It is a pleasure to edit this issue of The Reasoner and I am grateful to Michael Friedman for agreeing to be interviewed for the purpose. Michael is Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities as well as the executive director of the Center for History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) at Stanford University. He is primarily known for his contributions in at least two areas: the philosoph...

1. Kant uses the terms perception, appearance, object, thing, and thing in itself throughout this book. Many of the most common misinterpretations of Kant arise from mistakenly reading the term “appearance” to mean something like “mere appearance,” that is, an illusion of a thing, or just an idea of a thing, or a perception of a thing. For Kant, the term “appearance” is synonymous with the term...

Kant famously claims that autonomy is the ground of dignity. If he is correct about the grounding relationship, then doubts about our autonomy entail doubts about our dignity. Here, I attempt to show that Kant is sensitive to this problem, and invokes the ‘fact of reason’ (Faktum der Vernunft) as the key piece of evidence for our autonomy, and therefore our dignity. But as is well known, Kant’s...

Abstract I offer a new reconstruction of Hegel's criticism Kant's idealism. Kant held that we impose categorial form on experience, while sensation provides its matter. Hegel argues the matter receive cannot guide our imposition it. Contra recent interpretations, argument does not depend conceptualist account perception or view categories as empirically conditioned. His objection is that, given...

'A P.RIO~I' has been a popu~ar .term with phil?s~phers at least since Kant distmgmshed between a pnon and a postenon knowledge. Yet, despite the frequency with which it has been used in twentieth century philosophy, there has been little discussion of the concept of apriority. 1 Some writers seem to take it for granted that there are propositions, such as the truths of logic and mathematics, wh...