Table of Contents

Introduction: the starry heavens and the moral law Paul Guyer; 1. 'A priori' Philip Kitcher; 2. Kant on the perception of space (and time) Gary Hatfield; 3. Kant's philosophy of mathematics Lisa Shabel; 4. Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the categories Beatrice Longuenesse; 5. Kant's philosophy of cognitive mind Patricia Kitcher; 6. Kant's proofs of substance and causation Arthur Melnick; 7. Kant and transcendental arguments Ralph C. S. Walker; 8. The critique of metaphysics: the structure and fate of Kant's dialectic Karl Ameriks; 9. Philosophy of natural science Michael Friedman; 10. The supreme principle of morality Allen W. Wood; 11. Kant on freedom of the will Henry E. Allison; 12. Mine and thine? The Kantian state Robert B. Pippin; 13. Kant on sex and marriage right Jane Kneller; 14. Kant's theory of peace Pauline Kleingeld; 15. Kant's conception of virtue Lara Denis; 16. Kant's ambitions in the third Critique Paul Guyer; 17. Moral faith and the highest food Frederick C. Beiser; 18. Kant's critical philosophy and its reception - the first five years (1781–6) Manfred Kuehn.

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About the Author

Paul Guyer is Florence R. C. Muray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. The editor and translator of three volumes in the Cambridge Edition of The Works of Immanuel Kant, he is the author of over 150 articles and six books. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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"For its comprehensiveness and quality, this volume should find a place in the library of every historian." --Scott Stapleford, University of Witwatersrand: Philosophy in Review