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Alix Cohen, editor. Kant's Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 270. Cloth, $99.00.
For over two decades, Immanuel Kant offered a lecture course on the subject of anthropology. In 1997, a German critical edition of several different sets of student notes from this course was published, and a large selection of these notes was translated into English in 2012. The collection of thirteen new essays under review is a significant contribution to the growing literature that makes use of this lecture material to understand Kant's anthropology in particular and to flesh out other parts of Kant's system. Scholars interested in a variety of particular issues in Kant's philosophy are likely to find at least several chapters very worthwhile, and scholars interested in better understanding the nature and development of Kant's anthropology will benefit from reading this whole collection because of its highquality contributions and the wide range of different approaches taken to this rich and complicated lecture material.
Four chapters focus on Kant's account of the faculty of cognition. Rudolf Makreel argues that (at least within Kant's anthropology) self-cognition should be focused on selfassessment. Gary Hatfield argues that Kant's account of the senses...