The Palgrave Kant Handbook (eBook)

Matthew C. Altman is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy & Religious Studies Department at Central Washington University, USA. He is the author of A Companion to Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” (2008) and Kant and Applied Ethics (2011), co-author of The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy (2013), and editor of The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (2014).

Contents Series Editor’s Preface Preface Notes on Contributors Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations Introduction: Kant the Revolutionary: Matthew C. Altman Part I. Biographical and Historical Background 1. Kant’s Life: Steve Naragon 2. Kant and His Philosophical Context: The Reception and Critical Transformation of the Leibnizian-Wolffian Philosophy: Manuel Sánchez-Rodríguez Part II. Metaphysics and Epistemology 3. Transcendental Idealism: What and Why?: Paul Guyer 4. Noumenal Ignorance: Why, for Kant, Can’t We Know Things in Themselves?: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval and Andrew Chignell 5. Kant’s Concept of Cognition and the Key to the Whole Secret of Metaphysics: Chong-Fuk Lau 6. Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in Kant: Dennis Schulting Part III. Logic 7. The Place of Logic within Kant’s Philosophy: Clinton Tolley Part IV. Relation between Theoretical and Practical Reason 8. The Primacy of Practical Reason: Ralph C. S. Walker 9. A Practical Account of Kantian Freedom: Matthew C. Altman 10. Moral Skepticism and the Critique of Practical Reason: David Zapero Part V. Ethics 11. How a Kantian Decides What to Do: Allen W. Wood        12. Duties to Oneself: Oliver Sensen 13. Demandingness, Indebtedness, and Charity: Kant on Imperfect Duties to Others: Kate Moran 14. Kant and Sexuality: Helga Varden 15. Kant in Metaethics: The Paradox of Autonomy, Solved by Publicity: Carla Bagnoli Part VI. Aesthetics 16. Feeling the Life of the Mind: Mere Judging, Feeling, and Judgment: Fiona Hughes 17. On Common Sense, Communicability, and Community: Eli Friedlander  18. Immediate Judgment and Non-Cognitive Ideas: The Pervasive and Persistent in the Misreading of Kant’s Aesthetic Formalism: Jennifer A. McMahon 19. Sublimity and Joy: Kant on the Aesthetic Constitution of Virtue: Melissa McBay Merritt Part VII. Philosophy of Science 20. “Proper Science” and Empirical Laws: Kant’s Sense of Science in the Critical Philosophy: John H. Zammito 21. From General to Special Metaphysics of Nature: Michael Bennett McNulty (with Marius Stan) Part VIII. Philosophy of Religion 22. Kant on Faith: Religious Assent and the Limits to Knowledge: Lawrence Pasternack 23. The Fate of Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: Martin Moors Part IX. Political Philosophy 24. The Critical Legal and Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant:  25. A Cosmopolitan Law Created by Cosmopolitan Citizens: The Kantian Project Today: Soraya Nour Sckell 26. Kant’s Mature Theory of Punishment, and a First Critique Ideal Abolitionist Alternative: Benjamin Vilhauer Part X. Anthropology, History, and Education 27. Denkungsart in Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View: Patrick R. Frierson 28. Kant on Emotions, Feelings, and Affectivity: Alix Cohen 29. The Philosopher as Legislator: Kant on History: Katerina Deligiorgi 30. Becoming Human: Kant’s Philosophy of Education and Human Nature: Robert B. Louden Part XI. The Kantian Aftermath, and Kant’s Contemporary Relevance 31. Kant after Kant: The Indispensable Philosopher: Michael Vater 32. Kant, the Copernican Devolution, and Real Metaphysics: Robert Hanna 33. Contemporary Kantian Moral Philosophy: Michael Rohlf Conclusion: Kant the Philosopher: Matthew C. Altman Index