Renaissance, Lumières

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy – Philosophy of the 17th and 18th Centuries, grade: 9/10, Utrecht University, language: Dutch; Flemish, abstract: Er bestaat geen onderzoe …

Kant’s Transcendental Semantics is a translation of the most influential monograph on Kant published in Brazil, one that launched the “Semantic School” in a country with a thriving tradition of Kant …

The essay collection ‘Kant on Proofs for God’s Existence’ provides a highly needed, comprehensive analysis of the radical turns of Kant’s views on proofs for God’s existence.—In the ‘Theory of Heaven …

Sex, love, and friendship play an integral role in Immanuel Kant’s conception of human life. Against common prejudices, Kant provides substantial contributions to the philosophical discussion of thes …

In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the ‘other’ Kant has been discovered, i.e. the one of the doctrine of virtue and the anthropology. Through the rediscovery of …

In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of ‘values’ and ‘goods’ are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously cr …

In the third Critique Kant details an aesthetic operation of judgment that is surprising considering how judgment functioned in the first Critique. In this book, I defend an understanding of Kant’s t …

This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant’s critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of its fundamen …

How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century? This book analyzes this issue by considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as we …

An unparalleled collection of original essays on Benedict de Spinoza’s contributions to philosophy and his enduring legacy A Companion to Spinoza presents a panoramic view of contemporary Spinoza stu …