Inspirations from Kant
Subtitle: essays
By: Leslie Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780199778225
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: These essays on Immanuel Kant's theoretical philosophy, besides deriving inspiration from him, bring insights from contemporary analytical philosophy to bear in interpreting some of his most deep and difficult themes. The topics covered include representation and reality, appearances and things in themselves, the given and synthesis, transcendental idealism, the limits of scientific explanation, knowledge, belief and faith, freedom of judgment, different levels of operation within the mind, and determinism and free will.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  [174]-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: Objects of representation: Kant's Copernican revolution re-interpreted; title: Synthetic unities of experience; title: Three ways in which space and time might be said to be transcendentally ideal; title: The given, the unconditioned, the transcendental object, and the reality of the past; title: A theory of everything?: Kant speaks to Stephen Hawking; title: Opinion, belief or faith, and knowledge; title: Freedom of judgment in Descartes, Spinoza, Hume and Kant; title: Six levels of mentality; title: A Kantian defense of freewill.