Moran - Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity

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For Paul Guyer

With fond appreciation for his scholarship, mentorship, and friendship

Early versions of many of the essays in this volume were presented at the Nature and Freedom in Kant conference at Brown University in October 2013. Mike Nance, Fred Rauscher, Jeppe von Platz, and Jennifer Uleman deserve special thanks for organizing the conference. Marie Johansen and Joana Rolfes provided invaluable assistance with web design and administration, respectively. Funding for the conference was provided by the Office of the Dean of the College, Brown University; the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University; the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation; the Goethe-Institute; the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Boston; the Department of Philosophy, Brown University; and the Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. Many thanks to Jacob Caldwell for his assistance in preparing the final manuscript.

The following abbreviations are used in this volume to refer to Kants texts. Page citations refer to Kants gesammelte Schriften , Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (formerly: Kniglich Preuische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (1900). Only references to KrV refer to the A and B pages of the first and second editions; all other references list volume and page number of the Prussian Academy edition of Kants works, e.g.: GMS 4:420. All translations are taken unless otherwise stated from the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant , Cambridge University Press.

AA

Akademie-Ausgabe (Academy Edition)

Anth

Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht (Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View)

Collins

Moralphilosophie Collins (Lectures on Ethics Collins)

DfS

Die falsche Spitzfindigkeit der vier syllogistischen Figuren erwiesen (The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures)

EaD

Das Ende aller Dinge (The End of All Things)

GMS

Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals)

GSE

Beobachtung ber das Gefhl des Schnen und Erhabenen (Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime)

Herder

Praktische Philosophie Herder (Lectures on Ethics Herder)