The Bounds of Freedom: Kant’s Causal Theory of Action / / Robert Greenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Greenberg, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte , 191
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXII, 123 p.)

This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant’s primary conception of an action, viz., as a causal consequence of the will. The analysis in turn is based on H. P. Grice’s causal th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Causal Theories of Objects and Grice’s Causal Theory of Perception
• 3. Kant’s Theory of Practical Causality
• 4. Conscience: Remembering One’s Forbidden Actions
• 5. The New Problem of the Imputability of Actions
• 6. Maxims and Categorical Imperatives
• 7. Necessity and Practical A Priori Knowledge: Kant and Kripke
• 8. The Bounds of Freedom
• References
• Subject index