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.
Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge
1st Edition
By Luca Forgione
September 30, 2020
This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant’s philosophy. As Kant writes in his major works of the critical period, it is due to the simple and empty representation ‘I think’ that the subject’s capacity for self-consciousness enables the subject to represent its own mental dimension. ...
Hume’s Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip A. Reed, Rico Vitz
August 14, 2020
Recent work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology has dealt mostly with Aristotelian virtue ethics. The dearth of scholarship that engages with Hume’s moral philosophy, however, is both noticeable and peculiar. Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology ...
Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation
1st Edition
By David Landy
December 17, 2019
Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal ...
Kant and the Reorientation of Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Joseph J. Tinguely
December 10, 2019
This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kant’s aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of intentionality. Kant’s account is distinct in that feeling, affect, or mood must be operative within the way the mind receives the world. Moreover, ...
Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Robinson, Chris W. Surprenant
December 10, 2019
Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual movements coming out of Scotland in the 18th Century. These scholars are also familiar with the works of Immanuel Kant and his influence on Western thought. But with the exception ...
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
1st Edition
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...
Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume
1st Edition
By Timothy M Costelloe
June 16, 2009
The book has two aims. First, to examine the extent and significance of the connection between Hume's aesthetics and his moral philosophy; and, second, to consider how, in light of the connection, his moral philosophy answers central questions in ethics. The first aim is realized in chapters 1-4. ...