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Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism

Author : Kenneth R. Westphal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107320598

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Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism by Kenneth R. Westphal Pdf

This book is the first detailed study of Kant's method of 'transcendental reflection' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason to identify our basic human cognitive capacities, and to justify Kant's transcendental proofs of the necessary a priori conditions for the possibility of self-conscious human experience. Kenneth Westphal, in a closely argued internal critique of Kant's analysis, shows that if we take Kant's project seriously in its own terms, the result is not transcendental idealism but (unqualified) realism regarding physical objects. Westphal attends to neglected topics - Kant's analyses of the transcendental affinity of the sensory manifold, the 'lifelessness of matter', fallibilism, the semantics of cognitive reference, four externalist aspects of Kant's views, and the importance of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations for the Critique of Pure Reason - that illuminate Kant's enterprise in new and valuable ways. His book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant's theoretical philosophy.

Kant's Idealism

Author : Dennis Schulting,Jacco Verburgt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048197194

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Kant's Idealism by Dennis Schulting,Jacco Verburgt Pdf

This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant’s doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject. Well-known Kantians Karl Ameriks and Manfred Baum present their considered views on this most topical aspect of Kant's thought. Several essays by acclaimed Kant scholars broach a vastly neglected problem in discussions of Kant's idealism, namely the relation between his conception of logic and idealism: The standard view that Kant's logic and idealism are wholly separable comes under scrutiny in these essays. A further set of articles addresses multiple facets of the notorious notion of the thing in itself, which continues to hold the attention of Kant scholars. The volume also contains an extensive discussion of the often overlooked chapter in the Critique of Pure Reason on the Transcendental Ideal. Together, the essays provide a whole new outlook on Kantian idealism. No one with a serious interest in Kant's idealism can afford to ignore this important book.

Manifest Reality

Author : Lucy Allais
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191064241

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Manifest Reality by Lucy Allais Pdf

At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position. Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's thinking, in over two hundred years since the publication of the first Critique there is still no agreement on how to interpret the position, or even on whether, and in what sense, it is a metaphysical position. Lucy Allais argue that Kant's distinction between things in themselves and things as they appear to us has both epistemological and metaphysical components. He is committed to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but this is not a phenomenalist idealism. He is committed to the claim that there is an aspect of reality that grounds mind-dependent spatio-temporal objects, and which we cannot cognize, but he does not assert the existence of distinct non-spatio-temporal objects. A central part of Allais's reading involves paying detailed attention to Kant's notion of intuition, and its role in cognition. She understands Kantian intuitions as representations that give us acquaintance with the objects of thought. Kant's idealism can be understood as limiting empirical reality to that with which we can have acquaintance. He thinks that this empirical reality is mind-dependent in the sense that it is not experience-transcendent, rather than holding that it exists literally in our minds. Reading intuition in this way enables us to make sense of Kant's central argument for his idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic, and to see why he takes the complete idealist position to be established there. This shows that reading a central part of his argument in the Transcendental Deduction as epistemological is compatible with a metaphysical, idealist reading of transcendental idealism.

The Cambridge Companion to Kant

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521367689

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The Cambridge Companion to Kant by Paul Guyer Pdf

This 1992 volume is a systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant's writings for the student and advanced scholar alike.

Kant's Transcendental Idealism

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300102666

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Kant's Transcendental Idealism by Henry E. Allison Pdf

This landmark book is now reissued in a rewritten & updated edition that takes account of recent Kantian literature. It includes a new discussion of the 'Third Analogy', an expanded discussion of Kant's 'Paralogisms' & new chapters on Kant's theory of reason, theology & the 'Appendix to the Dialectic'.

Kant’s Critical Epistemology

Author : Kenneth R. Westphal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000173413

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Kant’s Critical Epistemology by Kenneth R. Westphal Pdf

This book assesses and defends Kant’s Critical epistemology, and the rich yet neglected resources it provides for understanding and resolving fundamental issues regarding human experience, perceptual judgment, empirical knowledge and cognitive sciences. Kenneth Westphal first examines Kant’s methods and strategies for examining human sensory-perceptual experience, and then examines Kant’s central, proper, and subtle attention to judgment, and so to the humanly possible valid use of concepts and principles to judge particulars we confront. This provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s anti-Cartesianism, the integrity of his three principles of causal judgment, and Kant’s account of disciminatory perceptual-motor behaviour, including both sensory reafference and perceptual affordances. Westphal then defends the significance of Kant’s subtle and illuminating account of causal judgment for three main philosophical domains: history and philosophy of science, theory of action and human freedom, and philosophy of mind. Kant’s Critical Epistemology will appeal to researchers and advanced students interested in Kant and the relations of his thought to contemporary philosophical debates and to the sciences of the mind.

