Companion to Kant

Graham Bird is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has been a leading Kant scholar for nearly 40 years, and is the author of Kant’s Theory of Knowledge (1962), Philosophical Tasks (1972), and William James  (1986), and Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason  (2006). He is a past president of the Aristotelian Society and Chair of the UK Kant Society.

“A Companion to Kant is the most recent (2010) and by far the best anthology on Kant's works.  In it, Graham Bird brings together a remarkable set of essays by prominent scholars in Kant studies … .Many (if not most) essays … offer significant contributions to Kant scholarship. The2010Companion to Kant is bound to become indispensible for those who teach and for those who study Kant's philosophy (on both graduate and undergraduate levels).  Its contributions remain lucid without watering Kant down; they are comprehensive without staying merely on the surface of the issues they discuss; they contain original work on Kant without skewing the interpretations of Kant toward one-sidedness; and jointly they thematically expand our knowledge and out understanding of Kant's corpus and of Kant's place within the intellectual tradition of Western philosophy.” (Metapsychology, June 2010) “This collection is what one hopes for in a ‘companion’ volume. It contains 33 essays by prominent scholars, all of whom have made substantial contributions to Kant studies. Given the essays’ brevity…they manage to achieve surprising depth, and they will help any advanced student to get oriented in Kant’s thought.” (Choice)

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiReferences to Kant’s Works xiiiGeneral Introduction 1Graham Bird1 Kant’s Life and Works 10Allen W. WoodPart I: Pre-Critical Issues 312 Kant’s Early Dynamics 33Martin Schönfeld3 Kant’s Early Cosmology 47Martin Schönfeld4 Kant’s Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s 63Alison Laywine5 Kant’s Debt to Leibniz 79Predrag Cicovacki6 Kant’s Debt to the British Empiricists 93Wayne WaxmanPart II: Critique of Pure Reason 1097 Kant’s Transcendental Idealism 111Henry E. Allison8 Kant’s Analytic Apparatus 125Graham Bird9 Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic 140Lorne Falkenstein10 Kant’s Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions 154Derk Pereboom11 The Second Analogy 169Arthur Melnick12 Kant’s Refutation of Problematic Idealism: Kantian Arguments and Kant’s Arguments against Skepticism 182Wolfgang Carl13 The Logic of Illusion and the Antinomies 192Michelle Grier14 The Critique of Rational Psychology 207Udo Thiel15 Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics 222Gordon Brittan16 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science 236Michael FriedmanPart III: The Moral Philosophy: Pure and Applied 249Introduction 251Graham Bird17 The Primacy of Practical Reason 259Sebastian Gardner18 Kant’s Critical Account of Freedom 275Andrews Reath19 Kant’s Formulations of the Moral Law 291Allen W. Wood20 Deriving the Formula of Universal Law 308Samuel J. Kerstein21 Moral Motivation in Kant 322Philip Stratton-Lake22 Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals 335Marcia Baron23 Applying Kant’s Ethics: The Role of Anthropology 350Robert B. Louden24 Liberty, Equality, and Independence: Core Concepts in Kant’s Political Philosophy 364Howard Williams25 Reason and Nature: Kant’s Teleological Argument in Perpetual Peace 383Katrin FlikschuhPart IV: The Critique of the Power of Judgment 397Introduction 399Graham Bird26 The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature 408Paul Abela27 Bridging the Gulf: Kant’s Project in the Third Critique 423Paul Guyer28 Kant’s Aesthetic Theory 441Anthony Savile29 Kant’s Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance 455Hannah GinsborgPart V: Kant’s Influence 47130 Hegel’s Critique of Kant: An Overview 473Sally Sedgwick31 The Neglected Alternative: Trendelenburg, Fischer, and Kant 486Graham Bird32 Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant in Husserl and Heidegger 500Paul Gorner33 Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth-Century Analytic Tradition 513James O’SheaIndex 527