Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World
A Transcendental Reading of the Critique of the Power of Judgment

Presents the final instalment of Kant's transcendental undertaking, tying together his elusive discussions of natural beauty and teleology.

Ido Geiger (Author)

9781108834261, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 April 2022

282 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.5 kg

Kant announces that the Critique of the Power of Judgment will bring his entire critical enterprise to an end. But it is by no means agreed upon that it in fact does so and, if it does, how. In this book, Ido Geiger argues that a principal concern of the third Critique is completing the account of the transcendental conditions of empirical experience and knowledge. This includes both Kant's analysis of natural beauty and his discussion of teleological judgments of organisms and of nature generally. Geiger's original reading of  the third Critique shows that it forms a unified whole - and that it does in fact deliver the final part of Kant's transcendental undertaking. His book will be valuable to all who are interested in Kant's theory of the aesthetic and conceptual purposiveness of nature.

Introduction: The transcendental undertaking of the Critique of the Power of Judgment
1. The charge of reflective judgment and the conceptual and aesthetic purposiveness of nature
2. Organisms, teleological judgment, and the methodology of biology
3. The antinomy of teleological judgment
4. Discursivity and the conceptual purposiveness of nature
5. The significance of form and the aesthetic purposiveness of nature
Conclusion: Kant's empiricism.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]