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Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making

Rafael Ziegler

Philosophy of the Social Sciences2025https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931251327336article
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There is renewed interest in future making across the social sciences. These discussions refer to Kant; however, his anthropology is not in the focus. The paper seeks to fill this gap and sketch the contours of Kantian foresight in his anthropology from a pragmatic point of view. It characterizes Kantian future making as consolatory foresight, a philosophical version of backcasting avant la lettre , which is critical of foresight as empirical anticipation only. The paper discusses this philosophical approach to foresight with a view to the capabilities approach, a major current in the contemporary social sciences and source of alternative views on development and progress.

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@article{rafael2025,
  title        = {{Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making}},
  author       = {Rafael Ziegler},
  journal      = {Philosophy of the Social Sciences},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931251327336},
}

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F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
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