Transcendental Inquiry: Its History, Methods and Critiques

Editors' Introduction.- Part I: The Nature of Transcendental Philosophy.- 1. Tom Rockmore (Peking University, China): "Plato and Kantian Transcendental Constructivism" .-2. Robert Stern (University of Sheffield, UK): "Silencing the Sceptic? Can the Appeal to Transcendental Conditions for Thought, Speech or Action Settle Sceptical Concerns?" .- Part II: The Roots of Transcendental Philosophy in Kant and Fichte.- 3.Claude Piché (Université de Montreal, Canada): "Kant and the Conditions of the Possibility of Experience" .- 4. Violetta Waibel (Universität Wien, Austria): "Kant and Fichte on the Transcendental Notion of Freedom" .- 5. Steven Hoeltzel (James Madison University, US): "Transcendental Ontology and the Ethics of Belief in Fichte's Jena Wissenschafteslehre".- 6. Benjamin Crowe (University of Utah, US): "Transcendental Philosophy as Therapy of the Mind: Fichte's 'Facts of Consciousness' Lectures".- Part III: The Development of Transcendental Philosophy.- 7. Halla Kim (Univ of Nebraska, Omaha, US): "How Transcendental is Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism?" .- 8. Yasuyuki Funaba (Osaka University, Japan): "On the Cognitive Theory of Morality by Jürgen Habermas".- 9. Matthias Kettner (Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany): "Raising Validity Claims for Reasons: The Transcendental Argument in Apelian Discourse Ethics and How It can be Improved".- 10. Michihito Yoshime (Sophia University, Japan): "Consequences of the Transcendental-Pragmatic Consensus Theory of Truth" .- 11. Yukio Irie (Osaka University, Japan): "An Alternative Transcendental Argument Based on a Question-Answer Contradiction".- Part IV: Critiques of Transcendental Philosophy.- 12. William Bristow (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US): "From Transcendental Philosophy to Hegel's Developmental Method".- 13. Eric Nelson (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology/Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell): "Heidegger's Ambivalence Toward Transcendental Philosophy".