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... Progress of Metaphysics. In: I. Kant. Theoretical Philosophy after 1781. Edited by H. Alli­son and P. Heath, translated by G. Hatfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 413-424. Kant, I., 2002b. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science. In: I. Kant. Theoretical Philosophy after 1781. Edited by H. Allison and P. Heath, translated by G. Hatfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 49-169. Kripke, S., 1980. Naming and Necessity. Oxford: Blackwell....

... Kant has con­tributed to a new version of such skepticism. In the first step, I characterize the basic idea of metaphilosophical skepticism in more detail and identify a version of this idea, which I call “Second-Stage-Skepticism” and on which I will focus. In the following part, I reconstruct Rescher’s reading of Second-Stage-Skepticism as well as his reasons for considering Kant to represent this version. My main claim in this part will be that there is no reading of the mentioned basic idea ...

In a crucial paragraph (KrV, A 663-664 / B 691-692) of the first part of the “Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic”, Kant discusses the specific status of the principles of homogeneity, specification, and continuity. In doing so, he refers to an already proven argument and thus to other passages of the Critique of Pure Reason. In search of this argument the “Transcendental Analytic” but in particular the “first book” of the “Transcendental Dialectic” turn out to be possible reference points....

... Beauty by the celebrated 18th century English artist William Hogarth — an in­fluential philosophical treatise whose ideas have never lost their relevance. The paper starts with the brief account of the concept of paratext, its types and functions; it will then proceed to specificities of philosophical translation. In the main part of the article, the background information on the material under study precedes the analysis of the identified commented translational issues. Alekseev, M. P., 1987....

Both the categories and principles of understanding as well as the ideas and principles of reason build transcendental elements to conceive transcendental philosophy as a philosophical system. Accordingly, in addition to the “Transcendental Analytic”, Kant develops in the “Transcendental Dialectic” an expanded concept of the transcendental. The transcendental ideas do not denote object-constitutive principles but, in a weaker sense, conditions of the possibility of experience. The relation between...

... has been long overlooked. These approaches are best understood as innovative re-readings of Kant’s postulates of freedom, immortality, and God. Since Hilary Putnam pointed out — in his 1992 book Renewing Philosophy — that James’s essay, “The Will to Believe”, in spite of having received a great deal of hostile criticism, is in “its logic, in fact, precise and impeccable”, James’s thoughts are considered by many contemporary philosophers (by Charles Taylor, e.g., and by Hans Joas) ...

... between the deduction of experience and the deduction of freedom. I single out the following features of the two types of deduction. First, theoretical use of reason is aimed at objects while practical reason is aimed at noumena, the foundations of will and freedom. Second, the transcendental deduction of space and time, as well as the deduction of categories, is preceded by transcendental reduction, which is absent in the deduction of freedom. Third, Kant orients the methodological movement of ...

... developed some ideas about the difference between being persuaded and being convinced which have antecedents in the German tradition, but with regard to which he developed ideas of his own. It is my intention to examine precisely some of these passages. I will explain how the philosopher understood this difference, what its relevance is and why the figure of the other is necessary to determine it. For this purpose, texts published in the critical period and students’ lecture notes from the same period ...

Kant’s solution for the problem of freedom of the will rests on his transcendental idealism and its differentiation of appearances and things in themselves. Human beings, with their bodies and observable inner and outer activities, are objects of perception (empirical intuition) and therefore appearances....

... Model of Semiosis: The First Steps Toward a Scien­tific Biosemiotics. The American Journal of Semiotics , 24 (1—3), pp. 23—37. Barbieri, M., 2012. Codepoiesis — the deep logic of life. Biosemiotics , 5 (3), pp. 297—299. Carter, Ch. W., Jr., Wills, P. R., 2021. Reciprocally-Coupled Gating: Strange Loops in Bioenergetics, Genetics, and Catalysis. Biomolecules , 11 (2), 265. doi: https://doi . org/10.3390/biom11020265. Chebanov, S. V., 1999. Biohermeneutics and hermeneutics of biology. Semiotica ...

