Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason

Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777) was a German philosopher, a student of Alexander Baumgarten and a principle architect of the post-Leibnizian rationalism that dominated German-speaking universities through the Eighteenth Century.Aaron Bunch is a translator. He has translated work by Martin Heidegger and Otfried Höffe.Axel Gelfert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore.Riccardo Pozzo is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Verona, Italy. He is the foremost living scholar on Georg Friedrich Meier and his books include Meiers Vernunftlehre (2000) and Kant und das Problem einer Einleitung in die Logik (1989).

• Editor’s Series Introduction Part I: Introduction to the Translation1. Translator’s Introduction 2. An Introduction to Excerpts from the Doctrine of Reason, Riccardo PozzoPart II: The Translation3. Excerpts from the Doctrine of ReasonPart II: Ancillary Materials5. Glossary 6. Concordance Selected Bibliography Index

Bunch has produced an elegant yet highly readable translation of G. F. Meier's Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre. This translation, along with the accompanying materials, will serve as an indispensable resource for scholars and students looking to understand Kant's views on logic with an eye to their historical context. Moreover, as the first complete English translation of one of Meier's philosophical works, Bunch's translation should serve to draw deserved scholarly attention to the work of an important but overlooked figure of the German Enlightenment.