The Coherence of Kant's Transcendental Idealism

Author : Yaron M. Senderowicz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402025815

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The Coherence of Kant's Transcendental Idealism by Yaron M. Senderowicz Pdf

1. Introduction Kant considered the doctrine of transcendental idealism an indisp- sable part of the theory of knowledge presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. My aim in this book is to present a new defense of the coh- ence and plausibility of Kant’s transcendental idealism and its indisp- sability for his theory of knowledge. I will show that the main argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic and the Transcendental Analytic is - fensible independently of some of Kant’s claims which are said to threaten its coherence. I have undertaken an inquiry into the coherence of Kant’s transc- dental idealism for the following reasons. A defense of the coherence of transcendental idealism is required by the existing state of Kantian scholarship. The claim that Kant’s transcendental idealism is incoh- ent has appeared in various forms over the last two centuries. The most powerful and elaborate criticism of Kant’s transcendental idealism is found in Part Four of Strawson’s The Bounds of Sense. Several comm- tators have tried to reestablish its coherence. Although Allison and other commentators have contributed ideas that are valuable for an 1 account of the coherence of Kant’s transcendental idealism, their - guments fall short as a response to the standard objection. Indeed, the claim that Kant’s transcendental idealism is incoherent continues to be the view held by most thinkers. I have limited my goal in this book to establishing the coherence of Kant’s transcendental idealism due to two related reasons.

Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics

Author : Marcus Willaschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108472630

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Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics by Marcus Willaschek Pdf

Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.

The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521710114

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The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Paul Guyer Pdf

The first collective commentary in English on Kant's landmark 1871 publication.

Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy

Author : Gabriele Gava,Robert Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317648314

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Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy by Gabriele Gava,Robert Stern Pdf

Philosophers working within the pragmatist tradition have pictured their relation to Kant and Kantianism in very diverse terms: some have presented their work as an appropriation and development of Kantian ideas, some have argued that pragmatism is an approach in complete opposition to Kant. This collection investigates the relationship between pragmatism, Kant, and current Kantian approaches to transcendental arguments in a detailed and original way. Chapters highlight pragmatist aspects of Kant’s thought and trace the influence of Kant on the work of pragmatists and neo-pragmatists, engaging with the work of Peirce, James, Lewis, Sellars, Rorty, and Brandom, among others. They also consider to what extent contemporary approaches to transcendental arguments are compatible with a pragmatist standpoint. The book includes contributions from renowned authors working on Kant, pragmatism and contemporary Kantian approaches to philosophy, and provides an authoritative and original perspective on the relationship between pragmatism and Kantianism.

Manifest Reality

Author : Lucy Allais
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198747130

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Manifest Reality by Lucy Allais Pdf

Lucy Allais presents a new account of Kant's transcendental idealism. She argues that Kant is committed to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but that this is not a phenomenalist idealism. Instead, Kant's idealism depends instead on his notion of intuition and its role in cognition.

Essays on Kant

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199647026

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Essays on Kant by Henry E. Allison Pdf

Essays on Kant contains a collection of seventeen essays written by Henry E. Allison, one of the world's leading scholars on Kant. Although these essays cover virtually the full spectrum of Allison's work on Kant, most of them revolve around three basic themes: the nature of transcendental idealism and its relation to other aspects of Kant's thought; freedom of the will; and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. The first two themes are intended asclarifications, elaborations, and further developments of Allison's previous work on Kant, while the essays on the third theme demonstrate the central place of Kant's 'critical' philosophy in his thought.Allison places Kant's views in their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance to present day philosophers.

Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation, and Corroboration

Author : Kenneth R. Westphal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9523690280

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Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation, and Corroboration by Kenneth R. Westphal Pdf

The present edition with its fresh and accurate translation and concise commentary on Kant's 'Transcendental Deduction of the Categories' aims to serve contemporary debates in epistemology, cognitive science, and theory of perception.

Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion

Author : Michelle Grier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139429818

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Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion by Michelle Grier Pdf

This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about metaphysical speculation and scientific theory. Indeed, she argues that we cannot understand Kant unless we take seriously his claim that the mind inevitably acts in accordance with ideas and principles that are 'illusory'. Taking this claim seriously, we can make much better sense of Kant's arguments and reach a deeper understanding of the role he allots human reason in science.

Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

Author : Jill Vance Buroker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139458320

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Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Jill Vance Buroker Pdf

In this introductory textbook to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Jill Vance Buroker explains the role of this first Critique in Kant's Critical project and offers a line-by-line reading of the major arguments in the text. She situates Kant's views in relation both to his predecessors and to contemporary debates, explaining his Critical philosophy as a response to the failure of rationalism and the challenge of skepticism. Paying special attention to Kant's notoriously difficult vocabulary, she explains the strengths and weaknesses of his arguments, while leaving the final assessment up to the reader. Intended to be read alongside the Critique (also published by Cambridge University Press as part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation), this guide is accessible to readers with little background in the history of philosophy, but should also be a valuable resource for more advanced students.