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Epistemology and metaphysics
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Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
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The Nature of Inner Experience Katharina T. Kraus | University of Notre Dame, Indiana This book explores the intricate relationship between becoming an individual person and knowing oneself as such by studying Kant’s distinctive account of psychological personhood. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of mind and psychology.
320pp Aug. 2022 9781108812757 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Dec. 2020 9781108836647 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108874304
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Kant’s Critique of Taste
The Feeling of Life Katalin Makkai This book offers a new interpretation of Kant’s aesthetics in the Critique of Judgment that shows its relevance to contemporary debates. It is aimed at philosophers, primarily those interested in Kant or in aesthetics, but it will also interest scholars of art theory, criticism, and cultural theory.
217pp 16 b/w illus. Nov. 2022 9781108708777 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2021 9781108497794 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108596893
Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will
Jörg Noller | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time, and will provide a valuable foundation for further research on free will in post-Kantian philosophy.
290pp Mar. 2022 9781108482462 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108687720
A Critical Guide Michael Bennett McNulty While Kant’s philosophy of science is a growing field of study, his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science has often been poorly understood. This volume will be an invaluable resource for understanding one of Kant’s most difficult works, and will set the agenda for future scholarship on Kant’s philosophy of science.
Cambridge Critical Guides
280pp Aug. 2022 9781108476898 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108661072 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics
The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered Karin de Boer This is the first book-length study to interpret the Critique of Pure Reason in view of Kant’s sustained efforts to turn Wolffian metaphysics into a science. It not only sheds new light on key chapters of Kant’s work, but also reconstructs the outline of his projected ‘system of pure reason’.
290pp Aug. 2022 9781108820110 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Sep. 2020 9781108842174 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108897983
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Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel
Freedom, Right, and Revolution James A. Clarke | University of York Scholarship on Kant’s practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian philosophy and German Idealism. This volume of new essays illuminates that reception and how it informed the development of practical philosophy between Kant and Hegel.
285pp Nov. 2022 9781108703284 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Mar. 2021 9781108497725 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108647441
The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics
Robert R. Clewis | Gwynedd-Mercy College, Pennsylvania Organized around eight core themes in aesthetics today, this book uncovers the complex development of Kant’s aesthetic theory. It will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts.
288pp Nov. 2022 9781009209427 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009209403
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A Theory of Truthmaking
Metaphysics, Ontology, and Reality Jamin Asay | The University of Hong Kong This book is the most comprehensive exploration to date into what truthmaking is and how it contributes to metaphysical debates across philosophy. It offers a wide-ranging perspective on the many facets of the truthmaking literature, and offers a plethora of arguments defending numerous contentious positions.
310pp Mar. 2022 9781108718615 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Apr. 2020 9781108499880 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108759465
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4 Causal Powers and the Intentionality Continuum
William A. Bauer | North Carolina State University Why does anything happen? What is the best account of natural necessity? Bauer explores the internal structure of causal powers and the possibility that physical reality and mind are unified through intentionality. Researchers and students of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind will find this book valuable.
240pp Dec. 2022 9781009214889 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009214858
Foundationalism
Richard Fumerton | University of Iowa This Element is an introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification. It explains clearly the main arguments for foundationalism and the main objections to alternatives. It also develops and defends a specific form of foundationalism, one that allows a distinction between ideal and derivative justification.
Elements in Epistemology
75pp Jul. 2022 9781009013949 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009028868
Identity
Erica Shumener | University of Pittsburgh This Element has two objectives: to discuss formulations of identity criteria and to take a closer look at one notorious criterion of object identity, Leibniz’s Law. The author considers alternatives to Leibniz’s Law as well as the possibility that there are no adequate identity criteria to be found.
Elements in Metaphysics
75pp Sep. 2022 9781009001342 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009004671
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Lotteries, Knowledge, and Rational Belief
Essays on the Lottery Paradox Igor Douven A book for readers interested in the latest theories about knowledge and rational belief, with an emphasis on how outright belief relates to degrees of certainty. The most straightforward connection between those has given rise to a paradox, which is central to all of the essays in this volume.
278pp Nov. 2022 9781108433051 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Feb. 2021 9781108421911 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108379755
Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism
J. T. M. Miller | Durham University This Element aims to introduce the reader to the core commitments of metaphysical realism, and to illustrate how these commitments have changed over time by surveying some of the main families of views that realism has been contrasted with: (radical) scepticism, idealism, and anti-realism.
Elements in Metaphysics
75pp Jul. 2022 9781009009089 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009006927
Mortal Objects
Identity and Persistence through Life and Death Steven Luper | Trinity University, Texas Steven Luper explores what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, and what it is to live and persist. After death or extinction, what could something become? Could it persist in another form? This metaphysical study gets to the heart of the deepest questions about the nature of life.
230pp Feb. 2022 9781108833721 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108981316
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Negative Actions
Events, Absences, and the Metaphysics of Agency Jonathan D. Payton | Bilkent University, Ankara This is the first book-length treatment of the problem of negative action. It provides a comprehensive picture of the nature of negative actions, our thought and talk about them, and their place in a theory of action.
246pp Nov. 2022 9781108813730 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Feb. 2021 9781108839792 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108885157
Normative Reasons
Between Reasoning and Explanation Artūrs Logins | Universität Zürich What are reasons to do something? This study assesses and critiques the current theories of normative reasons and provides a new theory of reasons as answers to normative why-questions, both for specialists and advanced students in epistemology, metaethics and ethics.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
270pp Aug. 2022 9781316513774 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009076012
Persistence
Kristie Miller | University of Sydney Persistence realism is the view that ordinary sentences that we think and utter about persisting objects are often true. This Element considers several different views about the conditions under which those sentences are true.
Elements in Metaphysics
75pp Aug. 2022 9781009056007 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009057356
Properties
Anna-Sofia Maurin | Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden Although the subject matter of this Element is properties, do not expect in-depth introductions to the various views on properties ‘on the market’. Instead, here that subject matter is treated metaphilosophically.
Elements in Metaphysics
75pp Jul. 2022 9781009009249 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009008938
