Monograph Title
Warum Kant heute?: Systematische Bedeutung und Rezeption seiner Philosophie in der Gegenwart

Abstract
The purpose of the article is to assess the contemporary significance of Kant's epistemology. The first section gives a broad overview of the reception and critique of Kant's theory of knowledge over the last decades. The second section then shows that Kant's concept of knowledge as cooperation of sensation and understanding is of particular interest for contemporary theories of perception, as W. Sellars has demonstrated in his critique of traditional empiricism. The third section explains, how J. McDowell takes up Sellars's critique and develops an essentially Kantian conception of knowledge. This conception is able to outline a solution of one of the central problems of contemporary epistemological discussion, the problem of the normative constraint of the world on the human mind. In this respect Kant's epistemology is of great significance to contemporary philosophy.