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791The Highest Good and Kant's Proof(s) of God's ExistenceHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 31 (2). 2014.This paper explains a way of understanding Kant's proof of God's existence in the Critique of Practical Reason that has hitherto gone unnoticed and argues that this interpretation possesses several advantages over its rivals. By first looking at examples where Kant indicates the role that faith plays in moral life and then reconstructing the proof of the second Critique with this in view, I argue that, for Kant, we must adopt a certain conception of the highest good, and so also must choose to b…Read more
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20BibliographyIn The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 404-424. 2014.
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14RegisterIn The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 425-433. 2014.
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25Chapter 7 Kant on Rational Faith as an Expression of AutonomyIn The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 292-359. 2014.
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5Jay F. Rosenberg, Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (5): 377-379. 2006.
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68‘With a Philosophical Eye’: the role of mathematical beauty in Kant's intellectual developmentCanadian Journal of Philosophy 44 (5-6): 759-788. 2014.This paper shows that Kant's investigation into mathematical purposiveness was central to the development of his understanding of synthetic a priori knowledge. Specifically, it provides a clear historical explanation as to why Kant points to mathematics as an exemplary case of the synthetic a priori, argues that his early analysis of mathematical purposiveness provides a clue to the metaphysical context and motives from which his understanding of synthetic a-priori knowledge emerged, and provide…Read more
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Moral Individuality and Moral Subjectivity in Leibniz, Crusius, and KantIn Stephen R. Palmquist (ed.), Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 273-284. 2010.
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29Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. Eleven specially written essays by leading scholars of German philosophy will boost further the growth of interest in Baumgarten as a key figure in the history of European thought.
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28Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related MaterialsBloomsbury Academic. 2013.Available for the first time in English, this critical translation draws from the original seven Latin editions and Georg Friedrich Meier's 18th-century German translation. Together with a historical and philosophical introduction, extensive glossaries and notes, the text is supported by translations of Kant's elucidations and notes, Eberhard's insertions in the 1783 German edition and texts from the writings of Meier and Wolff. For scholars of Kant, the German Enlightenment and the history of m…Read more
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