Kant's Transcendental Deductions: The Three 'Critiques' and the 'Opus postumum' (Studies in Kant and German Idealism)

Prelude: The Precritical Beginnings: Kant's First Drafts Of The Deduction Of The Categories / Wolfgang Carl -- Two Ways Of Reading Kant's Letter To Herz: Comments On Carl / Lewis White Beck -- Pt. 1. The Critique Of Pure Reason: Kant's Notion Of A Deduction And The Methodological Background Of The First Critique / Dieter Henrich -- Psychology And The Transcendental Deduction / Paul Guyer -- Sensibility, Understanding, And The Doctrine Of Synthesis: Comments On Henrich And Guyer / P.f. Strawson -- Pt. 2. The Critique Of Practical Reason: Themes In Kant's Moral Philosophy / John Rawls -- Justification And Freedom In The Critique Of Practical Reason / Henry E. Allison -- Justification And Objectivity: Comments On Rawls And Allison / Barbara Herman -- Pt. 3. The Critique Of Judgment: The Social Spirit Of Mankind / Stuart Hampshire -- Why Must There Be A Transcendental Deduction In Kant's Critique Of Judgment? / Rolf-peter Horstmann -- The Deductions In The Critique Of Judgment: Comments On Hampshire And Horstmann / Reinhard Brandt -- Pt. 4. The Opus Postumum: Apperception And Ether: On The Idea Of A Transcendental Deduction Of Matter In Kant's Opus Postumum / Burkhard Tuschling -- Kant's Selbstsetzungslehre / Eckhart Förster -- Kant's Dynamics: Comments On Tuschling And Förster / Jules Vuillemin. Eckhart Förster, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Preface......Page 9 Contributors......Page 15 Abbreviations and Translations......Page 19 Contents ......Page 13 PRELUDE The Precritical Beginnings......Page 23 Kant's First Drafts of the Deduction of the Categories......Page 25 Two Ways of Reading Kaufs Letter to Herz: Comments on Carl......Page 43 PART I The Critique of Pure Reason......Page 49 Kant's Notion of a Deduction and the Methodological Background of the First......Page 51 Psychology and the Transcendental Deduction......Page 69 Sensibility, Understanding, and the Doctrine of Synthesis: Comments on Henrich and Guyer......Page 91 PART II The Critique of Practical Reason......Page 101 Themes in Kants Moral Philosophy ......Page 103 Justification and Freedom in the Critique of Practical Reason......Page 136 Justification and Objectivity: Comments on Rawls and Allison......Page 153 PART III Critique of judgment......Page 165 The Social Spirit of Mankind......Page 167 Why Must There Be a Transcendental Deduction in Kanfs Critique of Judgment......Page 179 The Deductions in the Critique of Judgment: Comments on Hampshire and Horstmann......Page 199 PART IV TheOpus postumum......Page 213 Apperception and Ether: On the Idea of a Transcendental Deduction of Matter in Kant's......Page 215 Kant's Selbstsetzungslehre......Page 239 Kant's "Dynamics": Comments on Tuschling and Förster......Page 261 Notes......Page 271 Index of Persons......Page 291 In Kant's philosophical language, the meaning of the term "deduction" is different from what we almost irresistibly expect, and this largely accounts for a persistent failure to understand Kant's deductions as a unitary and (within its unity) well-structured program.