Space Geometry And Kants Transcendental Deduction Of The Categories

Author : Thomas C. Vinci
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019938116X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space, Geometry, and Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories written by Thomas C. Vinci and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In section 20 in the B edition 'Deduction', Kant states that his purpose is achieved: to show that all intuitions in general are subject to the categories. The standard reading understands this to mean that all our representational ideas, including those originating in sense experience, are structured by categories: there are 'no judgments of perception' in the doctrine of the 'First Critique', only judgments of experience. Against this reading the book argues that while all intuitions for Kant are unified intuitions, not all are unified by the categories, thus allowing for judgments of perception.

Author : Peter Strawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113495428X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bounds of Sense written by Peter Strawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bounds of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about Kant’s philosophy, and is one of the key philosophical works of the late Twentieth century. Although it is probably best known for its criticism of Kant’s transcendental idealism, it is also famous for the highly original manner in which Strawson defended and developed some of Kant’s fundamental insights into the nature of subjectivity, experience and knowledge. The book had a profound effect on the interpretation of Kant’s philosophy when it was first published in 1966 and continues to influence discussion of Kant, the soundness of transcendental arguments, and debates in epistemology and metaphysics generally.

Author : Kenneth R. Westphal
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
ISBN 13 : 9523690299
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories written by Kenneth R. Westphal and published by Helsinki University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant’s ‘Transcendental Deduction of the Categories’ addresses issues centrally debated today in philosophy and in cognitive sciences, especially in epistemology, and in theory of perception. Kant’s insights into these issues are clouded by pervasive misunderstandings of Kant’s ‘Deduction’ and its actual aims, scope, and argument. The present edition with its fresh and accurate translation and concise commentary aims to serve these contemporary debates as well as continuing intensive and extensive scholarship on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Two surprising results are that ‘Transcendental Deduction’ is valid and sound, and it holds independently of Kant’s transcendental idealism. This lucid volume is interesting and useful to students, yet sufficiently detailed to be informative to specialists.

Author : Yaron M. Senderowicz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402025815
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coherence of Kant's Transcendental Idealism written by Yaron M. Senderowicz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alison Laywine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065757
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Transcendental Deduction written by Alison Laywine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. What is it supposed to accomplish and how? She collects evidence from the Critique and his other writings to determine what Kant took himself to be doing on his own terms and argues that he deliberately adapted elements of his early metaphysics both to set the agenda of the Deduction and to carry it out. She shows that the most important metaphysical element Kant repurposed for the Deduction was his early account of a world: he had argued that a world is not just the sum-total of all substances created by God, but a whole unified by God's universal laws of community that externally relate any given substance to all others. From this conception of a world, Kant then extracted a distinctive way to conceive key elements in the Deduction: experience is thus the whole of all possible appearances unified by the universal laws human understanding gives to nature. This cosmological conception of experience drives the Deduction.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191037850
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Transcendental Deduction written by Henry E. Allison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global skepticism regarding the objectivity of experience), it addresses a new problem (the role of a priori concepts or categories stemming from the nature of the understanding in grounding this objectivity), and he traces the line of thought that led Kant to the recognition of the significance of this problem in his 'pre-critical' period. Allison locates four decisive steps in this process: the recognition that sensibility and understanding are distinct and irreducible cognitive powers, which Kant referred to as a 'great light' of 1769; the subsequent realization that, though distinct, these powers only yield cognition when they work together, which is referred to as the 'discursivity thesis' and which led directly to the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments and the problem of the synthetic a priori; the discovery of the necessary unity of apperception as the supreme norm governing discursive cognition; and the recognition, through the influence of Tetens, of the role of the imagination in mediating between sensibility and understanding. In addition to the developmental nature of the account of Kant`s views, two distinctive features of Allison'sreading of the deduction are a defense of Kant`s oft criticized claim that the conformity of appearances to the categories must be unconditionally rather than merely conditionally necessary (the 'non-contingency thesis') and an insistence that the argument cannot be separated from Kant`s transcendental idealism (the 'non-separability thesis').

Author : James Van Cleve
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195347013
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems from Kant written by James Van Cleve and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rigorous examination of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason provides a comprehensive analysis of the major metaphysical and epistemological questions of Kant's most famous work. Author James Van Cleve presents clear and detailed discussions of Kant's positions and arguments on these themes, as well as critical assessments of Kant's reasoning and conclusions. Expansive in its scope, Van Cleves study covers the overall structure of Kant's idealism, the existence and nature of synthetic a priori knowledge, the epistemology of geometry, and the ontological status of space, time, and matter. Other topics explored are the role of synthesis and the categories in making experience and objects of experience possible, the concepts of substance and causation, issues surrounding Kant's notion of the thing in itself, the nature of the thinking self, and the arguments of rational theology. A concluding chapter discusses the affinities between Kant's idealism and contemporary antirealism, in particular the work of Putnam and Dummett. Unlike some interpreters, Van Cleve takes Kant's professed idealism seriously, finding it at work in his solutions to many problems. He offers a critique in Kant's own sense--a critical examination leading to both negative and positive verdicts. While finding little to endorse in some parts of Kant's system that have won contemporary favor (for example, the deduction of the categories) Van Cleve defends other aspects of Kant's thought that are commonly impugned (for instance, the existence of synthetic a priori truths and things in themselves). This vital study makes a significant contribution to the literature, while at the same time making Kant's work accessible to serious students.

Author : Luigi Caranti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000606880
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Problem of Knowledge written by Luigi Caranti and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Kant’s contributions to the theory of knowledge and studies how his writings can be applied to address contemporary epistemological issues. The volume delves into the Kantian ideas of transcendental idealism, space, naturalism, epistemic normativity, communication, and systematic unity. The essays in the volume study Kant’s theories from a fresh perspective and offer new arguments for assenting that knowledge cannot account for itself without acknowledging the fundamental role of the cognitive subject. In doing so, they suggest that we reconsider Kant’s views as a powerful alternative to naturalism. Featuring readings by well-known Kant specialists and emerging scholars with unorthodox approaches to Kant’s philosophy, the volume fills a significant gap in the existing scholarship on the philosopher and his works. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of knowledge, philosophy, and epistemology.

Author : Jonathan Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107140544
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Analytic written by Jonathan Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Jonathan Bennett's engaging and influential study of the first half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant written by Roger Scruton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: