Philosophical Theology and the Quest for Metaphysics as Science in Kant

• Project/Area Number: 25K03553
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: エアトル ヴォルフガング 慶應義塾大学, 文学部(三田), 教授 (30407150)
• Project Period (FY): 2025-04-01 – 2030-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2025)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2029: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2028: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2027: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: Kant / Metaphysics / Philosophical Theology / Early Modern Philosophy / Theory of Science

Outline of Research at the Start

What will be elucidated is that and how for Kant, philosophical theology can be a version of both transcendent and scientifically construed metaphysics which meets the strict criteria of critical thinking. The scientific version of metaphysics in line with critique for Kant is therefore not, or at any rate not primarily, something like a metaphysics of experience and its identification of space and time as forms of intuitions, categories and principles of the understanding as key ingredients of synthetic a priori knowledge.