Table Of ContentContemporary Kantian Metaphysics
Also by Graham Bird:
KANT’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
THE REVOLUTIONARY KANT
A COMPANION TO KANT
Also by A.W. Moore:
POINTS OF VIEW
THE INFINITE
NOBLE IN REASON, INFINITE IN FACULTY: Themes and Variations in
Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy
THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN METAPHYSICS: Making Sense of
Things
Contemporary Kantian
Metaphysics
New Essays on Space and Time
Edited by
Roxana Baiasu
Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK
Graham Bird
Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester, UK
and
A.W. Moore
St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK
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A.W. Moore 2012
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Roxana Baiasu, Graham Bird and A.W. Moore
Part I Perception
1 Kant on Receptivity and Representation 23
Paul Abela
2 Perceiving Distinct Particulars 41
Lucy Allais
3 Is Spatial Awareness Required for Object Perception? 67
John Campbell
4 The Normative in Perception 81
Steven Crowell
Part II Sciences
5 Is There Any Value in Kant’s Account of Mathematics? 109
Graham Bird
6 Thinking of Everything? Kant Speaks to Stephen Hawking 128
Leslie Stevenson
7 R eading Kant Topographically: From Critical Philosophy
to Empirical Geography 146
Jeff Malpas and Günter Zöller
Part III Limits of Experience
8 Metaphors of Spatial Location: Understanding
Post-Kantian Space 169
Pamela Sue Anderson
9 Bird on Kant’s Mathematical Antinomies 197
A.W. Moore
10 Space and the Limits of Objectivity: Could There
Be a Disembodied Thinking of Reality? 207
Roxana Baiasu
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Part IV Time
11 Heidegger on Time 233
Michael Inwood
12 T ime and Subjectivity: Heidegger’s Interpretation
of the Kantian Notion of Time 253
Françoise Dastur
13 Time, Space and Body in Bergson, Heidegger and Husserl 270
Dan Zahavi and Søren Overgaard
Index 299
Acknowledgements
This book’s project began during Roxana Baiasu’s Leverhulme Early
Career Fellowship at the University of Sussex. We would like to acknowl-
edge the support of the University of Sussex and the Leverhulme Trust
without which this book could not have been published. Between then
and now the book has grown as a result of the productive work of the
team of co-editors, Roxana Baiasu, Graham Bird and A.W. Moore.
Our sincere gratitude goes to each author who contributed to this
book. We would also like to express special thanks to our editor at
Palgrave Macmillan, Priyanka Gibbons, for her efficiency, patience and
advice. We thank the production team at Newgen Knowledge Works, in
particular the Head of the team, Vidhya Jayaprakash, and the anony-
mous copy editor, for careful attention and support in the final stages
of work on this book. We also owe thanks to Coran Stewart for his help
in the preparation of the manuscript, and to all those who have sup-
ported the project of this book, in particular, to Sorin Baiasu, Liliana
Ilie, Stefan Ilie and Doina Baiasu.
We gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce certain material
in this volume, as indicated below.
We thank the editors of Kantian Review, including the guest editors of
the special issue Kantian Review 15 (2011), Sorin Baiasu and Michelle
Grier, for permission to reprint A.W. Moore’s essay ‘Bird on Kant’s
Mathematical Antinomies’.
In his essay, ‘Kant Speaks to Stephen Hawking’, Leslie Stevenson
reproduces material from chapters 4 and 5 of his book Inspirations from
Kant (New York, Oxford University Press, 2012). We are grateful to the
press for permission to reproduce this material here.
Françoise Dastur’s chapter is an augmented version of an earlier essay
(‘L’idée d’une “chronologie phénoménologique” et la première inter-
prétation de Kant’, in J. F. Courtine (ed.) Heidegger 1919–1929: De
l’herméneutique de la facticité à la métaphysique du Dasein (Paris, Vrin,
1996)). We thank Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Paris (http://www.
vrin.fr) for permission to reproduce the article in this book.
