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Kant and the Human Sciences

Biology, Anthropology and History

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Alix Cohen

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Freedom and the Human Sciences

    • Alix Cohen
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Model of Biological Science

    • Alix Cohen
    Pages 14-34

  4. What Is the Human Being?

    • Alix Cohen
    Pages 35-60

  5. Pragmatic Anthropology

    • Alix Cohen
    Pages 61-108

  6. Philosophical History

    • Alix Cohen
    Pages 109-142

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 146-200
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This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences.
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  • University of Leeds, UK

    Alix Cohen

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Alix Cohen is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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