Kant and the Early Moderns

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-691-13701-8
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens--sometimes a distorting lens--between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant's writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have been so influential that it has often been difficult to see these predecessors on any terms but Kant's own. In Kant and the Early Moderns, Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse bring together some of the world's leading historians of philosophy to consider Kant in relation to these earlier thinkers. These original essays are grouped in pairs. A first essay discusses Kant's direct engagement with the philosophical thought of Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, or Hume, while a second essay focuses more on the original ideas of these earlier philosophers, with reflections on Kant's reading from the point of view of a more direct interest in the earlier thinker in question. What emerges is a rich and complex picture of the debates that shaped the "transcendental turn" from early modern epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind to Kant's critical philosophy. The contributors, in addition to the editors, are Jean-Marie Beyssade, Lisa Downing, Dina Emundts, Don Garrett, Paul Guyer, Anja Jauernig, Wayne Waxman, and Kenneth P. Winkler.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garber, Daniel

Longuenesse, Béatrice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Daniel Garber and B?atrice Longuenesse ix

Abbreviations and References for Primary Sources xi

Introduction: by Daniel Garber and B?atrice Longuenesse 1

Chapter 1: Kant's "I Think" versus Descartes' "I Am a Thing That Thinks" by B?atrice Longuenesse 9

Chapter 2: Descartes' "I Am a Thing That Thinks" versus Kant's "I Think" by Jean-Marie Beyssade 32

Chapter 3: Kant's Critique of the Leibnizian Philosophy: Contra the Leibnizians, but Pro Leibniz by Anja Jauernig 41

Chapter 4: What Leibniz Really Said? by Daniel Garber 64

Chapter 5: Kant's Transcendental Idealism and the Limits of Knowledge: Kant's Alternative to Locke's Physiology by Paul Guyer 79

Chapter 6: The "Sensible Object" and the "Uncertain Philosophical Cause" by Lisa Downing 100

Chapter 7: Kant's Critique of Berkeley's Concept of Objectivity by Dina Emundts 117

Chapter 8: Berkeley and Kant by Kenneth P. Winkler 142

Chapter 9: Kant's Humean Solution to Hume's Problem by Wayne Waxman 172

Chapter 10. Should Hume Have Been a Transcendental Idealist? by Don Garrett 193

Notes 209

Bibliography 241

List of Contributors 249

Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Garber is professor of philosophy at Princeton University and the author of "Descartes Embodied" and "Descartes' Metaphysical Physics". Beatrice Longuenesse is professor of philosophy at New York University. Her books include "Kant on the Human Standpoint" and "Kant and the Capacity to Judge" (Princeton).