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Aesthetics and subjectivity Open
This new, completely revised and re-written edition of aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Sc…
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Kant and the Problem of Recognition: Freedom, Transcendental Idealism, and the Third-Person Open
Kant wants to show that freedom is possible in the face of natural necessity. Transcendental idealism is his solution, which locates freedom outside of nature. I accept that this makes freedom possible, but object that it precludes the rec…
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Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory? Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant Open
In his recent book, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics , Adrian W. Moore takes Kant to play a crucial role in the evolution of modern philosophy; yet, for him, Kant’s metaphysics is ultimately and profoundly unsatisfactory. In this articl…
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Kant and Degrees of Responsibility Open
Kant views every human action as either entirely determined by natural necessity or entirely free. In viewing human action this way, it is unclear how he can account for degrees of responsibility. In this article, I consider three recent a…
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Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism Open
In this paper, we draw attention to several important tensions between Kant’s account of moral education and his commitment to transcendental idealism. Our main claim is that, in locating freedom outside of space and time, transcendental i…
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C. I. Lewis, Kant, and the reflective method of philosophy Open
If it seems unquestionable that C. I. Lewis is a Kantian in important respects, it is more difficult to determine what, if anything, is original about his Kantianism. For it might be argued that Lewis' Kantianism simply reflects an approac…
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Transcendental idealism as formal idealism Open
Transcendental idealism is the basic worldview shaping Kant's critical philosophy, but its proper interpretation is enormously contested. I identify five constraints on an adequate interpretation, which collectively stand in apparent tensi…
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Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant: Categories, Imagination and Temporality Open
Introduction: Categories and the Question of Being Laying the Foundations of Metaphysics in Ontology The Transcendental Aesthetic and the Unity of the Faculties Transcendental Logic and the Problem of Judgement The Relation of the Categori…
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A mereological argument for the non‐spatiotemporality of things in themselves Open
Kant's published arguments for the non‐spatiotemporality of things in themselves have not been well received. I argue that Kant has available to himself an argument for the non‐spatiotemporality of things in themselves that is premised upo…
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Kant's a priori history of metaphysics: Systematicity, progress, and the ends of reason Open
This paper explores Kant's conception of the relation between philosophy and its history. The idea that philosophy must account for its historical development is often associated with German Idealism. On the traditional view, the German Id…
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Kant Meets Cyberpunk Open
I defend a how-possibly argument for Kantian (or Kant * -ian) transcendental idealism, drawing on concepts from David Chalmers, Nick Bostrom, and the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. If we are artificial intelligences living in a vir…
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Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy: The Kantian Critique of Cartesian Scepticism Open
"Kant considered it scandalous that philosophy had been unable to find a rational proof of the existence of the external world. Arguably, the scandal continues today, because scepticism remains a widely debated and extremely divisive issue…
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The Epistemological Stance of Psychoanalysis: Revisiting the Kantian Legacy Open
Psychoanalysis, as conceived by Freud, originates from an epistemological position that is often at odds with related disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry. We argue that psychoanalysis is wedded to a Kantian epistemology that is r…
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The Promise of the World: Towards a Transcendental History of Trust Open
This paper aims at a phenomenological analysis of trust. We argue that trust has a transcendental dimension in that it functions as a condition of possibility of the basic ego-world relation. Tacit for the most part in ordinary experience,…
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Commentary: Brain, Mind, World: Predictive Coding, Neo-Kantianism, and Transcendental Idealism Open
GENERAL COMMENTARY article Front. Psychol., 05 December 2017Sec. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Volume 8 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02077
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INGARDEN’S HUSSERL: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE 1915 REWIEW OF THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS Open
This essay critically assesses Roman Ingarden’s 1915 review of the second edition of Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations. I elucidate and critique Ingarden’s analysis of the differences between the 1901 first edition and the 1913 secon…
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The Idea of God and the Empirical Investigation of Nature in Kant’s <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i> Open
This article aims to justify the positive role in the empirical investigation of nature that Kant attributes to the idea of God in the Critique of Pure Reason . In particular, I propose to read the Transcendental Ideal section and the Appe…
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Wolff and Kant on the Mathematical Method Open
Wolff advocates the mathematical method, which consists in chains of syllogisms that proceed from axioms and definitions to theorems, for achieving scientific certainty in branches of philosophy like ontology and physics. By contrast, in ‘…
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Husserl's Project, Critique, and Idea of Reason Open
The present study seeks to accomplish three goals: to shed light on the problem of reason in Husserl’s co-inherited philosophical project , to elucidate his transcendental critique of reason, and to present Husserl's idea of reason in its …
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Heidegger’s Shadow: Kant, Husserl, and the Transcendental Turn Open
Heidegger's engagement with Kant has long attracted scholarly interest.Heidegger's interpretive works on Kantin particular, his 1927-1928 lecture series on the Critique of Pure Reason, his 1929 book that followed, his 1931 lecture series o…
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Die Raum- und Zeitlehre Alois Riehls<b>im Kontext realistischer Interpretationen von Kants transzendentalem Idealismus</b> Open
In The Philosophical Criticism , Alois Riehl developed a realistic interpretation of Kant’s transcendental idealism based on his theory of space and time. In doing so, more than 100 years ago, he formulated an interpretation of the relatio…
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On The Significance Of The Copernican Revolution: Transcendental Philosophy And The Object Of Metaphysics Open
This paper argues that the famous passage that compares Kant’s efforts to reform metaphysics with his transcendental idealism to the earlier Copernican revolution in astronomy has a more systematic significance than many recognize. By exam…
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IX—The Transcendental Deduction of Ideas in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Open
This article explores the problem of the transcendental deduction of ideas in the controversial pages of the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. It suggests that Kant’s difficulties with the deductio…
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Kant’s Antinomies of Pure Reason and the ‘Hexagon of Predicate Negation’ Open
Based on an analysis of the category of “infinite judgments” in Kant, we will introduce the logical hexagon of predicate negation. This hexagon allows us to visualize in a single diagram the general structure of both Kant’s solution of the…
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Transcendental Self And The Feeling Of Existence Open
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Reason in Kant’s Theory of Cognition Open
This paper reconstructs and defends Kant’s argument for the transcendental status of reason’s principles of the systematic unity of nature in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic. On the present account, these principles neither co…
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Kant's "Idea [project] of Transcendental Philosophy" Open
At the present time, there are several interpretations and modes of Kant’s transcendental philosophy (TP). Which of these interpretations and modes of transcendentalism most adequately express the spirit of TP, i.e. can claim the title of …
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Transcendental Idealism and Naturalism: The Case of Fichte Open
In this paper, I explore the relationship between naturalism and transcendental idealism in Fichte. I conclude that Fichte is a near-naturalist , akin to Baker, Lynne Rudder (2017). “Naturalism and the idea of nature,” Philosophy 92 (3): 3…
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Transcendental Happiness in the Thought of Ibn Sīnā and Ibn ‘Arabī Open
This article explores the concept of transcendental happiness in the philosophies of arguably the two most important figures in Islamic intellectual thought, Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) and Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d. 638/1240). The mo…
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The Paradox of Kant’s Transcendental Subject in German Philosophy in the Late Eighteenth Century Open
The study of the “first wave” of reactions to the Critique of Pure Reason in Germany from the second half of the 1780s until the beginning of the nineteenth century reveals the paradoxical status of the Kantian transcendental subject. Whil…