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Kant’s Legacy for the 21st Century: Knowledge, Culture, Beauty book cover

1st Edition

Kant’s Legacy for the 21st Century Knowledge, Culture, Beauty

Edited By Andrija Šoć, Jessica Leech Copyright 2027
360 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Table of Contents 

List of Contributors 

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 Christian Onof 

2. Kant and Sellars on Description and Modality David Landy 

3. Kant’s Principle of Sufficient Reason, Revisited Avery Goldman 

4. Kant’s Solution to the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment as a Transcendental Argument Gabriele Gava 

5. Nominal and Real Concepts: On the Relation Between Words, Concepts, and Conceptions in Kant and Contemporary Philosophy Michael Lewin 

Part II: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science 

6. Kantian Capacities First: Subtractive Versus Transformative Rationality Dietmar Heidemann 

7. Can the Kantian Brain Explain Consciousness? Steven S. Gouveia and Carlos Morujão 

8. Kant’s Relevance Now: The Case of Cognitive Science John Best 

Part III: Moral and Political Philosophy 

9. Rescuing Kantian Constructivism from its Humean Critics Irina Schumski 

10. Kant and Group Agency Melissa Merritt 

11. Race in the Doctrine of Right: An intersectional analysis of Kant’s racial liberalism. Jordan Pascoe 

12. Climate Change and Natural Beauty: Kant’s moderate aesthetic ecocentrism Luigi Caranti and Diana Piroli 

Part IV: Aesthetics and Beauty 

13. From Neural Correlates to Normative Demand: Kant’s Aesthetic Theory and the Conceptual Foundations of Neuroaesthetics” Ilaria Ferrara 

14. Particularizing the Universal: A Defence of Kantian Aesthetic Community Jessica J. Williams 

15. Kant and Contemporary Philosophy of Poetry Iris Vidmar Jovanović 

16. Can Beautiful Wine Express Kantian Aesthetic Ideas? Rachel Cristy. 

Index 

Biography

Andrija Šoć is a research associate at the Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His main areas of interest are German idealism and political philosophy. Among his writings is a monograph (in Serbian) titled Transcendental Idealism (2021), and paper ‘Self-Censorship and the Puzzle of Publicity: Kant’s Political Philosophy in the Context of Democracy/Autocracy Dichotomy’.

Jessica Leech is a reader in Philosophy at King's College London. Her research interests include the logic and metaphysics of necessity and identity, and Kant's theoretical philosophy. She is the author of Thinking of Necessity: A Kantian Account of Modal Thought and Modal Metaphysics (2023).

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