Kant's transcendental arguments : disciplining pure reason / Scott Stapleford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stapleford, Scott.

Series:

Continuum studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.

Kant, Immanuel.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Causation.

Reason.

Physical Description:

viii, 151 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2008]

Summary:

Two currents of thought dominated Western philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. Despite the gradual dissemination of British ideas on the Continent in the first decades of the eighteenth century, these fundamentally disparate philosophical outlooks seemed to be wholly irreconcilable. However, the publication of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 presented an entirely new method of philosophical reasoning that promised to combine the virtues of Rationalism with the scientific rigour of Empiricism.

This book offers the first extended analysis of Kant's method of proof in philosophy. The author constructs a model based on Kant's own statements about his procedure and then examines his famous proofs in light of it. Great emphasis is placed on historical accuracy and the debunking of popular myths about Kant's aims and doctrines. The result is a compelling new picture of Kant that will challenge current assumptions.

Contents:

Transcendental arguments : superfluity and scepticism

Stroud's objection

The adversary of the refutation

Kant's view of scepticism

Kant's proto-verificationism

Transcendental arguments, transcendental idealism and the framework principle

The transcendental method

Mathematical and philosophical proofs

The possibility of experience, possible intuitions and the conditions of instantiation

The second analogy of experience in outline

Negative results

The transcendental refutation of empirical idealism

The refutation a mere word play

Ontological and phenomenological distinctness

The argument in the refutation of idealism

Structure of the proof

Instantiation of the transcendental subject

The argument from sensory content

What is an object?

The a priori in perception

Circularity and immediacy

The transcendental as a level of discourse

The idea of a framework and the transcendental nature of the refutation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [148]-151) and index.

ISBN:

9780826499288

0826499287

OCLC:

179104249