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Kant-Studien

Philosophische Zeitschrift der Kant-Gesellschaft

ISSN: 1613-1134

Edited by: Manfred Baum, Bernd Dörflinger, Heiner F. Klemme, Konstantin Pollok

About this journal

Publications in the Kant-Studien have a dual focus: firstly contributions to the interpretation, history and editorial questions of Kant’s philosophy, and secondly systematic debates on transcendental philosophy. In addition, there are investigations on Kant’s precursors and on the effects of his philosophy. The journal also contains a documentation section, in which the current state of research is indicated by means of a continually updated bibliography with reviews and references.

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Volume 114 Issue 3

September 2023

Publicly Available September 9, 2023

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September 9, 2023

Die Ambiguität von begrifflichen und gegenständlichen Merkmalen in der theoretischen Philosophie Kants

Till Grohmann

Page range: 405-434

Abstract

This paper deals with the concept of ‘mark’ (or character, in German Merkmal ) in Kant’s theoretical philosophy. It examines the question of what marks are for Kant: Are they marks of things or of our thinking? Are they ontic object marks or conceptual marks? Are marks ontological or logical in nature? We will see that in Kant’s philosophy, as well as in the thought of his rationalist predecessors, the concept of the mark is embedded in a peculiar ambiguity in that it stands for both objective qualities and conceptual representations. – In a first step we will trace the ambiguity of the mark in Kant’s predecessors and contemporaries (especially in Meier, Wolff and Leibniz). In a second step, we will show that Kant retains the aforementioned ambiguity in terms of wording but overcomes it in terms of content.

September 9, 2023

The Systematic Unity of Reason and Empirical Truth in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

Lorenzo Spagnesi

Page range: 435-462

Abstract

This paper attempts a reconstruction of reason’s contribution to empirical truth in connection with Kant’s definition of truth as the agreement of cognition with its object. I argue that Kant’s treatment of truth in the Transcendental Analytic is completed in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic with an often neglected but compelling argument (what I shall call the Variety Argument). This argument postulates such a variety among appearances as to undermine any attempt to formulate empirical truths. Crucially, I argue that this variety does not depict an extreme scenario, but rather our own epistemic situation in the absence of reason. Reason completes Kant’s theory of truth by allowing the understanding (i) to form empirical concepts and (ii) to approximate empirical truth.

September 9, 2023

Sollte die Kritik der reinen Vernunft die Vollständigkeit der Urteilstafel tatsächlich (nur) „vor Augen stellen“? Allgemeine reine Logik und Transzendentalphilosophie in Kants Deduktion der reinen Verstandesbegriffe

Bernd Ludwig

Page range: 463-492

Abstract

As Kant shows in A 71–76 of the First Critique , his table of the twelve “logical functions of understanding” (in A 70) is an indispensable extension of a table of four well-known logical functions that we find in a section of the Logic that was “already finished” in Aristotle’s times: The Square of Oppositions . The undisputed completeness of this special table thus warrants the completeness of Kant’s general table as well. Any further philosophical proof of completeness for Kant’s table of judgements as a whole is therefore not necessary at all. And due to the contingency of “kind and number” of human forms of intuition and functions of judgment, such a ‘proof’ would not even be possible according to Kant – and thus it is not a subject (or even a part) of his Transcendental Deduction of the Categories. A concluding evaluation of Kant’s own statements about the proof-structure of the B-Deduction as a whole supports this claim.

March 29, 2023

How is an Illusion of Reason Possible? The Division of Nothing in the Critique of Pure Reason

Daniel James Smith

Page range: 493-512

Abstract

This paper develops a new interpretation of the “table of nothing” that appears at the end of the transcendental aesthetic in the Critique of Pure Reason . In contrast to previous interpretations, which have taken it to be part of Kant’s account of the failures of reason, this paper argues that it should be understood as proffering Kant’s positive account of the objects he will be concerned with in the transcendental dialectic, namely objects that, properly understood, are nothing. I examine the four nothings in turn, showing how Kant’s concern is to develop a positive account of each one that allows him to determine its object while recognizing that it in some sense is not. I introduce Allison’s distinction between error and illusion and argue that the table of nothing is Kant’s theoretical account of what illusions are as objects, and thereby explains how something like a transcendental dialectic is possible at all.

