Eric L Watkins

Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality

Eric Watkins argues that a grasp of Leibnizian and anti-Leibnizian thought in eighteenth-century Germany helps one to see how Kant (in his critical period) argued for causal principles that have both metaphysical and epistemological elements. According to this interpretation, Kant's model of causali...

By Roger Ariew - Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources: 2nd (second) Edition

Critique of Pure Reason, Abridged (Hackett Publishing Co.)

This thoughtful abridgment makes an ideal introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Key selections include: the Preface in B, the Introduction, the Transcendental Aesthetic, the Second Analogy, the Refutation of Idealism, the first three Antinomies, the Transcendental Deduction in B, and the C...

Kant: Natural Science (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant)

Though Kant is best known for his strictly philosophical works in the 1780s, many of his early publications in particular were devoted to what we would call 'natural science'. Kant's Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755) made a significant advance in cosmology, and he was also i...

The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature: Historical Perspectives

This volume contains ten new essays focused on the exploration and articulation of a narrative that considers the notion of order within medieval and modern philosophy--its various kinds (natural, moral, divine, and human), the different ways in which each is conceived, and the diverse dependency re...

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context)

This volume offers English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kant's predecessors and contemporaries in eighteenth-century Germany, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with ...

Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources, 2nd Edition

The leading anthology of writings of the modern period, Modern Philosophy provides the key works of seven major philosophers, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period, chosen to deepen the reader's understanding of modern philosophy and its relationship...

READINGS IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY, VOL. 1: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Associated Texts

This anthology offers the key works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz in their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.

Kant and the Sciences

The Human Situation: A Philosophical Anthropology

Philosophy of the Ancients

Philosophy of the Ancients

Kant And The Metaphysics Of Causality

Kant And The Metaphysics Of Causality

Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources

Modern Philosophy : An Anthology of Primary Sources

Eric Watkins

Eric L. Watkins (born 18 March 1880 in Akaroa and died 14 August 1949 in Lower Hutt) was a New Zealand rugby footballer who represented his country in both