Kant on Practical Justification : Interpretative Essays
ISBN: 9780195395686 | 0195395689
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/9/2013
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This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kantian accounts of practical justification. This examination serves as a starting point for a focused investigation of the Kantian approach to justification in practical disciplines (ethics, legal and political philosophy or philosophy of religion). The recent growth of literature on this subject is not surprising given that Kant's approach seems so promising: he claims to be able to justify unconditional normative claims without recourse to assumptions, views or ... MORE
Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction. Practical Justification in Kant, Sorin Baiasu
1. Kant's Rechtfertigung and the Epistemic Nature of Practical Justification, Sorin Baiasu
2. Why Ought Implies Can, Sebastian Rödl
3. Kant on Practical Reason, Allen Wood
4. Constructing Practical Justification: How Can the Categorical Imperative Justify Desire-based Actions?, Larry Krasnoff
5. Anthropology and Metaphysics in Kant's Categorical Imperative of L... MORE
Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is author of Morality without Foundations (OUP, 1999), editor of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays (OUP, 2002), co-editor of Metaethics After Moore (OUP, 2006), and editor of Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (published annually).
Sorin Baiasu is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics (2011), co-editor of Politics and Metaphysics in Kant (2011), as well as of a special issue of the journal Kantian Review (2011).
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