Kant's System of Nature and Freedom Selected Essays [Paperback]

Paul Guyer is acknowledged as one of the world's foremost Kant specialists, and he collects here some of his most celebrated essays from the past decade and a half. The governing theme of the volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Featuring two brand-new papers and an introduction to orient the reader,Kant's System of Nature and Freedomwill be an essential purchase for anyone working on the history of philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.

Introduction
Part I: the System of Nature
1. Reason and Reflective Judgement: Kant on the Significance of Systematicity
2. Kant's Conception of Empirical Law
3. Kant on the Systematicity of Nature: Two Puzzles
4. Kant's Ether Deduction and the Possibility of Experience
5. Organisms and the Unity of Science
Part II: The System of Freedom
6. Kant on the Theory and Practice of Autonomy
7. The Form and Matter of the Categorical Imperative
8. Ends of Reason and Ends of Nature: The Place of Teleology in Kant's Ethics
9. Kant's Deductions of the Principles of Right
10. Kant's System of Duties
Part III: The System of Nature and Freedom
11. The Unity of Nature and Freedom: Kant's Conception of the System of Philosophy
12. From Nature to Morality: Kant's New Argument in the 'Critique of Teleological Judgement'
13. Purpose in Nature: What is Living and What is Dead in Kant's Teleology

The essays in this collection exemplify what an impeccable command of texts together with unfailing philosophical insight can achieve in doing history of philosophy. They reaffirm Guyer's place as the preeminent figure in contemporary Kant studies. --Arthur Melnick,The Review of Metaphysics