Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is a towering figure of modern Western philosophy, someone whose thought continues to exert an influence across all areas of the discipline. His work is characterized by both breadth and unity: he writes powerfully about mind, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, mathematics, natural science, ethics, politics, aesthetics, education, and more. And across those areas, his work is concerned with defending a view of human beings and their place in nature according to which our own reason enables us to discover and uphold the laws of nature and freedom-that is, to think for ourselves.
The Oxford Handbook of KantÂprovides an up-to-date account of recent scholarship on Kant's philosophy, taking in all areas of his writings. It will be essential reading for students and researchers who want to think for themselves about the topics he wrote with such insight. The individual chapters to this Handbook each provide a scholarly analysis and assessment of some aspect of Kant's thought, and the collection ranges across all the areas to which Kant contributed. It collectively presents a picture of where the study of Kant's philosophy finds itself at this point in the twenty-first century.
Anil Gomes, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford, and Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, Andrew Stephenson, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton
Anil Gomes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford, and Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has written on a range of topics in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and the work of Iris Murdoch. He is the author of
The Practical Self (Oxford University Press, 2024) and the editor, with Andrew Stephenson, of
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Andrew Stephenson is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He has held visiting research positions at Humboldt University and Free University, Berlin, and at Leipzig University as a Humboldt Fellow. Stephenson works primarily on Kant and related issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and meta-physics. He has published in
The Philosophical Review, Philosophersâ Imprint, Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, and Kantian Review. Stephenson is the editor, with Anil Gomes, of
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind.
