Paul Guyer

Datos Biográficos

ID953532
NOMBREPaul Guyer
NOMBRESPaul
APELLIDOGuyer
FIRMAGUYER P
AFILIACIONESBrown University
ORCID0000-0001-7195-6710
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TOTAL DE OBRAS117
TOTAL DE CITAS165
TOTAL COMO AUTOR112
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1976
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • Response to My Commentators

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEKantian Review2026

    The commentators have focused on my interpretations of responses to Kant’s moral philosophy by K. L. Reinhold, Friedrich Nietzsche, and several of the British Idealists, including R. G. Collingwood and John Rawls. I argue that, contrary to Reinhold, Kant’s conception of freedom does include the source of moral normativity in its distinction between Wille and Willkühr ; that, in contrast to Nietzsche’s ‘exceptionalist perfectionism’, Kant’s insist…

  • The Moral Foundation of Right

    Open AccessPaul GuyerBOOKMoral Foundation of Right2024

    Kant defined 'Right' (Recht) as the condition that obtains among a population of physically embodied persons capable of setting their own ends who live on a finite surface and therefore cannot avoid interaction with each other if each is as free to set their own ends as is consistent with the freedom of all to do the same. He regarded this rational idea, heir to the traditional idea of 'natural Right, as the test of the legitimacy of the laws of …

  • Immanuel Kant

    Henry E Allison, Karl Ameriks et al.BOOKImmanuel Kant2024

    The commentary offered in this edition of The Critique of Pure Reason provides a close textual reading of the key terms, theses, and lines of argumentation in Kant’s principal work based on current scholarship. It is the first commentary on the Critique to consider the entire text, without gaps, in both its first and second editions. Now in its second edition, this work is recognized as an indispensible resource on Kant.

  • Self-understanding and philosophy

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEStudia Kantiana2023

  • The Trouble with Literature

    Paul GuyerARTICLECommon Knowledge2022

    The trouble with literature, according to Kahn, is that it is fictive and subjective yet aims to produce belief, an apprehension of objective reality. This trouble, she argues in her Clarendon Lectures of 2017, goes back to the Reformation: its emphasis on individual interpretation of scripture conflicted with its demand for inward belief and not just outward conformity with ritual. Kahn focuses on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton as two writers in …

  • Kant’s Theory of Modern Art

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEKantian Review2021

    Can Kant’s theory of fine art serve as a theory of modern art? It all depends on what ‘modern’ means. The word can mean current or contemporary, indexed to the time of use, and in that sense the answer is yes: Kant’s theory of genius implies that successful art is always to some extent novel, so there should always be something that counts as contemporary art on his theory. But ‘modern’ can also be used adjectively, perhaps more properly as ‘mode…

  • Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics

    Paul GuyerARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2021

    This is not just an important work on Herder, on the history of aesthetics in the eighteenth-century, or on the “hinge” between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century aesthetics, as Rachel Zuckert puts it. Its sophisticated discussion of Herder's naturalistic method in aesthetics should be of interest to students of contemporary aesthetics and to philosophers interested in naturalism more generally.Part 1, “Herder's Aesthetics,” lays out Zuckert's in…

  • Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant

    Paul GuyerBOOKReason and Experience in…2020

    This work examines the lifelong intellectual relationship between Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86). Both engaged in a common project of striking the right balance between rationalism and empiricism, they sometimes borrowed from one another, often disagreed with one another, and can usefully be compared even when they did not directly interact. Their arguments and conclusions on metaphysical issues such as proofs of the ex…

  • God and the Structure of the Transcendental Dialectic

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEKantian Review2020

    Marcus Willaschek’s new book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is a penetrating analysis of the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In his comments, the author first raises some questions concerning the structure of the Transcendental Dialectic (and Willaschek’s reconstruction of it) and then proposes that looking at the second Critique and continuing on int…

  • Luigi Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEKantian Review2019

    Luigi Caranti seeks to find a foundation for a contemporary theory of human rights in Kant, as well as contemporary relevance for his project of perpetual peace and his teleology of political progress. I agree with much of what he says, but provide a different account of Kant’s foundations for morality in general and human rights in particular, and defend my critique of Kant’s conception of a guarantee of progress from Caranti’s defence of Kant

  • Formalism around 1800

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEFilozofija i drustvo2019Referencias: 3

