This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences.

Autorentext
Alix Cohen is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhalt
Abbreviations Acknowledgment List of Tables Preface Freedom and The Human Sciences The Model of Biological Science What Is The Human Being? Pragmatic Anthropology Philosophical History Epilogue: A Pragmatic Counterpart to the Transcendental Project? Bibliography Index