Space, geometry, and Kant's transcendental deduction of the categories / Thomas C. Vinci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vinci, Thomas C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 251 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In section 20 in the B edition 'Deduction', Kant states that his purpose is achieved: to show that all intuitions in general are subject to the categories. The standard reading understands this to mean that all our representational ideas, including those originating in sense experience, are structured by categories: there are 'no judgments of perception' in the doctrine of the 'First Critique', only judgments of experience. Against this reading the book argues that while all intuitions for Kant are unified intuitions, not all are unified by the categories, thus allowing for judgments of perception.

Contents:

1.A Priori Form vs. Pure Representation in Kant's Theory of Intuition

1.The A Priori Form Of Intuition And The Container View

2.Pure Form Of Intuitions vs. Pure Formal Intuition

3.Summaries Of The Three Grounds For The Container View

2.The Metaphysical Expositions and Transcendental Idealism I

1.Introduction

2.THREE ACCOUNTS OF THE METAPHYSICAL EXPOSITIONS

3.Kant's Arguments From Geometry In The Prolegomena

4.The Nongeometrical Expositions

4.1.First Reading

4.2.Second Reading

5.Why The "General Concept Of Spaces In General" Is Not A Concept For Kant

3.Kant's Theory of Intentionality

1.Kantian Intentionality As Brentano Intentionality

2.Kant's Protectionism

3.Spatial Form And The Representational Capacity Of Intuitions In General

3.1.The Map Analogy

3.2.Applying the Map Analogy to Kant's Theory of Intentionality

4.Kant's Theory of Geometry and Transcendental Idealism II

2.Kant's Doctrine Of Geometrical Method In The Critique Of Pure Reason

2.1.Kant's Geometrical Method

2.2.The Necessity of Geometry as Counterfactual Necessity

3.Alternative Interpretations

4.Objections

4.1.Objections from Friedman

4.2.Objections from Waxman

5.The Transcendental Exposition Of The Concept Of Space

5.1.The Proof of the Objective Reality of Pure Geometry

5.2.The Second Geometrical Argument for Transcendental Idealism

6.Kant And Modern Physics

5.The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories I

1.Introduction: What Is The Transcendental Deduction Of The Categories About?

2.What Are The Subjective Conditions Of Thinking?

3.The Affinity Argument

3.1.Introduction

3.2.The Affinity Argument: Background

3.3.The Affinity Argument

4.Transition To The B Edition Deduction

6.Appearances, Intuitions, and Judgments of Perception

1.Appearances: The Undetermined Objects Of Empirical Intuition

1.1.Are Appearances Constituted by the Understanding? A Preliminary Argument

1.2.What Are Appearances?

2.Intuitions In General

2.1.Introduction

2.2.Section 15: Synthesis, Intuitions, Judgments

3.Judgments Of Perception, The Doctrine Of Schematism, And Aesthetically Unified Intuitions

3.1.Judgments of Perception in the Prolegomena

3.2.Longuenesse and the Case for Finding a Doctrine of Judgments of Perception in the Critique of Pure Reason

3.3.Judgments of Perception, Empirical Schemata, and Empirical Concepts

3.4.Aesthetically Unified Intuitions

3.5.The Problem of Sensory Illusion for Kant

7.Transcendental Deduction II: The B Edition Transcendental Deduction

I.The First Half of Kant's B Edition Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

2.The Analytical Power Of Apperception

3.The Propositional Form Of Judgments Of Perception

4.Problems From Sections 17 And 18

5.The Analytical Principle Of Apperception

6.Synopsis Of The First Part Of The B Edition Deduction

7.Conclusion Of Part I And Transition To Part II

II.The Second Half of Kant's B Edition Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

1.Why The Deduction In The B Edition Needs A Second Part

2.The Second Part Of The B Edition Deduction

2.2.The Argument of Section 26

2.2.1.Introduction

2.2.2.Proving That the Unity of Space Is an Intellectual Condition: The Subjective Phase of the Deduction in the B Edition

2.2.3.The Proof That the Unity of Space Has Empirical Objective Validity; the Proof of Nomic Prescriptivism; and the Proof That the Unity of Empirical Intuitions Is the Unity of the Categories

2.2.4.Kant's Explanation of How Logically Unified Empirical Intuitions Come to Be in Accord with the Unity of Space and Time

2.2.5.Some Final Thoughts on the Strength of Kant's Argument.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 24, 2014).

Description based on print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-938123-2