The a priori in ethics: why does Kant want It (and do we need it?)

Is Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA. His publications include Kant’s Human Being (Oxford University Press, 2011), The World We Want (OUP, 2007), Kant’s Impure Ethics (OUP, 2000) and Morality and Moral Theory (OUP, 1992). A past President of the North American Kant Society (NAKS, 2009–2014), Louden is also co-editor and translator of two volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.