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Record W4416623191 · doi:10.1515/kant-2025-2027

Introduction: Kant and the Berlin Academy

2025· article· en· W4416623191 on OpenAlex
Christian Leduc

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VenueKant-Studien · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophical Ethics and Theory
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetaphysicsDoctrineInstitutionCompetition (biology)Connection (principal bundle)Focus (optics)

Abstract

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Kant's engagement with the Berlin Academy has primarily been studied on two accounts.First, his prize essay submitted for the Academy's competition on the comparison between mathematical and metaphysical truths, for which he was awarded the accessit, has drawn considerable attention.This essay anticipates aspects of his critical philosophy, particularly themes later developed in the Doctrine of Method within the Critique of Pure Reason, regarding the nature of philosophical and mathematical reasoning.As such, the 1763 essay stands out as one of Kant's most thoroughly studied pre-critical works.1 Second, scholars have also focused on Kant's 1793/95 manuscripts addressing the Academy's prize question on the progress of metaphysics.These writings represent one of his final reflections on the possibility of metaphysics and offer insights into the trajectory of his critical philosophy within the historical development of metaphysics.2Even on these occasions, the focus has typically remained on Kant himself, rather than on his relationship with the Berlin Academy, either as an institution or in connection with its individual members.This is unfortunate, as it is well known that Kant held many Academy members in high regard, such as Maupertuis, Euler, Sulzer, and Lambert.More broadly, Kant's connection with the Berlin Academy was extensive, multiple, and dates to the earliest years of his philosophical career.Beyond the two well-known prize competitions of 1763 and 1795, numerous Kantian texts are tied to the Academy's activities.His Physical Monadology of 1756, for example, was written a few years after the Academy's 1747 prize competition on monads and clearly aimed to contribute to the discussions that emerged from that contest.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.962
Threshold uncertainty score0.527

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Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it