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The normativity of nature : essays on Kant's Critique of judgement /

Most philosophers have taken the importance of Kant's Critique of Judgement to lie primarily in its contributions to aesthetics and to the philosophy of biology. Hannah Ginsborg, however, sees the Critique of Judgement as representing a central contribution to the understanding of human cogniti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ginsborg, Hannah
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : O. U. P, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on references and translations
  • Introduction
  • part 1. Aesthetics. Kant on subjectivity of taste
  • On the key to Kant's critique of taste
  • Lawfulness without law: Kant on the free play of imagination and understanding
  • Aesthetic judging and the intentionality of pleasure
  • The pleasure of judgement: Kant and the possibility of taste
  • part 2. Cognition. Reflective judgement and taste
  • Thinking the particular as contained under the universal
  • Aesthetic judgement and perceptual normativity
  • The appearance of spontaneity: Kant on judgement and empirical self-knowledge
  • part 2. Teleology. Kant on aesthetic and biological purposiveness
  • Kant on understanding organisms as natural purposes
  • Two kinds of mechanical inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle
  • Kant's biological teleology and its philosophical significance
  • Oughts without intentions: a Kantian approach to biological functions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.