Matter in Mind A Study of Kant's Transcendental Deduction

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aquila, Richard E.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Matter in Mind

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1989

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elaborating a theory of consciousness that Kant made only partially explicit in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason, Richard E. Aquila offers a novel reading of Kant's theories of synthesis and conceptual rules, productive and reproductive imagination, the distinction between judgments of perception and experience, and the relations between self and objects. Aquila builds on the Transcendental Aesthetic's view of the formation of intuitional consciousness out of sensory matter and proposes a theory of concept formation, in the Transcendental Deduction, out of analogously conceived bodies of imaginative matter. Kant is seen here as offering a formidable synthesis of the purely animal and the distinctively human in human consciousness.