Abstract

Kant’s transcendental idealism was extensively discussed and contested in _Mind_ in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Led by Henry Sidgwick and Arthur James Balfour, the response to Kant’s form of idealism was generally critical, reflecting the lower enthusiasm for idealism generally at Cambridge as compared to Oxford. Balfour and Sidgwick thus debated Kant with Edward Caird, a leading representative of Oxford idealism. Sidgwick’s and G. E. Moore’s critiques of Kant’s treatment of freedom of the will also appeared in _Mind_, but having discussed these elsewhere I do not do so here. _Mind_ reviewed many European works on Kant, but largely ignored the burgeoning Neo-Kantian movement in Germany; one collection of essays by Wilhelm Windelband came to the attention of the journal, but none of the work of Hermann Cohen.