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145Kant and the Philosophy of ArchitectureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (1): 7-19. 2011.
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Kant and the moral politiciansIn Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy, Routledge. 2015.
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101Kant and the Experience of Freedom: Essays on Aesthetics and MoralityCambridge University Press. 1993.This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis …Read more
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80Kant and the Experience of FreedomPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 369-377. 1995.
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94Kant and the Claims of KnowledgeCambridge University Press. 1987.This book offers a radically new account of the development and structure of the central arguments of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance, causation, and independent existence. Paul Guyer makes far more extensive use than any other commentator of historical materials from the years leading up to the publication of the Critique and surrounding its revision, and he shows that the work which has come down to us is the result of some …Read more
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139Kant and the Claims of TasteCambridge University Press. 1979.Kant and the Claims of Taste, published here for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become, since its initial publication in 1979, the standard commentary on Kant's aesthetic theory. The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics. For this new edition, Paul Guyer has provided a new foreword and has added a chapter on Kant's conception of fine art. This re-issue will complement the author's compani…Read more
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31Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars; Kant's Transcendental Metaphysics: Sellars' Cassirer Lecture Notes and Other Essays (review)Philosophical Review 114 (4): 535-539. 2005.
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37Kant and the Limits of Autonomy, by Susan Meld Shell. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. viii, 434. ISBN 978-0-674-03333-7. $55.00 (review)Kantian Review 15 (2): 138-147. 2010.
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Review: Buroker, Jill V., Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (3): 180-184. 2008.
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72KantRoutledge. 2006.In this updated edition of his outstanding introduction to Kant, Paul Guyer uses Kant’s central conception of autonomy as the key to his thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant’s life and times, Guyer introduces Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, carefully explaining his arguments about the nature of space, time and experience in his most influential but difficult work, _The Critique of Pure Reason_. He offers an explanation and critique of Kant’s famous theory of transcendental ide…Read more
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17Justice and Morality: Comments on Allen WoodSouthern Journal of Philosophy 36 (S1): 21-28. 1998.
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38Justice and Morality: Comments on Allen WoodSouthern Journal of Philosophy 36 (S1): 21-28. 1998.
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6Kant's Ambivalent AnalogiesProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (1): 33-48. 1989.
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17Idealism in Modern PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2023.This book examines the presence of idealism in modern philosophy from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. We define idealism proper as the position that reality is ultimately mental or conceptual in nature, to be contrasted to materialism or physicalism. So defined, idealism has hardly been a popular view, at least in the twentieth century. But we distinguish between metaphysical and epistemological arguments for idealism, and argue that while the former have rarely been pop…Read more
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4Identitiit und Objektivitiit: Eine Untersuchung iiber Kants transcendentale Deduktion by Dieter HenrichJournal of Philosophy 76 (3): 151-167. 1979.
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55Is ethical criticism a problem? : a historical perspectiveIn Garry Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 3--32. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Is There a Problem about Ethical Criticism? The Sensible Representation of the Moral The Theory of Disinterestedness Coda: The Beautiful as that which is Complete in itself.
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2IndexIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 263-267. 2008.
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12Introducing Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonCambridge University Press. 2021.This Element surveys the place of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant's overall philosophical project and describes and analyzes the main arguments of the work. It also surveys the developments in Kant's thought that led to the first critique, and provides an account of the genesis of the book during the 'silent decade' of its composition in the 1770s based on Kant's handwritten notes from the period.
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11IntroductionIn Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-22. 2008.
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21Interest, Nature, and ArtReview of Metaphysics 31 (4): 580-603. 1978.In this paper, however, I will argue that Kant’s restriction of interest to natural rather than artistic beauty should not be taken as a basic aspect of his aesthetic theory, and thus need not affect our assessment of that theory’s more basic claims. First, I will suggest that Kant’s theory of intellectual interest is not really necessary to explain what we ordinarily mean by an interest in beautiful objects—a desire to preserve them for repeated experience, a motivation for our efforts to see t…Read more
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21Henry Allison: Kant’s Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 532 p. ISBN 978-1-107-14511-5 (review)Kant Studien 113 (2): 375-379. 2022.
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8Hume, Kant, and the Standard of TasteIn Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of David Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.Kant suggests that the chief advantage of his theory of taste over Hume’s is its a priori rather than empirical foundation. But his claim to have provided such a foundation for judgments of taste is questionable, and, in the end, both authors ground judgments of taste in a canon of proven or classical objects of taste rather than in determinate principles of taste. However, Kant does go beyond Hume in sketching a theory of aesthetic production, as well as reception in the form of his theory of a…Read more
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