Amihud Gilead - Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes

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The well-known American analytic philosopher, the late Wilfrid Sellars, is considered as believing to develop his philosophy in a continuous dialogue with the work of Immanuel Kant (Haag 2012, p. 111). Indeed, Sellarss book (1978) is entitled Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes. I named, my non-Sellarian thoughts on some of Kant themes, as variations on his thought.

The fact is that there is no philosopher after Kant whose thoughts do not maintain, implicitly or explicitly, a dialogue with his work. His influence upon his followers and critics is amazing. The most influencing philosophers of the twentieth century criticize him and borrow no less from him (think, for instance, of the analytic/synthetic dichotomy and that of a priori/a posteriori in Quine, Davidson, Putnam, and many other philosophers). Kant has contributed considerably to the time-honored controversy about metaphysics and its relationship with natural sciences. Many analytic philosophers, even today, have ignored the history of philosophy except for Kants work and, sometimes, Leibniz and Hume, but Kant is mentioned and referred to more than any other philosopher of the past.