Lewin, M. 2021. Rudolf Meer, Der transzendentale Grundsatz der Vernunft. Funktion und Struktur des Anhangs zur Transzendentalen Dialektik der Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2019, 314 S., Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103/3, 562-570. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2021-2020. 1 Einleitung Es gehört zum philosophischen Allgemeinwissen, dass Kant mit der Kritik der reinen Vernunft die Ansprüche […]
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Kant on Philosophy as Conceptual Analysis
Lewin, M. 2023. Kant on Philosophy as Conceptual Analysis, Con-Textos Kantianos 18, 11-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/kant.91509. [1] Abstract: For Kant, philosophical investigations are inherently analytic. The proper method of philosophy is analysis, and the object of analysis are concepts. Hence, Kant’s short description of philosophy as “rational cognition […] from concepts” (KrV, A 837/B 865) can be substituted […]
Introduction to “Kant and Metaphilosophy”
Lewin, M. 2023. Introduction to “Kant and Metaphilosophy”, Kantian Journal 42/3, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2023-3-1. Abstract: There is a growing interest in both Kant’s conception of philosophy and contemporary metaphilosophy, understood as philosophical inquiry into philosophy, its aims, purpose, subjects, structure, practice and methods. Kant has not contributed to metaphilosophy qua contemporary discipline, but his direct analyses of what […]
Kant and Analysis
Lewin, M. and Williamson, T. 2023. Kant and Analysis, Kantian Journal 42/3, 49-73. https://doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2023-3-3. Abstract: In the current dialogue between two authors with different views on analysis, philosophy, and the use of labels, the leading question is: How should one understand the expression ‘analytic philosophy’? Lewin argues that as there are no generally agreed tenets and […]
Introduction to the Topical Issue “Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic: A Re-Evaluation”
Lewin, M. and Meer, R. 2022. Introduction to the Topical Issue “Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic: A Re-Evaluation”, Open Philosophy 5/1: 758-759. https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0229. The Transcendental Dialectic was for a long time an insufficiently studied section of the Critique of Pure Reason. This is surprising, given that division two of the Transcendental Logic forms the largest part of Kant’s first Critique. […]
The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense
Lewin, M. 2022. The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense, Open Philosophy 5/1: 340-359. https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0203. Abstract: In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding, and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one, and […]
Kant’s Metaphilosophy
Lewin, M. 2021. Kant’s Metaphilosophy, Open Philosophy 4/1: 292-310. https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0190. Abstract: While the term “metaphilosophy” enjoys increasing popularity in Kant scholarship, it is neither clear what distinguishes a metaphilosophical theory from a philosophical one nor to what extent Kant’s philosophy contains metaphilosophical views. In the first part of the paper, I will introduce a demarcation criterion and […]
Transcendental Philosophy as a Scientific Research Programme
Lewin, M. 2021. Transcendental Philosophy as a Scientific Research Programme, Kantian Journal 40/3: 93-126. https://doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2021-3-4. [Kant Lecture in Kaliningrad, the original text is in Russian (see below)]. Abstract: Transcendental philosophy was not born like Athena out of Zeus’s head, mature and in full armour from the very beginning. That is why in both prefaces to the Critique of […]
The Universe of Science. The Architectonic Ideas of Science, Sciences and Their Parts in Kant
Lewin, M. 2020. The Universe of Science. The Architectonic Ideas of Science, Sciences and Their Parts in Kant, Kantian Journal 39/2: 26-45. https://doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2020-2-2. Abstract: I argue that Kant has developed a broad systematic account of the architectonic functionality of pure reason that can be used and advanced in contemporary contexts. Reason, in the narrow sense, is responsible for the […]
Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Concept of Reason. The Problem of Different Demands
Lewin, M. 2019. Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Concept of Reason. The Problem of Different Demands, Hegel-Jahrbuch 2019: 146-153. https://doi.org/10.3790/hgjb.2019.1.146. 1 Introduction According to Habermas, it was Hegel, who provoked the discourse of modernity (concerning the question, which principle should be the main point of orientation in philosophy) by creating an overwhelming concept of reason as absolute knowledge […]
Ist die theoretische Vernunft selbst eine Idee? Fichtes Umgang mit Kantischen Ideen um 1810
Lewin, M. 2018. Ist die theoretische Vernunft selbst eine Idee? Fichtes Umgang mit Kantischen Ideen um 1810, Fichte-Studien 46: 288-307. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375680_017. Abstract: The object of this study is to examine the way in which the later Fichte handles Kantian ideas. In the first part Kant’s theory of principles will be investigated in order to find out how […]