Book Symposium: Anja Jauernig's The World According to Kant

Anja Jauernig (New York University), Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University), Andrew Chignell (Princeton University ), Desmond Hogan (Princeton University ), null, Thomas Cantone (The New School)

Anja Jauernig’s recently published The World According to Kant (Oxford, 2021) defends an interpretation of Kant’s critical idealism as an ontological position, according to which Kant can be considered a genuine idealist about empirical objects, empirical minds, and space time. Yet in contrast to other intentional objects, appearances genuinely exist, which is why Kant can also be considered a genuine realist about empirical objects, empirical minds, and space and time. This book spells out Kant's case for critical idealism thus understood and clarifies Kant’s conception of appearances and things in themselves in relation to Kant’s Leibniz-Wolffian predecessors.   This author-meets-critics event will feature critical comments from Andrew Chignell (Princeton), Desmond Hogan (Princeton), and Patricia Kitcher (Columbia), with responses from the author, Anja Jauernig (NYU).