ISBN : 9780198783886
This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because of its impact on Kant's intellectual development, and because of the way it fundamentally informed the work of generations of German philosophers, including Moses Mendelssohn, Thomas Abbt, Johann Gottfried Herder, Solomon Maimon, Johann August Eberhard, and arguably even Georg Friedrich Hegel. However, Baumgarten's Metaphysics has only recently become available in reliable German and English translations, so that many scholars have been excluded from the discussion and the significance of Baumgarten's work has remained largely unexplored. Thus with the appearance of these translations, interest in Baumgarten's work has surged among both. This volume aims to provide an anchor for this emerging discussion by presenting specially written essays by some of the sc
Courtney D. Fugate and John Hymers: Introduction
1 Brandon C. Look: Baumgarten's Rationalism
2 Angelica Nuzzo: Determination, Determinability, and the Structure of Ens: Baumgarten's Ontology and Beyond
3 Clemens Schwaiger: Baumgarten's Theory of Freedom: A Contribution to the Wolff-Lange Controversy
4 Gary Hatfield: Baumgarten, Wolff, Descartes, and the Origins of Psychology
5 Corey W. Dyck: Between Wolffianism and Pietism: Baumgarten's Rational Psychology
6 Rudolf A. Makkreel: Baumgarten and Kant on Clarity, Distinctness, and the Differentiation of our Mental Powers
7 John Hymers: Contradiction and Privation: Baumgarten and Kant on the Concept of Nothing
8 Courtney D. Fugate: Baumgarten and Kant on Existence
9 Paul Guyer: Baumgarten, Kant, and the Refutation of Idealism
10 Henry E. Allison: Freedom of the Will in Baumgarten and Kant's ML1
11 Jeffrey Edwards: Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Principle of Thoroughgoing Determination in Kant's Opus postumum