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Kant on Practical Justification

Interpretive Essays

Edited by Mark Timmons and Sorin Baiasu

A comprehensive and systematic discussion of a neglected area
Contributors are leading researchers in the field

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Published: 09 April 2013

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Kant on Practical Justification

Interpretive Essays

Edited by Mark Timmons and Sorin Baiasu

Description

This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kantian accounts of practical justification. This examination serves as a starting point for a focused investigation of the Kantian approach to justification in practical disciplines (ethics, legal and political philosophy or philosophy of religion). The recent growth of literature on this subject is not surprising given that Kant's approach seems so promising: he claims to be able to justify unconditional normative claims without recourse to assumptions, views or doctrines, which are not in their turn justifiable. Within the context of modern pluralism, this is exactly what the field needs: an approach which can demonstrably show why certain normative claims are valid, and why the grounds of these claims are valid in their turn, and why the freedom to question them should not be stifled. Although this has been a growth area in philosophy, no systematic and sustained study of the topic of practical justification in Kantian philosophy has been undertaken so far.

With fourteen original chapters and an introduction from leading researchers in the field, this volume addresses this neglected topic. The starting point is the still-dominant view that a successful account of justification of normative claims has to be non-metaphysical. The essays engage with this dominant view and pursue further implications in ethics, legal and political philosophy, as well as philosophy of religion. Throughout the essays, the contributors bring into contact with contemporary debates key interpretive questions about Kant's views on practical justification.

Kant on Practical Justification

Interpretive Essays

Edited by Mark Timmons and Sorin Baiasu

Author Information

Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is author of Morality without Foundations (OUP, 1999), editor of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays (OUP, 2002), co-editor of Metaethics After Moore (OUP, 2006), and editor of Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (published annually).

Sorin Baiasu is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics (2011), co-editor of Politics and Metaphysics in Kant (2011), as well as of a special issue of the journal Kantian Review (2011).

Contributors:

Henry E. Allison is Professor of Philosophy at California University, Davis.

Karl Ameriks is McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Sorin Baiasu is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University (UK).

Paul Guyer is Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University.

John Hare is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University.

Otfried Höffe is Professor of Philosophy at Tübingen University.

Larry Krasnoff is Associate Professor at Charleston College.

Adrian W. Moore is Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University.

Andrews Reath is Professor of Philosophy at California University, Riverside. .

Sebastian Rödl is Professor of Philosophy at Basel University.

Houston Smit is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Robert Stern is Professor of Philosophy at Sheffield University (UK).

Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Howard Williams is Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

Allen Wood is Allen Wood is Ruth Norman Halls Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University.