"There is no shortage of secondary works on Kant's conception of freedom, which he himself tells us is the central concern of his philosophy. However, there are relatively few works that examine Kant's pre-Critical understanding of freedom, or the motives behind his shift to the views we more traditionally associate with him. Kant and the Creation of Freedom is a welcome remedy to such neglect. Insole's work will be of interest not only to Kant scholars, but also to theologians and philosophers of religion, particularly those interested in the relation of Kant to medieval and early modern thought. In addition to the central topic of Kant's changing views of freedom, Insole includes helpful discussions of the views of Aquinas, Leibniz, and Suárez, and well as a chapter devoted to whether Kant really defends belief in God and noumenal substances or holds some weaker or more voluntaristic attitude. "--David Sussman, Critique "Insole's project is tremendously important and provides an equally comprehensive, focused and illuminating take on familiar Kantian issues from what for many readers still is a thoroughly unfamiliar perspective. It is rare to see philosophers like Aquinas, Suárez and others along this line discussed in the context of Kant, and Insole's book shows that invoking this context has a clarifying effect on a large number of passages in Kant's uvre.I should like to close by reiterating how deeply illuminating Insole's approach is and how he manages to shed light on a number of as yet largely unexplored aspects of Kant's thought.

Moreover, he provides the resources for reassessing quite a few allegedly familiar claims by placing them in a context thoroughly unfamiliar and perhaps even alien to many quarters of contemporary Kant scholarship. He has done us all a great service by linking Kant to the Thomist tradition of scholasticism."--Wolfgang Ertl, Critique "Christopher Insole has done something remarkable. He has provided a novel and credible account of the development of Kant's transcendental idealism. This is an excellent book." --Journal of the History of Philosophy "How can human beings act freely, if divine creation determines their nature? This ground-breaking book provides incontrovertible textual evidence that Immanuel Kant was pre-occupied with this traditional theological problem throughout his career." -- Philosophy in Review.