Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

IMMANUEL KANT Critique of the power of judgment

Immanuel Kant and the Development of Modern Psychology

Hilary Putnam And Immanuel Kant: Two 'Internal Realists'?

Since 1976 Hilary Putnam has drawn parallels between his ‘internal’, ‘pragmatic’, ‘natural’ or ‘common-sense’ realism and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Putnam reads Kant as rejecting the then current metaphysical picture with its in-built assumptions of a unique, mind-independent world, and truth understood as correspondence between the mind and that ready-made world. Putnam reads Kant as ove...

Immanuel Kant, the Right of Necessity, and the Liberal Foundation of Social Welfare

Challenges and opportunities for synthetic biology

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) defined living organisms as objects with an intrinsic purpose, which are self-organized in such a way that every part is a function of the whole and the whole is a function of every part, and in which “nothing is for nothing”. Kant already anticipated the tension between agency and structure, and between forward and backward causation. He also pe...