The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds New Essays on Kant's Metaphysics and Epistemology

The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds represents a new wave of interest in 'the metaphysical Kant'. In recent decades Kant scholars have increasingly become skeptical of interpreting Kant as a philosopher who wished to truly "leave metaphysics behind". The contributors to this volume share a common commitment to the idea that Kant's philosophy cannot be properly understood without careful attention to its metaphysical presuppositions and, in particular, to how those metaphysical presuppositions are compatible with Kant's critique of more "dogmatic" forms of metaphysical thought.

The authors approach Kant's thought from a wide variety of different perspectives - emphasizing not just the familiar Leibnizian background to Kant's metaphysics, but also its broadly Aristotelian underpinnings and its relationship with metaphysical themes in post-Kantian German Idealism. Similarly, although most of the essays in this volume relate in some way to the familiar question of how best to interpret Kant's transcendental idealism, they also deal with a wide range of other topics, including Kant's modal metaphysics, his views on the continuum, his epistemology of the a priori, and the foundations of his "metaethical" views.

Karl Schafer, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin,Nicholas F. Stang, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto

Karl Schafer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously he was Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Irvine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous articles on Kant and Hume, as well as related issues in contemporary ethics or epistemology.


Nicholas F. Stang is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Kant's Modal Metaphysics (Oxford 2016), and numerous articles on Kant's theoretical philosophy.

Introduction, Nicholas F. Stang and Karl Schafer
1. Being Realistic about Kant's Idealism, Tobias Rosefeldt
2. Schopenhauer's Transcendental Aesthetic, Desmond Hogan
3. Relation to an Object: the Role of the Categories, Lucy Allais
4. Kant on Concepts, Intuitions, and Sensible Synthesis, Stefanie Grüne
5. A Transcendental Argument for the Principle of Possibility, Jessica Leech
6. Kant on the Epistemology of the Obvious, Timothy Rosenkoetter
7. How Does Kant Conceive of Self-Consciousness?, Dina Emundts
8. The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Leibniz, the Wolffians, and Kant on Matter and Monads, Anja Jauernig
9. Kantian Appearances as Object-Dependent Senses, Clinton Tolley
10. Kant's Conception of Cognition and Our Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves, Karl Schafer
11. Noumena as Grounds of Phenomena, Ralf Bader
12. Thing and Object, Nicholas F. Stang
13. 12. Kant's One-World Phenomenalism: How the Moral Features Appear, Andrew Chignell
14. 12. Kant's Enigmatic Transition: Practical Cognition of the Supersensible, Uygar Abaci
15. 12. Kant's Derivation of the Moral 'Ought' From a Metaphysical 'Is', Colin Marshall