Transcendental Inquiry

Steven Hoeltzel is Professor of Philosophy at James Madison University, USA. A specialist in Kant and post-Kantian idealism, his recent publications include “Transcendental Idealism and Theistic Commitment in Fichte,” in The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism, ed. Matthew C. Altman (2014) and “Non-Epistemic Justification and Practical Postulation in Fichte” in Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy, ed. Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (2014). He is the editor (with Halla Kim) of Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism (2014). Halla Kim is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA. He specializes in Kant/German Idealism, modern Jewish thoughts and Korean philosophy. His recent publications include “Immanuel Kant” in The Nineteenth Century Philosophy Reader, ed. Benjamin Crowe (2015) and “Nothingness in Korean Buddhism: A Struggle against Nihilism” in Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, ed. JeeLooLiu and Douglas Berger (2014).  His monograph, Kant and the Foundations of Morality was published in 2015.

• Editors’ Introduction.- Part I: The Nature of Transcendental Philosophy.- 1. Tom Rockmore (Peking University, China): “Plato and Kantian Transcendental Constructivism” .-2. Robert Stern (University of Sheffield, UK): “Silencing the Sceptic? Can the Appeal to Transcendental Conditions for Thought, Speech or Action Settle Sceptical Concerns?” .- Part II: The Roots of Transcendental Philosophy in Kant and Fichte.- 3.Claude Piché (Université de Montreal, Canada): “Kant and the Conditions of the Possibility of Experience” .- 4. Violetta Waibel (Universität Wien, Austria): “Kant and Fichte on the Transcendental Notion of Freedom” .- 5. Steven Hoeltzel (James Madison University, US): “Transcendental Ontology and the Ethics of Belief in Fichte’s Jena Wissenschafteslehre”.- 6. Benjamin Crowe (University of Utah, US): “Transcendental Philosophy as Therapy of the Mind: Fichte’s ‘Facts of Consciousness’ Lectures”.- Part III: The Development of Transcendental Philosophy.- 7. Halla Kim (Univ of Nebraska, Omaha, US): “How Transcendental is Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism?” .- 8. Yasuyuki Funaba (Osaka University, Japan): “On the Cognitive Theory of Morality by Jürgen Habermas”.- 9. Matthias Kettner (Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany): “Raising Validity Claims for Reasons: The Transcendental Argument in Apelian Discourse Ethics and How It can be Improved”.- 10. Michihito Yoshime (Sophia University, Japan): “Consequences of the Transcendental-Pragmatic Consensus Theory of Truth” .- 11. Yukio Irie (Osaka University, Japan): “An Alternative Transcendental Argument Based on a Question-Answer Contradiction”.- Part IV: Critiques of Transcendental Philosophy.- 12. William Bristow (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US): “From Transcendental Philosophy to Hegel's Developmental Method”.- 13. Eric Nelson (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology/Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell): “Heidegger’s Ambivalence Toward Transcendental Philosophy”.