Philosophy of History of Adam Ferguson and Immanuel Kant

Adam Ferguson and the Danger of Books

Immanuel Kant and the Development of Modern Psychology

IMMANUEL KANT Critique of the power of judgment

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...

Putting Adam Ferguson in his place.

This paper re-conceptualizes the relationship between Ferguson's life and work by locating him in his biographical and geographical context for the purposes of better understanding his proto-sociological writings. Ferguson's work is relatively unknown outside limited sets of literature and current representations of the link between his life and work risk misplacing him as both Scotsman and soc...