This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences. It considers not only what Kant has to say on systematicity in general, but also how the systematicity requirement for science is specified in different fields of knowledge.

The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part 1 is devoted to historical context. The chapters explore precursors of Kant’s account of the systematicity of the sciences. Part 2 addresses the application of systematicity to the special sciences—cosmology, physics, chemistry, logic, mathematics, the life sciences and history. Finally, Part 3 explores the systematicity of philosophy.

Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Kant and the history and philosophy of science.

Gabriele Gava is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin. He works on Kant, 18th Century German philosophy, pragmatism and epistemology. He is the author of Peirce’s Account of Purposefulness: A Kantian Perspective (Routledge 2014) and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (2023).

Thomas Sturm is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He works on Kant, current theories of rationality, and has edited texts for the new Academy edition of Kant’s Gesammelte Schriften. Selected publications: Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (2009), articles in Kant-Studien, Kantian Review, and Synthese.

Achim Vesper is assistant professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. He has published extensively on Kant's ethics and aesthetics. Together with Gabriele Gava, he wrote Kants Philosophie (2024). Another book, Kant über Schönheit und systematische Einheit der Natur, will be published in 2025.