Kant & neo-Kantianism

A superação hegeliana do dualismo entre determinismo e liberdade

by Hector Ferreiro

Paper reat at the Symposium `Sujeito e liberdade na filosofia moderna alemã´, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 26-28, 2011.

"Commentary on Henry E. Allison’s 'Autonomy and Spontaneity in Kant’s Conception of the Self'"

by William J. Urban

class paper written February 24, 2010

"Freedom qua Spontaneity: The Lacanian Subject in the Critique of Pure Reason"

by William J. Urban

Major Research Paper written May 31, 2010

"The Subject of Freedom in Kant’s Practical Philosophy"

by William J. Urban

class paper written May 31, 2010

Kant's Theory of Experience at the End of the War: Scholem and Benjamin read Cohen.

by Julia Ng

Modern Language Notes: German Issue (2012). Special Issue on Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, and the Marburg School.

Philosophy as the science of value

by Matthew Broome

Editor’s introduction and “A Record of Gershom Scholem’s and Walter Benjamin’s Reading Group around Hermann Cohen’s Kants Theorie der Erfahrung in 1918” [working title].

by Julia Ng

Modern Language Notes: German Issue (2012)

A dossier of transcriptions, translations, and critical commentary on previously unpublished items from the Scholem... more A dossier of transcriptions, translations, and critical commentary on previously unpublished items from the Scholem Archive in Jerusalem.

Special Issue: Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, and the Marburg School

by Julia Ng

Modern Language Notes: German Issue (2012). Co-edited with Rochelle Tobias.

Organism, Normativity, Plasticity: Kant, Canguilhem, Malabou

by Sebastian Rand

Forthcoming in Continental Philosophy Review. Please cite published version when available.

The Critical Philosophy Renewed

by Lydia Patton

German supporters of the Kantian philosophy in the late nineteenth century took one of two forks in the road: the fork... more German supporters of the Kantian philosophy in the late nineteenth century took one of two forks in the road: the fork leading to Baden, and the Southwest School of neo-Kantian philosophy, and the fork leading to Marburg, and the Marburg School, founded by Hermann Cohen. Between 1876, when he first came to Marburg, and 1918, the year of his death, Cohen, with his so-called “Marburg School,” had a profound influence on German academia. Nearly forgotten debates that were seminal to the development of neo-Kantian movements, such as the Trendelenburg-Fischer debate, can tell us a great deal about the philosophical agendas of thinkers such as Hermann von Helmholtz and Hermann Cohen - and, of course, of lesser known philosophers such as Adolf Trendelenburg and Kuno Fischer. As I will argue, Cohen's contributions to the debate shed light on the implications of the turn “back to Kant” for nineteenth-century German philosophy of science.

Hermann Cohen's history and philosophy of science

by Lydia Patton

Unpublished dissertation, McGill University, 2004

In my dissertation, I present Hermann Cohen's foundation for the history and philosophy of science. My investigation... more In my dissertation, I present Hermann Cohen's foundation for the history and philosophy of science. My investigation begins with Cohen's formulation of a neo-Kantian epistemology. I analyze Cohen's early work, especially his contributions to 19th century debates about the theory of knowledge. I conclude by examining Cohen's mature theory of science in two works, The Principle of the Infinitesimal Method and its History of 1883, and Cohen's extensive 1914 Introduction to Friedrich Lange's History of Materialism. In the former, Cohen gives an historical and philosophical analysis of the foundations of the infinitesimal method in mathematics. In the latter, Cohen presents a detailed account of Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics of 1894. Hertz considers a series of possible foundations for mechanics, in the interest of finding a secure conceptual basis for mechanical theories. Cohen argues that Hertz's analysis can be completed, and his goal achieved, by means of a philosophical examination of the role of mathematical principles and fundamental concepts in scientific theories.

Comparing neo-Kantians Ernst Cassirer and Georg Simmel

by Frederic Vandenberghe

Review: Jean-Luc Nancy's The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus

by Katie Terezakis