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Print Price: $151.50

Format:
Hardback
320 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198860563

Publication date:
June 2023

Imprint: OUP UK

The Idea of Freedom

New Essays on the Kantian Theory of Freedom

Edited by Dai Heide and Evan Tiffany

Kant describes the concept of freedom as "the keystone of the whole structure of a system of pure reason, even of speculative reason." Kant's theory of freedom thus plays a foundational and unifying role in all aspects of his philosophy and is thus of significant interest to historians of Kant's philosophy. Kant's theory of freedom has also played a significant role in contemporary debates in metaphysics, normative ethics, and metaethics. This volume brings historians of Kant's philosophy into conversation with contemporary metaphysicians and ethicists with the aim of representing the current state of scholarship on Kant's and Kantian accounts of freedom while at the same time opening new avenues of exploration. The Idea of Freedom includes papers by leading scholars on a range of historical and contemporary topics centrally related to the Kantian theory of freedom, including transcendental idealism, determinism, Kant's normative ethical theory, Kant's conception of cognition, Kant's theory of beauty, Kant's conception of logic, and many others.

Readership : Academic philosophers and their students across a range of sub-fields

1. Dai Heide and Evan Tiffany: The Idea of Freedom: An Introduction
2. Lucy Allais: Kantian Determinism and Contemporary Determinism
3. Colin McLear, and Derek Pereboom: Kant on Transcendental Freedom, Priority Monism, and the Structure of Intuition
4. Eric Watkins: Kant on Cognition of Freedom
5. Karl Schafer: Practical Cognition and Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves
6. Patricia Kitcher: Kant's Practical Proof of the Fact of Freedom
7. Benjamin Vilhauer: An Asymmetrical Approach to Kant's Theory of Freedom
8. Kyla Ebels-Duggan: Bad Debt: The Kantian Inheritance of Empiricist Desire
9. Kelin Emmett: A Kantian Conception of Kantian Freedom
10. Ralf Bader: Kant on Freedom and Practical Irrationality
11. Samantha Matherne: Imagining Freedom: Kant on Symbols of Sublimity
12. Ariel Zylberman: Bread as Freedom: Kant on the State's Duties to the Poor
13. Huaping Lu-Adler: Constitutivity, Freedom, and Normativity - The Case of Logic

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Dai Heide earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Northwestern University and his PhD in Philosophy from The Ohio State University in 2010. His primary area of research interest is Kant's theoretical philosophy. He is also interested in a range of metaphysical and epistemological questions in early modern philosophy. He has written about Kant's transcendental idealism, Kant's theory of space and time, Kant's conceptions of existence and predication, and other related topics.

Evan Tiffany is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. He works primarily on topics in free will and moral responsibility, with interests in metaethics and the history of ethics.

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Special Features

Includes cutting-edge work on the relation between Kant's theory of freedom and his accounts of logic and beauty
Features new work by many important scholars which will be of interest to philosophers in many different sub-fields
Offers a diverse approach to historical topics and theories applicable to a wide range of students and scholars