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Citations and AbbreviationsIn Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. 2014.
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1Index of SubjectsIn Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 311-318. 2014.
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2BibliographyIn Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 293-306. 2014.
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1ContributorsIn Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 319-322. 2014.
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2Index of NamesIn Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 307-310. 2014.
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Meat on the Bones: Kant's Account of Cognition in the Anthropology LecturesIn Alix Cohen (ed.), Kant's Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. pp. 57-75. 2014.This chapter describes Immanuel Kant's conception of anthropology and the most basic distinctions he draws when invoking faculties throughout the anthropology transcripts. It explains Kant's account of the objective senses (hearing, sight, and touch), and shows that the sensory material provided by these senses are empirical conditions of experience that supplement the a priori conditions articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason. The chapter also describes some of the central details of Kant's…Read more
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Kant on Rational CosmologyIn Kant and the Sciences, Oxford University Press. 2001.This paper discusses Kant’s acceptance of four principles of rational cosmology: the principles of no fate, no chance, no leap, and no gap. It argues that these principles are neither purely analytic nor identical to the epistemological principles of the first Critique. Rather, they represent genuine, distinctively ontological principles that underlie the principles of empirical cosmology, which would be discovered empirically. This interpretation suggests that for Kant, philosophy is not govern…Read more
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11Autonomy and the Legislation of Laws in the ProlegomenaIn Stefano Bacin & Oliver Sensen (eds.), The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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918 The Antinomy of Pure Reason, Sections 3–8In Georg Mohr & Marcus Willaschek (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Kritik der reinen Vernunft, De Gruyter. pp. 355-370. 2024.
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20Difficulty Still Awaits: Kant, Spinoza, and the Threat of Theological DeterminismKant Studien 103 (2): 163-187. 2012.: In a short and much-neglected passage in the second Critique, Kant discusses the threat posed to human freedom by theological determinism. In this paper we present an interpretation of Kant’s conception of and response to this threat. Regarding his conception, we argue that he addresses two versions of the threat: either God causes appearances directly or he does so indirectly by causing things in themselves which in turn cause appearances. Kant’s response to the first version is that God cann…Read more
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17The Development of Physical Influx In Early Eighteenth-Century GermanyReview of Metaphysics 49 (2): 295-339. 1995.Before the story can be told, however, some stage-setting is necessary. First, it is important to be clear about the most basic doctrines of Pre-established Harmony, Occasionalism, and Physical Influx. Physical Influx asserts intersubstantial causation amongst finite substances. For instance, when I appear to kick a ball, I really am the cause of the ball's motion. Pre-established Harmony denies intersubstantial causation, but affirms intrasubstantial causation. According to Pre-established Harm…Read more
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318. The Antinomy of Pure Reason, Sections 3–8In Georg Mohr & Marcus Willaschek (eds.), Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Peeters Press. pp. 447-464. 1999.
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38Kant on cognition and knowledgeSynthese 197 (8): 3195-3213. 2020.Even though Kant’s theory of cognition (Erkenntnis) is central to his Critique of Pure Reason, it has rarely been asked what exactly Kant means by the term “cognition”. Against the widespread assumption that cognition (in the most relevant sense of that term) can be identified with knowledge or if not, that knowledge is at least a species of cognition, we argue that the concepts of cognition and knowledge in Kant are not only distinct, but even disjunct. To show this, we first (I) investigate Ka…Read more
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3The Skeptical Tradition around 1800: Skepticism in Philosophy, Science, and Society by Johan van der Zande; Richard Popkin (review)Isis 90 810-811. 1999.
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10Kant on the Hiddenness of GodKantian Review 14 (1): 81-122. 2009.Kant's sustained reflections on God have received considerable scholarly attention over the years and rightly so. His provocative criticisms of the three traditional theoretical proofs of the existence of God, and his own positive proof for belief in God's existence on moral grounds, have fully deserved the clarification and analysis that has occurred in these discussions. What I want to focus on, however, is the extent to which Kant's position contains resources sufficient to answer a line of q…Read more
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42Kant’s Account of CognitionJournal of the History of Philosophy 55 (1): 83-112. 2017.kant’s critique of pure reason undertakes a systematic investigation of the possibility of synthetic cognition a priori so as to determine whether this kind of cognition is possible in the case of traditional metaphysics.1 While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments as well as to that between the a priori and the a posteriori, less attention has been devoted to understanding exactly what cognition is for Kant. In particular, it is o…Read more
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11Kant's justification of the laws of mechanicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29 (4): 539-560. 1998.
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4Kant's Theory of Biology (Introduction)In Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 1-22. 2014.
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Is metaphysics possible? The argumentative structure of the ProlegomenaIn Peter Thielke (ed.), Kant's Prolegomena: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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1Die Breite und Tiefe von Kants,Kritischer Wende‘Kant’s Cosmology: Die entscheidende Rolle der Kosmologie (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 70 (4): 718-723. 2022.
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11Comments on Karin de Boer’s Kant’s Reform of MetaphysicsKantian Review 27 (1): 133-138. 2022.In my comments on Karin de Boer’s Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics, I pose five questions. First, I ask how the fundamental principle of practical philosophy that Kant identifies and claims is fundamentally different from Wolff’s is consistent with the claim that Kant is reforming Wolff’s metaphysics. Second, I ask whether De Boer thinks that Kant, as a reformer of Wolff, continues to accept the Principle of Sufficient Reason (or some variant thereof). Third, I ask whether De Boer accepts Wolff’s co…Read more
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Autonomy and the Legislation of Laws in the Prolegomena (1783)In Stefano Bacin & Oliver Sensen (eds.), The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 122-140. 2018.This paper attempts to shed light on Kant’s notion of autonomy in his moral philosophy by considering the extent to which he presents a similar doctrine in his theoretical philosophy, where he strikingly claims (e.g., in the Prolegomena) that the understanding prescribes laws to nature. It argues that even though there are important points of difference between the cases of theoretical legislation of the laws of nature and autonomy in moral philosophy, their extensive parallels make a strong, ev…Read more
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2Wolfgang Ertl, The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, Pp. iv + 72, ISBN 9781108529785 (pbk) £15.00 (review)Kantian Review 26 (2): 340-345. 2021.
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8Replies to the Comments of Angela Breitenbach, Konstantin Pollok and Janum SethiKantian Review 26 (2): 315-334. 2021.
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