Kant's anatomy of the intelligent mind / Wayne Waxman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waxman, Wayne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Psychology--Philosophy.

Psychology.

Philosophy of mind.

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

Physical Description:

xx, 582 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Part I Transcendental Philosophy Psychologized 15

1 The Psychological A Priori 23

2 Kant's Debt to British Empiricism 33

A Kant's Debt to Locke: Sensibilism and Subjectivism 36

B The Psychological Nature of the Kantian Synthetic A Priori 46

C Kant's Debt to Berkeley: The Separability Principle 51

D Kant's First Debt to Hume: The Problem of the Possibility of Synthetic A Priori Judgments 55

E Kant's Second Debt to Hume: The Psychologistic Key to Solving "Hume's Problem" 60

F Postscript on Knowing Hume so as to Be Able to Know Kant 66

Part II Kant's Psychologistic Explication of the Possibility and Forms of Sensibility 71

3 Unity of Sensibility (1): Sensation, Intuition, and Appearance 77

A The Place of Sensations in Transcendental Philosophy: A Priori Synopsis 79

B The Matter of Appearances 81

C The Metaphysical Exposition of Pure Intuition 89

D The Problem of the Unity of Sensibility and Its General Solution 95

E Appearances and the Imagination's Synthesis of Apprehension in Intuition 101

4 Unity of Sensibility (2): Space and Time 106

A Why Unity of Sensibility Requires Space and Time Rather than Space Alone 106

B Space as the Ground of Unity of Sensibility with Respect to Sensations (the Manifold of the Outer Senses) 111

C Time Out of Mind: Completing the Unity of Sensibility 119

D The Psychology of Appearance and the Appearance of the Psychological 125

5 A New Understanding of Understanding 131

A Apperception Without the Categories 131

B The Individuality of Space and Time as a Prediscursive Expression of Original Apperception 135

C Formal Intuition and the Need for Prediscursive Understanding 138

D The Objective Unity of Space and Time 140

E Formal Intuitions and Forms of Intuition 143

F Conceptualist Construals of Formal Intuition 146

G Synoptic Overview of the Evidence for Prediscursive and Precategorial Apperception 150

6 Mathematics and the Unity of Sensibility 155

A Isolating Pure Intuition from Sensation and Understanding 155

B The Role of Pure Intuition in Geometry 163

C The Role of Pure Intuition in Arithmetic 169

D The Role of Pure Intuition in Algebra 177

E Is Mathematical Logic Mathematics or Logic? 179

7 Idealism and Realism 182

A Outline of the Development of Idealism up to Kant 182

B Appearance versus Illusion 189

C Appearance and Reality 196

8 Things in Themselves: A Kantian Refutation of Berkeley's Idealism 201

A Berkeley's Esse Is Percipi Idealism 202

B Perception as Product of Imagination: The Thin Edge of the Wedge of a Kantian Refutation of Esse Is Percipi Idealism 208

C Kant's Ground for Denying the Second Component of Esse Is Percipi Idealism 211

D Kant's Ground for Denying the First Component of Esse Is Percipi Idealism 213

E Does Kant's Affirmation of Things in Themselves Pass Critical Muster? 215

F The Representing Subject 223

G Representations versus Things in Themselves: Kant's Fundamental Ontological Divide 229

Part III Kant's Psychologistic Explication of the Possibility and Forms of Thought 231

9 Concepts in Mind 237

A Language and Mind: Pre-Kantian Perspectives 238

B The Synthetic and Analytic Unity of Apperception 241

C How the Analytic Unity of the I Think Converts Ordinary Representations into Universals 250

D The Logical Underpinnings of Kant's Response to Hume's Skeptical Challenge 254

10 A Defense of Kant's Table of Judgments 258

A Kant's Psychological Approach to the Logic of Judgment 259

B The Logical Quality and Quantity of the Logical Relation of Categorical Judgment 264

