Lectures on Logic

Kant’s views on logic and logical theory play an important part in his critical writings, especially the Critique of Pure Reason. However, since he published only one short essay on the subject, we must turn to texts derived from his logic lectures to understand his views. This volume includes three previously untranslated transcripts of Kant’s logic lectures: the Blomberg Logic (1770s), the Vienna Logic supplemented by the recently discovered Hechsel Logic (1780s), and the Dohna-Wundlacken Logic (1790s). Also included is a new translation of the Jäsche Logic, compiled at Kant’s request from his lectures and published in 1800, and concordances relating Kant’s lectures to Georg Friedrich Meier’s Excerpts from the Doctrine of Reason, the book on which Kant lectured throughout his life and in which he left extensive notes.