... hur­dles in philosophical discourse are technical terms which are often either in­vented or re-conceptualized by the scholar and then need to be re-contextualized by the trans­lator. Seeking to reflect on translation as a heuristic process, this paper will focus on the reso­lution of the potential cognitive dissonance and the translator’s justification of sense-oriented strategies in dealing with such key concepts as ‘connoisseur’, ‘grace’, ‘sublime’, and ‘je ne sçai quoi’ in the ...

.... Meerbote. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 373-416. Kant, I., 1998. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated and edited by P. Guyer and A. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kant, I., 2004. Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics that Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science. Translated and edited by G. Hatfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kant, I., 2005. Notes and Fragments. Edited by P. Guyer, translated by C. Bowman, P. Guyer and F. Rauscher. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge ...

The ‘pragmatics of language’ is a set of pragmatic means of a particular language, the meanings of which not only change the world, but also themselves change in the framework of discourse. At the same time, ‘linguistic pragmatics’ is a branch of linguistics that examines linguistic units from the point of view of their use. The ‘pragmatic turn’ of the 1970s in lin­guistics meant an interest in using language as an action in which words acquire their ac­tual mea­nings, sometimes radically different...

This paper critically addresses the unwitting gender oppression underpinning Kant’s anthropological and legal approach to domestic labour, highlighting the helpfulness of his analysis of reproductive tasks for casting light on some of the historical causes behind the current view of such labour. With this general aim in mind, I first address the multiple meanings of the term ‘social domination’ as it is used in Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Second, I focus on the figurative sense Kant...

This paper will argue that translations are willed into existence in three conceivable ways: pull, push and shuffle. Pull is the most intuitive form. It corresponds, for example, to a publishing house that decides to translate a foreign novel. Here, the initiative ...

... remarks on the realm of ends, also operates with the notions of an end in itself and absolute value — seemingly in a different way, however. Thus, in the remarks on the realm of ends, the rational being becomes an end in itself through its real moral willing and acting, both of which presuppose the validity of the categorical imperative. Basically, the difference in the ways of using the concepts of absolute value and an end in itself consists in the fact that in the first case both serve as precondition ...

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 picture of a well-ordered universe of science consisting of architectonic ideas of science, sciences and parts of sciences. In the first section (I), I show what Kant means by the architectonic ideas by explaining and interrelating the concepts of (a) the faculty of reason, (b) ideas...

This paper argues whether Kant’s cosmopolitanism entails a specific theory of coercion. I will especially tackle Kant’s account of international political order. First, I claim that Kant attributes a systematic role to the cosmopolitan right, what justifies considering this part of the doctrine of law as a necessary rational conclusion of ...

The paper focuses on the problem of anthropodicy in the philosophical system of Hermann Cohen and its interpretation by Jacob Gordin (1896—1947). Gordin was one of the last followers of Cohen in Russia. He developes his interpretation in the lecture “Anthropodicy”, which was given in the Philosophical Circle at the Petrograd University in December 1921. For the study of the problem of anthropodicy he was apparently inspired by the discussions at the Free Philosophical Association in 1919—1921. Gordin...

... Compendium]. 2014. No. 4 (50).S. 54—60. 23. Albus, V. 2001, Weltbild und Metapher. Untersuchungen zur Philosophie im 18. Jahrhundert. Würzburg, 2001. 24. Borries, K. 1928, Kant als Politiker. Leipzig. 25. Brandt, R. 1997, Antwort auf Bernd Ludwig: Will die Natur unwiderstehlich die Republik? in: Kant-Studien. Jg. 88. S. 229—237. 26. Brandt, R. 2003, Universität zwischen Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung. Kants «Streit der Fakultäten». Berlin. 27. Buhr, M., Dietzsch, S. (Hrsg.) 1984, Immanuel Kant....

In the sources that guide the Masons, and in the sources that they pro­duce themselves, the term “Word” dominates in the meaning of a “text, an idea or a communicative unit”. This determines the importance of the re­search. Its purpose is to identify the characteristics of the perception of the Word by the Masons, that is, to discover the typology of the unit and its func­tions. To achieve the goal, the methods of semantic, contextual and communi­cative analysis were used, allowing in their totality...

