Ido Geiger (Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World

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Produktbeschreibung

Kant famously argues that our experience of the empirical world is shaped by our cognitive faculties. But an important part of this story is yet to be told. This book explores the final instalment of Kant's transcendental undertaking, tying closely together his elusive discussions of natural beauty and teleology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834261
• ISBN-10: 1108834264
• Artikelnr.: 62351809

Autorenporträt

Ido Geiger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is author of The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy (2007), and has published numerous journal articles on Kant's and Hegel's practical philosophy, theoretical philosophy and aesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The transcendental undertaking of the Critique of the Power of Judgment
1. The charge of reflective judgment and the conceptual and aesthetic purposiveness of nature
2. Organisms, teleological judgment, and the methodology of biology
3. The antinomy of teleological judgment
4. Discursivity and the conceptual purposiveness of nature
5. The significance of form and the aesthetic purposiveness of nature
Conclusion: Kant's empiricism.