Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy

Robb Dunphy is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. He has previously held research fellowships at the Goethe University Frankfurt, University College Dublin, and the University of Hamburg, and has taught philosophy at Northeastern University London, the University of Winchester, and the University of Sussex. His primary research interests are in the theoretical philosophy of Kant and the German Idealists and in the history of scepticism. He is the author of Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness and has published research articles in journals, including The Review of Metaphysics, the Hegel Bulletin, and Apeiron. Toby Lovat teaches in the school of humanities and social science at the University of Brighton, UK. His PhD (2018) and most recent publications develop a Kantian critique of Quentin Meillassoux’s ambitious argument in After Finitude, largely on the basis that Meillassoux, and many others, fundamentally misunderstand Kant’s theoretical philosophy. In other teaching and research, Toby’s work ranges widely over broader issues in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and political and social theory, taking in German Idealism, Frankfurt school critical theory, Marxist political economy and social theory, and the histories and ideologies of liberalism and conservatism.

Introduction: Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy Robb Dunphy and Toby Lovat 1. Wolff on Ontology as Primary Philosophy Dino Jakušić 2. Baumgarten on the Nature and Role of Metaphysics Courtney D. Fugate 3. Lambert on the Certainty and Generality of Metaphysics and Geometry Katherine Dunlop 4. The Methodological Role of Intellectual Intuition in Kant’s Critique Toby Lovat 5. Kant’s Promise of a Scientific Metaphysics Catherine Wilson 6. Can Metaphysics Become a Science for Kant? Gabriele Gava 7. Scientific Metaphysics and Metaphysical Science: The Demand for Systematicity in Kant’s Transition Project Michael J. Olson 8. Kant, Reinhold, and the Problem of Philosophical Scientificity Karin de Boer and Gesa Wellmann 9. Reinhold on the Deduction of the Categories Elise Frketich 10. Schulze’s Scepticism and the Rise and Rise of German Idealism Robb Dunphy 11. The I and I: The Pure and the Empirical Subject in Fichte’s Science of Science Kienhow Goh 12. The Science of All Science and the Unity of the Faculties: Schelling on the Nature of Philosophy Benjamin Berger 13. Two Models of Critique of Metaphysics: Kant and Hegel Dietmar H. Heidemann 14. Quietism, Dialetheism, and the Three Moments of Hegel’s Logic G. Anthony Bruno 15. Metaphysics on the Model of Natural Science? A Kantian Critique of Abductivism Nicholas Stang