Kants Kosmologie-Kritik

This series publishes outstanding monographs and edited volumes that investigate all aspects of Kant's philosophy, including its systematic relationship to other philosophical approaches, both past and present.

Studies that appear in the series are distinguished by their innovative nature and ability to close lacunae in the research. In this way, the series is a venue for the latest findings in scholarship on Kant.

This book presents the first critical evaluation of all four of Kant's antinomies of pure reason by applying the instruments of formal logic and by testing the validity of the antinomies against the criteria of modern science and natural philosophy. The author first reconstructs at length the 'metaphysical deduction' of the transcendental and cosmological ideas of reason. Kant's doctrine of the antinomies of pure reason is then placed in the context of his theoretical philosophy, and this is followed by a philological and formal-logical analysis of the four antinomies. Using the findings of modern science and natural philosophy, the author finally presents a systematic evaluation of Kant's argumentation.