Synopsis

Synopsis Hannah Ginsborg The fourteen essays in this book deal with a variety of interpretive and philosophical issues raised by the Critique of Judgement.1 While each essay addresses a particular topic of discussion associated with Kant’s aesthetics, theory of cognition, or philosophy of biology, the essays collectively are animated by two overarching aims. The first is to offer a reading of the third Critique which presents it as a unified philosophical work and, more specifically, as one which deserves its title: that is, as concerned not just with two particular forms of judgement, aesthetic and teleological, but about our capacity to judge in a more general sense. Kant thinks of the faculty of judgement as a fundamental faculty of the mind, on a par with understanding (the focus of the first Critique) and reason (the focus of the second), and the essays aim to show how Kant’s treatment of the seemingly peripheral areas of aesthetics and teleology can be seen as having the central philosophical significance suggested by the idea of a ‘critique of judgement’

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