This article studies the semiotics of the ship as an image of the world in cases of the novels To the End of the Earth by William Golding, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by J. Barnes, and The Ship of Fools by Gr. Norminton. The ship is considered a new version of the Biblical Noah’s Ark – a miniature society. The authors believe that the avantext integrates the new “generative model” creating at the same time new forms of fictional conditionality and types of literary generalisation. 1....

A higher level of unity and cohesion across the European Union member states is an important aspect of European integration though it has a rather ambiguous nature. The Law on the Common Market, which aims to increase the economic efficiency of the EU, became a subject of extensive discussions among researchers suggesting that its viability at the political and socio-economic levels depends on a fair distribution of gains among the countries and regions of the Community. These discussions resulted...

The article analyzes the main features of the category of pity in the texts of two inklings — C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in the context of the ethical binary opposition of “good and evil”. This binary opposition is not randomly chosen: Lewis wrote “The Great Divorce” in order to refute the famous artistic idea of William Blake about a fruitful union or the marriage of Heaven and Hell, which personifies the creative mixture of good and evil, and as a result, the blurring of the boundaries of...

... Cohen, H., 1902. Logik der reinen Erkenntnis. Berlin: Cassirer. Cohen, H., 1904. Ethik des reinen Willens. Berlin: Cassirer. Gurvitch, G., 1915. “Pravda voli monarshej” Feofana Prokopovicha i ee zapadnoevropejskie istochniki [The Truth of Monarchic Will by Feofan Prokopovich and Its Western European Sources]. Yuryev: K. Matthiesen (In Russ.) Gurvitch, G., 1918. Rousseau i deklaraciya prav: Ide­ya neot’emlemyh prav individa v politicheskoj doktrine Rousseau [Declaration of Rights: The Idea of ...

Kant is compared with Socrates because the two philosophers have much in common. Both thinkers were central figures in their time. Kant revolutionised the philosophy of the modern period dealing with questions of ethics and epistemology; Socrates brought about a similar revolution in ancient Greek philosophy. The image of Socrates continues to inspire modern scholars, the main features of this image being rationality and publicity. Socrates is seen as an arch-rationalist and the founder of science...

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 philosophy is and how it is to be done can be identified with general subjects and problems constituting the research field of metaphilosophy. Several aspects of Kant’s conception of...

..., 8(1), pp. 45-67. https://doi.org/10.1163/174552411X549372 . Wood, A., 1999. Kant’s Ethical Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kant’s ethics, Kantian ethics, Formula of Universal Law, Formula of a Law of Nature, contradiction in willing, positive duties, universalisation tests, Categorical Imperative 128-148 10.5922/0207-6918-2024-1-6

Despite the popularity of many of Kant’s ethical notions, such as autonomy, dignity and respect for persons, there is a perception, even among Kant scholars themselves, that one cannot reliably derive concrete duties from Kant’s moral philosophy. Against this, I shall argue that — properly understood — Kant’s ethics is of prime importance even today. I shall argue that Kant’s preferred procedure is actually the way we develop new ethical rules during the recent Coronavirus pandemic. In order to demonstrate...

Although Kant was born three hundred years ago, his practical philosophy is still relevant and helpful for understanding difficult and crucial issues of today. One example is the strange transformation the concept of human dignity has undergone in post-Soviet Russia — in everyday language, in ideological doctrines, and in legal documents. While in ordinary life dignity is increasingly reduced to access to material benefits, in its legal sense — above all in the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation...

... judgements and reconstruct their conceptual content from the functions of thinking underlying each category. Furthermore, Kant justifies by means of a transcendental deduction the fact that the categories of freedom necessarily relate to all objects of the will. I argue that the categories are concepts constitutive for the object of the will: the role they play is that of the functions of willing an object. Finally, I show that the categories of freedom reach beyond Kant’s foundation of moral philosophy....

Kant’s mourning letter or necrology for his student Johann Friedrich von Funk (1760) has hardly been received. This study attempts to change this by explaining the contexts of the short missive. In the first part this concerns in particular the influence that Gottsched exerted on the style of such printed speeches or necrolo­gies. Kant’s references therefore to the ‘Royal German Society’ in Königsberg and its founder Flottwell, a friend of Gottsched’s, are described. The influence of the Roman Stoa...

