Kant's transcendental arguments
Subtitle: disciplining pure reason
By: Scott Stapleford.
Series: Continuum studies in philosophy
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780826499288
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804; Knowledge, Theory of; Causation; Reason
Description: "Two currents of thought dominated Western philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. Despite the gradual dissemination of British ideas on the Continent in the first decades of the eighteenth century, these fundamentally disparate philosophical outlooks seemed to be wholly irreconcilable. However, the publication of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 presented an entirely new method of philosophical reasoning that promised to combine the virtues of Rationalism with the scientific rigour of Empiricism." "This book offers the first extended analysis of Kant's method of proof in philosophy. The author constructs a model based on Kant's own statements about his procedure and then examines his famous proofs in light of it. Great emphasis is placed on historical accuracy and the debunking of popular myths about Kant's aims and doctrines. The result is a compelling new picture of Kant that will challenge current assumptions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-151) and index.
Table of contents: title: Transcendental arguments : superfluity and scepticism; title: Stroud's objection; title: The adversary of the refutation; title: Kant's view of scepticism; title: Kant's proto-verificationism; title: Transcendental arguments, transcendental idealism and the framework principle; title: The transcendental method; title: Mathematical and philosophical proofs; title: The possibility of experience, possible intuitions and the conditions of instantiation; title: The second analogy of experience in outline; title: Negative results; title: The transcendental refutation of empirical idealism; title: The refutation a mere word play; title: Ontological and phenomenological distinctness; title: The argument in the refutation of idealism; title: Structure of the proof; title: Instantiation of the transcendental subject; title: The argument from sensory content; title: What is an object?; title: The a priori in perception; title: Circularity and immediacy; title: The transcendental as a level of discourse; title: The idea of a framework and the transcendental nature of the refutation.