Henry E. Allison and analytical Kantianism

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https://doi.org/10.5380/sk.v23i2.95351

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analytic philosophy, idealism, logical positivism, logic, psychologism

Abstract

Henry E. Allison’s work is part of what we can call analytical Kantism, a recovery of central elements of Kantian thought in an analytical philosophical context that began in 1966 with Strawson’s The Bounds of Sense. At the heart of Allison’s philosophical inquiry in Kant’s Transcendental Idealism is the intention to rehabilitate idealism in a form acceptable to contemporary analytic philosophy. To better understand the scope and importance of this project, in this article, I propose a recapitulation of the often complex and problematic relationship between the analytic tradition and Kant’s theoretical philosophy.

Author Biography

Alexandre Alves, UFRGS

Possui graduação em história e filosofia, mestrado e doutorado em História Econômica pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). De 2007 a 2011, foi Pesquisador Colaborador no departamento de História da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). De 2012 a 2014, foi professor adjunto temporário na Escola Paulista de Política, Economia e Negócios da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPPEN-UNIFESP). Entre 2015 e 2019, foi professor e pesquisador no Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). É também coautor de diversas obras didáticas para o ensino de história aprovadas e adotadas pelo Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD). Tem índice h9 no Google Scholar.

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2025-08-31

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Alves, A. (2025). Henry E. Allison and analytical Kantianism. Studia Kantiana, 23(2), 73–83. https://doi.org/10.5380/sk.v23i2.95351

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