Anamorphosis : Kant on knowledge and ignorance / Predrag Cicovacki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cicovacki, Predrag.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Methodology.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

x, 325 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1997]

Contents:

Prelude 1

I. Philosophy as a Science 2

II. Kant's Conception of Philosophy 5

III. The Plan of Inquiry 9

Part I A Knowledge of Knowledge

1. The Epistemological Project 17

I. Epistemology and Science: Against Naturalizing Epistemology 20

II. The Analysis of Knowledge and Its Difficulties 28

A. The Internal Difficulty of Analysis 30

B. The External Difficulties of Analysis 32

C. The Assumptions of Analysis 35

III. Kant's Conception of Epistemology as Cognitive Morphology 40

2. Cognition, Recognition, and Cognitive Interest 49

I. Seeing and Knowing 52

A. Sensation, Cognition, and Recognition 54

B. Sensation and Interpretation in Observation 60

II. Seeing As and Seeing That 66

III. Nomological Orientation of Cognitive Experience 73

3. Concepts as Rules 81

I. Space and Time as Forms of Intuition 85

II. Empirical and Categorial Concepts 90

A. Empirical Concepts and Empirical Intuitions 92

B. Generality, Matter, and Content of Empirical Concepts 95

C. Categories and the Formation of Empirical Concepts 99

III. Formation of Empirical Concepts with Respect to Their Generality 102

IV. Formation of Empirical Concepts with Respect to Their Content 107

A. Appearances and Objects of Cognition 108

B. Objects of Cognition and Categories 110

C. Categories, Objectivity, and Nomological Connections 115

4. Concepts as Norms 121

I. The Charge of Arbitrariness 125

A. Metaphysical Deduction and the Charge of Arbitrariness 126

B. Categories as Prescriptive Rules 130

II. A General Conception of Rules 134

III. Kant's Conception of Rules: Preliminary Considerations 141

IV. Empirical and Categorial Concepts as Normative Rules 146

A. Empirical Concepts as Regulative Rules 146

B. Categories as Legislative Concepts 147

C. Categories as Constitutive Rules 151

D. Limitation of the Legislative Function of Categories 153

V. Looking Backward and Looking Forward 154

Part II A Knowledge of Ignorance

5. Striving for Truth: The Problem of Criterion 159

I. The Pyrrhonian Challenge 164

II. On Truth 170

A. General Remarks on Truth 171

B. Kant on Truth 175

III. A Kantian Resolution of the Problem of Criterion 180

A. Kant's Agreement with Pyrrhonism 181

B. A Criterion of Truth and a Test of Truth 184

C. Formal and Material Aspects of a Criterion of Truth 188

D. The Threat of an Infinite Regress 192

6. Dreams and Reality: On the Existential Presupposition of Cognitive Experience 199

I. Descartes' Method of Doubt 202

II. An Interpretation of Descartes' Dream Argument 206

III. Can We Know That the World Exists? 211

A. Moore's Proof of the External World 212

B. Wittgenstein on Doubt and Certainty 214

C. Knowing or Presupposing That the World Exists? 219

IV. Kant's Refutation of Skeptical Idealism 223

A. Kant on Skeptical Method and Skeptical Idealism 225

B. Kant's Argument in the Refutation of Idealism 229

7. The Real and the Perceived 237

I. Classical Physics as Metaphysics 242

A. Nature as a Mechanism 242

B. Early Criticisms: Leibniz and Berkeley 246

II. The Reality of Matter: Kant's Challenge 250

A. Ambiguities about the Concept of Matter 250

B. Different Standpoints with Respect to Reality 253

III. Philosophy of Modern Physics 256

A. Modern Physics and Epistemology 258

B. On the Boundary of Human Cognition 262

IV. Overcoming the Dualism of Subject and Object 268

A. Could Nature Be So Absurd? 270

B. The Unity of Subject and Object 273

8. Healing the Wound 279

I. Limitations of the Cognitistic Attitude 281

II. Contraria Sunt Complementa 284

III. The Primacy of Practical Reason 289

IV. The Unity of Man 293

V. What is Man? 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-318) and index.

ISBN:

076180742X

076180790X

OCLC:

36511374