Edited by Brandon C. Look
Although it is common to see Kant's philosophy as at its core a reaction to (and partial rejection of) the dogmatism and rationalism of Leibniz, Wolff, and their followers, it is surprising how little detailed and critical study there has been of the relation between Leibniz and Kant. How did
Kant understand Leibniz's philosophy? Did he correctly understand Leibniz's philosophy? Since only a portion of Leibniz's philosophical writings were published prior to Kant's critical period, is there a "true Leibniz" that Kant did not know? Are all of Kant's criticisms of Leibniz in particular and
Leibnizian rationalism in general justified? Or does Leibniz have an answer to Kant's philosophy? Moreover, how should we understand the reception of Leibniz's philosophy in 18th-century Enlightenment Germany?
Leibniz and Kant seeks to examine the relation between Leibniz and Kant by
collecting essays written by some of the leading scholars of the history of modern philosophy, all of whom have in common a deep knowledge of both philosophers. This anthology further aims to create a dialogue between scholars of early modern philosophy and Kantians and to fill a lacuna in
historical and philosophical scholarship. The essays contained here address fundamental questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology in Leibniz and Kant and address Kant's understanding and interpretation of his philosophical predecessor.
1. Brandon C. Look: Kant's Leibniz: A Historical and Philosophical Study
2. Ursula Goldenbaum: How Kant was Never a Wolffian, or, Estimating Forces to Enforce Influxus Physicus
3. Eric Watkins: Breaking with Rationalism: Kant, Crusius, and the Priority of Existence
4. Donald
Rutherford: Leibniz and the Ideality of Space
5. Alison Laywine: Leibniz and the Transcendental Deduction
6. Nick Stang: Bodies, Matter, Monads and Things in Themselves
7. Anja Jauernig: Kant and the (alleged) Leibnizian Misconception of the Difference between Sensible and Intellectual
Representations
8. Martha Brandt Bolton: Kant's Amphiboly as Critique of Leibniz
9. Paul Guyer: The Teleologies of Leibniz and Kant: So Close Yet So Far Apart
10. Des Hogan: Leibniz and Kant on Divine Causation
11. Patrick Kain: The Development of Kant's Conception of Divine
Freedom
12. Andrew Chignell: Leibniz and Kant on Miracles: Rationalism, Religion and the Laws
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Brandon C. Look was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA, MA and PhD. Since 1995, he has been a Professor at the University of Kentucky. He has received grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for
Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Leibniz and the ''Vinculum Substantiale'', editor of the The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz and co-editor and co-translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence for the Yale Leibniz
series. In addition, he has published numerous essays on the history of early modern philosophy.
Making Sense - Margot Northey
Hegel's Critique of Kant - Sally Sedgwick
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind - Edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson
The Poverty of Conceptual Truth - R. Lanier Anderson
