Kant on the Human Standpoint

Béatrice Longuenesse is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Her numerous publications include Kant and the Capacity to Judge (1998).

• Introduction; Part I. Discussions: 1. Kant's categories and capacity to judge; 2. Synthetics, logical forms, and the objects of our ordinary experience; 3. Synthetics and givenness; Part II. The Human Standpoint in Kant's Transcendental Analytic: 4. Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the categories; 5. Kant's deconstruction of the principle of sufficient reason; 6. Kant on causality: what was he trying to prove?; 7. Kant's standpoint on the whole: disjunctive judgement, community, and the Third Analogy of Experience; Part III. The Human Standpoint in the Critical System: 8. The transcendental ideal, and the unity of the critical system; 9. Moral judgement as a judgement of reason; 10. Kant's leading thread in the analytic of the beautiful.

"...a significant contribution to the project of exploring Kant's holistic and anti-foundationalist epistemology on the basis of a detailed textual analysis, a timely project undoubtedly inspired by the pioneering views of Michael Friedman." --Aaron Fellbaum, University of Graz: Philosophy in Review