Kenneth R. Westphal

Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism

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Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
The first detailed study of Kant's method of 'transcendental reflection' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason.

Main description
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.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Kant's methods: transcendental and epistemic reflection; 2. The metaphysics of Kant's transcendental idealism; 3. Transcendental affinity; 4. The gap in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; 5. Kant's dynamic misconstructions; 6. Kant's metaphysical proof of the law of inertia; 7. Three Kantian insights; Appendix: Summary of Kant's Transcendental Proof of the Legitimacy of Causal Judgments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780521833738
• ISBN-10: 0521833736
• Artikelnr.: 21021119

Autorenporträt

Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy, Bogaziçi Üniversitesi (Istanbul). His research focuses on the character and scope of rational justification in non-formal, substantive domains, both moral (ethics, justice, history and philosophy of law, philosophy of education) and theoretical (epistemology, history and philosophy of science). His books include Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism (Cambridge, 2004), How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law: Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating Moral Realism (Clarendon, 2016), Grounds of Pragmatic Realism: Hegel's Internal Critique and Transformation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (Brill, 2018), Hegel's Civic Republicanism: Integrating Natural Law with Kant's Moral Constructivsm (Routledge, 2020) and Kant's Critical Epistemology: Why Epistemology must Consider Judgment First (Routledge, 2020). He is researching systematically history and philosophy of law, especially Montesquieu, G.W.F. Hegel and Rudolf von Jhering, to develop a cogent normative sociological theory of law and justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Kant's methods: transcendental and epistemic reflection
2. The metaphysics of Kant's transcendental idealism
3. Transcendental affinity
4. The gap in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
5. Kant's dynamic misconstructions
6. Kant's metaphysical proof of the law of inertia
7. Three Kantian insights
Appendix. Summary of Kant's Transcendental Proof of the Legitimacy of Causal Judgments.