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Henry E. Allison

Contemporary (20th-21st century)

Henry E. Allison (1937-2023) was a leading American philosopher and one of the most influential Kant scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He spent much of his career at Boston University and the University of California, San Diego, where he developed his distinctive 'two-aspect' interpretation of Kant's transcendental idealism. His work fundamentally reshaped analytic Kant scholarship by emphasizing the epistemological rather than metaphysical dimensions of Kant's project.

Kantian scholarship

Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense
Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
Kant's Theory of Freedom
Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy
Custom and Reason in Hume: A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise
Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary
Kant's Transcendental Deduction: An Analytical-Historical Commentary

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