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Title Kant and the early moderns / edited by Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 257 pages)
Contents Introduction / Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse -- Kant's "I think" versus Descartes' "I am a thing that thinks" / Béatrice Longuenesse -- Descartes' "I am a thing that thinks" versus Kant's "I think" / Jean-Marie Beyssade -- Kant's critique of the Leibnizian philosophy : contra the Leibnizians, but pro Leibniz / Anja Jauernig -- What Leibniz really said? / Daniel Garber -- Kant's transcendental idealism and the limits of knowledge : Kant's alternative to Locke's physiology / Paul Guyer -- The "sensible object" and the "uncertain philosophical cause" / Lisa Downing -- Kant's critique of Berkeley's concept of objectivity / Dina Emundts -- Berkeley and Kant / Kenneth P. Winkler -- Kant's Humean solution to Hume's problem / Wayne Waxman -- Should Hume have been a transcendental idealist? / Don Garrett
Summary For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens--sometimes a distorting lens--between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant's writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have been so influential that it has often been difficult to see these predecessors on any terms but Kant's own. In Kant and the Early Moderns, Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse bring together some of the world's leading historians of philosophy to consider Kant in relation to these earlier thinkers. These original essays are grouped in pairs. A first essay discusses Kant's
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index
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Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
SUBJECT Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
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Subject Philosophy, Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Philosophy, Modern
Tradition
Philosophie
Form Electronic book
Author Garber, Daniel, 1949-
Longuenesse, Béatrice, 1950-
ISBN 9781400828968
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