Kant Immanuel - From Kant to Davidson: philosophy and the idea of the transcendental

From Kant to Davidson

Recent philosophy has seen the idea of the transcendental, first introduced in its modern form in the work of Kant, take on a new prominence.

Bringing together an international range of younger philosophers and established thinkers, this volume opens up the idea of the transcendental, examining it not merely as a mode of argument but as naming a particular problematic and a philosophical style.

From contemporary rethinkings of the Kantian project through to the holistic, externalist inquiries of Donald Davidson, transcendental styles of reasoning and the broader framework of transcendental inquiry have come to play an important role in the work of a number of philosophers. Beginning with Kant, the contributions in this volume explore the idea of the transcendental in its original historical context, as well as its more recent appearance in relation to Heidegger, Husserl, Apel, Derrida, Chomsky, McDowell and Davidson. As well as providing insight into the idea of the transcendental, the book also offers new approaches to the work of many of these thinkers.

With contributions engaging in both analytic and continental approaches, this book will be of essential interest to philosophers and philosophy students interested in the idea of the transcendental and the part that it plays in modern and contemporary philosophy.

Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, where he is also Head of the School of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in the United States and Sweden as well as a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Professor Malpas is the author of Place and Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and co-editor of Gadamers Century (MIT, 2000).

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

1 The Story of Analytic Philosophy

Plot and Heroes

Edited by Anat Biletzki and Anat Matar

2 Donald Davidson

Truth, Meaning and Knowledge

Edited by Urszula M. Zegln

3 Philosophy and Ordinary Language

The Bent and Genius of Our Tongue

Oswald Hanfling

4 The Subject in Question

Sartres Critique of Husserl in The Transcendence of the Ego

Stephen Priest

5 Aesthetic Order

A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art

Ruth Lorland

6 Naturalism

A Critical Analysis

Edited by William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland

7 Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Richard Gaskin

8 Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason

A Critical Interpretation of Peter Winchs Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Berel Dov Lerner

9 Gaston Bachelard

Critic of Science and the Imagination

Cristina Chimisso

10 Hilary Putnam

Pragmatism and Realism

Edited by James Conant and Urszula M. Zegln

11 Karl Jaspers

Politics and Metaphysics

Chris Thornhill

12 From Kant to Davidson

The Idea of the Transcendental in Twentieth-century Philosophy

Edited by Jeff Malpas

13 Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience

A Reinterpretation

Giussepina DOro

From Kant to Davidson

Philosophy and the idea of the transcendental

Edited by Jeff Malpas

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From Kant to Davidson : philosophy and the idea of the transcendental / edited by Jeff Malpas.

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Contents

Contributors

Andrew N. Carpenter is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His recent publications include work on Kants philosophy of mind and Davidsons epistemology.

Claire Colebrook is Reader in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on topics in philosophy and literature, and is the author, most recently, of Distant Voices: Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2002).

Steven Crowell is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at Rice University, Texas. He is the author of Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning (Northwestern University Press, 2001), as well as articles on neo-Kantianism, phenomenology and contemporary continental philosophy.

Juliet Floyd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. She has published on Kant and Wittgenstein and recently co-edited Future Pasts: Perspectives on the Place of the Analytic (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Bruce W. Fraser is a recent graduate of Boston University and currently teaches at Indian River Community College in Florida. He is the author of On the Philosophy of Language, soon to appear with Wadsworth Publishing.

Karsten Harries is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. His most recent works include The Ethical Function of Architecture (MIT Press, 1997) and Infinity of Perspective (MIT Press, 2001). He has published and lectured widely on Heidegger, early modern philosophy and the philosophy of art and architecture.

Anita Leirfall is a Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, and is currently completing a Ph.D. thesis entitled Kants Transcendental Deduction: A Methodological and Systematical Interpretation.

Jeff Malpas is Professor and Head at the School of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He has published widely on a variety of topics and is the author, most recently, of Place and Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and co-editor of Gadamers Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer (MIT Press, 2002).

Dermot Moran is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin. His publications include work on Hilary Putnam, medieval philosophy and phenomenology, and he is the author, most recently, of Introduction to Phenomenology (Routledge, 2000), co-editor of The Phenomenology Reader (Routledge, 2002) and editor of the International Journal for Philosophical Studies.

Mark Okrent