Kant’s Two Models of Human Actions

Kant’s Two Models of Human Actions

Tags:

• determinism,
• Kant,
• incorporation thesis,
• causal judgment,
• explaining action,
• freedom of action,
• mixed will,
• understanding action

Notes:

• Allison, Henry, Kant’s Theory of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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  Herman, Barbara, Moral Literacy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  Kant, Immanuel, Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Hartknoch, 1781 (1st) and 1787 (2nd rev.) editions, cited as ‘KdrV’, ‘A’/‘B’, respectively.
  Kant, Immanuel, Grundlegung der Metaphysik der Sitten (1785, GS 4: 387–463); Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, cited as ‘Gr’.
  Kant, Immanuel, „Was heißt es, sich im Denken zu Orientieren?” (1786, GS 8: 133–147); “What is Orientation in Thinking?,” cited as ‘DO’.
  Kant, Immanuel, Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, (1788, GS 5: 3–163); Critique of Practical Reason, cited as ‘KprV’.
  Kant, Immanuel, Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790, GS 5: 171–485); Critique of Judgment, cited as ‘KdU’.
  Kant, Immanuel, „Zum ewigen Frieden,” 2nd rev ed. (1796, GS 8: 343–386); “Perpetual Peace,” cited as ‘ZeF’.
  Kant, Immanuel, Die Metaphysik der Sitten, (1798, GS 6: 203–493); The Metaphysics of Morals, cited as ‘MdS’.
  Kant, Immanuel, Kants Gesammelte Schriften. Könniglich Preussische, now Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Berlin: Reimer, now deGruyter, 1902–; cited as ‘GS’, by the initials of Kant’s titles and volume: page numbers.
  Kant, Immanuel, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, ed. Jens Timmermann. Hamburg: Meiner, 1998.
  Kant, Immanuel, Kant im Kontext III – Komplettausgabe, 2nd ed.; release 6, eds., Karsten Worm and Susanne Boeck. Berlin: InfoSoftWare, 2009.
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  Kitcher, Philip, “Projecting the Order of Nature,” in Robert Butts, ed., Kant’s Philosophy of Physical Science (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986), 201–235.
  McCarty, Richard, Kant’s Theory of Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  Mill, John Stuart, “Inaugural Address Delievered to the University of St. Andrews,” 1 Feb. 1867; rpt. in The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, 33 vols., gen. ed. J.M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963–91), 21: 217–257.
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  Parker, David, “‘You Can Fool All the People’: Did Lincoln Say It?,” History News Network (Washington, D.C.: Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University, 2016): http: //historynews network.org/article/161924.
  Tetens, Johann N., Über die allgemeine speculativische Philosophie. Bützow & Wismar: Boedner, 1775.
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  Tetens, Johann N., Über die allgemeine speculativische Philosophie – Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwicklung, vol. 1, ed. Wilhelm Uebele. Berlin, Reuther & Reichard, 1913.
  Waismann, Friedrich, “Verifiability.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supl. vol. 19 (1945): 101–164.
  Westphal, Kenneth R., Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  Westphal, Kenneth R., “Kant, Aristotle and our Fidelity to Reason.” In: Sorin Baiasu and Rui Demirey, guest eds., “The ethical and the juridical in Kant,” special issue of Studi Kantiani 29 (2016): 83–102.
  Westphal, Kenneth R., “How Kant Justifies Freedom of Agency without Transcendental Idealism.” European Journal of Philosophy 25 No. 4 (2017a): 1695–1717; doi: 10.1111/ejop.12264.
  Westphal, Kenneth R., “Kant, Causal Judgment and Locating the Purloined Letter.” In Sofia Miguens and Paulo Tunhas, guest eds., “Kant in Current Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology,” Con-Textos Kantianos 6 (2017b): 42–78; doi: 10.5281/zendo.1092771.
  Westphal, Kenneth R., „Qualia, Gemütsphilosophie und Methodologie; oder Wie wird aristotelische Scientia zu cartesianischer Unfehlbarkeit? Zum heutigen Widerstreit des Naturalismus und Cartesianismus.” Zeitschrift für philosohische Forschung 71 No. 4 (2017c): 457–494.
  Westphal, Kenneth R., “Higher Education and Academic Administration: Current Crises Long Since Foretold.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC) 7 No. 1 (2018): 41–47; https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3Tb.
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