Leibniz and Kant

Buch | Hardcover

404 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-960636-8 (ISBN)

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Leibniz and Kant were the most important figures in German philosophy from the late 17th to the early 19th century. This volume examines the relationships between their philosophies, illuminating fundamental questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology, and assessing Kant's understanding of his philosophical predecessor.

Although it is common to see Kant's philosophy as at its core a reaction to (and partial rejection of) the dogmatism and rationalism of Leibniz, Wolff, and their followers, it is surprising how little detailed and critical study there has been of the relation between Leibniz and Kant. How did Kant understand Leibniz's philosophy? Did he correctly understand Leibniz's philosophy? Since only a portion of Leibniz's philosophical writings were published prior to Kant's critical period, is there a “true Leibniz” that Kant did not know? Are all of Kant's criticisms of Leibniz in particular and Leibnizian rationalism in general justified? Or does Leibniz have an answer to Kant's philosophy? Moreover, how should we understand the reception of Leibniz's philosophy in 18th-century Enlightenment Germany?

Leibniz and Kant seeks to examine the relation between Leibniz and Kant by collecting essays written by some of the leading scholars of the history of modern philosophy, all of whom have in common a deep knowledge of both philosophers. This anthology further aims to create a dialogue between scholars of early modern philosophy and Kantians and to fill a lacuna in historical and philosophical scholarship. The essays contained here address fundamental questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology in Leibniz and Kant and address Kant's understanding and interpretation of his philosophical predecessor.

Brandon C. Look was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA, MA and PhD. Since 1995, he has been a Professor at the University of Kentucky. He has received grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Leibniz and the ''Vinculum Substantiale'', editor of the The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz and co-editor and co-translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence for the Yale Leibniz series. In addition, he has published numerous essays on the history of early modern philosophy.

1: Brandon C. Look: Kant's Leibniz: A Historical and Philosophical Study
2: Ursula Goldenbaum: How Kant was Never a Wolffian, or, Estimating Forces to Enforce Influxus Physicus
3: Eric Watkins: Breaking with Rationalism: Kant, Crusius, and the Priority of Existence
4: Donald Rutherford: Leibniz and the Ideality of Space
5: Alison Laywine: Leibniz and the Transcendental Deduction
6: Nick Stang: Bodies, Matter, Monads and Things in Themselves
7: Anja Jauernig: Kant and the (alleged) Leibnizian Misconception of the Difference between Sensible and Intellectual Representations
8: Martha Brandt Bolton: Kant's Amphiboly as Critique of Leibniz
9: Paul Guyer: The Teleologies of Leibniz and Kant: So Close Yet So Far Apart
10: Des Hogan: Leibniz and Kant on Divine Causation
11: Patrick Kain: The Development of Kant's Conception of Divine Freedom
12: Andrew Chignell: Leibniz and Kant on Miracles: Rationalism, Religion and the Laws

Erscheinungsdatum	02.06.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 241 mm
Gewicht	774 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-19-960636-6 / 0199606366
ISBN-13	978-0-19-960636-8 / 9780199606368
Zustand	Neuware