Uta Falter-Baumgarten

This chapter reexamines Baumgarten’s definition of “existence” with an eye to evaluating Kant’s criticisms of this definition in his pre-Critical writings. Fugate shows that Baumga...

This chapter points to the influence of Baumgarten’s Metaphysics on Kant’s transcendental philosophy. By comparing Kant’s refutation of idealism, including modifications to it sugg...

This chapter moves away from discussion of Baumgarten’s relation to Pietism and the Leibnizian–Wolffian philosophy to examine its place, with particular attention to psychology, wi...

This chapter explains the key elements in the dispute between the Pietists and Wolff, and defends the thesis that as a figure situated at the boundary between these two parties, Ba...

This chapter takes us into the fundamental elements of Baumgarten’s metaphysical system, the concepts of “determination” and “determinability,” and shows how his specific formulati...