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This volume comprises seventeen essays by Henry E. Allison, one of the world's leading Kant scholars. They cover virtually the full spectrum of Allison's work on Kant, ranging from his epistemology, metaphysics, and moral theory to his views on teleology, political philosophy, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of religion. But most of the essays revolve around three basic themes: the nature of transcendental idealism and its relation to other aspects
of Kant's thought; freedom of the will; and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. The first two themes have been prominent in Allison's work on Kant since its inception. The essays on the third
theme constitute a major new contribution to the understanding of Kant's 'critical' philosophy; their primary concern is to demonstrate the central place of the third Critique in Kant's thought. Among the notable features of Allison's essays is the presence of a significant comparative dimension, which places Kant's views in their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance. To this end, these views are contrasted with those of his major predecessors and immediate successors,
as well as philosophers of the present day.
This volume comprises seventeen essays by Henry E. Allison, one of the world's leading Kant scholars. They cover virtually the full spectrum of Allison's work on Kant, ranging from his epistemology, metaphysics, and moral theory to his views on teleology, political philosophy, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of religion. But most of the essays revolve around three basic themes: the nature of transcendental idealism and its relation to other aspects
of Kant's thought; freedom of the will; and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. The first two themes have been prominent in Allison's work on Kant since its inception. The essays on the third
theme constitute a major new contribution to the understanding of Kant's 'critical' philosophy; their primary concern is to demonstrate the central place of the third Critique in Kant's thought. Among the notable features of Allison's essays is the presence of a significant comparative dimension, which places Kant's views in their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance. To this end, these views are contrasted with those of his major predecessors and immediate successors,
as well as philosophers of the present day.
Introduction
Part One
1: Commentary on Section Nine of the Antinomy of Pure Reason
2: Where Have all the Categories Gone? Reflections on Longuenesse`s
Reading of Kant`s Transcendental Deduction
Addendum to Essay Two: A Response to a Response: to "Where Have all
the Categories Gone?"
3: Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism
4: Transcendental Realism, Empirical Realism and Transcendental
Idealism
Part Two
5: "We Can Act Only Under the Idea of Freedom"
6: The very idea of a Propensity to Evil
7: Kant`s Practical Justification of Freedom
8: The Singleness of the Categorical Imperative
9: Kant on Freedom of the Will
Part Three
10: Is the Critique of Judgment 'Post-Critical?'
11: The Critique of Judgment as a 'True Apology' for Leibniz'
12: Reflective Judgement and the Application of Logic to Nature:
Kant`s Deduction of the Principle of Purposiveness as an Answer to
Hume
13: Kant`s Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
Part Four
14: The Gulf between Nature and Freedom and Nature`s Guarantee of
Perpetual Peace
15: Kant`s Conception of Aufklärung
16: Teleology and History in Kant: The Critical Foundations of
Kant`s Philosophy of History
17: Reason, Revelation, and History in Lessing and Kant
Henry E. Allison is Emeritus Professor of the University of California, San Diego, and Boston University. He is the author of many books, including Custom and Reason in Hume (OUP, 2008), and over seventy-five scholarly articles and reviews.
Any new book from Henry Allison, one of the most influential Kant
scholars in the four-decade-old resurgence of interest in Kant, is
welcomeThe value of this particular essay, and the book in general,
is that it invites this kind of further consideration of Allison's
pivotal and comprehensive interpretation of Kant.
*Frederick Rauscher, Mind*
Allison's work is typically clear, thoughtful, and based upon
careful reading and contemplation of both Kant's words and his deep
intentions. No matter ones particular interests in Kant, this
volume will serve as a welcome guide and deserves careful attention
by anyone seriously interested in Kant in particular and the
history of philosophy in general.
*Andrew Israelsen, Bibliographia*
Few people have had more impact on how Anglo-American philosophers
read Kant than Henry Allison. . . . Throughout the diversity of
this material, Allison sustains his characteristic clarity,
seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of Kant's texts, and unified
vision of Kant's Critical philosophy. . . . Allison's
interpretations of Kant in these essays are, as always, something
about which Kant scholars will have to think, and argue, for years
to come.
*Nicholas Stang, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
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