The Problem of Critical Ontology [electronic resource] : Bhaskar Contra Kant /
McWherter, D.author.
Dustin McWherter defends the possibility of critical ontology by pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Abbreviations and Citations; Introduction; 1 Ontology and Critical Philosophy; 2 Ontology and Empirical Realism; 2.1 The aetiology of empirical realism in Hume and Kant; 2.2 Bhaskar's general argument for the inexorability of ontology; 3 Transcendental Idealism and Ontological Agnosticism; 3.1 Transcendental idealism and ontology; 3.2 Ontological agnosticism and the problem of the thing in itself; 3.3 The problem of Allison's two-aspect view; 3.4 Ontological agnosticism without things in themselves
4 Kant's Conception of Natural Necessity4.1 Natural necessity and categorial synthesis; 4.2 Natural necessity and constant conjunctions; 5 Bhaskar's Transcendental Analysis of Experimental Activity; 5.1 The presuppositions; 5.2 The arguments; 5.3 Conclusion; 6 Natural Necessity and the Transcendentally Real; 6.1 Kantian causal laws and open systems; 6.2 Normic statements and natural necessity; 6.3 Cognitive experience and a category of being; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dustin McWherter defends the possibility of critical ontology by pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Bhaskar, Roy, 1944-2014.
Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Modern philosophy.
Critical theory.
Phenomenology .
History of Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Modern Philosophy.
Critical Theory.
Phenomenology.