This
Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant’s work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest.
- Written by an international cast of scholars
- Covers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical works
- Subjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
References to Kant’s Works xiii
General Introduction 1
Graham Bird
1 Kant’s Life and Works 10
Allen W. Wood
Part I: Pre-Critical Issues 31
2 Kant’s Early Dynamics 33
Martin Schönfeld
3 Kant’s Early Cosmology 47
Martin Schönfeld
4 Kant’s Laboratory of Ideas in the 1770s 63
Alison Laywine
5 Kant’s Debt to Leibniz 79
Predrag Cicovacki
6 Kant’s Debt to the British Empiricists 93
Wayne Waxman
Part II: Critique of Pure Reason 109
7 Kant’s Transcendental Idealism 111
Henry E. Allison
8 Kant’s Analytic Apparatus 125
Graham Bird
9 Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic 140lC!