num_pages: 320
description: This book argues that Kant's transcendental idealism has been it denies not simply the super- sensory reality of space, time, and appearances, but their reality outside imagination as well. After adducing extensive and explicit textual evidence in its favor, Waxman shows thisinterpretation to be essential to the Transcendental Deduction, the affirmation of things in themselves, and the attempt to surmount Hume's scepticism. He further argues that Kant's much-neglected claim that, besides himself, "no psychologist has so much as even thought that the imagination might bea necessary constituent of perception," should be construed so that even our consciousness of sensation itself (visual, tactile, etc.) is impossible without imagination. A compelling and original contribution to Kantian scholarship, Kant's Model of the Mind will also bear close examination bystudents and scholars of Hume, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science.
language: English
title: Kant's Model of the Mind: A New Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism
titlecomplete: Kant's Model of the Mind: A New Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Oxford University Press