Open Access September 9, 2023

Right, Morals and the Categorical Imperative

Fiorella Tomassini

Page range: 513-538

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In this paper I examine the relationship between the principle of right and the principle of morals [ Sitten ] in Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals . My interpretation denies that the principle of right is derived from the categorical imperative, but neither does it adhere to the independence thesis. I present a third way of understanding the relationship between the law of right and the universal law of morals: the latter is needed in order to formulate the former, but it is not sufficient. The principle of right is obtained by applying the categorical imperative to the concept of right. I highlight the discussion on the subject within the late eighteenth-century German natural law tradition and similar arguments found in Achenwall.

Open Access September 9, 2023

Kant’s Hylomorphic Formulation of Right and the Necessity of the State

Michael Gregory

Page range: 539-564

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This paper argues against the common justification for the necessity of the state through the particular difficulty of private property right. Instead, I argue that the necessity of the state is internal to the concept of right in general. In order to show this, I point out how Kants adoption of hylomorphic language for the concept of right, where there is a formal and material aspect of right, allows us to understand the Rechtslehre as progressing through a syllogistic deduction from innate right (major), private right (minor) to public right (conclusion). Material right is made necessary through its subsumption under formal right in the civil condition.

Berichte und Diskussionen

September 9, 2023

„Ein unbegreiflich zahlreiches Sternenheer“ – Eine Kupfertafel, ergänzend zu Kants Maupertuis-Rezeption in der NTH (1755)

Martin Walter

Page range: 565-578

Abstract

In his Treatise on the Figure of the Stars (1732), Maupertuis described bright and elliptic phenomena in the night sky. Based on Maupertuis’s account of these astronomical observations, Kant developed an explanation of his own in his early book on the Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755). For him, these figures were seemingly stars, suns and even whole galaxies, subsystems orbiting a central body or a central sun, held by Kant to be the middle of the universe and a whole, an immense and immeasurable system of many uncountable solar systems. Since Kant did not read Maupertuis’s treatise, he derived his knowledge from a review of the Collected Essays of Maupertuis, in which the Treatise was published (1744). This review appeared in the Nova Acta Eruditorum in April 1745. Alongside this known source, another possible and complementary source on Maupertuis’s theory may have influenced Kant in his thinking: Gottsched’s philosophical textbook First Elements of all Philosophical Disciplines (5th edition, Theoretical part, Vol. I, 1748). The plate beneath the front matter of this book shows a picture of many solar systems. It depicts in detail, and according to Maupertuis’s account, comets signifying the center of different solar systems by the alignment of their tails, pointing in the opposite direction of the center. Gottsched’s book was known to Kant, who mentioned it in at least three lectures on logic. In addition, it was widely read in Königsberg’s intellectual and academic circles, since Gottsched was born not far from Königsberg and was a friend of Knutzen, Flottwell, Scheffner, the Imperial Countess of Keyserlingk, and others.

Buchbesprechungen

September 9, 2023

Ansgar Seide: Die Notwendigkeit empirischer Naturgesetze bei Kant. [Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie 144.] Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2020. 417 Seiten. ISBN 9783110697131.

Renate Wahsner

Page range: 579-585

September 9, 2023

Yibin Liang: Bewusstsein und Selbstbewusstsein bei Kant: Eine neue Rekonstruktion. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 297 Seiten, [Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte Band 215.] ISBN 978-3-11-074326-5

Pirmin Lang

Page range: 585-589

September 9, 2023

Carsten Kries: Dynamische Urteilskraft. Zur Systematizität eines oberen Erkenntnisvermögens in Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Würzburg 2020. 161 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-8260-7114-0.

Jörn Spindeldreher

Page range: 589-592

September 9, 2023

Kant and Animals. Hrsg. von John J. Callanan und Lucy Allais. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 Seiten. ISBN 9780198859918.

Nico D. Müller

Page range: 592-598

Mitteilungen

September 9, 2023

Eröffnung der Archivbibliothek für Post-Neukantianismus und kritischen Idealismus der Gegenwart

Michael Boch

Page range: 599-600

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Journal Impact Factor	0.5	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
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Editors-in-Chief

Manfred Baum, Wuppertal, Germany
Bernd Dörflinger, Trier, Germany
Heiner F. Klemme, Halle (Saale), Germany
Konstantin Pollok, Mainz, Germany

Editorial Office

Dr. Margit Ruffing
Kant-Studien-Redaktion
Universität Mainz
Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2
55128 Mainz
Germany
email: kant@uni-mainz.de

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Online ISSN: 1613-1134
Print ISSN: 0022-8877
Type: Journal
Languages: German, English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1897
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year
Audience: Academics and Students of Philosophy, Libraries, Institutes
Keywords: Kant Research/Current Trends