Lectures on logic

"This volume is part of the first ever comprehensive edition of the works of Immanuel Kant in English translation. The purpose of the Cambridge Edition is to offer translations of the best modern German edition of Kant's work in a uniform format suitable for Kant scholars. When complete (fourteen volumes are currently envisaged), the edition will include all of Kant's published writings and a generous selection of his unpublished writings such as the Opus postumum, handschriftiche Nachlass, lectures, and correspondence." "Kant's views on logic and logical theory play an important role in his critical writings, especially the Critique of Pure Reason. However, since he published only one short essay on the subject, we must turn to the texts derived from his logic lectures to understand his views. The present volume includes three previously untranslated transcripts of Kant's logic lectures: The Blumberg Logic from the 1770s, the Vienna Logic (supplemented by the recently discovered Hechsel Logic) from the early 1780s, and the Dohna-Wundlacken Logic from the early 1790s. Also included is a new translation of the Jasche Logic, compiled at Kant's request and published in 1800, but which also appears to stem in part from a transcript of his lectures." "Together these texts provide a rich source of evidence for Kant's evolving views on logic, on relations between logic and other disciplines, and on a variety of other topics, (e.g., analysis and synthesis) central to Kant's mature philosophy. They also provide a portrait of Kant as lecturer, a role in which he was both popular and influential." "In keeping with other volumes in the series there is substantial editorial apparatus, including a general introduction, linguistic and factual notes, glossaries of key terms (both German English and English/German), and concordance relating Kant's lectures to George Frederick Meier's Excerpts from the Doctrine of Reason, the book on which Kant lectured throughout his life and in which he left extensive notes."--Jacket.