In the opening pages of his 1966 Locke Lectures, Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes, Wilfrid Sellars alludes to what he takes to be the ambiguity or “Janus-faced” character of Kant’s notion of “intuition” as developed in the Critique of Pure Reason (Sellars, 1966, p. 2). Appealing first to the formal distinction between intuitions and concepts, he notes that in Kant’s taxonom...

as one of the systematizing philosophers, kant holds some views on education and training in general and religious education in particular. the present article introduces his views on religious education with its necessity and scope. organized in four parts, this article attempts to study the theoretical foundotions of kant's view on religious education by exploring his works. in the first...

We can observe a connection between some serious environmental problems caused by the overexploitation of environmental resources and the particular conceptions of property rights that are claimed to hold with regard to these resources. In this paper, I investigate whether Kant's conception of property rights might constitute a basis for justifying property regimes that would overcome some of t...

In an interlingual knowledge-based machine translation system, ambiguity arises when the source 1.qnguage analyzer produces more than one interlingua expression for a source sentence. This can have a negative impact on translation quality, since a target sentence may be produced from an unintended meaning. In this paper we describe the ,nethods nsed in the KANT machine translation system to red...

The case of Kant's Critique of Judgment offers a powerful example of the radical disruption of the metaphysical text, enacted by Bataille's major сoncepts. The analysis of the metaphor of economy in Kant, Bataille and Derrida suggests the crucial importance of Bataille's general economy—as the economy of loss—for deconstructing the Kantian conception of genius and the whole scheme of taste—as a...

Most German philosophers in the early nineteenth century were devoted, to the idealistic « completion » of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy. A few independent philosophers, however , were preoccupied with the elaboration of a non-idealistic, and less speculative, conclusion to Kant's thought. Among the earliest opponents of the speculativ~ idealists was Jakob Frie-d~ich Fries (1773-1843), a ...

In his Third Analogy of Experience, Kant argues that a universal system of mutual causal interaction-at-a-distance is presupposed in the very construction of experience, and thereby also can be assumed to hold of objects of experience qua appearances. This implies in turn a notion of objective simultaneity. I discuss whether Kant’s project is rendered wholly obsolete by the relativity and conve...

Regardless of one’s particular philosophical interests and convictions, it is evident that the notion of autonomy is an important one. However, agreement about the nature of autonomy and about what it requires has proven elusive in contemporary discussions. In Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Karl Ameriks addresses this impasse by going back to the historical roots of this notion in Kant and argui...

In his 1795 essay ‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ the East-Prussian university metaphysician Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) named ‘Hugo Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel’ as the ‘miserable comforters’ of the law of nations. This was a bon mot that became celebrated retrospectively, with the late-twentieth-century reception of Kant’s cosmopolitanism in political philosophy and international relations theory. In fo...