical Reason in the Real World
• Sapere aude: Understanding or Reason?
• Kant on Schematism and the Faculties: An Outline Straddling between the First and the Third Critique
• Perfection and Reality in The Only Possible Argument
• Kant and Hutcheson on the Psychology of Moral Motivation
• A Credential for the Moral Law? On the Alleged Coherentism of the Critique of Practical Reason
• The Difficulty of Deriving Autonomy from Pure Self-Activity: On Kant’s Solution to the Circularity between Freedom and Morality
• Achenwall’s iura connata and Kant’s “Only One Innate Right:” On Kant’s (Partial) Departure from Natural Law Theory
• Poetry as Knowledge: On Baumgarten’s and Kant’s Aesthetic Cognitivism
• Aesthetic Ideas and Hypotyposis: Artistic Expression without Aesthetic Attributes
• Section II: Problems of Reason – Kantian Heritage
• A Problem of Reason: The Immortality of the Soul in the aetas kantiana
• Kant on the Supposed Incapacity to Transgress the Moral Law Freely
• Kant’s Doctrine of Right between Conservatives and Radicals
• Fichte as a Philosopher of Communication
• Intellectual Intuition as New Practical Reason? Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Ethics Reconsidered
• The Origin of the Actual in Hermann Cohen’s Logik
• Encounters of Judgement: Gadamer, Arendt, and Kant’s Take on Social Philosophy
• On the Finitude of Life: Bernard Williams from a Kantian Standpoint
• Concluding Paper
• Critique in Crisis: Rationality in Kant and Husserl
• Notes on Contributors
• Index of Persons
• Index of Subject