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Author:   Hannah Ginsborg (University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.726kg
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9780199547975

ISBN 10:   0199547971
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   27 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction I. Aesthetics 1: Kant on the Subjectivity of Taste 2: On the Key to Kant's Critique of Taste 3: Lawfulness without a Law: Kant on the Free Play of Imagination and Understanding 4: Aesthetic Judging and the Intentionality of Pleasure 5: The Pleasure of Judgment: Kant and the Possibility of Taste II. Cognition 6: Reflective Judgment and Taste 7: Thinking the Particular as Contained under the Universal 8: Aesthetic Judgment and Perceptual Normativity 9: The Appearance of Spontaneity: Kant on Judgment and Empirical Self-Knowledge III. Teleology 10: Kant on Aesthetic and Biological Purposiveness 11: Kant on Understanding Organisms as Natural Purposes 12: Two Kinds of Mechanical Inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle 13: Kant's Biological Teleology and its Philosophical Significance 14: Oughts without Intentions: A Kantian Approach to Biological Functions Bibliography Index

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Ginsborg's interpretive analysis of the Critique of Judgement is masterful, thought-provoking, and timely. It has the capacity of bringing unity to a seemingly non-unified corpus of Kantas reflections on aesthetics and teleology. It is attentive to Kant's text without ever being exegetical. It is an essential contribution to contemporary trends on normativity, as much as it speaks to contemporary debates in aesthetics and philosophy of biology too. This is Kant scholarship at its best. Michela Massimi, Intellectual History Review

Hannah Ginsborg's The Normativity of Nature is a tour de force and arguably the most philosophically stimulating book written on Kant's third Critique * Karl Ameriks, British Journal of Aesthetics * The appearance of Ginsborg's book... is particularly gratifying for me in that there is no writer on Kant from whom I have learned more about how Kant's third Critique matters to specifically aesthetic concerns. Her writings on this text have always stood out for me for their steadfast concern to be faithful to aesthetic experience and judgement, as well as for the systematic reading of the third Critique in the context of Kant's general theory of judgement. * Richard Moran, British Journal of Aesthetics * Ginsborg's interpretation of [Kant's] project is sophisticated and highly original. Having her papers available in one collection is important not only for the sake of convenience but also because it draws attention to a tight thematic thread running through the diverse and seemingly disunified parts of the third Critique on her reading. It thereby draws attention to the deep unity of Ginsborg's own ideas on such prima facie disconnected topics such as beauty, concept formation, and biology. * Angela Breitenbach, British Journal of Aesthetics * Over the past twenty-five years, Ginsborg has been building an original body of work that helps us rediscover the third Critique as making a pivotal contribution to Kant's theory of cognition and thus as a necessary complement to the first Critique. Now presented as a whole, The Normativity of Nature embodies the full force of these careful and transformative efforts * Samantha Matherne, The Philosophical Review * A historic landmark in Kant scholarship ... Ginsborg's book will undoubtedly serve as a definitive critical benchmark for scholarship on the third Critique and Kantâs Idealism as a whole for decades to come. * Gerad Gentry, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * Ginsborg's interpretive analysis of the Critique of Judgement is masterful, thought-provoking, and timely. It has the capacity of bringing unity to a seemingly non-unified corpus of Kantâs reflections on aesthetics and teleology. It is attentive to Kant's text without ever being exegetical. It is an essential contribution to contemporary trends on normativity, as much as it speaks to contemporary debates in aesthetics and philosophy of biology too. This is Kant scholarship at its best. * Michela Massimi, Intellectual History Review * Over the last 25 years, Hannah Ginsborg has developed a systematic and highly original line of thought that connects questions about what it means to look at the natural world through the lens of teleology to puzzles about aesthetic judgments and about the ability to acquire concepts. ... the collection's achievement is to lay out detailed answers to specific problems while revealing the systematic unity across the solutions. ... Whether or not readers accept all of Ginsborg's many expertly crafted solutions, they will benefit from her skill at framing very basic, but intricate, philosophical puzzles in an exceptionally clear way. ... The focus of this important collection is on advancing philosophical understanding. * Patricia Kitcher, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

Ginsborg's interpretive analysis of the Critique of Judgement is masterful, thought-provoking, and timely. It has the capacity of bringing unity to a seemingly non-unified corpus of Kantas reflections on aesthetics and teleology. It is attentive to Kant's text without ever being exegetical. It is an essential contribution to contemporary trends on normativity, as much as it speaks to contemporary debates in aesthetics and philosophy of biology too. This is Kant scholarship at its best. Michela Massimi, Intellectual History Review Over the last 25 years, Hannah Ginsborg has developed a systematic and highly original line of thought that connects questions about what it means to look at the natural world through the lens of teleology to puzzles about aesthetic judgments and about the ability to acquire concepts. ... the collection's achievement is to lay out detailed answers to specific problems while revealing the systematic unity across the solutions. ... Whether or not readers accept all of Ginsborg's many expertly crafted solutions, they will benefit from her skill at framing very basic, but intricate, philosophical puzzles in an exceptionally clear way. ... The focus of this important collection is on advancing philosophical understanding. Patricia Kitcher, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Hannah Ginsborg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University. Her publications include articles on Kant's theory of knowledge, aesthetics, and philosophy of biology, as well as on contemporary issues such as rule-following, the normativity of meaning, the content of perception, and the relation between perception and belief.

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