Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1017/s1369415423000274
L. Spagnesi
This article analyses a sceptical challenge resulting from metaphysical approaches to the problem of the necessity of empirical laws of nature in Kant’s critical philosophy (what I shall call ‘essentialist’ readings). I argue that this challenge may jeopardize the purpose of empirical enquiry (and therefore the plausibility of essentialist readings), but that Kant has internal resources to address it in the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason. I show that reading this problem through the lens of the Dialectic allows us to reconcile the metaphysical question of necessitation of laws with a robust sense of empirical cognition.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1017/s1369415423000250
M. McNulty
Kant famously distinguishes between the methods of mathematics and of metaphysics, holding that metaphysicians err when they avail themselves of the mathematical method. Nonetheless, in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, he insists that mathematics and metaphysics must jointly ground ‘proper natural science’. This article examines the distinctive contributions and unity of mathematics and metaphysics to the foundations of the science of body. I argue that the two are distinct insofar as they involve distinctive sorts of grounding relations – mathematics pertains to formal grounding, while metaphysics concerns material grounding – while they are unified insofar as they treat motion, the fundamental determination of the science of body.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1017/s1369415423000158
M. Massimi
Kant’s philosophy of natural science has traditionally concentrated on a host of issues including the role of laws of nature and teleological judgements. However, so far, the literature has made virtually no contact with the no less important tradition in Kant’s legal and political philosophy. This article explores one aspect of such connection in relation to the normative foundations of Kant’s notion of cosmopolitan right. I argue that Kant’s argument for cosmopolitan right is based on two main premises: the first is what I call the law of equilibrium, and the second is the premise of physical interaction (commercium in Latin) at work behind what Kant called the original ‘community of land’. The article argues that the relevant notion of community qua commercium should be understood in the context of Kant’s metaphysics of nature as a ‘real community of substances’ governed by a dynamical law of equality of action and reaction. This metaphysical-causal interpretive reading has far-reaching implications for the foundations of cosmopolitan right and its scope of applicability well beyond Kant’s envisaged right to universal hospitality.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1017/S1369415423000109
C. Onof
Abstract The article proposes an interpretation of Kant’s notions of form of, and formal intuition of space to explain and justify the claim that representing space as object requires a synthesis. This involves identifying the transcendental conditions of the analytic unity of consciousness of this formal intuition and distinguishing between it and its content. On this reading which builds upon recent proposals, footnote B160–1n. involves no revision of the Transcendental Aesthetic: space is essentially characterized by non-conceptual features. The article also addresses worries about the infinite magnitude and the unicity of space, by considering the characteristics and requirements of geometric constructions.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1017/S1369415423000080
Fiorella Tomassini
Abstract This article examines Kant’s theory of property through a comparative analysis of Gottfried Achenwall’s justification of ownership rights. I argue that at the core of Achenwall’s and Kant’s understanding of ownership rights lies the idea that rights are to be acquired through a juridical act (factum iuridicum, rechtlichen Act) of the will. However, while Achenwall thinks of this act as emerging from a private will, Kant holds that rights and obligations can only be brought about by an act of the general will. By contrasting these two views, I aim to illuminate one of the main features of Kant’s theory of property, namely, that ownership rights are only possible in a rightfully constituted state. I conclude with a suggestion regarding Kant’s view of the notion of ‘provisional’ possession in the state of nature.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1017/S1369415423000134
Markus Kohl
Abstract In Kant’s idealism, all spatiotemporal objects depend on the human mind in a certain way. A central issue here is whether the existence of spatiotemporal things requires that these things are, at least at some point, objects of some actual experience or of a merely possible experience. In this essay, I argue (on textual and philosophical grounds) for the latter view: spatiotemporal things exist (or spatiotemporal events occur) if they are objects of a (suitably qualified) possible experience.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1017/s1369415423000043
Andrea Thiele
Robert B. Louden, Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education: Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. xiii + 226. ISBN 9781350163669 (hbk) £76.50 - Jürgen Overhoff, Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–1790). Aufklärer, Pädagoge, Menschenfreund. Eine Biographie. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020. Pp. 200. ISBN 9783835336193 (hbk) €16.00
Robert B. Louden, Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education: Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment.伦敦：布鲁姆斯伯里，2020 年。xiii + 226. ISBN 9781350163669 (hbk) £76.50 - Jürgen Overhoff, Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724-1790).启蒙哲学家、教育家、慈善家。传记。哥廷根：pp.ISBN 9783835336193 (hbk) €16.00
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