Kant’s Legacy for the 21st Century by Šoć, Andrija; Leech, Jessica;

Short description:

This volume explores how Kant’s philosophy can help us to advance debates in several different areas of contemporary philosophy. It presents further explorations into the significance of Kant’s philosophy for metaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy and metaontology, philosophy of action, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy.

Long description:

This volume explores whether and how Kant’s philosophy can help us to advance debates in several different areas of contemporary philosophy.

Kant’s philosophy has enjoyed continued and enthusiastic interest of scholars ever since its inception. However, the question of just how exactly and to what extent Kant is important in today’s philosophical landscape bears repeated exploration. With an emphasis on encompassing Kant’s system and placing it in the context of current philosophical debates, this volume explores the significance of Kant’s philosophy for metaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy and metaontology, philosophy of action, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy. The chapters address topics that range from the concept of corporate agency, language and culture within the context of Kant’s philosophy, gustatory aesthetics, the unexplored connections between the contemporary political category of communitarianism with central ideas in Kant’s aesthetics, and more.

Kant’s Legacy for the 21st Century will appeal to scholars and advanced students who are working on Kant, as well as on contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy, philosophy of action, philosophy of cognitive science, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction Jessica Leech and Andrija Šoć Part I: Metaphysics and Methodology 1. Reconstructing a Valid Argument Against Relationism from Kant’s Use of Incongruent Counterparts in 1768 2. Kant and Sellars on Description and Modality 3. Kant’s Principle of Sufficient Reason, Revisited 4. Kant’s Solution to the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment as a Transcendental Argument 5. Nominal and Real Concepts: On the Relation Between Words, Concepts, and Conceptions in Kant and Contemporary Philosophy Part II: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science 6. Kantian Capacities First: Subtractive Versus Transformative Rationality 7. Can the Kantian Brain Explain Consciousness? 8. Kant’s Relevance Now: The Case of Cognitive Science Part III: Moral and Political Philosophy 9. Rescuing Kantian Constructivism from its Humean Critics 10. Kant and Group Agency 11.Race in the Doctrine of Right: An intersectional analysis of Kant’s racial liberalism 12. Climate Change and Natural Beauty: Kant’s aesthetic moderate ecocentrism Part IV: Aesthetics and Beauty 13. From Neural Correlates to Normative Demand: Kant’s Aesthetic Theory and the Conceptual Foundations of Neuroaesthetics” 14. Particularizing the Universal: A Defence of Kantian Aesthetic Community 15. Kant and Contemporary Philosophy of Poetry 16. Can Beautiful Wine Express Kantian Aesthetic Ideas?