Kant's transcendental proof of realism
By: Kenneth R. Westphal.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Description: This is a 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kant's methods : transcendental and epistemic reflection; title: The metaphysics of Kant's transcendental idealism; title: Transcendental affinity; title: The gap in Kant's Critique of pure reason; title: Kant's dynamic misconstructions; title: Kant's metaphysical proof of the Law of Inertia; title: Three Kantian insights.