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Contributors
Paul Abela is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of
Acadia, Canada. He is the author of Kant’s Empirical Realism (2002).
His most recent publications include ‘The Demands of Systematicity:
Rational Judgment and the Structure of Nature’ in Companion to Kant
(2006) and ‘Kant’s Philosophy of Religion’ in Companion to the Philosophy
of Religion (2007).
Lucy Allais is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of
Sussex, UK and Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University
of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has published in the area of
Kant’s metaphysics; her recent publications include ‘Kant’s Idealism
and the Secondary Quality Analogy’ in Journal of the History of Philoso-
phy (2007), ‘Kant, Non-Conceptual Content and the Representation of
Space’ in Journal of the History of Philosophy (2009), and ‘Kant’s Argu-
ment for Transcendental Idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic,’ Pro-
ceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2010); ‘Transcendental Idealism and
Metaphysics,’ Kantian Yearbook (2010).
Pamela Sue Anderson is Reader in Philosophy of Religion at the
University of Oxford and Fellow in Philosophy and Ethics at Regent’s
Park College. She has published extensively in the area of metaphysics
and epistemology of the philosophy of religion in the Kantian tradition,
including continental and feminist philosophy. She is the co-author of
Kant and Theology (with J. Bell, 2010), A Feminist Philosophy of Religion:
The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief (1998) and Ricoeur and Kant:
Philosophy of the Will (1993).
Roxana Baiasu is an Associate Member of the Philosophy Faculty,
University of Oxford and a Member of Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She
has published in the areas of post-Kantian philosophy (Wittgenstein,
Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty), epistemology and philosophy of
religion. Her recent publications include: ‘Being and Time and the
Problem of Space’, Research in Phenomenology (2007), ‘Bodies in Space:
Transcendence and Spatialisation of Gender’ in Pamela S. Anderson (ed.)
New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion, Springer-Kluwer (2009), and
‘Puzzles of Discourse: Minding Gaps in Understanding”, International
Journal of Philosophical Studies (2009). She held a Leverhulme Early
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Carreer Fellowship for a research project to which this volume is linked.
She is the founder and principal organiser of the Forum for European
Philosophy in Oxford and a member of the Editorial Board of the jour-
nal Studia Phaenomenoloica.
Graham Bird is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester. He
is Honorary President and founder of the UK Kant Society. His publica-
tions include Kant’s Theory of Knowledge (1962) and The Revolutionary
Kant (2006). He is the editor of A Companion to Kant (2006) and co-
founder and co-editor of the journal Kantian Review.
John Campbell is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy
at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Past, Space
and Self (1994), Reference and Consciousness (2002) and numerous articles
in the area of metaphysics.
Steven Crowell is Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of
Philosophy at Rice University, Texas. He is the author of Husserl, Heidegger,
and the Space of Meaning: Paths toward Transcendental Phenomenology
(2001) and of numerous essays in phenomenology and transcendental
philosophy. He is editor of Transcendental Heidegger (with Jeff Malpas,
2007) and The Prism of the Self: Philosophical Essays in Honour of Maurice
Natanson (1995). He is co-editor of Husserl Studies.
Françoise Dastur is Honorary Professor of Philosophy attached to
the Husserl Archives of Paris (ENS Ulm), a research unit affiliated to
the French National Centre for Research (CNRS). She is the Honorary
President of the Ecole Française of Daseinsanalyse, of which she was the
founder in 1993. She has published many articles in French, English
and German on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Derrida
and so on. She is the author of several books in French. Some of them
have been translated into English; these are Death, An Essay on Finitude
(1996), Heidegger and the Question of Time (1998) and Telling Time, Sketch
of a Phenomenological Chrono-logy (2000).
Michael Inwood was formerly Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Trinity
College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Hegel (1983, 2002),
A Hegel Dictionary (1992), A Heidegger Dictionary (1999) and Heidegger
(2000), and is the editor of Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind (2007).
Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania,
Hobart, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at LaTrobe University,
Melbourne. He is also an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and
Visiting Distinguished Professor at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. He
