Lectures on Logic

This volume includes three previously untranslated transcripts of Kant's logic lectures.

Immanuel Kant (Author), J. Michael Young (Edited by)

9780521546911, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 September 2004

732 pages
22.4 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.949 kg

'… this volume represents the most scholarly and up-to-date translation of Kant's logical views available today. Most importantly, it gives a consistent translation of transcripts that present Kant's views on logic at different stages of his career … sure to become indispensable … for the serious Kant scholar.' Canadian Philosophical Reviews

Kant's views on logic and logical theory play an important part in his critical writings, especially the Critique of Pure Reason. However, since he published only one short essay on the subject, we must turn to texts derived from his logic lectures to understand his views. This volume includes three previously untranslated transcripts of Kant's logic lectures: the Blomberg Logic (1770s), the Vienna Logic supplemented by the recently discovered Hechsel Logic (1780s), and the Dohna-Wundlacken Logic (1790s). Also included is a new translation of the Jäsche Logic, compiled at Kant's request from his lectures and published in 1800, and concordances relating Kant's lectures to Georg Friedrich Meier's Excerpts from the Doctrine of Reason, the book on which Kant lectured throughout his life and in which he left extensive notes.

General editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Translator's introduction
Part I. The Blomberg logic
Part II. A. The Vienna logic B. The Hechsel logic (in part)
Part III. The Dohna-Wundlacken logic
Part IV. The Jäsche logic
Part V. Appendixes.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL], History of Western philosophy [HPC]