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Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy Robert Hanna (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy By Robert Hanna (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy by Robert Hanna (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)


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In this title, Robert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them.

Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy Summary

Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy by Robert Hanna (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Robert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them. The rise of analytic philosophy decisively marked the end of the hundred-year dominance of Kant's philosophy in Europe. But Hanna shows that the analytic tradition also emerged from Kant's philosophy in the sense that its members were able to define and legitimate their ideas only by means of an intensive, extended engagement with, and a partial or complete rejection of, the Critical Philosophy. Hanna's book therefore comprises both an interpretative study of Kant's massive and seminal Critique of Pure Reason, and a critical essay on the historical foundations of analytic philosophy from Frege to Quine. Hanna considers Kant's key doctrines in the Critique in the light of their reception and transmission by the leading figures of the analytic tradition--Frege, Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine. But this is not just a study in the history of philosophy, for out of this emerges Hanna's original approach to two much-contested theories that remain at the heart of contemporary philosophy. Hanna puts forward a new 'cognitive-semantic' interpretation of transcendental idealism, and a vigorous defence of Kant's theory of analytic and synthetic necessary truth. These will make Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy compelling reading not just for specialists in the history of philosophy, but for all who are interested in these fundamental philosophical issues.

Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy Reviews

Offers an interpretation and defence of Kant's transcendental idealism, neatly dovetailed with an account and critique of analytic philosophy as it developed from Frege to Quine ... provides a sophisticated reconstruction and defence of Kant's conception. * British Journal for the History of Philosophy *
Hanna's book contains some interesting and suggestive discussions of Kant, and its 'cognitive-semantic' reading of transcendental idealism certainly deserves further development. * Australasian Journal of Philosopy *
Hanna sets about rewinding history, to show that the successive objections that Kant has suffered were ill-conceived and over-hasty, and that Kant can be successfully defended ... Hanna makes his case in a lively and engaging style. * Robert Stern, Times Literary Supplement *
Hanna does well to take up the challenge of showing that the traditional criticisms of Kant ... are based on narrow readings of [his] position, and so are perhaps less strong than generally supposed. * Robert Stern, Times Literary Supplement *
Interesting and provocative ... well worth reading. * Journal of the History of Philosophy *

About Robert Hanna (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Robert Hanna is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. Kant and the Semantic Problem ; 2. How are Cognitions Possible? ; 3. Analyticity within the Limits of Cognition Alone ; 4. The Significance of Syntheticity ; 5. Necessity Restricted: The Synthetic A Priori ; Concluding Un-Quinean Postscript ; Bibliography, Index

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NPB9780198250722
9780198250722
019825072X
Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy by Robert Hanna (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2001-01-04
327
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