Kant’s Legacy for the 21st Century

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).

• 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 2. Kant and Sellars on Description and Modality 3. Kant’s Principle of Sufficient Reason, Revisited 4. Kant’s Solution to the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment as a Transcendental Argument 5. Nominal and Real Concepts: On the Relation Between Words, Concepts, and Conceptions in Kant and Contemporary Philosophy Part II: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science 6. Kantian Capacities First: Subtractive Versus Transformative Rationality 7. Can the Kantian Brain Explain Consciousness? 8. Kant’s Relevance Now: The Case of Cognitive Science Part III: Moral and Political Philosophy 9. Rescuing Kantian Constructivism from its Humean Critics 10. Kant and Group Agency 11.Race in the Doctrine of Right: An intersectional analysis of Kant’s racial liberalism 12. Climate Change and Natural Beauty: Kant’s moderate aesthetic ecocentrism Part IV: Aesthetics and Beauty 13. From Neural Correlates to Normative Demand: Kant’s Aesthetic Theory and the Conceptual Foundations of Neuroaesthetics 14. Particularizing the Universal: A Defence of Kantian Aesthetic Community 15. Kant and Contemporary Philosophy of Poetry 16. Can Beautiful Wine Express Kantian Aesthetic Ideas?