The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy

This 2006 volume provides the broadest and deepest introduction to Kant currently available.

Paul Guyer (Edited by)

9780521529952, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 January 2006

740 pages
22.7 x 16 x 4.6 cm, 1.05 kg

"For its comprehensiveness and quality, this volume should find a place in the library of every historian." --Scott Stapleford, University of Witwatersrand: Philosophy in Review

The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy. It also provides detailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormous impact and influence that his work has had on the subsequent history of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive and organized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy, making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time.

Introduction: the starry heavens and the moral law Paul Guyer
1. 'A priori' Philip Kitcher
2. Kant on the perception of space (and time) Gary Hatfield
3. Kant's philosophy of mathematics Lisa Shabel
4. Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the categories Beatrice Longuenesse
5. Kant's philosophy of cognitive mind Patricia Kitcher
6. Kant's proofs of substance and causation Arthur Melnick
7. Kant and transcendental arguments Ralph C. S. Walker
8. The critique of metaphysics: the structure and fate of Kant's dialectic Karl Ameriks
9. Philosophy of natural science Michael Friedman
10. The supreme principle of morality Allen W. Wood
11. Kant on freedom of the will Henry E. Allison
12. Mine and thine? The Kantian state Robert B. Pippin
13. Kant on sex and marriage right Jane Kneller
14. Kant's theory of peace Pauline Kleingeld
15. Kant's conception of virtue Lara Denis
16. Kant's ambitions in the third Critique Paul Guyer
17. Moral faith and the highest food Frederick C. Beiser
18. Kant's critical philosophy and its reception - the first five years (1781–6) Manfred Kuehn.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Social & political philosophy [HPS], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], History of Western philosophy [HPC]