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Space, Geometry, and Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

Autor Thomas C. Vinci
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 ian 2015
Thomas C. Vinci aims to reveal and assess the structure of Kant's argument in the Critique of Pure Reason called the "Transcendental Deduction of the Categories." At the end of the first part of the Deduction in the B-edition Kant states that his purpose is achieved: to show that all intuitions in general are subject to the categories. On the standard reading, this means that all of our mental representations, including those originating in sense-experience, are structured by conceptualization. But this reading encounters an exegetical problem: Kant states in the second part of the Deduction that a major part of what remains to be shown is that empirical intuitions are subject to the categories. How can this be if it has already been shown that intuitions in general are subject to the categories? Vinci calls this the Triviality Problem, and he argues that solving it requires denying the standard reading. In its place he proposes that intuitions in general and empirical intuitions constitute disjoint classes and that, while all intuitions for Kant are unified, there are two kinds of unification: logical unification vs. aesthetic unification. Only the former is due to the categories. A second major theme of the book is that Kant's Idealism comes in two versions-for laws of nature and for objects of empirical intuition-and that demonstrating these versions is the ultimate goal of the Deduction of the Categories and the similarly structured Deduction of the Concepts of Space, respectively. Vinci shows that the Deductions have the argument structure of an inference to the best explanation for correlated domains of explananda, each arrived at by independent applications of Kantian epistemic and geometrical methods.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199381166
ISBN-10: 019938116X
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 238 x 177 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

[H]is primary -- and very substantial -- contributions are to give a deep new analysis of Kant's theory of geometry, provide a novel interpretation of the relation between self-consciousness and apperception and most of all to offer a moderating and mediating voice in the conceptualist-nonconceptualist debate. For these reasons, his book is very much worth reading and engaging.
...Vinci has successfully produced a work that will push students of the B-Deduction, and of the CPR in general, to think more carefully about how some of the more complicated portions of Kant's text can be connected.

Notă biografică

Thomas C. Vinci (B.A, Toronto; Ph.D, Pitt.) has spent 35 years in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University, from which he retired as Professor in 2012. The author of Cartesian Truth (OUP 1998), he has also published on Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz and Kant, and in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of science and decision theory. He is the organizer of the Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy and is married, with three children, and lives in Atlantic Canada.