C Is the Truth-Functional Propositional Calculus Logic or Mathematics? 273

D The Logical Forms of Modality and Relation 277

E Kant's Psychologization of Logical Form 283

11 The Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories 287

A Logical Functions Utilized as Concepts: The Derivation of the Categories of Substance and Accident, Quantity, and Quality 287

B Logical Functions Utilized as Concepts: The Derivation of the Categories of Cause and Effect, Community, and Modality 298

C The Categories as Pure Concepts of Objects 307

Part IV Kant's Psychologistic Explication of the Possibility and Forms of Cognizable Objects 315

12 Interpreting the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories 319

A How the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories Constitutes a Quid Juris 320

B The Subjective and Objective Transcendental Deductions of the Categories 327

C The MFPNS Preface Footnote 332

D Why a Subjective Transcendental Deduction Is Necessary 338

13 The A Edition Transcendental Deduction: Objects as Concepts of the Necessary Synthetic Unity of the Manifold 341

A Synthesis Before Analysis 343

B The Threefold Synthesis: Kant's Psychology of Experience 347

C Synthesis of Recognition In a Concept 350

D The Objectivity Problem: Why Association Presupposes Affinity 357

E How the Subject of Intuition Becomes the Subject of Experience 362

F The Objectivity of the Categories and Kant's Self-Created Problem 365

G Objects Explicated as Concepts 369

H The Objective Unity of Apperception 374

I Summary Recapitulation of Kant's Reasoning in the Transcendental Deduction 382

14 The B Edition Transcendental Deduction: Objective Unity of Apperception and Transcendental Synthesis 384

A Judgment and the Objective Unity of Apperception 385

B Synthesis Intellectualis as Ground of the Objective Unity of Apperception 391

C Categorial Necessity and Its Limits 393

D The Relation of Transcendental Synthesis Speciosa to Formal Intuition 395

E Appendix: General Logic Revisited 398

15 A Category-by-Category Elucidation of the Transcendental Synthesis Speciosa of Pure Formal Intuition 403

A The Reasons a Category-by-Category Elucidation Is Needed 405

B Space as Permanent Substratum of Temporal Succession: The Synthesis Speciosa of the Categories of Substance-Accident and Existence-Nonexistence 412

C From Causal Nexus to Spatio-Temporal Nexus: The Synthesis Speciosa of the Categories of Cause and Effect and Possibility-Impossibility 417

D All Conditions Met: The Synthesis Speciosa of the Categories of Community and Necessity-Contingency 426

E Number and the Synthesis Speciosa of the Categories of Quantity 431

F Limited and Unlimited Pure Space and Time: The Synthesis Speciosa of the Categories of Quality 439

G Results 445

Part V Kant's Psychologistic Explication of the Possibility and Forms of Nature 449

16 Subsuming Reality: Schematism and Transcendental Judgment 453

A Transcendental Judgment 454

B Why a Transcendental Schematism Is Necessary 456

C The Transcendental Schemata 462

D From Transcendental Schemata to Principles of Pure Understanding 471

17 Time Out of Mind: Kant's System of Principles of Pure Understanding 477

A Constitutive Mathematical and Regulative Dynamical Principles 479

B The Unity of Experience in Kant and Hume 483

C Hume's Quandary Revisited: The Problem of Existence in Time 487

D Permanent Substances 495

E Causality and the Time Series 499

F How the Second Analogy Overcomes the Limits of Induction: Kant's Refutation of Hume's Empiricist Account of Causation 501

G Causality and the Possibility of Continuants 507

H The Causal Nexus of Continuants and Permanents 510

I Kant's Principle of Community: Translating Pure Space and Time into the Field of Appearance 516

18 Our Place in Nature and Its Place in Us 523

A The Embodied Empirical Subject 523

B Community of Substances, Community of Apperception 525

C Ontology as Immanent Thinking 528

D Objectivity and Subjectivity: The Postulates of Empirical Thought 532.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199328314

0199328315

9780199328321

0199328323

OCLC:

836261103