Kant and the empiricists : understanding understanding / Wayne Waxman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waxman, Wayne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Knowledge, Theory of--History.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Empiricism--History.

Empiricism.

Philosophy, British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 627 pages)

Other Title:

Understanding understanding

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Waxman presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophies of the British empiricists - Locke, Berkeley Hume - with that of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.

Contents:

General introduction : the emergence of Kant's transcendental psychologism

Ch. 1. Kant and British empiricism

Ch. 2. Kant's extension of Humean skepticism to mathematics

Ch. 3. Kantian way out of Hume's quandary

Ch. 4. Hostage to stereotypes

Ch. 5. Locke's theory of ideas

Ch. 6. Perception and the synthesis of experience

Ch. 7. Objective understanding

Ch. 8. Understanding in language

Ch. 9. Knowledge and skepticism

Ch. 10. Berkeley's separability principle : semantics, psychology, and ontology

Ch. 11. Berkeleyan idealism : the inseparability of existence, sensation, and perception

Ch. 12. Objective understanding dismantled

Ch. 13. Notions of mind

Ch. 14. Objective understanding transformed

Ch. 15. pre-Humean problem of origins

Ch. 16. From origins of ideas to ideas of origins : causality psychologized

Ch. 17. nature of relation

Ch. 18. role of custom in associative understanding

Ch. 19. Reasoning reasonably

Ch. 20. supreme principle of Hume's theory of understanding.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-595) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-19708-4

9786611197087

0-19-803943-3

1-4237-6191-X

OCLC:

922953063