Kant on representation and objectivity / A.B. Dickerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickerson, A. B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Contributions in doctrine of representation in philosophy.

Kant, Immanuel.

Representation (Philosophy).

Objectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Kant on Representation & Objectivity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a study of the second-edition version of the 'Transcendental Deduction' (the so-called 'B-Deduction'), which is one of the most important and obscure sections of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. By way of a close analysis of the B-Deduction, Adam Dickerson makes the distinctive claim that the Deduction is crucially concerned with the problem of making intelligible the unity possessed by complex representations - a problem that is the representationalist parallel of the semantic problem of the unity of the proposition. Along the way he discusses most of the key themes in Kant's theory of knowledge, including the nature of thought and representation, the notion of objectivity, and the way in which the mind structures our experience of the world.

Contents:

1. Representation

2. Spontaneity and objectivity

3. The unity of consciousness

4. Judgment and the categories.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13901-5

0-521-03719-0

1-280-42175-4

0-511-18012-8

0-511-14895-X

0-511-30703-9

0-511-48716-9

0-511-07145-0

OCLC:

437069140