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Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British
philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a
golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. The Bounds
of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about
Kant's philosophy, and is one of the key philosophical works of the
late twentieth century. Whilst probably best known for its
criticism of Kant's transcendental idealism, it is also famous for
the highly original manner in which Strawson defended and developed
some of Kant's fundamental insights into the nature of
subjectivity, experience and knowledge - at a time when few
philosphers were engaging with Kant's ideas. The book had a
profound effect on the interpretation of Kant's philosophy when it
was first published in 1966 and continues to influence discussion
of Kant, the soundness of transcendental arguments, and debates in
epistemology and metaphysics generally. This Routledge Classics
edition includes a new foreword by Lucy Allais.
Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British
philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a
golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. The Bounds
of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about
Kant's philosophy, and is one of the key philosophical works of the
late twentieth century. Whilst probably best known for its
criticism of Kant's transcendental idealism, it is also famous for
the highly original manner in which Strawson defended and developed
some of Kant's fundamental insights into the nature of
subjectivity, experience and knowledge - at a time when few
philosphers were engaging with Kant's ideas. The book had a
profound effect on the interpretation of Kant's philosophy when it
was first published in 1966 and continues to influence discussion
of Kant, the soundness of transcendental arguments, and debates in
epistemology and metaphysics generally. This Routledge Classics
edition includes a new foreword by Lucy Allais.
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Understanding Kant's Groundwork
Steven M Cahn; Contributions by Nataliya Palatnik, Anne Margaret Baxley, Laura Papish, Tamar Schapiro, …
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Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is widely
regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of
moral philosophy. Indeed, any student of ethics will soon encounter
a translation of the book, although trying to read it is likely to
cause bewilderment. What, one may ask, is Kant trying to say? This
book provides the answers. Here, seven highly regarded teachers and
scholars of Kant's ethics offer remarkably clear explanations of
the most important concepts in the Groundwork: the good will,
happiness, duty, hypothetical and categorical imperatives, the
Formula of Universal Law, the Formula of Humanity, and
freedom.Contents: Preface The Good Will, Nataliya Palatnik
Happiness, Anne Margaret Baxley Duty, Laura Papish Imperatives,
Tamar Schapiro The Formula of Universal Law, Kyla Ebels-Duggan The
Formula of Humanity, Japa Pallikkathayil Freedom, Lucy Allais About
the Contributors Index.
Equality is a widely championed social ideal. But what is equality?
And what action is required if present-day societies are to root
out their inequalities? The Equal Society collects fourteen
philosophical essays, each with a fresh perspective on these
questions. The authors explore the demands of egalitarian justice,
addressing issues of distribution and rectification, but equally
investigating what it means for people to be equals as producers
and communicators of knowledge or as members of subcultures, and
considering what it would take for a society to achieve gender and
racial equality. The essays collected here address not just the
theory but also the practice of equality, arguing for concrete
changes in institutions such as higher education, the business
corporation and national constitutions, to bring about a more equal
society. The Equal Society offers original approaches to themes
prominent in current social and political philosophy, including
relational equality, epistemic injustice, the capabilities
approach, African ethics, gender equality and the philosophy of
race. It includes new work by respected social and political
philosophers such as Ann E. Cudd, Miranda Fricker, Charles W.
Mills, and Jonathan Wolff.
Equality is a widely championed social ideal. But what is equality?
And what action is required if present-day societies are to root
out their inequalities? The Equal Society collects fourteen
philosophical essays, each with a fresh perspective on these
questions. The authors explore the demands of egalitarian justice,
addressing issues of distribution and rectification, but equally
investigating what it means for people to be equals as producers
and communicators of knowledge or as members of subcultures, and
considering what it would take for a society to achieve gender and
racial equality. The essays collected here address not just the
theory but also the practice of equality, arguing for concrete
changes in institutions such as higher education, the business
corporation and national constitutions, to bring about a more equal
society. The Equal Society offers original approaches to themes
prominent in current social and political philosophy, including
relational equality, epistemic injustice, the capabilities
approach, African ethics, gender equality and the philosophy of
race. It includes new work by respected social and political
philosophers.
At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an
epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental
idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position.
Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's
thinking, in over two hundred years since the publication of the
first Critique there is still no agreement on how to interpret the
position, or even on whether, and in what sense, it is a
metaphysical position. Lucy Allais argue that Kant's distinction
between things in themselves and things as they appear to us has
both epistemological and metaphysical components. He is committed
to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but this
is not a phenomenalist idealism. He is committed to the claim that
there is an aspect of reality that grounds mind-dependent
spatio-temporal objects, and which we cannot cognize, but he does
not assert the existence of distinct non-spatio-temporal objects. A
central part of Allais's reading involves paying detailed attention
to Kant's notion of intuition, and its role in cognition. She
understands Kantian intuitions as representations that give us
acquaintance with the objects of thought. Kant's idealism can be
understood as limiting empirical reality to that with which we can
have acquaintance. He thinks that this empirical reality is
mind-dependent in the sense that it is not experience-transcendent,
rather than holding that it exists literally in our minds. Reading
intuition in this way enables us to make sense of Kant's central
argument for his idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic, and to
see why he takes the complete idealist position to be established
there. This shows that reading a central part of his argument in
the Transcendental Deduction as epistemological is compatible with
a metaphysical, idealist reading of transcendental idealism.
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