In the introduction to the third Critique, Kant offers the following description of a distinctive sort of pleasure that he thinks obtains in our scientific investigation of nature: “The discovered unifiability of two or more empirically heterogeneous laws of nature under a principle that comprehends them both is the ground of a very noticeable pleasure, often indeed of admiration, even of one which does not cease though one is already sufficiently familiar with its object” (Kant 1900–, 5:187).1 Though Hannah Ginsborg's book The Normativity of Nature is not a scientific treatise, nevertheless when reading it one can feel something very much like the pleasure and admiration that Kant describes here. For what Ginsborg offers is a way to conceive of the unity of two familiar but seemingly disjoint objects: the first and third Critiques. Resisting the tendency to read...
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1 April 2017
Book Review|
April 01 2017
The Normativity of Nature: Essays on Kant's “Critique of Judgement.”
Ginsborg, Hannah,
The Normativity of Nature: Essays on Kant's “Critique of Judgement.”
New York: Oxford University Press
, 2015
. iv + 360 pp
.The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 281–285.
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Samantha Matherne; The Normativity of Nature: Essays on Kant's “Critique of Judgement.”. The Philosophical Review 1 April 2017; 126 (2): 281–285. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3771948
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