Kant's transcendental proof of realism / Kenneth R. Westphal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westphal, Kenneth R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Kant, Immanuel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft--English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first detailed study of Kant's method of 'transcendental reflection' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason to identify our basic human cognitive capacities, and to justify Kant's transcendental proofs of the necessary a priori conditions for the possibility of self-conscious human experience. Kenneth Westphal, in a closely argued internal critique of Kant's analysis, shows that if we take Kant's project seriously in its own terms, the result is not transcendental idealism but (unqualified) realism regarding physical objects. Westphal attends to neglected topics - Kant's analyses of the transcendental affinity of the sensory manifold, the 'lifelessness of matter', fallibilism, the semantics of cognitive reference, four externalist aspects of Kant's views, and the importance of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations for the Critique of Pure Reason - that illuminate Kant's enterprise in new and valuable ways. His book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant's theoretical philosophy.

Contents:

Kant's methods : transcendental and epistemic reflection

The metaphysics of Kant's transcendental idealism

Transcendental affinity

The gap in Kant's Critique of pure reason

Kant's dynamic misconstructions

Kant's metaphysical proof of the Law of Inertia

Three Kantian insights.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-81013-8

1-107-16091-X

0-511-26602-2

0-511-26375-9

0-511-31766-2

1-299-39886-3

0-511-26530-1

0-511-26458-5

0-511-26215-9

0-511-58449-0

OCLC:

776964926