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Author:   Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9781316615560

ISBN 10:   1316615561
Pages:   313
Publication Date:   11 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Kant's Conception of Law: 1. What is, for Kant, a law of nature?; 2. Kant on transcendental laws; Part II. The Laws of Mechanics: 3. The system of principles; 4. The argumentative structure of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science; 5. The laws of motion from Newton to Kant; 6. Kant's justification of the laws of mechanics; Part III. Teleological Laws: 7. The antinomy of teleological judgment; 8. Nature in general as a system of ends; Part IV. Laws as Regulative Principles: 9. Kant on rational cosmology; 10. Kant on Infima Species; Part V. The Moral Law: 11. Autonomy and the legislation of laws in the Prolegomena; 12. Kant on the natural, moral, human, and divine orders.

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'Kant on Laws is a wonderful piece of scholarship and must be read by anyone with an interest in Kant's conception of law.' Hein van den Berg, European Journal of Philosophy

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Eric Watkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of the prizewinning Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (Cambridge, 2005) and editor of Kant on Persons and Agency (Cambridge, 2017).

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