Abstract
The anthology of classical as well as recent texts, introduced by the editor's extensive commentary, has the goal of demonstrating in what sense Kantian distinction of synthetic a priori can still serve as a living impulse for modern thinking. It offers the reader a unique possibility to rethink traditional, constitutive texts (Kant, Leibniz, Hume) by contrasting them with their positive transformations (Husserl, Scheler, Cassirer), dissenting approaches (Bolzano, Schlick, Frege, Russell), radical conventionalist and pragmatist rephrasing (Poincaré, Lewis, Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom) or the experimental treatment of the original distinctions (Foucault, Kripke, Hintikka, Putnam, Kitcher).
As such, the book is valuable not only as a resource for study, but also as evidence of the unity of traditional and contemporary philosophy in all of its seemingly disparate movements and disciplines.