Kant's revolutionary theory of modality / Uygar Abacı.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abacı, Uygar, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Criticism and interpretation.

Kant, Immanuel.

Modality (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 287 pages)

Edition:

New product edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Uygar Abaci presents a comprehensive study of Immanuel Kant's theory of modality - of the notions of possibility, actuality, and necessity. Abaci argues that Kant redefined these notions as ways in which our representations of objects are related to our cognitive faculty and thus as irreducibly subjective, relational, and conceptual.

Contents:

Cover; Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; I.1 Breakdown of Chapters; PART I: Modal Thought Prior to Kant; 1: Ontotheology and Modality I: The Classical Version of the Ontological Argument; 1.1. Ontotheology as the Context of Modal Thought; 1.2. The Framework of Ontotheology; 1.3. Anselm's Argument(s); 1.4. Descartes' Argument; 2: Ontotheology and Modality II: The Modal Version of the Ontological Argument; 2.1. Leibniz: His Argument and Theory of Modality; 2.1.1. The modal ontological argument

2.1.2. Leibniz's theory of modality; Possibility: Individuals, Worlds, and God; Absolute possibility; Relative possibility; Necessity and Contingency: Of things and Propositions; Existence; 2.2. Wolff: His Argument and Theory Of Modality; 2.2.1. Wolff's ontological argument; 2.2.2. Existence as complementum possibilitatis; PART II: Kantian Modality: Precritical and Revisionist; 3: Kant and Ontotheology; 3.1. The First Line of Objection: Gaunilo, Aquinas, Caterus, Crusius; 3.2. The Second Line of Objection: Gassendi?; 3.3. Kant's Objections; 3.3.1. New Elucidation

3.3.2. The Only Possible Argument; 3.4. Kant's Theses on Existence in The Only Possible Argument; 3.4.1. T1: Existence is not a predicate or determination; 3.4.2. T2: Existence is a predicate of concepts; 3.4.3. T3: Existence is absolute positing; 3.4.4. T4 and T5: Is there more in existence than in mere possibility?; 3.5. The Relevance of Kant's Theses on Existence to the Ontological Argument; 3.6. The Novelty of Kant's Theses: Revisionist or Revolutionary?; 4: Kant's 'Only Possible Argument', Possibility and Necessity; 4.1. Distinctions in Modality

4.2. The Novelty of Kant's Conception of Real Modality; 4.3. Absolute Real Possibility; 4.4. Absolute Real Necessity; 4.5. The Argument; 4.6. The Singularity of the Ground; 4.7. What Grounds the Actualist Principle?; PART III: Kantian Modality: Critical and Revolutionary; 5: The Revolutionary Shift in Kantian Modality Prior to the Critique; 5.1. Relation to Cognition; 5.2. Empiricism; 5.3. Subjectivism; 5.4. A Critical Theory of Modality; 6: The Modality of Judgments; 6.1. All Judgments Have a Modality; 6.2. There is Something "Peculiar" about Modality

6.2.1. No content: Modality does not contribute to the content of the judgment; 6.2.2. Modality concerns only the value of the copula in relation to thinking in general; 6.3. Modality of Judgment as the 'Attitude' of the Judger; 6.4. Modality of Judgment as Syllogistic Topology; 6.5. Modality of Judgment and Ground of Assertion; 6.6. Modality of Judgment as Relative Logical Modality; 6.7. Modality of Judgment as Formal Truth; 6.8. Modality of Judgment 'in Relation to Thinking in General'; 7: Modal Categories and Kant's Revolution; 7.1. Transition to the Categories of Modality

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-256732-2

0-19-186932-5

0-19-256731-4