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Catherine Wilson, Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy, Oxford University Press 2022, 312pp., $97.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192847928.
Reviewed by Courtney D. Fugate, Florida State University
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Catherine Wilson, Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy, Oxford University Press 2022, 312pp., $97.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192847928.
Reviewed by Courtney D. Fugate, Florida State University
What is Kant’s place in the history of philosophical naturalism? What were his fundamental motivations and how do they relate to the naturalistic tendencies of his time? Despite its title, this new book by Catherine Wilson addresses such important questions as these only obliquely. At bottom it is a rather merciless attack on Kant scholarship conducted partly through the dismissal of its results and interests and partly through the roughing-up of its central hero. No idol is left intact: the critical turn (67), Kant’s supposed attempts to answer Hume’s problem (44), his theory…
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