Kant on mind, action, and ethics

Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of major themes in Kant's philosophy. He explores Kant's ontology of the mind, his transcendental idealism, his account of the mind's powers, and his theory of action, and goes on to develop an original, moral realist account of Kant's ethics.

"This new interpretation considers a far wider range of Kant's recorded thought from across his philosophical corpus than previous interpretations, and advances in tandem with an interpretation of the foundations of Kant's transcendental idealism and his metaphysics of substance. Against traditional empiricist approaches, the book demonstrates that Kant argues that we are conscious of our own noumenal substantiality and simplicity. But against rational psychologists, Kant draws on the teachings of his transcendental idealism to strip the conclusions of our noumenal substantiality and simplicity of their 'usefulness'. In the Paralogisms and elsewhere, Kant thus argues that we are not licensed to conclude our substantiality and simplicity in a sense that entails our permanence, our incorruptibility, or our immortality."--Provided by publisher.

Kant on mind. Kant and the soul as simple substance, pre-Critique ; Kant's immediatism, pre-Critique ; Transcendental idealism and immediatism, pre-Critique ; Kant's pre-Critique rejection of rational psychologists' views on substance: Background on the first analogy, the amphiboly, and the first paralogism ; Kant's substantial soul: The paralogisms and beyond -- Kant on action and ethics. Kant's map of the mind ; Sedgwick, good freedom, and the Wille/Willkür distinction before, in, and after the Groundwork ; Korsgaard's intellectualized first-person account of Kant's practical agent ; Kant's moral realism and Korsgaard's constructivism.