Lawrence Pasternack
Biographic Data
| ID | 400577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Pasternack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Pasternack |
| SIGNATURE | PASTERNACK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9537-3341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Postulate of Immortality in the Critique of Practical Reason (and Beyond)
It is widely claimed that the second Critique ’s argument for the postulate of immortality is relevantly different from the first Critique ’s argument for the postulate. It is also widely claimed that after the second Critique , Kant distances himself from its particular version of the argument, and even the postulate altogether. It is the purpose of this article to challenge these claims, arguing instead that (a) there is overwhelming textual ev…
What is Wrong with the Recent Semiological Interpretation of Kant’s Religion
In this article, I challenge the semiological interpretation of Kant’s Religion , particularly as advanced in recent years by James DiCenso and Allen Wood. As I here argue, their interpretations are neither compatible with broader aspects of Kant’s positive philosophy of religion, nor with how Kant himself describes the project of the Religion . Kant wrote the Religion in order to explore the compatibility between his theologically affirmative pu…
Immediate Experience, Mystical ‘Encounters’ and the ‘Voice’ of God
In this brief commentary, I focus on Part II of Kant and Mysticism, where Stephen Palmquist explores the space for mystical experience in Kant. In particular, I focus on (a) what Palmquist calls ‘immediate experience’ or ‘encounters’; (b) what he calls the ‘supervening’ of religious experience on ordinary experience; and (c) moral conscience as the ‘voice’ of God
Immanuel Kant
The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals^ is one of the most important works of moral philosophy ever written, and Kant's most widely read work. It attempts to demonstrate that morality has its foundation in reason and that our wills are free from both natural necessity and the power of desire. It is here that Kant sets out his famous and controversial 'categorical imperative', which forms the basis of his moral theory. This book is an essenti…
On the Alleged Augustinianism in Kant’s Religion
Both critics and defenders of Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason have raised worries about its alleged employment of an ‘Augustinian’ conception of moral evil as well as the accounts of grace and moral regeneration consequent to it. Combined, these aspects of the Religion are often seen as responsible for its principal ‘wobble’, ‘conundrum’ or ‘internal contradiction’, and are likewise among the key reasons why the Religion is c…
The ‘Two Experiments’ of Kant’s Religion
The past decade has seen a sizeable increase in scholarship on Kant’s Religion . Yet, unlike the centuries of debate that inform our study of his other major works, scholarship on the Religion is still just in its infancy. As such, it is in a particularly vulnerable state where errors made now could hinder scholarship for decades to come. It is the purpose of this article to mitigate one such danger, a danger issuing from the widely assumed view …
Christopher Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom
Kant on Opinion
Kant identifies knowledge [Wissen], belief [Glaube], and opinion [Meinung] as our three primary modes of "holding-to-be-true" [Fürwahrhalten]. He also identifies opinion as making up the greatest part of our cognition. After a preliminary sketch of Kant's system of propositional attitudes, this paper will explore what he says about the norms governing opinion and empirical hypotheses. The final section will turn to what, in the Critique of Pure R…
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Regulative principles and ‘the Wise Author of Nature’
There is much more said in the Critique of Pure Reason about the relationship between God and purposiveness than what is found in Kant's analysis of the physico-theological (design) argument. The ‘Wise Author of Nature’ is central to his analysis of regulative principles in the ‘Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic’ and also appears in the ‘Canon’, first with regards to the Highest Good and then again in relation to our theoretical use of pur…
The Development and Scope of Kantian Belief
This paper offers an account of the historical development of Kant's understanding of belief (Glaube) from its early ties to George Friedrich Meier's Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre through various stages of refinement. It will be argued that the Critique of Pure Reason reflects an important but not final stage in Kant's understanding of belief. Its structure is further refined and its scope narrowed in later works, including the Critique of Practic…
The ens realissimum and necessary being in The Critique of Pure Reason
Just prior to The Critique of Pure Reason 's examination of the various arguments for God's existence, Kant discusses the conceptual relationship between the idea of an ens realissimum and that of a necessary being. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the extent to which this discussion informs his claim that the cosmological argument depends upon the ontological argument
Can Self-Deception Explain Akrasia in Kant’s Theory of Moral Agency?
