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Indeed, once Kant had discovered the Humean problem of skepticism about the universality and necessity of first principles, he generalized it not only to the first principles of speculative philosophy, that is, theoretical cognition, but also to the first principle of practical philosophy, the fundamental principle of morality. Thus, from a methodological point of view, Kant's project in philosophy became that of undermining both Humean and Pyrrhonian skepticism in both theoretical and practical philosophy, and, much more incidentally, along the way refuting Cartesian skepticism about external objects as a nagging but by no means central problem in theoretical philosophy.

Paul Guyer

It may seem as if Kant was content with such a radically dualistic view of human action, but ultimately he was not.

Paul Guyer

Paul Guyer

Paul Guyer

Born: January 13, 1948 (age 77)

Bio: Paul Guyer has been Jonathan Nelson Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Brown University since 2012. He is a leading scholar of Immanuel Kant. Guyer was for many years a Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C.

Known for:

Kant and the claims of knowledge (1979)
A History of Modern Aesthetics (2014)
Values of Beauty (2005)
Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness (2000)

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