No. 19 (2025): Kant, Nature, Freedom

Monographic issue: Kant, Nature, Freedom

Editor: Pedro Jesús Teruel

Immanuel Kant has many things in common with Nature & Freedom. The journal was launched in 2012 to address two main lines of research. The first of these covers the philosophy of nature, with a special emphasis on determining the place occupied by human beings in the universe. This is also a constant in Kant’s work: his interest in Nature, its ontology and its processes, from his pre-critical work —in which this constituted a guiding thread— to the transcendental modulation in his critical period and the rethinking of all this in the writings of his mature years. The second of the journal’s main interests is philosophical anthropology, paying particular attention to those disciplines that study human beings as part of nature, ranging from biology, biochemistry and neuroscience to artificial intelligence and the sciences of complexity. The importance that Nature & Freedom attaches to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity —a useful tool for trying to overcome the centuries-old separation between the sciences and the humanities— can also be ascribed to Kant. All of this establishes links between the journal’s approach and the work of the philosopher of Königsberg; in some ways, they reflect each other. Hence, the tercentenary of Immanuel Kant’s birth provides an excellent occasion for a special issue that takes this game of mirrors into account.