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Format:
Hardback
432 pp.
1 illustration, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199688265

Publication date:
August 2022

Imprint: OUP UK

The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds

New Essays on Kant's Metaphysics and Epistemology

Edited by Karl Schafer and Nicholas F. Stang

The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds represents a new wave of interest in 'the metaphysical Kant'. In recent decades Kant scholars have increasingly become skeptical of interpreting Kant as a philosopher who wished to truly "leave metaphysics behind". The contributors to this volume share a common commitment to the idea that Kant's philosophy cannot be properly understood without careful attention to its metaphysical presuppositions and, in particular, to how those metaphysical presuppositions are compatible with Kant's critique of more "dogmatic" forms of metaphysical thought.

The authors approach Kant's thought from a wide variety of different perspectives - emphasizing not just the familiar Leibnizian background to Kant's metaphysics, but also its broadly Aristotelian underpinnings and its relationship with metaphysical themes in post-Kantian German Idealism. Similarly, although most of the essays in this volume relate in some way to the familiar question of how best to interpret Kant's transcendental idealism, they also deal with a wide range of other topics, including Kant's modal metaphysics, his views on the continuum, his epistemology of the a priori, and the foundations of his "metaethical" views.

Readership : Scholars, researchers, and graduate students studying Kant, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy, or German idealism.

Nicholas F. Stang and Karl Schafer: Introduction
1. Tobias Rosefeldt: Being Realistic about Kant's Idealism
2. Desmond Hogan: Schopenhauer's Transcendental Aesthetic
3. Lucy Allais: Relation to an Object: the Role of the Categories
4. Stefanie Grüne: Kant on Concepts, Intuitions, and Sensible Synthesis
5. Jessica Leech: A Transcendental Argument for the Principle of Possibility
6. Timothy Rosenkoetter: Kant on the Epistemology of the Obvious
7. Dina Emundts: How Does Kant Conceive of Self-Consciousness?
8. Anja Jauernig: The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Leibniz, the Wolffians, and Kant on Matter and Monads
9. Clinton Tolley: Kantian Appearances as Object-Dependent Senses
10. Karl Schafer: Kant's Conception of Cognition and Our Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves
11. Ralf Bader: Noumena as Grounds of Phenomena
12. Nicholas F. Stang: Thing and Object
13. Andrew Chignell: Kant's One-World Phenomenalism: How the Moral Features Appear
14. Uygar Abaci: Kant's Enigmatic Transition: Practical Cognition of the Supersensible
15. Colin Marshall: Kant's Derivation of the Moral 'Ought' From a Metaphysical 'Is'

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Karl Schafer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously he was Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Irvine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous articles on Kant and Hume, as well as related issues in contemporary ethics or epistemology.

Nicholas F. Stang is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Kant's Modal Metaphysics (Oxford 2016), and numerous articles on Kant's theoretical philosophy.

Making Sense - Margot Northey
Kant and Animals - Edited by John J. Callanan and Lucy Allais
The World According to Kant - Anja Jauernig
The Fiery Test of Critique - Ian Proops

Special Features

This volume will lead to the revival of interest in 'the metaphysical Kant'
New essays by a rising generation of Kant scholars
Engages with the history of modern philosophy and with contemporary debates