Kant is generally regarded as the greatest modern philosopher. But that analytic philosophers treat him as a central voice in contemporary debates is largely due to Sir Peter Strawson, the most eminent philosopher living in Britain today. In this collection, leading Kant scholars and analytic philosophers, including Strawson himself, for the first time assess his relation to Kant. The essays raise questions about how philosophy should deal with its past, what kind of insights it can achieve, and whether we can have knowledge of an objective reality.
Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. A Bit of Intellectual Autobiography,P. F. Strawson 2. Strawson and Analytic Kantianism,Hans-Johann Glock 3. On Strawson's Rehabilitation of Metaphysics,P. M. S. Hacker 4. Kant's and Strawson's Descriptive Metaphysics,Graham Bird 5. A Priori Concepts,Quassim Cassam 6. The Synthetic A Priori in Strawson's Kantianism,Barry Stroud 7. Epistemic Reflection and Transcendental Proof,Kenneth R. Westphal 8. Kant's Self: Real Identity and Logical Identity,Tobias Rosefeldt 9. Kant and Strawson on the First Person,Maximilian de Gaynesford 10. Reflective Judgement and the Application of Logic to Nature: Kant's Deduction of the Principle of Purposiveness as an Answer to Hume,Henry E. Allison 11. Strawson on Aesthetic Judgement in Kant,Eckart Forster 12. Transcendental Arguments and Realism,Thomas Grundmann and Catrin Misselhorn 13. On Strawson's Naturalistic Turn,Robert Stern 14. The Evidence of our Sense,John Hyman Index