Background
Guyer, Paul David was born on January 13, 1948 in New York City. Son of Irving Henry and Betty (Rubenstein) Guyer.
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This book offers a radically new account of the development and structure of the central arguments of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance, causation, and independent existence. Paul Guyer makes far more extensive use than any other commentator of historical materials from the years leading up to the publication of the Critique and surrounding its revision, and he shows that the work which has come down to us is the result of some striking and only partially resolved theoretical tensions. Kant had originally intended to demonstrate the validity of the categories by exploiting what he called 'analogies of appearance' between the structure of self-knowledge and our knowledge of objects. The idea of a separate 'transcendental deduction', independent from the analysis of the necessary conditions of empirical judgements, arose only shortly before publication of the Critique in 1781, and distorted much of Kant's original inspiration. Part of what led Kant to present this deduction separately was his invention of a new pattern of argument - very different from the 'transcendental arguments' attributed by recent interpreters to Kant - depending on initial claims to necessary truth.
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This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis of the most rigorous principle of duty. Kant's thought is placed in a rich historical context including such figures as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kames, as well as Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Schiller, and Hegel. Other topics treated are the sublime, natural versus artistic beauty, genius and art history, and duty and inclination. These essays extend and enrich the account of Kant's aesthetics in the author's earlier book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979).
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This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis of the most rigorous principle of duty. Kant's thought is placed in a rich historical context including such figures as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kames, as well as Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Schiller, and Hegel. Other topics treated are the sublime, natural versus artistic beauty, genius and art history, and duty and inclination. These essays extend and enrich the account of Kant's aesthetics in the author's earlier book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979).
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A commentary on Kant's aesthetic theory. The book offers an account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics.
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Guyer, Paul David was born on January 13, 1948 in New York City. Son of Irving Henry and Betty (Rubenstein) Guyer.
AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1969; Master of Arts in Philosophy, Harvard University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, Harvard University, 1974.
He is a leading scholar of Immanuel Kant. Guyer was for many years a Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served on the Graduate Groups for both Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. Prior to moving to the University of Pennsylvania, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois, Chicago.
He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Michigan.
Guyer has written nine books on Kant and Kantian themes, and has edited and translated a number of Kant"s works into English. In addition to his work on Kant, Guyer has published on many other figures in the history of philosophy, including Locke, Hume, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and others
Guyer"s Kant and The Claims of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press) is widely considered to be one of the most significant works in Kant scholarship. Recent works by Guyer include Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant"s Response to Hume (Princeton University Press), and The Cambridge Companion to Kant"s Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press).
His other areas of specialty include the history of philosophy and aesthetics.
His three-volume work "A History of Modern Aesthetics" was published by Cambridge University Press in February 2014. Guyer was President of the American Society for Aesthetics in 2011-2013. Guyer was also President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2011-2012.
Guyer graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, where he worked in the Departments of Philosophy and German.
His Doctor of Philosophy was taken from Harvard University, with a dissertation directed by Stanley Cavell, who was also the director of his Undergraduate Thesis. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Princeton University Center for Human Values.
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Member American Philosophical Association, American Society Aesthetics, North America Kant Society (advisory board).
Married Pamela Susan Paola Foa, May 21, 1978. 1 child, Nora Francesca Foa.