Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
About the Book Series
This series publishes significant contributions to the study of this key period in philosophy. It covers studies of single authors as well as principal philosophical areas.
System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte
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By Giovanni Pietro Basile, Ansgar Lyssy
May 27, 2024
This book investigates various aspects of freedom as developed in the philosophical systems of Kant and Fichte. Freedom, both Kant and Fichte insist, does not mean that we can choose or think independently from all rules or necessity, but rather that we willingly accept a certain kind of submission...
Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought
1st Edition
By Lorne Falkenstein
April 02, 2024
David Hume’s philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief. This book reconciles this conflict by showing that Hume intended his scepticism to be remedial. It immunizes us ...
Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends: Kantian Perspectives and Practical Applications
1st Edition
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By Jan-Willem van der Rijt, Adam Cureton
January 29, 2024
This book advances our understanding of the nature, grounds and limits of human dignity by connecting it with Kant’s notion of an ideal moral community, or "Kingdom of Ends". It features original essays by leading Kant scholars and moral and political philosophers from around the world. Although ...
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics
1st Edition
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By Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, Mattias Pirholt
August 01, 2022
This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it challenges long-standing teleological ...
Kant’s Critical Epistemology: Why Epistemology Must Consider Judgment First
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By Kenneth R. Westphal
April 29, 2022
This book assesses and defends Kant’s Critical epistemology, and the rich yet neglected resources it provides for understanding and resolving fundamental issues regarding human experience, perceptual judgment, empirical knowledge and cognitive sciences.Kenneth Westphal first examines Kant’s methods...
The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
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By Karin de Boer, Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
May 18, 2021
This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses. It does so by highlighting the various ways in which ...
Rousseau's Ethics of Truth: A Sublime Science of Simple Souls
1st Edition
By Jason Neidleman
March 05, 2019
In 1758, Rousseau announced that he had adopted "vitam impendere vero" (dedicate life to truth) as a personal pledge. Despite the dramatic nature of this declaration, no scholar has yet approached Rousseau’s work through the lens of truth or truthseeking. What did it mean for Rousseau to lead a ...
The Post-Critical Kant: Understanding the Critical Philosophy through the Opus Postumum
1st Edition
By Bryan Hall
January 24, 2018
In this book, Bryan Wesley Hall breaks new ground in Kant scholarship, exploring the gap in Kant’s Critical philosophy in relation to his post-Critical work by turning to Kant’s final, unpublished work, the so-called Opus Postumum. Although Kant considered this project to be the "keystone" of his ...
Kant’s Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume
1st Edition
By David Landy
April 27, 2017
Kant’s Inferentialism draws on a wide range of sources to present a reading of Kant’s theory of mental representation as a direct response to the challenges issued by Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature. Kant rejects the conclusions that Hume draws on the grounds that these are predicated on Hume’s ...
Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue
1st Edition
By Chris W. Surprenant
July 27, 2016
In this book, Chris W. Surprenant puts forward an original position concerning Kant’s practical philosophy and the intersection between his moral and political philosophy. Although Kant provides a detailed account of the nature of morality, the nature of human virtue, and how right manifests itself...
Hume's Aesthetic Theory: Taste and Sentiment
1st Edition
By Dabney Townsend
January 30, 2014
Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume.This is a major contribution to our understanding of Hume's general ...
Kant’s Theory of the Self
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By Arthur Melnick
November 03, 2010
The self for Kant is something real, and yet is neither appearance nor thing in itself, but rather has some third status. Appearances for Kant arise in space and time where these are respectively forms of outer and inner attending (intuition). Melnick explains the "third status" by identifying...