Book Recommendation
Title: Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister
Author: R.M. Dancy, W.H. Werkmeister, et al.
Publisher: Springer; 1993
Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister is a wonderful book! I attended the conference that is commemorated in this volume, where these essays were originally presented. It was Professor Werkmeister’s “90th birthday celebration” and conference on April 5, 6, 1991, at Florida State University (I was a grad student in the FSU philosophy dept., and the director of publishing for FSU publications, at the time).
I highly recommend this book with such talent coming together in one place — exciting for its philosophical and historical interest.
For me it brings back fond memories of Professor Werkmeister and the culture of philosophy at Florida State University in the 1980s and 1990s. I studied under Dr. Werkmeister starting in 1981, as well as under the editor of this volume, Professor Russel Dancy, and under the Synthese managing editor Professor Jaakko Hintikka.
It was a precious phase of life because of discovery and camaraderie with great minds and good people. The three dominant figures in the philosophy department at the time (Werkmeister, Dancy, Hintikka) were three men I thoroughly enjoyed studying under, conversing with, and learning from, every day for many years. All three played key roles in the 90th Birthday Celebration, the Conference, and putting this book together. The conference April 5, 6, 1991, occurred in the middle of my graduate student years, and has become one of those rare moments of brilliance captured in time, where all the stars came out, and has become legend.
My Related Book Reviews:
Hintikkas’ Investigation of Wittgenstein
Georg Henrik von Wright on Wittgenstein
Plato’s Phaedo and Its Theory of Forms: Conversations and Language Games
Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians
My philosophy book:
Abstract Objects, Ideal Forms, and Works of Art: An Epistemic and Aesthetic Analysis