Synthesis and Identity
Essays on Kant

9 November 2026

I had planned to write a new book with the title Synthesis and Being. From Kant to Hegel, which was to be based on material that I had written between 2018 and 2023 and which hadn't found its way in either Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism (2021) or The Bounds of Transcendental Logic (2022). Some of it is material that concerns discussion of work of others (e.g. a review essay on Caimi's 2014 book on the Deduction), replies to critique of my own work, and a discussion of both Houlgate's and Pippin's reading of Hegel. Some of it concerns more substantial reflections, and expansions, on topics from my first monograph Kant's Deduction From Apperception (2012, 2019). The plan was to refashion all of this in such a way that a decent publishable monograph would result, where the themes and discussions could be fleshed out some more, and the particularities of the context in which some of the discussion had taken place could be trimmed. But personal circumstances no longer permit me to dedicate the time and energy needed to such a project.

The new plan is to publish, if time permits, a book with 5 larger articles on Kant alone, only one of which has officially been published before (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 is partly based on material that was posted on the group blog CRITIQUE. Chapter 4, which is to be written still, will be published in an edited volume published by Routledge, entitled KANT AND THE SUBJECT. Chapters 3 and 5, the meat of the book, are entirely new. The proposed title for the book is: SYNTHESIS AND IDENTITY. ESSAYS ON KANT. All chapters except Chapter 4 (and an introduction) are finished. The book represents my final say on cardinal aspects of Kant's Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions. I have not yet approached publishers.
 
Below is the Table of Contents with links to the most current versions in PDF of the chapters provided. The above-shown cover is obviously no longer valid. 

Beware that all of this material is copyrighted, so you still need to cite and/or quote in the proper way.