Possible experience : understanding Kant's critique of pure reason / Arthur W. Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Arthur W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Kant, Immanuel.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Causation.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 200 p. )

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.

Summary:

Arthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the Critique advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it "transcendental idealism" and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that interpretation.Collins maintains not only that this reading of Kant is false but also that it conceals Kant's real achievements. To counter it, he addresses the themes and passages in the Critique that seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. His account coheres with Kant's explicit "refutations" of idealism, it fits Kant's rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the Critique changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Note on Texts and Abbreviations

1. Kant and the Cartesian Philosophy of Mind

2. Subjectivism versus Idealism

3. Idealism and Transcendental Idealism

4. Are Things-in-Themselves Noumena?

5. The Concept of Representation

6. "Space Is in Us"

7. Outer Causes of Perception

8. Kant Not a Foundationalist

9. The "How-Possible" Questions

10. The "Clue" for Finding the Categories

11. The Parallelism of Inner and Outer Sense

12. The Subject of Experience

13. How Representations Make Objects Possible

14. Objects and Empirical Realism

15. The Idealistic Understanding of Kant's Theoretical Philosophy

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92142-9

0-585-38572-6

OCLC:

1419789606