    This paper compares the outwardly similar structural formalisms of Marc- Antoine Laugier and Arthur Schopenhauer (who uses many of Laugier?s examples). Laugier purports to base his aesthetics on an historical argument from the ?primitive hut?; but his preferences are really based on aversion to structurally and programmatically non-functional elements. His preferences show disregard for purely aesthetic considerations, such as pleasing proportion…

  • Principles of Justice, Primary Goods and Categories of Right

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEKantian Review2018

    John Rawls based his theory of justice, in the work of that name, on a ‘Kantian interpretation’ of the status of human beings as ‘free and equal’ persons. In his subsequent, ‘political rather than metaphysical’ expositions of his theory, the conception of citizens of democracies as ‘free and equal’ persons retained its foundational role. But Rawls appealed only to Kant’s moral philosophy, never to Kant’s own political philosophy as expounded in h…

  • Moral Worth and Moral Motivation

    Paul GuyerCHAPTERBegehren / Desire2018

    Authors such as Barbara Herman have argued that Kant should be understood as modeling moral motivation by the idea of a choice or commitment to a fundamental maxim rather than through the idea of some sort of desire or feeling in favor of the morally preferred action outweighing or overwhelming inclination in favor of some alternative. I argue that this approach fails to do justice to Kant’s own two-level approach to moral motivation, on which th…

  • Alva Noë, Strange Tools

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2017

  • One Act or Two? Hannah Ginsborg on Aesthetic Judgement

    Paul GuyerARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2017Citada por: 1

    Hannah Ginsborg rejects my ‘two-acts’ interpretation of Kant’s conception of aesthetic judgement as untrue to Kant’s text and as philosophically problematic, especially because it entails that every object must be experienced as beautiful. I reject her criticisms, and argue that it is her own ‘one-act’ interpretation that is liable to these criticisms. But I also suggest that her emphasis on Kant’s ‘transcendental explanation’ of pleasure as a se…

  • Arguing for Transcendental Idealism

    Open AccessPaul GuyerARTICLEKantian Review2016

    I endorse Allais’s ‘moderate metaphysical’ approach to transcendental idealism, but find tension between her concept of ‘manifest reality’ and her relational interpretation of the doctrine. And I think her reconstruction of Kant’s argument for transcendental idealism fails to block the famous ‘missing alternative’ objection, although in my view Kant’s fundamental argument for the position was intended precisely to block such an objection

  • Kant, Mendelssohn, and Immortality

    Paul GuyerCHAPTERHighest Good in Kant's Philosophy2016

  • Art and Ethics in a Material World

    Paul GuyerARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2016

    In her new book, Jennifer A. McMahon enlists an interpretation of the central idea of Kant’s account of aesthetic experience into an account of moral development which reflects her sub-title, with its reference to pragmatism, more than her main title, with its reference to materialism. Nothing in her book turns on materialism as a position in metaphysics, so I assume the intended reference of the phrase ‘material world’ is rather to the artistic …

  • The Virtues of Freedom

    Paul GuyerBOOKThe Virtues of Freedom2016Citada por: 7

    This volume of essays by one of the world's foremost Kant scholars explores the efforts of the great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) to construct a moral philosophy based on the premise that the most fundamental value for human beings is their freedom to set their own ends

  • A History of Modern Aesthetics 3 Volume Set

    Open AccessPaul GuyerBOOKHistory of Modern Aesthetics2015

    A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced…

  • Chapter 9. Play and Society in the Lectures on Anthropology

    Paul GuyerCHAPTERReading Kant's Lectures2015

  • History of Modern Aesthetics

    Paul GuyerBOOKHistory of Modern Aesthetics2015

  • Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

    Edmund Burke, Paul GuyerBOOKPhilosophical Enquiry into the…2015

  • Kant’s Legacy for German Idealism

    Open AccessPaul GuyerCHAPTERPalgrave Handbook of German…2014

    One way to characterize Kant's legacy to German Idealism would be to say that it is the respectability of the project of idealism itself. The early eighteenth-century idealism or "immaterialism" of George Berkeley and Arthur Collier1 had hardly made idealism a respectable position in their time. But when Kant promulgated his "transcendental idealism" in the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason , in 1781, having anticipated it in his inaug…

  • The Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant

    Paul Guyer, Allen W Wood