Kant's Order of Reason, a new book from Colin McLear, will be published by Oxford University Press on October 28.
The book aims to give an account of Kant's conception of rational agency that clarifies and explains both the scope and nature of such activity, and elucidates the centrality of Kant's account of rational determination for his mature critical philosophy. McLear highlights that the core Kantian insight concerning rational determination is that the capacity for rationality is based in and derived from the capacity for exercising a very specific kind of causality in the world—namely, free, or controlled, causality.
McLear is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy whose work focuses on the History of Modern Philosophy and the Philosophy of Mind.
