Corey W. Dyck presents a new account of Kant's criticism of the rational investigation of the soul in his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, in light of its eighteenth-century German context. When characterizing the rational psychology that is Kant's target in the Paralogisms of Pure Reason chapter of the Critique commentators typically only refer to an approach to, and an account of, the soul found principally in the thought of Descartes and Leibniz. But Dyck argues that to do so is to overlook the distinctive rational psychology developed by Christian Wolff, which emphasized the empirical...

This is the first collective study in English devoted to examining how Immanuel Kant's work engages with the philosophy of his lesser-known German contemporaries, particularly with respect to key aspects of his thinking in logic, metaphysics, epistemology, theory of science, and ethics. This volume will be important for advanced students and scholars.