Immanuel Kant ’s famous dictum located moral reasoning in an objective reality, as universally perceptible and discoverable, in principle at least, as the stars in the sky.

T he philosophical world is busy making plans to mark the 300 th birthday next year of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Non-philosophers might be forgiven for wondering why they should care ...

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about ...