serving trays & platters
kant and the early moderns
p for the past 200 years kant has acted as a lens sometimes a distorting lens between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history . kants writings about descartes leibniz locke berkeley and hume have been so influential that it has often been difficult to see these predecessors on any terms but kants own . in kant and the early moderns daniel garber and beatrice longuenesse bring together some of the worlds leading historians of philosophy to consider kant in relation to these earlier thinkers . p these original essays are grouped in pairs . a first essay discusses kants direct engagement with the philosophical thought of descartes leibniz locke berkeley or hume while a second essay focuses more on the original ideas of these earlier philosophers with reflections on kants reading from the point of view of a more direct interest in the earlier thinker in question . what emerges is a rich and complex picture of the debates that shaped the transcendental turn from early modern epistemology metaphysics and philosophy of mind to kants critical philosophy . p the contributors in addition to the editors are jean marie beyssade lisa downing dina emundts don garrett paul guyer anja jauernig wayne waxman and kenneth p. winkler .