Kantian humility : our ignorance of things in themselves / Rae Langton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langton, Rae, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Humility--Philosophy.

Humility.

Ding an sich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages)

Other Title:

Our ignorance of things in themselves

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Langton offers an interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. He aims to vindicate Kant's scientific realism, and show his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Note on Sources and Abbreviations

Introduction

1. AN OLD PROBLEM

1. Introduction

2. Allison's Deflationary Proposal

3. Reasons for Suspicion

4. A Metaphysical Proposal, and an Acid Test Passed

2. THREE KANTIAN THESES

2. Bennett on Two Distinctions and their Conflation

3. A Case For, and Against, the 'Bare Substratum'

4. Three Theses: Some Further Texts

5. The Distinction

6. Humility

7. Receptivity

3. SUBSTANCE AND PHENOMENAL SUBSTANCE

2. The Pure Concept of Substance vs. the Schematized

3. The Concept of Phenomenal Substance in General

4. Matter as a Merely Comparative Subject

5. Note on the Inference to Substance

6. Concluding Remarks and New Business

4. LEIBNIZ AND KANT

2. Kant's Version of Leibniz

3. A Distinction between Phenomena and Things in Themselves

4. A Reduction of Phenomena to Things in Themselves

5. Knowledge, via Phenomena, of Things in Themselves

6. Kant and Leibniz on Relations

5. KANT'S REJECTION OF REDUCIBILITY

1. An Early Distinction between Phenomena and Things in Themselves

2. The Principle of Succession, and Receptivity

3. The Principle of Coexistence, and Irreducibility

4. Analysis of the Argument for Irreducibility: Preliminaries

5. Irreducibility Argument I

6. Irreducibility Argument II

7. Concluding Remarks

6. FITTING THE PIECES TOGETHER

1. Assembly

2. An Imaginative Exercise

3. Kant, Leibniz, and a Mirror Broken

4. Later Signs of the Irreducibility Argument

7. A COMPARISON WITH LOCKE

1. A Phenomenalist Reading of the Comparison

2. Problems, and a Contradiction

3. A Different Lockean Distinction

4. A Contradiction Dissolved

5. A Closer Look

8. KANT'S 'PRIMARY' QUALITIES

1. Introduction.

2. Bennett's Instructive Mistake

3. Spatial Features and Space-Filling Features

4. A Caveat about Space

5. Kant's 'Primary' Qualities: Geometrical and Dynamical

6. Solidity vs. Impenetrability, and a Problem for a Contemporary Orthodoxy

7. Science: Primary vs. Tertiary Qualities

8. Objectivity: Primary vs. Tertiary Qualities

9. THE UNOBSERVABLE AND THE SUPERSENSIBLE

1. Experience and the Unobservable

2. The Kant-Eberhard Controversy: Unobservable vs. Supersensible

3. Observability and Community

4. Monadology, Well vs. Badly Understood

5. Final Comments

10. REALISM OR IDEALISM?

1. Summing Up

2. Idealism: First Impressions

3. Idealism: Things in Themselves

4. Idealism: Space

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Langton, Rae, 1961- Kantian humility.

ISBN:

0-19-159790-2

0-19-924317-4