Kant On Causality Freedom And Objectivity

Author : William Leonard Harper
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816612676
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity written by William Leonard Harper and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Kant's account of causation is central to his views on objective truth and freedom. The Second Analogy of Experience, in the Critique of Pure Reason,where he provides his defense of the causal principle, has long been the focus of intense philosophical research. In the past twenty years, there have been two major periods of interest in Kantian themes, The first coincided with a general turn away from positivism by analytic philosophers, and resulted in a fruitful interchange between Kant scholars and those who applied Kantian ideas to contemporary philosophical problems. In recent years, a new surge of interest in Kant's work occurred along with the developing controversy over realism generated by the work of Dummett and Putnam. Scholars now appreciate the extent to which the Kantian causal principle is illuminated by the philosopher's argument that his transcendental idealism supports an empirical realism. And in turn, Kant's views on objectivity, causation, and freedom are especially relevant to the philosophical concerns raised by the new debate over realism. The eight papers in this book are drawn from two conferences that honored Lewis White Beck, an influential Kant scholar. Together with the introductory essay by the editors, they show the continuing relevance of Kant's analysis for the present-day philosophy of causation.

Author : Alfred Cyril Ewing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Treatment of Causality written by Alfred Cyril Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543613
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality written by Eric Watkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context.

Author : Robert Greenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110491842
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bounds of Freedom: Kant’s Causal Theory of Action written by Robert Greenberg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant’s primary conception of an action, viz., as a causal consequence of the will. The analysis in turn is based on H. P. Grice’s causal theory of perception and on P. F. Strawson’s modification of the theory. The monograph rejects the customary assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. It assumes instead that the maxim is definitive of the action, and since its main thesis is that an action for Kant is to be primarily understood as an effect of the will, it concludes that the maxim of an action can only be its logical determination. Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of free will is confronted not only by contemporary philosophical conceptions of causality, but by Kant’s own complementary theory of causality, in the Second Analogy of Experience. According to this latter conception, causality is a natural relation among physical and psychological objects, and is therefore a temporal relation among them. Faced with this conflict, Kant scholars like Allen W. Wood either reject Kant’s àtemporal conception of causality or like Henry E. Allison accept it, but only in an anodyne form. Both camps, however, make the aforementioned assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. The monograph, rejecting the assumption, belongs to neither camp.

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691151172
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Reason, and Taste written by Paul Guyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107145112
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Conception of Freedom written by Henry E. Allison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of Kant's views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521387088
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Theory of Freedom written by Henry E. Allison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers critical literature on the subject.

Author : Immanuel Kant
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics written by Immanuel Kant and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Greenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110494124
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bounds of Freedom: Kant’s Causal Theory of Action written by Robert Greenberg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant’s primary conception of an action, viz., as a causal consequence of the will. The analysis in turn is based on H. P. Grice’s causal theory of perception and on P. F. Strawson’s modification of the theory. The monograph rejects the customary assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. It assumes instead that the maxim is definitive of the action, and since its main thesis is that an action for Kant is to be primarily understood as an effect of the will, it concludes that the maxim of an action can only be its logical determination. Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of free will is confronted not only by contemporary philosophical conceptions of causality, but by Kant’s own complementary theory of causality, in the Second Analogy of Experience. According to this latter conception, causality is a natural relation among physical and psychological objects, and is therefore a temporal relation among them. Faced with this conflict, Kant scholars like Allen W. Wood either reject Kant’s àtemporal conception of causality or like Henry E. Allison accept it, but only in an anodyne form. Both camps, however, make the aforementioned assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. The monograph, rejecting the assumption, belongs to neither camp.

Author : Edmund Morris Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basis of Freedom written by Edmund Morris Miller and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: