Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy

Karin de Boer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven. She is the author of Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel (2000), On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (2010), and Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered (2020).Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet is researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (Humanities Divison). She is the author of L’avènement de la métaphysique kantienne. Prémisses et enjeux d’une réception au XXe siècle (forthcoming) and co-editor of Kant et Wolff: Héritages et ruptures (2011).

• IntroductionKarin de Boer and Tinca Prunea-BretonnetPart I. Wolff and Wolffianism1. Before and Beyond Leibniz: Tschirnhaus and Wolff on Experience and MethodCorey W. Dyck2. The Role of Experience in Wolff’s General CosmologyChristian Leduc3. Aesthetica experimentalis: Baumgarten and the Aesthetic Dimension of ExperienceAlessandro NanniniPart II. Eclecticism and Popularphilosophie 4. The Thomasian Context: Crusius on Experience Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter5. Experience and Inner Sense: Feder – Lossius – KantUdo Thiel6. Christoph Meiners’s Empiricist ‘Revision’ of Philosophy and Michael Hißmann’s Anti-Speculative MaterialismFalk WunderlichPart III. The Berlin Academy7. Contingency and Experience in Maupertuis’s Essay on CosmologyAnne-Lise Rey8. The Role of Reason, Experience, and Physiology in J.H.S. Formey’s Essay on DreamsAnnelie Grosse 9. Lambert on Experience and DeductionPaola Basso10. On the Mitigated Phenomenalism of J.-B. MerianTinca Prunea-Bretonnet Part IV. Tetens and Kant11. The Role of Experience in Kant’s Prize EssayCourtney Fugate12. Tetens on the Nature of Experience: Between Empiricism and RationalismClinton Tolley and R. Brian Tracz13. Kant’s Inquiries into a New Touchstone for Metaphysical TruthsKarin de Boer