Kant's Theory of Normativity

Konstantin Pollok is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is the author of Kants Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft: Ein Kritischer Kommentar (2001) and Begründen und Rechtfertigen: Eine Untersuchung zum Verhältnis zwischen rationalen Erfordernissen und prävalenten Handlungsgründen (2009).

• Preface and acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I. From the Clarity of Ideas to the Validity of Judgments: 1. Kant's farewell to perfectionism; 2. The concept of judgment and the divisions of philosophy ; 3. Kant's taxonomy of judgments; Part II. Kant's Transcendental Hylomorphism: 4. Hylomorphism and normativity; 5. Determinable sensibility and intellectual determination; Part III. The Legislation of Pure Reason: 6. 'Reason prescribes laws to us'; 7. The normativity of judgments of experience; 8. The normativity of practical judgments; 9. The normativity of judgments of taste; Epilogue: Kant's moderate forms of transcendental and political idealism; Bibliography; Index.

'Pollok's book deserves close engagement; it is … uncommonly demanding, but it is also uncommonly rich.' Yoon H. Choi, Notre Dame Philosophical Review