Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials by Eric Watkins (Eng

Description: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials by Eric Watkins Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kants Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kants predecessors and contemporaries, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with pure reason, the criticisms of pure reason that had developed prior to Kants. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This volume provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kants Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kants predecessors and contemporaries in eighteenth-century Germany, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with pure reason, the criticisms of pure reason that had developed prior to Kants, and alternative attempts at synthesizing empiricist elements within a rationalist framework. The volume contains chapters on Christian Wolff, Martin Knutzen, Alexander Baumgarten, Christian Crusius, Leonhard Euler, Johann Lambert, Marcus Herz, Johann Eberhard, and Johann Tetens. Each chapter includes a brief introduction that provides succinct biographical and bibliographical information on these authors, a concise account of their projects, and information on the importance of these projects to Kants First Critique. Extensive references to the First Critique, brought together in a concordance, highlight the potential relevance of each text. Author Biography Eric Watkins is professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. The recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he is the author of Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality, which won the Book Prize in 2005 from the Journal of the History of Philosophy. Table of Contents 1. Christian Wolff: rational thoughts on God, the world and the soul of human beings; also all things in general (1720); 2. Martin Knutzen: system of causes (1735); philosophical treatise on the immaterial nature of the soul (1744); 3. Alexander Baumgarten: metaphysics (1739); 4. Christian August Crusius: sketch of the necessary truths of reason (1745); 5. Leonhard Euler: letters to a German princess (1760-1762); 6. Johann Heinrich Lambert: treatise on the criterion of truth (1761); new organon (1764); 7. Marcus Herz: first letter (1770); second letter (1771); third letter (1771); observations from speculative philosophy (1771); fourth letter (1772); fifth letter (1776); 8. Johann August Eberhard: universal theory of thinking and sensing (1776); 9. Johann Nicolaus Tetens: philosophical essays on human nature and its development (1777). Review "...The work as a whole reads and flows smoothly--an accomplishment... Footnotes provide direction as to how the works relate to particular sections of the Critique of Pure Reason. This unique and important collection will help anyone struggling to understand one of modern philosophys most important and notoriously difficult texts... it will be most useful for graduate students and faculty... Highly recommended..." M Meola, The College of New Jersey, Choice Review Quote "...The work as a whole reads and flows smoothly--an accomplishment... Footnotes provide direction as to how the works relate to particular sections of the Critique of Pure Reason. This unique and important collection will help anyone struggling to understand one of modern philosophys most important and notoriously difficult texts... it will be most useful for graduate students and faculty... Highly recommended..." M Meola, The College of New Jersey, Choice Promotional "Headline" Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kants Critique of Pure Reason. Description for Bookstore Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kants Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kants predecessors and contemporaries, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with pure reason, the criticisms of pure reason that had developed prior to Kants. Description for Library Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kants Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kants predecessors and contemporaries, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with pure reason, the criticisms of pure reason that had developed prior to Kants. Details ISBN0521781620 Author Eric Watkins Short Title KANTS CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521781620 ISBN-13 9780521781626 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 121 Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-08-31 Series Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Background Source Materials Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 410 Birth 1964 Audience College/Higher Education UK Release Date 2009-08-24 AU Release Date 2009-08-24 NZ Release Date 2009-08-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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