 Kant himself clearly takes his aesthetic theory to be of central importance for the understanding of the so-called “faculty of judgment” generally (see  Section 1  above): this implies that he takes it to be of importance for understanding empirical scientific enquiry, and in particular for our understanding of biological phenomena. As noted in  Section 2.8  above, there are also significant connections between Kant’s views on aesthetics and his views on ethics, and, as noted in  Section 1,  a number of commentators have, in addition, laid special weight on the connection between Kant’s aesthetics and his views on empirical cognition. Some commentators have also drawn on Kant’s aesthetic theory to illuminate specific aspects of Kant’s views on cognition; for example, Heidemann (2016) draws on Kant’s aesthetic theory to defend the view that Kant’s theory of cognition is nonconceptualist.