The Development and Scope of Kantian Belief
This paper offers an account of the historical development of Kant's understanding of belief (Glaube) from its early ties to George Friedrich Meier's Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre through various stages of refinement. It will be argued that the Critique of Pure Reason reflects an important but not final stage in Kant's understanding of belief. Its structure is further refined and its scope narrowed in later works, including the Critique of Practic…
Kant on Opinion
Kant identifies knowledge [Wissen], belief [Glaube], and opinion [Meinung] as our three primary modes of "holding-to-be-true" [Fürwahrhalten]. He also identifies opinion as making up the greatest part of our cognition. After a preliminary sketch of Kant's system of propositional attitudes, this paper will explore what he says about the norms governing opinion and empirical hypotheses. The final section will turn to what, in the Critique of Pure R…
Can Self-Deception Explain Akrasia in Kant’s Theory of Moral Agency?
The ens realissimum and necessary being in The Critique of Pure Reason
Just prior to The Critique of Pure Reason 's examination of the various arguments for God's existence, Kant discusses the conceptual relationship between the idea of an ens realissimum and that of a necessary being. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the extent to which this discussion informs his claim that the cosmological argument depends upon the ontological argument
Regulative principles and ‘the Wise Author of Nature’
There is much more said in the Critique of Pure Reason about the relationship between God and purposiveness than what is found in Kant's analysis of the physico-theological (design) argument. The ‘Wise Author of Nature’ is central to his analysis of regulative principles in the ‘Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic’ and also appears in the ‘Canon’, first with regards to the Highest Good and then again in relation to our theoretical use of pur…
The Development and Scope of Kantian Belief
This paper offers an account of the historical development of Kant's understanding of belief (Glaube) from its early ties to George Friedrich Meier's Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre through various stages of refinement. It will be argued that the Critique of Pure Reason reflects an important but not final stage in Kant's understanding of belief. Its structure is further refined and its scope narrowed in later works, including the Critique of Practic…
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Kant on Opinion
Kant identifies knowledge [Wissen], belief [Glaube], and opinion [Meinung] as our three primary modes of "holding-to-be-true" [Fürwahrhalten]. He also identifies opinion as making up the greatest part of our cognition. After a preliminary sketch of Kant's system of propositional attitudes, this paper will explore what he says about the norms governing opinion and empirical hypotheses. The final section will turn to what, in the Critique of Pure R…
Christopher Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom
The ‘Two Experiments’ of Kant’s Religion
The past decade has seen a sizeable increase in scholarship on Kant’s Religion . Yet, unlike the centuries of debate that inform our study of his other major works, scholarship on the Religion is still just in its infancy. As such, it is in a particularly vulnerable state where errors made now could hinder scholarship for decades to come. It is the purpose of this article to mitigate one such danger, a danger issuing from the widely assumed view …
Immanuel Kant
The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals^ is one of the most important works of moral philosophy ever written, and Kant's most widely read work. It attempts to demonstrate that morality has its foundation in reason and that our wills are free from both natural necessity and the power of desire. It is here that Kant sets out his famous and controversial 'categorical imperative', which forms the basis of his moral theory. This book is an essenti…
On the Alleged Augustinianism in Kant’s Religion
Both critics and defenders of Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason have raised worries about its alleged employment of an ‘Augustinian’ conception of moral evil as well as the accounts of grace and moral regeneration consequent to it. Combined, these aspects of the Religion are often seen as responsible for its principal ‘wobble’, ‘conundrum’ or ‘internal contradiction’, and are likewise among the key reasons why the Religion is c…
Immediate Experience, Mystical ‘Encounters’ and the ‘Voice’ of God
In this brief commentary, I focus on Part II of Kant and Mysticism, where Stephen Palmquist explores the space for mystical experience in Kant. In particular, I focus on (a) what Palmquist calls ‘immediate experience’ or ‘encounters’; (b) what he calls the ‘supervening’ of religious experience on ordinary experience; and (c) moral conscience as the ‘voice’ of God
What is Wrong with the Recent Semiological Interpretation of Kant’s Religion
In this article, I challenge the semiological interpretation of Kant’s Religion , particularly as advanced in recent years by James DiCenso and Allen Wood. As I here argue, their interpretations are neither compatible with broader aspects of Kant’s positive philosophy of religion, nor with how Kant himself describes the project of the Religion . Kant wrote the Religion in order to explore the compatibility between his theologically affirmative pu…
The Postulate of Immortality in the Critique of Practical Reason (and Beyond)
It is widely claimed that the second Critique ’s argument for the postulate of immortality is relevantly different from the first Critique ’s argument for the postulate. It is also widely claimed that after the second Critique , Kant distances himself from its particular version of the argument, and even the postulate altogether. It is the purpose of this article to challenge these claims, arguing instead that (a) there is overwhelming textual ev…
Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (9 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works)