The paper explores the perspectives of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Marx regarding hu­man freedom, highlighting their relevance amidst the contradictory landscape of social devel­opment in late capitalism. It is well-established that Dostoevsky's ‘orthodox’ socialist stance resonated with Marx's critique of bourgeois society, focusing on themes of materialism, the dominance of wealth, and alienation. Both thinkers grappled with the concept of human free­dom, recognizing it as an intrinsic characteristic...

Kant’s theory of enthusiasm has received relatively little attention in Kant studies. This is surprising in view of the fact that Kant was preoccupied with the theme of enthusiasm throughout his life. One of the reasons may be that for Kant enthusiasm is an affect. Therefore, it cannot be used to justify ethics. On closer examination, however, a more differentiated picture emerges. In addition to pathological enthusiasm, Kant recognises an aesthetically sublime enthusiasm, and in his reflections...

... Translated and edited by P. Guyer and A. W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kant, I., 1999. Correspondence. Translated and edited by A. Zweig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kant, I., 2001. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science, with Kant’s letter to Marcus Herz, February 27, 1772. The P. Carus translation extensively revised by J. W. Ellington. Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett. Katrechko, S. N., 2022. Kantian Cognitive Model of the ...

... https://doi.org/10.2307/1600573 Suprenant, C. W., 2018. Kant’s Liberalism. In: B. van der Vossen, J. Brennan and D. Schmidtz, eds. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism. New York: Routledge, pp. 68-76. Swinburne, R., 2013. Mind, Brain, and Free Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662562.001.0001 Taylor R. S., 2004. A Kantian Defense of Self‐Ownership. Journal of Political Philosophy, 12(1), pp. 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2004.00191....

... Kings Arms in the Poultry. Van Brakel, J., 2006. Kant’s Legacy for the Philosophy of Chemistry. In: E. Scerri, D. Baird and L. McIntyre, eds. 2006. Philosophy of Chemistry. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3261-7_4 . Wille, H., 2005. Kant über Außerirdische. Münster: Monsenstein & Vannerdat. Windgätter, C., 2005. ‘Jetzt ergötze und erhole ich mich an der kältesten Vernunft-Kritik’. Kants transzendentale Frage und ihre Verwendung durch Nietzsche. In: B. Himmelmann,...

We advocate an idea that a necessary condition for a dispute about truth amounts not to the carriers of non-ideal logical thought, but to a variety of approaches to reconstructing the logical form of conditional reasoning, which implies diversification of methods for solving logical tasks. The relevance of the study is conveyed by discussions about logical aliens - fan­tastic mad-humans, in which Frege embodied his idea of the impossibility of denying the nec­essary nature of logical laws in the...

This study focuses on the Routinicon database as a digital tool for describing routines — a distinct class of formulaic phraseological units that represent reactions to or comments on standard extralinguistic situations. For instance, the formula Kogo ya vizhu! (Whom do I see!) serves as a reaction to an unexpected meeting, while Kto tam? (Who’s there?) is a standard formulaic reaction to a knock at the door. The collection, classification and study of units of this kind is of undoubted interest...

.... Code biology, Peircean biosemiotics, and Rosen’s relational biology. Biological Theory, 14, pp. 21—29, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-018-0312-z. Benveniste, E., 1981. The semiology of language. Semiotica, pp. 5—23. Carter, Ch. W., Jr. and Wills, P. R., 2021. Reciprocally-coupled gating: strange loops in Bioenergetics, Genetics, and Catalysis. Biomolecules, 11 (2), p. 265, https:// doi.org/10.3390/biom11020265. Collins, F. S., 2006. The language of God. New York. Collins, F. S., 2009....

Since the sixties of the twentieth century, different algorithms for using poetic texts in the transformation of urban space have emerged. Poetic discourse is being increasingly contextualized in space, whose role in the contemporary cultural system and specific tasks of urbanism has been growing. In the urban context, poetry may acquire different forms — street performances, advertisements, murals and other types of visual poetry. It may turn the city into a venue for a festival of urban poetry...