Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister

198 Pages·1993·4.596 MB·English

by  R. M. Dancy (auth.), R. M. Dancy (eds.)

KANT AND CRITIQUE:
NEW ESSAYS IN HONOR OF W.H. WERKMEISTER
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STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY,
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Managing Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University
Editors:
DONALD DAV IDSON, University oi Califomia, Berkeley
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, University oi Leyden
WESLEY C. SALMON, University oi Pittsburgh
VOLUME227
KANT AND CRITIQUE:
NEW ESSAYS IN HONOR OF
W.H. WERKMEISTER
Edited by
R.M.DANCY
Florida State University, Tallahassee, U.S.A.
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
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Kant and cr,tlque new essays ,n honor of W.H. Werkmeister / edlted
by R.M. Dancy.
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Inc 1u des b, b 1 I ograph I ca 1 references and Index.
1. Kant. Immanuel, 1724-1804--Congresses. I. Werkmeister, W. H.
(WI ll,am Henry), 1901- Ir. Dancy, R. M.
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PREFACE
On 5-6 April 1991, there was a conference on Kant
at Florida State University; this volume collects the
(revised versions ofthe) papers presented on that occasion.
The occasion was, give or take a few months, the
90th birthday of Professor (Emeritus) William H.
Werkmeister. Werkie (as all his friends call hirn) hirnself
gave the final paper at this conference. Hence the
inclusion of a paper by Werkie in a volume honoring hirn.
Although he is primarily known for his expertise in
the field of Kantian philosophy, Werkie's published
scholarship has spanned a wide range of subjects for
more than fifty years: his first book, A Philosophy of
Science, appeared in 1940; today, among other endeavors,
he is at work on a book on Heidegger, and there have
been other books and more than a hundred papers in
between.
Readers interested in fuller biographical information
about Werkie should consult the first three papers in the
Festschrift celebrating his eightieth hirthday in 1981.1
Since then, Werkie's activities have continued without
much letup. He no longer teaches regularly, hut he gives
frequent colloquia in the Philosophy Department here,
participates in conferences on Kant around the world,
and continues to puhlish, particularly on Kant and
Nicolai Hartmann.
Wayne McEvilly, 'The Teacher Remembered'; Charles H.
Patterson, 'Scholar, Administrator, Colleague, and Friend'; and
E.F. KaeIin, 'The Enduring Person'; pp. 3, 4-10, and 11-21, resp.,
ofE.F. Kaelin et al., eds., Man and Value: Essays in Honor of
William H. Werkmeister, (Tallahassee, Florida: University
Presses of Florida, 1981).
v
R.M. Dancy (ed.), Kant en Critique, v-vi.
© 1993 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
vi Preface
The papers with which the participants celebrated
Werkie's birthday are printed here in the order in which
they were presented. There were three sessions on the
materials pertinent to each of the three Critiques and
one session on the Opus postumum. In the first session
Werkie commented ad libitum on Fred Van De Pitte's
paper; no one had the foresight to record his comments,
which is why there is hut one paper in Part I here.
Citations ofKant's work in the text give the volume
and page number of the Royal Prussian Academy
('Akademie') edition of Kant's gesammelte Schriften
(Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1902-), except for references to
the Critique ofPure Reason ('Kr V), where paginations of
the first and second editions are given ('AlB'; in volumes
4 and 3, respectively, of the Akademie edition). 'NKS'
refers to the Norman Kemp Smith translation of the
Critique of Pure Reason (London: Macmillan, 1933;
reprinted 1958). Individual authors have used additional
abbreviations; these are explained in footnotes to their
papers.
Thanks are due to Florida State University for
providing funds which enabled the Philosophy
Department to host the Conference on Kant in April
1991. The Department is particularly grateful to Robert
M. J ohnson, Vice President for Research, for his support.
I must also thank Laura Brown for her tireless efforts in
putting the conference together and Margaret Dancy for
her assistance with the editing of this volume. Finally,
special thanks to Maggi Vanos for her patience throughout
the editorial process and for her skill and artistry in
producing a camera-ready version of the manuscript.
R.M.D.
Department of Philosophy
Florida State University
Tallahassee
CONTENTS
Preface v
Introduction 1
Part I: Pure Reason
The Importance of Kant's Strategy in
Determining His Early Method
Frederick P. Van De Pitte 17
Part 11: Practical Reason
Kant's Morality of Law and Morality of
Freedom
fu~G~u ~
Could Kant Have Been a Utilitarian?
R.M. Hare 91
Part 111: Judgment
The Relation ofPleasure to Judgment in
Kant's Aesthetics
Ted Coken 117
viii Contents
Is There a Conflict Between Taste and
Judgment in Kant's Aesthetics?
Donald W. Crawford 125
Part IV: The Opus Postumum
The Concept of Transcendental Idealism in
Kant's Opus Postumum
Burkhard Tuschling 151
The Two Theses of Kant's Opus Postumum
W.H. Werkmeister 169
Index of Passages Cited 189
INTRODUCTION
None of the contributors to this volume considers
Kant's thought a monolithic structure. It is quite wen
known, of course, that Kant's thought developed a great
deal before the publication ofthe Critique ofPure Reason
in 1781, and perhaps it is pretty weH known that his
thought developed further between then and the
publication ofthe second edition ofthat Critique in 1787.
It is less weH known that Kant did not cease to be self
critical, to rethink his views to the very bottom, then, or
ever. That is quite weH known to anyone who has read
Werkmeister's masterly exposition, Kant: The
Architectonic and Development of His Philosophy (La
SaHelLondon: Open Court, 1980), but it is not exactly
street knowledge. The authors of the papers presented
here are aH acutely aware ofit, and are even prepared to
help Kant out in the enterprise of self-criticism: they
consider questions, not just of what Kant said, but of
what he might have said, what he was in a position to
say, even what he should have said.
1. Pure Reason
Van De Pitte chaHenges the standard picture of
Kant as attempting to paste the rationalism of Leibniz
together with the empiricism ofHume on several fronts.
For one thing, it is insufficiently complex: N ewton's view
of space and time as absolute and Leibniz' view of them
as relative are at least as important in understanding
the Kantian synthesis, for it is the attempt to mediate
between these views that leads Kant to adopt space and
time as the apriori forms ofintuition. And for another,
the stereotype is inaccurate about Leibniz, who did not
see reason as the sole source ofknowledge, but accorded
R.M. Dancy (ed.), Kant en Critique. 1-13.
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